29.615, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics/Portugal

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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:53:15
From: Augusto Soares da Silva [assilva at braga.ucp.pt]
Subject: 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language

Full Title: 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language 
Short Title: FTL4 

Date: 23-Oct-2018 - 26-Oct-2018
Location: Braga, Portugal 
Contact Person: Augusto Soares da Silva
Meeting Email: ftl4 at braga.ucp.pt
Web Site: http://braga.ucp.pt/ftl4/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language
23-26 October 2018
Catholic University of Portugal
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences – Braga, Portugal
http://braga.ucp.pt/ftl4/

The 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL4)
aims to continue as a forum for the discussion of links between figurative
thought and language started at previous events in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia
(2015) and Osijek (2017). Cognitive linguistics was at the time of its
inception all about conceptual metaphors, and also about metonymies, image
schemas and blending. As a result of the rapid development and diversification
of cognitive linguistics, new topics and methodologies emerged, gradually
pushing conceptual metaphors and metonymies out of the center stage. However,
vigorous research into how conceptual metaphors and metonymies interact and
motivate grammatical structures, discourse types and communication processes
that we have recently witnessed justifies its coming back into the limelight.

Plenary Speakers:

Kathryn Allan, University College London, UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/people/kathryn-allan

John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/

Geert Brône, University of Leuven, Belgium
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/midi/members/geertbrone

Gareth Carrol, University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/carrol-gareth.aspx

Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/dirkg.htm

Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, France
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/

Solange Vereza, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1618071167867539

Esme Winter-Froemel, Trier University, Germany
https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=55488

Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
http://www.sol.lu.se/en/person/JordanZlatev/

2nd Call for Papers:

The 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language aims to
continue as a forum for the discussion of links between figurative thought and
language started at previous events in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015) and
Osijek (2017).

We invite contributions from various theoretical and applied perspectives
(e.g. cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology,
cognitive semiotics, cognitive poetics, cognitive anthropology and philosophy
of mind), and methodologies (e.g. corpus studies, experimental techniques,
synchronic and diachronic analyses, critical discourse analysis,
sociovariational analysis, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison,
translation). Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to):

- The impact of figuration on levels of linguistic analysis (morphology,
lexis, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)
- The impact of figuration on areas of grammar (grammatical constructions,
grammatical categories, parts-of-speech)
- The impact of figuration on various types of discourse: politics, economics,
business, media, public sphere, advertising, story-telling, narrative, law,
science, medicine, healthcare, illness, education, poetry, sports, religion,
etc.
- Corpus-based, experimental and multivariate statistical approaches to
figuration
- Diachronic and sociocultural approaches to figuration; figuration and
language change and variation
- Figuration from body, culture and society
- Figuration and ideology
- Figuration and rhetoric, persuasion and manipulation
- Figuration, creativity and blending
- Figuration and artificial intelligence
- Figuration and emotion
- Figuration and problem solving in business, politics, education, healthcare,
counselling, psychotherapy and conflict situations (war, terrorism, climate
change, migration, racism, globalization, populism)
- Figuration and cognitive development: figurativeness acquisition, processing
and comprehension
- Figuration and language teaching and pedagogy
- Multimodal figuration: figuration in images, music and gestures
- Figurative gestures and figuration in sign languages
- Humor, irony, sarcasm
- Antithesis, antiphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole, hypallage, simile,
synecdoche, synesthesia and other understudied figures

The language of the conference is English. Session slots will be allocated 25
minutes, which includes questions and discussion.

1. Theme sessions
Deadline: 10 February 2018. Notification: 28 February 2018

Theme session organizers should submit their theme session proposals directly
to the conference organizers (by email: ftl4 at braga.ucp.pt). Theme session
proposals should include: session title, name and affiliation of the theme
session convener, a description of the topic and research questions (no more
than 1000 words excluding references), a list of the authors and titles of the
individual papers, and all abstracts for the theme session in a suitable
order.

Once the theme session has been accepted as a whole, theme session authors
will need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines
below).

2. General session and submission of all abstracts
Deadline: 31 March 2018. Notification: 30 April 2018.

- The abstract should be sent to the following address: ftl4 at braga.ucp.pt 
- Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, and excluding
figures and references), and should include 5 keywords and state research
questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results.
- Please do not mention the author’s name, institution or address in the
abstract.

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