Metaphor Festival
The Stockholm Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative language and other modes of figurative expression, arranged by the Department of English at Stockholm University. It brings together researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, working within different theoretical and methodological paradigms in a creative, internationally oriented, and friendly atmosphere. The importance of figurative language and figurative semiotics is now generally recognized, and the Festival offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning figurative uses in different types of human communication, and their cognitive, cultural, narrative, poetic, rhetorical, social, textual or discourse functions.
Contributions to the general session of the Festival can address the linguistic and/or literary character and use of tropes—metaphor, metonymy, simile, oxymoron, hyperbole, litotes, punning, and irony—or the character and use of rhyme schemes, various types of parallelism and other formal poetic constructions, as well as the nature of figurative signs and devices in multi-modal or non-verbal communication.
Keynotes:
– Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
– Christian Burgers, VU University Amsterdam
Figurative Framing: Shaping public discourse through metaphor, hyperbole, and irony
Furthermore, Marianna Bolognesi & Romy van den Heerik will talk about ‘Visual Metaphor: An online corpus and a model of analysis’ and Britta Brugman, Kiki Renardel de Lavalette, Christian Burgers & Gerard Steen will present ‘Hyperbole Identification Procedure (HIP): An introduction’.
For more information, see the Metaphor Festival website.