Research Meeting Gudrun Reijnierse
During this research meeting, Gudrun Reijnierse will talk about deliberate metaphor.
Deliberate metaphors are meant to change the addressees perspective on a certain topic. In this interactive Metaphor Lab Research Meeting, Gudrun Reijnierse will present a very first version of D-MIP, the method for identifying deliberate metaphor in natural discourse. She will first briefly discuss the metaphor identification procedure MIP(VU), on which D-MIP relies, and then introduce D-MIP. By means of concrete examples from the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, she will discuss why and how certain cases of metaphor may count as deliberate (versus non-deliberate).
Gudrun Reijnierse is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam and aims to (re)discover the value of deliberate metaphor. Why is ‘defending’ a thesis not considered to be metaphorical language by most people while a ‘tsunami’ of immigrants is? This is, simply put, the main question of Gudrun Reijnierse’s PhD research.
Location:
C0.01 (Potgieterzaal), University Library
Singel 421-427
1012 WP Amsterdam