NWO Visitor Grant for Giulia Frezza

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The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam was awarded an NWO Visitor Grant for Dr. Giulia Frezza from Sapienza University, Rome. Dr. Frezza will spend four months at the lab, from July through November, to work on her research on the role of metaphor and resistance to metaphor in the framework of Risk and Responsibility in Science Communication, with special attention to the metaphor of gene-editing in CRISPR-Cas9.

We are looking forward to welcoming her to the Metaphor Lab again.

Two new articles on metaphor in political communication

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In the first months of 2017,  Amber Boeynaems and Britta Brugman each published an article on metaphor in political communication:

• Boeynaems, A., Burgers, C., Konijn, E.A., & Steen, G.J. (2017). The effects of metaphorical framing on political persuasion: A systematic literature review. Metaphor and Symbol, 32(2), 118-134. doi:10.1080/10926488.2017.1297623
• Brugman, B.C., Burgers, C., & Steen, G.J. (2017). Recategorizing political frames: a systematic review of metaphorical framing in experiments on political communication. Annals of the International Communication Association, 1-17, doi:10.1080/23808985.2017.1312481

Abstract submission deadline MF17 extended until 15 April

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The abstract submission deadline is extended until 15 April. For further details: see the call for papers Metaphor Festival 2017.