Programa

Thursday 29th
08:30-09:30 Registration (Hall, Philologies building)
09:30-10:00 Opening session (Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
10:00-11:00 Plenary Talk:
David Singleton (Center for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
Figurative aspects of the taboo lexicon"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Seminario
(Philologies building)
Aula de formación
(Philologies building)
Salón de Actos
(Philologies building)
11:30-12:00 Latifa ShamsanCommon Source and Target Domains of Bahraini Idioms Frank Boers, June Eyckmans, Julie DeconinckMusic to their ears? Assessing learners’ sensitivity to the form of multi-word units Talita Christine SmitThe role of african literature in English in the awareness-raising of metaphoric language
12:00-12:30 Jiyoung YoonProductivity of Spanish verb-noun compounds: patterns of metonymy and metaphor Isabel Negro AlousqueThe figurative meaning of colour word in English and French Magdalena SzewczykHow Polish discourse metaphors of the past influence Poland's social and cultural future. The notion of metaphorical conceptualization in EU-related discourse in Poland
12:30-13:00 Mª Sandra Peña CervelMetaphor, metonymy, and the resultative construction in the lexical constructional model: a case study Nuria Calvo CortésWhy Are We 'Taken Aback'? Xianglan ChenMetonymy and Text: Fu-ying and metonymic thinking
13:00-13:30 Roger Pérez BrufauThe Internet as a web of metaphors Pedro A. Fuertes Olivera,Sven TarpLexicography for the Third Millennium: Cognitive-oriented Specialised Dictionaries for Learners Alexander TokarMetonymically-motivated idioms: To the cognitive structure of motivation
13:30-14:00 Roger Pérez BrufauImage schemas and imagistic representation: a review Tamar VashakidzePost- Positive Metaphor in the Modern Georgian Poetry
14:00-15:30 Wine reception
16:00-16:30 Tina KrennmayrMetaphorical schemas in language comprehension Hanna StoeverMetaphor Awareness in L2 Acquisition Eva Samaniego FernándezWrong translations or the perfect tool for cognitive expansion? English-Spanish translation of metaphors in newspapers
16:30-17:00 Nino KhakhiashviliFigurative Words and Sayings Geoff. M.HallFigurative Language - Wot's the Use for the second language learner? Lasse ThomassenSartorial signification and the rhetorical construction of difference: Begum
17:00-17:30 Hortensia ParlogMetaphors and the Recession Eliecer Crespo FernándezConceptualizations of Death in Epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery (London)
17:30-18:00 Lara Moratón, Luz RelloA Contrastive Study on Conceptual Metaphors Referring to Large Numbers of People Alberto Hijazo GascónMetaphors for Emotions as Learning and Communicative Strategies
18:00-18:30 Graciela de la Nuez Placeres,Juani Guerra De La Torre,Linda HenrikssonTeacher’s language as an access bridge to “the real thing” in education: A cognitive approach to ESL teaching in Gran Canaria, Spain. Ana Piquer Píriz, Rafael Alejo GonzálezMetaphoric particles: An analysis of Phrasal Verbs in EFL materials Alicia Galera MasegosaMind your tongue... the cat is out of the bag!
18:30-19:00 Jumanca Romanita, Fratila Loredana, Frentiu LuminitaMetaphors in Legal Discourse María Luisa Carrió PastorFigurative language use in technical english as a foreign language Mª Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba, Rocío Jiménez BrionesSelection restrictions within an ontological framework
19:00-20:00 Plenary Talk:
Gerard Steen (Free University, Amsterdam):
"The new contemporary theory of metaphor"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
20:30 City Hall reception

 

Friday 30th
Seminario
(Philologies building)
Aula de formación(
Philologies building)
Salón de Actos
(Philologies building)
09:00-09:30 Rosa María Jiménez Catalán, Julieta Ojeda Alba"Rice" or "water"? EFL learners' first word responses to “food” cue word in a lexical availability task María Dolores Porto RequejoMetaphorical thought and sociocultural situatedness: proverbs
09:30-10:00 Francisco Gonzálvez GarcíaConstruction Grammar, that’s so Spock-tacular! Almudena Fernández, Mª Pilar Agustín LlachMotivation and L1 Lexical Transfer in EFL Vocabulary Production in composition Fabiszak Malgorzata, Renata SzczepaniakHow much can we pull out of this subject? On Polish verbs of motion and their metaphoric potential
10:00-10:30 Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, René DirvenSome challenges to Conceptual Metaphor Theory refuted Soraya Moreno EspinosaExploring the Validity and Reliability of the Lexical Frequency Profile to Assess L2 Secondary School Learners’ Embedded Vocabulary Berenike HerrmannFinding conceptual metaphor in academic discourse in five steps
10:30-11:00 Alba Luzondo OyónCaused-motion and the figurative expression of result: on canonical and non-canonical resultative constructions Imma MiralpeixMeasuring vocabulary size: New tools for assessment Jose Luis Otal CampoThe cognitive grounding of discourse relationships
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Nuria Del CampoActive zone/profile discrepancy and illocutionary meaning Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, María Martínez AdriánAre there any differences between true and false beginners in the production of L2 English vocabulary in Adult Education? Stella Maris MirandaWhen metaphors get us from Porto to Puerto
12:00-12:30 Noelia Jiménez Martínez-LosaTo move, or not to move: that is the question María Moreno Jaen The corpus-based compilation and analysis of a frequency list of collocations: A semantic afterthought Enrique Bernandez SanchisMetaphor and simile, and why we have to study figurative language in real use
12:30-13:00 Annalisa BaicchiThe AUX-NP requestive construction and its metonymic grounding within the Lexical-Constructional Model Arthur McNeillSelecting vocabulary for an L2 curriculum: does the figurative use of words need to be anticipated? Joaquín Garrido MedinaMotion metaphors in discourse construction theory
13:00-14:00 Plenary Talk:
Zoltan Kövecses (Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary):
"Recent findings in metaphor theory and their application to foreign language teaching"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
16:00-17:30 Round Table (Salón de Actos, Philologies building)

The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor and metonymy: Some research issues. What and how much is mapped in metaphor? some issues in the classification of metaphors. Rosario Caballero (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
On some of the main patterns of interaction between metaphor and metonymy. Antonio Barcelona, Universidad de Córdoba
Metaphor in discourse: the role of gender. Gerard Steen, VU University Amsterdam
Discussant: Enrique Bernárdez, Universidad Complutense
17:30-18:00 Juan Manuel Pérez SánchezMetonymy and the development of slang senses in Spanish and English Patricia PinedaMetaphor recognition and reading comprehension in children, an empirical study Ana María García RodríguezMetaphor and discourse processing
18:00-18:30 José Luis OncinsTurning words into weapons: Speech and pain in Shakespeare’s dramatic dialogues Stavroula VarellaLanguage contact and figurative language Linda Henriksson, Graciela de la Nuez Placeres, Juani Guerra de la TorreFigurative language and social cognition: 'The real thing' after Henry James.
18:30-19:00 Laura Hidalgo Downing and Blanca Kraljevic MujicMeaning creation and identity construction through metaphor in discourse: A corpus study of multimodal metaphors in ICT advertising discourse Juani Guerra de la TorreAvant-garde or Arrie`re-garde? On the Literary Use of Figurative Language in Artful Modernist English
19:00-20:00 Plenary Talk:
Elena Semino (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, United Kingdom):
"Figurative language in expert publications and educational materials"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
20:00-21:00 OPEN SESSION FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC (sponsored by Knet Communications Ltd.) (Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
21:30 Conference Dinner and visit to the Bodega Juan Alcorta Winery

 

Saturday 31st
09:00-10:00 Plenary Talk:
Frank Boers (Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium):
"Ways of teaching L2 figurative phrases: an assessment"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
Seminario
(Philologies building)
Aula de formación
(Philologies building)
Salón de Actos
(Philologies building)
10:00-10:30 Javier Herrero RuizThe impact of metonymy on complex tropes: a cognitive-pragmatic study Golden AnneEmotions and figurative language in L2=Norwegian Lorena Pérez HernándezThe role of cognitive operations in effective branding: A case study of Rioja wine brands
10:30-11:00 Francisco Santibáñez SáenzWriting oneself into (cyberspace) existence: lexical, constructional, and discourse aspects Silvia Molina, Irina Argüelles, Luis Dochao Qualitative analysis of translation equivalents figurative idioms: applications for translation and L2 teaching Jihad HamdanNewspaper Stories on HIV/AIDS in Jordan: A Look into the Lexicon
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Maria de Montserrat Rodríguez MárquezPatterns of Translation of Metaphors in Financial Texts Carmen Sancho Guinda, Ismael Arinas PellónHow much patent can patents be? Exploring the impact of figurative language in the engineering patents genre
12:00-13:00 Plenary Talk:
Paul Meara (Swansea, UK)
"Working with words"
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
13:00-13:30 Laudatio and closing ceremony
(Salón de Actos, Philologies building)
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