No Metaphor Festival in 2020

Contrary to tradition, 2020 will not see the annual edition of the Metaphor Festival in Amsterdam. In 2020, two other metaphor-related conferences in Amsterdam will be co-organized by members of our teams, and the RaAM conference in Hamar will cater to more general needs for academic exchange about metaphor research.

Keep an eye on the Metaphor Lab website and Facebook page for updates! 

Best wishes,

Gerard Steen

Metaphor Festival ’19: Preliminary program online!

The preliminary program for the Metaphor Festival 2019 is now available!

We are very pleased to share the preliminary program with you. Please click here to access it.

More information can be found here.

ps: Please note that registration for the conference is open until 23 August — see: http://metaphorlab.org/registration-metaphor-festival-19/

Metaphor Festival ’19: Registration is open!

We are pleased to announce that online registation and payment for the Metaphor Festival ’19 are now open. Please visit the registration page and follow the instructions.

The deadline for registration and payment for participants whose abstract has been accepted is June 15, 2019. The deadline for registration and payment for all other participants is August 23, 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam! If there are any issues or if you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

MetFest ’19: extended deadline!

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).

Metaphor Festival 2019: CALL FOR PAPERS

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, such as multimodal or non-verbal communication. It offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning the structures, functions, and effects of figurative language in different types of human communication. Contributions to the Festival can address tropes such as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony.

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

  • Word limit: Abstracts should be 300 words maximum and should be written in English (please provide glosses or translations for examples in other languages).
  • Structure: Abstracts reporting on empirical data should have four sections: introduction, methods, findings, and conclusions. Abstracts providing a purely theoretical or philosophical contribution should have three sections: introduction, main argument, and conclusions.
  • Take-home message: All abstracts should end with a one-sentence take-home-message.
  • Double-blind review: Authors need to make sure that their identities cannot be retrieved from the abstract itself, and should include blind reference to their work that is not yet publicly available (i.e., papers in press, under review and. or in preparation).

SUBMISSION

Deadline for submission is 15 March 2019. The online submission system is available on: 
https://metfest19.sciencesconf.org/ 

MORE INFORMATION

Please check our website www.metaphorlab.org or our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/metaphorfestival) for any updates. You are welcome to contact the organizing committee at metaphorfestivalamsterdam@gmail.com in case of any enquiries.

Review of Mixing Metaphor

A review of Mixing Metaphor (6th volume of ‘Metaphor in Language, Cognition and Communication’) appeared in ‘Metaphor and the Social World’, volume 8:2. The review, by Jordan Zlatev and Georgios Stampoulidis can be found below.

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