Paper on domain constructions published

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The paper ‘On metaphorical views, dynamite, and doodlings
Functions of domain adjectives in metaphorical domain constructions’ by Gudrun Reijnierse, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmeyr and Gerard Steen had been published in the November issue of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics.

The paper presents a systematic, bottom-up, investigation of the role of adjectives as metaphor signals in metaphorical domain constructions (MDCs) within the framework of Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The full paper can be found here. 

Lettie Dorst and Berenike Herrmann give MIPVU workshop in Basel

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Berenike Herrmann and Lettie Dorst will be giving a workshop on metaphor identification with MIPVU for MA and PhD students at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel (8 and 9 November 2018). The workshop includes an exploration of a vector-based method and a tutorial on a web-based collaborative annotation too, CATMA.

Coordinated with the workshop are two public lectures, which are open to an interested audience. For organizational reasons, interested parties who only want to attend the lectures are kindly asked to register briefly by email (berenike.herrmann@unibas.ch).

8 November: 18.00 | Evening Lecture (→ German Seminar Room 3)
«How hard can it be? A Closer Look at How Human Translators and Machine Translation Software Handle Metaphor in Translation»
A.G. (Lettie) Dorst, Leiden | Chair: Nils Reiter, Stuttgart

9 November: 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch Lecture (→ Deutsches Seminar Room 3)
«Empiricising Hermeneutics: The Methodological Scope of Digital Text Annotation»
Jan Christoph Meister, Hamburg | Chair: Lars Konieczny, Freiburg i. Br.

Further information can be found at http://dhlab.unibas.ch/finding-metaphor-in-discourse/ 

ACLC Lecture Gerard Steen

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Friday 19-10, Gerard Steen gave an ACLC lecture titled: ‘Taking metaphor from language to communication and back.‘

Metaphor Festival ‘ 18: Report

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From August 30^th to September 1^st, the third edition of the Metaphor Festival Amsterdam was organised by the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. Almost a hundred participants from 25 countries (including Italy, Romania, Iran, Canada, and Indonesia) participated in three days of inspiring academic talks and hands-on workshops.

In more than 50 talks, participants presented their research on metaphor  and other types of figurative language in topics such as religion, politics, health, and literature.  Keynote speeches were delivered by Prof. dr. Ray Gibbs and Prof. dr. Margot van Mulken. Paloma Opazo was awarded the Christina Alm-Arvius Award (for best presentation by a PhD student) for her paper Manipulating sound with the body: Recurrent patterns used by classical orchestra conductors in the expression of musical dynamics. On Saturday, participants enjoyed three workshops focusing on ‘metaphorical minds’: metaphor and mindfulness, metaphor and dementia, and metaphor and song translation.

We would like to thank all participants for making the 2018 edition of the Metaphor Festival Amsterdam such a big success! We hope to see many of you (again) next year!

We would also like to thank our partners Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), Network Institute, and John Benjamins Publishing Company for supporting the Festival.

Picturs of the Metaphor Festival 2018 are available here: https://myalbum.com/album/vDHlACkzMCri