Pre-conference workshops (May 17):
Peter Stockwell (Nottingham University)
- Cognitive poetics for linguists – View abstract
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
- Creativity across modalities in viewpoint-construction – View abstract
Rena Sharon and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia)
- “This song has a wiggle in the middle” – View abstract
Teenie Matlock (University of California, Merced)
- Creativity in language is achieved through simulation – View abstract
Plenary lectures (May 17-20):
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)
- Minding the news – View abstract
Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder))
- The dynamics of embodied ‘experiential conceptualizations:’ How bodily experiences ground the emergence and elaboration of multimodal metaphor in a ballet lesson – View abstract
Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba)
- From embodied perspective to grammar in American Sign Language – View abstract
Seana Coulson (University of California, San Diego)
- Cognitive neuroscience of creative language – View abstract
Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/New School for Social Research)
- Experiential relativity – View abstract
Arie Verhagen (Leiden University)
- Types of speech and thought representation in narrative within and across languages – a constructional approach – View abstract
Post-conference workshop (May 20):
David DeLiema (UCLA), Francis Steen (UCLA), and Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)
- Language, gesture, and audiovisual communication: a massive online database for researching multimodal constructions – View abstract
