A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor

A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor

Invited speakers include:

Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina)
Elizabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis)
Sam Guttenplan (Birkbeck College)
David Hills (Stanford)
Michael Leezenberg (Amsterdam)
Ernie Lepore (Rutgers)
Douglas Patterson (Kansas State)
Esther Romero (Granada)
Marga Reimer (Arizona)
Belen Soria (Granada)

The symposium will take place on 17-18 December 2007 at the University of Latvia in Riga and is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics of the University of Latvia:
http://www.lu.lv/eng/general/structure/study/ccss/
and the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University: http://www.ksu.edu/philos/

Call for Papers
A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication:
http://cognition.lu.lv/board.html

Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion.
Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a 200 word abstract.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Metaphor in the general theory of meaning
Interpretation of metaphorical utterances
Metaphor identification
The status – semantic, epistemological, pragmatic – of metaphors
The cognitive significance of metaphor
Metaphor and aesthetic effects
Natural language processing theories and metaphor Cognitive linguistics and metaphor Metaphor and rhetorical categories

All submissions should be prepared for blind review, and should be sent electronically to:
metaphor@ksu.edu

Deadline for submission is August 15 2007. Authors will be notified in September 2007.

Sandra Lapointe
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Kansas State University
201 Dickens Hall
Manhattan, KS, 66506
tel: 785 532 0356
fax: 785 532 3522
lapointe@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lapointe/