Metaphor Festival Amsterdam 2019
DEADLINE EXTENSION – final deadline 31 March 23:59 (local time in Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, 28 – 31 August 2019
The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted to announce that the next Metaphor Festival will take place in Amsterdam from 28 – 31 August 2019. The Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative language and other modes of figurative expression. It offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning the structures, functions, and effects of figurative language in human communication. Contributions to the Festival can address tropes such as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony.
This year’s keynote speakers are:
- prof. dr. Anjan Chatterjee (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania)
- dr. Bodo Winter (Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham).
Please visit http://metaphorlab.org/metaphor-festi…/metaphor-festival-19/ for the call for papers.
Final deadline for submissions is now 31 March 23:59 (local time in Amsterdam).