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
Group summary discussion. Tea
Planning for publications and Workshops 3 and 4.

Target Audience

By invitation - metaphor researchers, research fellows on ESRC projects involving metaphor analysis, PhD students