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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
How “things” inhibit control: MONO- clausal connective constructions in Japanese
Nina Azumi Yoshida (UCLA) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Download PDF
The Nature of Coercion: A Usage-based Approach with Empirical Data
Soyeon Yoon (Rice) Saturday, May 18th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor This study examines the nature of coercion, which has been used as theoretical explanation about the resolution of semantic incompatibility between a construction and a lexical item that occurs in it (Michaelis 2005), through empirical data derived from frequency, processing time, and […]
Constructing a Novel Blend Through Gesture
Robert F. Williams (Lawrence) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Creativity is widely viewed as involving the combination of mental representations. Koestler (1964) claims that creative insights derive from the ‘bisociation’ of conceptual ‘matrices’. Fauconnier and Turner (1998, 2002) present a detailed account of ‘conceptual blending,’ a cognitive mechanism for combining content in distinct mental spaces […]