35.3126, Calls: CERLIS2025: Metaphors in Specialized Discourses In and Across Cultures

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Subject: 35.3126, Calls: CERLIS2025: Metaphors in Specialized Discourses In and Across Cultures

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Date: 06-Nov-2024
From: Stefania Maci [stefania.maci at unibg.it]
Subject: CERLIS2025: Metaphors in Specialized Discourses In and Across Cultures

Full Title: CERLIS2025: Metaphors in Specialized Discourses In and
Across Cultures
Short Title: CERLIS2025

Date: 12-Jun-2025 - 14-Jun-2025
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Contact Person: Stefania Maci
Meeting Email: stefania.maci at unibg.it
Web Site:
https://sites.google.com/unibg.it/cerlis/conferences/cerlis2025?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The international CERLIS conference on "Metaphors in Specialized
Discourse In and Across Cultures." aims to explore the intricate and
multifaceted roles that metaphors play in specialized forms of
discourse, encompassing scientific, technical, medical, legal,
business, media, tourism, and political communication, across diverse
cultural contexts.
As claimed by Semino (2008), metaphors are varied in their textual
appearance, versatile in the functions they may perform, and central
to many different types of communication, from informal interaction to
political speeches. In this regard, Kövecses’ research (2005; 2008) on
universality and variation in the use of metaphor has raised the
question of whether and to what extent metaphorical thinking can
contribute to the understanding of culture and society, and whether
cognitive theories can account for both the universality and cultural
specificity of metaphorical conceptualisation.
The conference will contribute to these themes by exploring metaphors
as devices for understanding specialised fields of knowledge and
research from various perspectives. Hence, we particularly welcome
proposals focusing on new insights regarding how metaphors in
specialized discourse vary across different languages and what these
differences reveal about cultural cognition. Furthermore, we aim at
understanding how metaphors facilitate complex specialized concepts
and drive innovation and how cultural values and norms shape metaphor
usage and interpretation in specialized discourse.
The conference will contribute to these themes by exploring metaphors
as devices for understanding specialised fields of knowledge and
research from various perspectives. Hence, we particularly welcome
proposals focusing on new insights regarding how metaphors in
specialized discourse vary across different languages and what these
differences reveal about cultural cognition. Furthermore, we aim at
understanding how metaphors facilitate complex specialized concepts
and drive innovation and how cultural values and norms shape metaphor
usage and interpretation in specialized discourse.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 - Theoretical Approaches to Metaphor in Specialized Discourse
 - Metaphors in Specialised Communication
 - Metaphors in knowledge dissemination and popularization
 - Metaphors in Business, Legal, Medical, and Tourism Discourse(s)
 - Metaphors in Media and Political Discourse
 - Cultural and Intercultural Perspectives on Metaphor

Plenary speakers

Zsofia Demien (UCL)
Maria Luque Olalla Colmenero (Universidad de Granada)
Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Michele Prandi (University of Genua)
Günter Schmale (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Gerard Steen (Amsterdam University)
Irma Taavistainen (University of Helsinki)

We invite scholars and researchers to submit abstracts that address
any of the above themes. Abstracts (300 words) should be uploaded onto
the on the easyabs platform
(https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/CERLIS2025/) and include the
following:
 • Title of the paper
 • Author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s)
 • Contact details (email and phone number)
 • A brief bio (100-150 words)

Important Dates:
 • Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024
 • Notification of Acceptance: 31 December 2024
 • Conference Dates: 12-14 June 2025

REGISTRATION

Registration fees are payable online only. Details for payment will be
uploaded in November 2024
Conference fee:
  Early registration (January 1st – February 28th) 210 EUR
  Regular registration (March 1st – April 30th) 240 EUR
  Late registration (May 1st – June 4th) 250 EUR
  PhD candidate registration* 180 EUR

For any inquiries, please contact the conference organizing committee
at cerlis at unibg.it Special requests should be sent to
stefania.maci at unibg.it and cinziagiacinta.spinzi at unibg.it

Call for Papers:

The conference will contribute to these themes by exploring metaphors
as devices for understanding specialised fields of knowledge and
research from various perspectives. Hence, we particularly welcome
proposals focusing on new insights regarding how metaphors in
specialized discourse vary across different languages and what these
differences reveal about cultural cognition. Furthermore, we aim at
understanding how metaphors facilitate complex specialized concepts
and drive innovation and how cultural values and norms shape metaphor
usage and interpretation in specialized discourse.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 - Theoretical Approaches to Metaphor in Specialized Discourse
 - Metaphors in Specialised Communication
 - Metaphors in knowledge dissemination and popularization
 - Metaphors in Business, Legal, Medical, and Tourism Discourse(s)
 - Metaphors in Media and Political Discourse
 - Cultural and Intercultural Perspectives on Metaphor

We invite scholars and researchers to submit abstracts that address
any of the above themes. Abstracts (300 words) should be uploaded onto
the on the easyabs platform
(https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/CERLIS2025/) and include the
following:
 • Title of the paper
 • Author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s)
 • Contact details (email and phone number)
 • A brief bio (100-150 words)

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