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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:05:45
From: Marianna Bolognesi [marianna.bolognesi at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: The Creative Power of Metaphor

 
Full Title: The Creative Power of Metaphor 

Date: 29-Mar-2019 - 30-Mar-2019
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Marianna Bolognesi
Meeting Email: marianna.bolognesi at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Save the Date: The Creative Power of Metaphor

#creativemetaphor  

29 – 30 March 2019 at Worcester College, Oxford, UK

Join us for a 2-day conference on the nexus between Metaphor, Linguistic
Diversity, and Creativity.

The conference will be structured around four themes. Each theme will be
introduced in a keynote lecture, and developed in a plenary round-table
discussion featuring selected panelists (see Call for Panel Participation
below). Panelists will address general questions (see Research Questions
below) as well as questions raised by the audience. Moreover, two extensive
Poster sessions will be dedicated to present specific studies related to the
four themes (see Call for Poster Presentations).

The output of the conference will consist of a series of edited videoclips
featuring the debates, which will be broadcasted on the Creative
Multilingualism website and disseminated on relevant video channels and social
media.

For queries and clarifications please contact the organisers.

 Themes:

1. Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity 
Keynote speaker: Lera Boroditsky

2. Metaphor and Emotion
Keynote speaker: Zoltán Kövecses

3. Metaphor and Communication
Keynote speaker: Gerard Steen

4. Metaphor and Creativity
Keynote speaker: Rachel Giora

 
Registration:

Conference fee: £90
Reduced fee for students: £50

Registration will open in early November.

The Organisers:

Professor Katrin Kohl
Dr Marianna Bolognesi
Dr Ana Werkmann Horvat

The conference is part of the multi-institutional research programme Creative
Multilingualism (www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk), funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council. Our research group is a large cross-disciplinary team of
academics working on the nexus between linguistic diversity and creativity.
The conference is being organised by Strand 1 of Creative Multilingualism:
Embodying Ideas – the Creative Power of Metaphor:
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/research/metaphor

The event is also endorsed by RaAM, the international Network for Researching
and Applying Metaphor.

We look forward to welcoming you in Oxford!


2nd Call for Papers:

2nd Call for Panelists and Poster Presenters:

Deadline: 31 October, 2018

Submissions:

We welcome submissions from early career researchers to the panels and
posters.

Please send submissions as email attachments to the following address:

creativemetaphor2019 at gmail.com 

Please find the call on the conference website:
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/about/events/creative-power-metaphor

Themes and Research Questions:
Research questions on the four themes include, but are not limited to, the
following:

1. Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity 

- What is the significance of linguistic diversity for metaphor theory?
- How does linguistic diversity in metaphorical expression affect and interact
with thought?
- Is a unified metaphor theory that can account for the variability in
linguistic data possible?
- How are cultural differences actualized in metaphorical expressions?
- Do truly universal metaphors exist?

     
2. Metaphor and Emotion 

- What is the connection between metaphor and emotion? Is it systematic across
languages?
- Are emotions more likely to be expressed using figurative language?
- Is there a correlation between expression of emotion and creative use of
metaphor? If so, is this universal or culturally specific?
- To what extent are metaphors that are used to express emotions universal? Is
there a systematic difference by comparison with other areas of expression?
- How does multilingual competence relate to the interaction between metaphor
and emotion? Does the expression of emotions using figurative language differ
depending on whether the speaker is using a native language or a non-native
language?

3. Metaphor and Communication 

- Is the use of metaphors favoured as a persuasive communicative device across
languages or are there languages/cultures/cultural contexts in which metaphors
are avoided for such a purpose? To what extent are creative and deliberate
metaphors used in communication (e.g., in political speech) affected by
cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variability?
- Does the use of metaphor to change attitudes and opinions correlate with the
conventionality/creativity of the chosen metaphors?
- How and why does resistance to metaphor develop?
- What is the role of figurative language use in multilingual settings and
does this differ from such use in monolingual settings?

4. Metaphor and Creativity

- Is metaphor an area of language that offers more scope for creativity than
other areas of language? Is any correlation universal or culturally specific?
- What are the differences in understanding creative vs. non-creative
figurative language?
- How are creative figurative expressions perceived by speakers and listeners?
- What constitutes a good metaphor in terms of creativity?
- Are speakers of different languages creative in different ways in metaphor
use?




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