Metaphor Analysis: Theory-based expert workshop
8th - 9th May 2006
Venue: University of York
Aim: Having identified the empirical issues, we move to review the theoretical frameworks of cognitive and discourse dynamics, and their implications for metaphor analysis in social science research.
Organisation: Talks that present different theoretical perspectives + discussion and debate.
Speakers are asked to present an overview of the theoretical position and to address the following set of questions:
- How does the theory describe and explain the connection between what people say and what they think?
- What does the theory impose on data analysis?
- What does it allow and disallow as evidence of thinking?
- What does it not account for?
- How does the approach address the issues in metaphor methodology identified in the previous workshop?
A comparison of perspectives will be built up, connected to techniques for analysis and description.
Speakers
| Vyv Evans | Emory University, Atlanta, USA |
| David Ritchie | Portland State University, Oregon, USA |
| Mara Zanotto | Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Paul Chilton | University of East Anglia |
| Lynne Cameron | University of Leeds |
Course Outline (Programme)
Monday 8 May 2006
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee. Introduction to the workshop (Graham Low / Lynne Cameron) |
| 10.30 - 11.30 | Beyond Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Towards a Usage-based Account of Figurative Language (Vyv Evans) |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Discussion |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Beyond Conceptual Metaphor Theory: (Paul Chilton) |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Discussion |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Discourse dynamics and an emergent view of metaphor systematicity (Lynne Cameron) |
| 17.00 - 18.00 | Discussion |
Tuesday 9 May
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Perceptual Simulation and Metaphor (David Ritchie) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Cultural models in the construction of metaphor indeterminacy (Mara Sophia Zanotto) |
| 12.30 - 13.00 | Discussion |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | Discussion |
Target Audience
By invitation - metaphor researchers, research fellows on ESRC projects involving metaphor analysis, PhD students