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Reading Minds: (Re)Presentation of Multiple-Order Intentionality in Narrative
Max J. van Duijn (Leiden) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 In daily interaction as well as when dealing with narratives (in the broad sense, including e.g. drama and film), humans are capable of keeping track of complex networks of multiply-embedded mind states (Dunbar 2003; 2008). Experiments investigating this capability have shown that participants make relatively […]
Gestures of Korean Emotion Metaphors: A Case Study for Anger, Happiness and Sadness
Ebru Türker (Pittsburgh) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Earlier studies have already argued that metaphors are not just a phenomenon of verbal language (c.f. Cienki 2005, 2008; Cienki & Müller, 2008; Gibbs, 2008; Müller & Cienki,2009); rather the interaction between metaphoric language and gesture plays an important role in providing […]
Where do cognitive biases fit into Cognitive Linguistics? Perspective taking, presuppositions, and the Curse of Knowledge
Vera Tobin (UCSB) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 Download PDF
Newness in the creative mind: the constructional patterning of instrumental causality in Italian (future) events
Paul Sambre (Lessius) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 This paper deals with the expression of newness and creativity in instrumental processes. Not only is the ability to reflect upon our future central to human cognition, but human intentionality also involves planning and therefore acting causally on the future by means of old and new instruments. […]
Reorienting the Yin-Yang Metaphor using Blending Theory
Jennifer Lundin Ritchie (UBC) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 This presentation calls into question the traditional definition and use of the yin–yang metaphor in reading and interpreting the Laozi (also known as the Dao De Jing or Tao Te Ching), one of the two foundational texts of Daoism (Taoism), and proposes a rebuilding of the […]
Alignment sequences in multimodal interaction
Bert Oben & Geert Brône (Leuven) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 This paper ties in with two recent developments in cognitive-functional approaches to language. First, there is a growing interest in explicitly incorporating dialogicity in cognitive discourse models (Langacker 2001, Verhagen 2005, Fried & Östman 2005, Du Bois 2011). Second, there is growing awareness that […]
Collocational patterns in the literal use of English body part terms
John Newman & Sally Rice (Alberta) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 Download PDF
What a word means in a given context
Siva Kalyan (Australian NU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Much has been written about how to determine which of the various contextual meanings of a word are part of its lexical representation—which of them count as “senses”, as opposed to mere “uses” (Cruse 1986; Evans 2009; Geeraerts 1993). However, to […]
Frontiers of Philosophy and Flesh: A Feminist Perspective on Frame and Conceptual Metaphor in Canadian and American Frontier Literature
Tiffany Johnstone (UBC) Thursday, May 17th The Coach House, Green College – 6201 Cecil Green Park Road Download PDF
Sentimental entailments: Negation and the logic of empathy
Michael Israel (Maryland) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 Download PDF