37.1430, Confs: 54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition (Poland)

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Date: 13-Apr-2026
From: Tomasz Dyrmo [plm at wa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: 54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition


54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal
Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition
Short Title: PLM2026

Date: 20-Sep-2026 - 23-Sep-2026
Location: Poznań, Poland
Meeting URL: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/

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

Submission Deadline: 28-May-2026

54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal
Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition
Organized by Tomasz Dyrmo
This session aims to examine, highlighting the “beyond-language”
thematic scope of the conference, how metaphorical cognition is made
observable across multiple semiotic modalities. The session adopts,
therefore, a focused multimodal perspective: it investigates how
underlying conceptual mappings are realized and constrained within
specific discourse domains through multimodal resources such as
language, gesture, image, film, and other modalities (e.g., Cavazzana
and Bolongesi 2020, Gibbs 2020).
While multimodal metaphor covers a wide range of phenomena, it
centrally addresses the question of how modality that expresses the
metaphor interacts with what is being expressed. Specifically, what
affordances it offers, and what aspects of meaning are foregrounded
and/or backgrounded in the process of meaning-making. Modality, as
noted in recent cognitive linguistic literature, is not a neutral
conduit for meaning, but an active component in metaphorical cognition
(Hart and Queralto 2021, Forceville 2025, Dyrmo 2025).
With this broad applicability of semiotic modes to metaphor, we
welcome papers that address, but are not limited to:
 - Multimodal manifestations of conceptual metaphor across semiotic
modalities (language, gesture, image, film, sound, music)
 - The role of modality-specific affordances in foregrounding or
backgrounding aspects of metaphorical meaning
 - Multilevel approaches to metaphor (image schemas, domains, frames,
scenarios) as applicable to multimodal data
 - Multimodal metaphorical cognition in specific discourse domains,
such as health communication, political discourse, advertising, news
media, education, or personal narratives
 - Methodological innovations in identifying, annotating, and
interpreting metaphor across modalities
 - Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives on multimodal
metaphorical patterns
 - Rhetorical and ideological approaches to multimodal metaphorical
framings
Deadline for abstract submission: 28th May 2026
Notification of acceprance: June 2026
Please visit our website for more detailed abstract submission
guidelines, along with abstract review criteria.



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