Research meetings
Every other Tuesday, Metaphor Lab Amsterdam organizes a research meeting from 9:00 to 11:00. In this meetings, members of the Metaphor Lab and other scholars interested in metaphor present their current research.
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research Meetings 2018
6 February
Andreas Heise – Solving the paradox of metaphor all over again
20 February
Pia Sommerauer – Polysemy (and metaphorical mappings) in computational models of meaning representation
6 March
Lettie Dorst – Translating Metaphor across Disciplines, Genres, Modalities
3 April
Gerard Steen – Resistance to metaphor: How far have we got?
17 April
Simeon Lahaije – In the eye of the beholder
2 October
Joost Zwarts – ‘A net cast into the sea’: Identifying biblical metaphors using semantic domains
16 October
Ilaria Rizzato – Translating figurative language in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research Meetings 2017
31 January
Herman de Mönnink – How are metaphors used in griefcounseling/grief therapy?
14 March
Federico Gobbo – Deliberate metaphors in Esperanto: building a cosmopolitan culture from scratch
28 March
Chiara Ferella – Deliberate metaphor use in Parmenides’ two ways of enquiry
23 May
Maryam Saneie Moghadam – Data session
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research Meetings 2016
26 January
Gewoon aan de Slag
9 February
Paula Perez Sobrino – Metaphors music lives by
23 February
Yao Tong – How limits can be pushed: Action, metaphor and gesture
22 March
Kristina Despot – The Croatian Metaphor Repository project
19 April
Marianna Bolognesi & Laura Aina – The current status of the COGVIM project
3 May
Roosmaryn Pilgram – Testing Resistance to Metaphor
17 May
Mikael Skagenholt – Semantic priming in deliberate metaphor comprehension
27 September
Tina Krennmayr – Metaphors in Academic Talk
11 October
Marco del Tredici – Assessing the Potential of Metaphoricity of Verbs Using Corpus Data
25 October
Karola Woll – MIPVU and German – How Does This Work?
8 November
Giulia Frezza – Risk and responsibility: metaphors in health communication
22 November
Joep Cornelissen – Enterpreneurial communication
20 December
Joost Schilperoord – the rhetorical uses of depictions of cast shadows
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research Meetings 2015
17 February
Gerard Steen – Resistance to Metaphor
3 March
Britta Brugman & Kiki Renardel de Lavalette – HIP
17 March
Marianna Bolognesi – Visual Metaphor
31 March
Gudrun Reijnierse – Deliberate Metaphor
28 April
Sandra van der Hel – The ‘tipping point’ metaphor
12 May
Romy van den Heerik & Charlotte van Hooijdonk – ‘Smoking is sóóó…’
26 May
Christine Liebrecht – Metaphors as intensifying elements
23 June
Christian Burgers – Figurative framing
22 September
Charles Forceville – Embodied metaphor in short animation films
6 October
Anke Beger – Forms and functions of deliberate metaphors in college lectures
20 October
Valentina Cuccio – Deliberate Metaphors and Embodied Simulation
3 November
Luzia Goldmann – Transfigurations of Metaphor
17 November
Zhen Pan – Identification of Metaphors in Emotional Languages
1 December
Francesca Strik Lievers – Synaesthesia