Call for papers for a theme session at the Tenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC10), http://www.iclc2007.pl/ July 15th-20th, 2007, Jagiellonian University, POLAND
Applying, Verifying, and Challenging Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory
Organisers
Thomas Fuyin LI, PhD
Beihang University (BUAA)
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Peter Crisp, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joseph W Hung, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The basic aim of this theme session is to encourage more followers of Cognitive Linguistics (CL), esp. those in the Chinese Mainland, to familiarize themselves with some basic and easy-to-catch theories as a start and gradually do researches to join the main stream of international CL. We start with conceptual metaphor theory (CMT hereafter) and conceptual blending theory (CBT hereafter) from a multi-perspective. You can either apply and verify the CMT or CBT, or to challenge them.
CMT (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1993) has played a very important role in the evolution of CL. It lets us see that what was previously thought of as a figure of speech can actually be a way of thinking, and a cognitive tool. This change of perspective in looking at metaphors has initiated a research boom in many neighboring disciplines. CMT has been extended to analyze literary works (Lakoff and Turner 1989), to study political discourse (Lakoff 1996), to explore the cultural differences, and so on and so forth. CMT has played a vital role in contemporary research on idioms and proverbs, being used to explore the conceptual motivation behind idioms and proverbs (Gibbs 1992; Gibbs at el 1996, etc). CMT has also extended into Applied Cognitive Linguistics (Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001) including EFL learning (Li 2003). CMT has stimulated the development of further theories that are now popular in CL, including primary metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory(CBT) (Fauconnier et al ), neural theory of concepts, etc.
The majority of the researches in CMT and CBT have been conducted in English language, and some other Western languages, while relatively few researches have been done in Chinese. Nevertheless, research interest in CL has been booming in China. In the past three years, Beijing hosted many lecture series in CL including Prof George Lakoff, Professor Ronald Langacker and Professor John Taylor. Each of them gave a series of ten lectures on CL, CG, and applied CL respectively. These lecture series have contributed greatly to the research boom in CL on the Chinese Mainland.
It is us organizers’ belief that to catch up with the international research trends, we must digest the existing theories, listen to different voices, and do our own empirical researches using data from our mother tongue.
ABSTRACT should observe the following:
(1) Your research must be based on an empirical study and on a systematic collection of data.
(2) Contrastive analysis is also encouraged.
(3) Research question(s) should be formulated and clearly stated.
(4) The aim of your research should either apply and/or verify, and/or challenge the conceptual metaphor theory, the conceptual blending theory, as well as some related issues including image schemas, systematic polysemy etc.
(5) Methodology/approaches should also be clearly stated.
(6) Expected results including theoretical contributions are also a MUST.
(7) The Format of the ABSTRACT should observe the following:
The abstract should be 300-500(maximum) words in English, including examples and references. Electronic submissions as attachments in WORD document format are a MUST. The document should be named in English, containing a few keywords, and your name in PINYIN. Pls DO NOT name your document in Chinese characters, this may cause problems in opening it on Western computers. The subject line of your e-mail should contain “Abstract for ICLC10 Theme Session CMT and CBT”
The cover page of your abstract should include the following
-Tile of your presentation
-author name(s)
- affiliation(s)
- telephone number (office, home, and mobile)
- e-mail address
- fax number (if you have)
- presenter's name (who will present the paper at the conference)
The second page only contains three parts: The Title; 3-5 Keywords; Abstract of 300-500 words in length.
The ABSTRACT must reach the following e-mail addresses before October 31, 2006. The subject line of your e-mail should contain “Abstract for ICLC10 Theme Session CMT and BT”
thomasli@buaa.edu.cn
thomaslifuyin@hotmail.com
Authors will be notified by November 15, 2006 whether your abstracts have been selected for the theme session or not. The theme session proposal will then be submitted to the organizers of the ICLC10, who will notify us of acceptance or rejection by February 1, 2007.
References:
1. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1994). Mental Spaces. Cambridge University Press.
2. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1997). Mapping in Thought and Language. Cambridge University Press.
3. Fauconnier, Gilles., Sweetser, Eve.1996. Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar. Chicago and London: The university of Chicago Press.
4. Fauconnier, Gilles., Turner, Mark. 2002. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. Basic Books.
5. Gibbs, Raymond,Jr. 1992.What do idioms really mean? Journal of memory and
language 31, 485-506.
6. Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W., Herbert L. Colston, and Michael D. Johnson. 1996. Proverbs and the metaphorical mind. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity. Vol.11.No.3. 207-216.
7. Lakoff, G & Johnson, Mark. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. The University of Chicago Press.
8. Lakoff, G. & Turner, Mark. 1989. More Than Cool Reason. The University of Chicago Press.
9. Lakoff, George. 1996. Moral Politics. The University of Chicago Press.
10. Li, Thomas Fuyin. 2003.The Acquisition of Metaphorical Expressions, Idioms, and Proverbs by Chinese Learners of English: A Conceptual Metaphor and Image Schema Based Approach. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, ProQuest Information and Learning Company. XIV+366.
11. Li, Fuyin., and Ding yan. 2006. A review of The Way We Think. The Contemporary Linguistics, 2006, N2:174-180.
12. Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001. Applied cognitive linguistics I: theory and language acquisition. Berlin/NY: mouton de Gruyter.
13. Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001. Applied cognitive linguistics II: language pedogogy. Berlin/NY: mouton de Gruyter.
Applying, Verifying, and Challenging Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory
Organisers
Thomas Fuyin LI, PhD
Beihang University (BUAA)
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Peter Crisp, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joseph W Hung, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The basic aim of this theme session is to encourage more followers of Cognitive Linguistics (CL), esp. those in the Chinese Mainland, to familiarize themselves with some basic and easy-to-catch theories as a start and gradually do researches to join the main stream of international CL. We start with conceptual metaphor theory (CMT hereafter) and conceptual blending theory (CBT hereafter) from a multi-perspective. You can either apply and verify the CMT or CBT, or to challenge them.
CMT (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1993) has played a very important role in the evolution of CL. It lets us see that what was previously thought of as a figure of speech can actually be a way of thinking, and a cognitive tool. This change of perspective in looking at metaphors has initiated a research boom in many neighboring disciplines. CMT has been extended to analyze literary works (Lakoff and Turner 1989), to study political discourse (Lakoff 1996), to explore the cultural differences, and so on and so forth. CMT has played a vital role in contemporary research on idioms and proverbs, being used to explore the conceptual motivation behind idioms and proverbs (Gibbs 1992; Gibbs at el 1996, etc). CMT has also extended into Applied Cognitive Linguistics (Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001) including EFL learning (Li 2003). CMT has stimulated the development of further theories that are now popular in CL, including primary metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory(CBT) (Fauconnier et al ), neural theory of concepts, etc.
The majority of the researches in CMT and CBT have been conducted in English language, and some other Western languages, while relatively few researches have been done in Chinese. Nevertheless, research interest in CL has been booming in China. In the past three years, Beijing hosted many lecture series in CL including Prof George Lakoff, Professor Ronald Langacker and Professor John Taylor. Each of them gave a series of ten lectures on CL, CG, and applied CL respectively. These lecture series have contributed greatly to the research boom in CL on the Chinese Mainland.
It is us organizers’ belief that to catch up with the international research trends, we must digest the existing theories, listen to different voices, and do our own empirical researches using data from our mother tongue.
ABSTRACT should observe the following:
(1) Your research must be based on an empirical study and on a systematic collection of data.
(2) Contrastive analysis is also encouraged.
(3) Research question(s) should be formulated and clearly stated.
(4) The aim of your research should either apply and/or verify, and/or challenge the conceptual metaphor theory, the conceptual blending theory, as well as some related issues including image schemas, systematic polysemy etc.
(5) Methodology/approaches should also be clearly stated.
(6) Expected results including theoretical contributions are also a MUST.
(7) The Format of the ABSTRACT should observe the following:
The abstract should be 300-500(maximum) words in English, including examples and references. Electronic submissions as attachments in WORD document format are a MUST. The document should be named in English, containing a few keywords, and your name in PINYIN. Pls DO NOT name your document in Chinese characters, this may cause problems in opening it on Western computers. The subject line of your e-mail should contain “Abstract for ICLC10 Theme Session CMT and CBT”
The cover page of your abstract should include the following
-Tile of your presentation
-author name(s)
- affiliation(s)
- telephone number (office, home, and mobile)
- e-mail address
- fax number (if you have)
- presenter's name (who will present the paper at the conference)
The second page only contains three parts: The Title; 3-5 Keywords; Abstract of 300-500 words in length.
The ABSTRACT must reach the following e-mail addresses before October 31, 2006. The subject line of your e-mail should contain “Abstract for ICLC10 Theme Session CMT and BT”
thomasli@buaa.edu.cn
thomaslifuyin@hotmail.com
Authors will be notified by November 15, 2006 whether your abstracts have been selected for the theme session or not. The theme session proposal will then be submitted to the organizers of the ICLC10, who will notify us of acceptance or rejection by February 1, 2007.
References:
1. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1994). Mental Spaces. Cambridge University Press.
2. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1997). Mapping in Thought and Language. Cambridge University Press.
3. Fauconnier, Gilles., Sweetser, Eve.1996. Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar. Chicago and London: The university of Chicago Press.
4. Fauconnier, Gilles., Turner, Mark. 2002. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. Basic Books.
5. Gibbs, Raymond,Jr. 1992.What do idioms really mean? Journal of memory and
language 31, 485-506.
6. Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W., Herbert L. Colston, and Michael D. Johnson. 1996. Proverbs and the metaphorical mind. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity. Vol.11.No.3. 207-216.
7. Lakoff, G & Johnson, Mark. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. The University of Chicago Press.
8. Lakoff, G. & Turner, Mark. 1989. More Than Cool Reason. The University of Chicago Press.
9. Lakoff, George. 1996. Moral Politics. The University of Chicago Press.
10. Li, Thomas Fuyin. 2003.The Acquisition of Metaphorical Expressions, Idioms, and Proverbs by Chinese Learners of English: A Conceptual Metaphor and Image Schema Based Approach. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, ProQuest Information and Learning Company. XIV+366.
11. Li, Fuyin., and Ding yan. 2006. A review of The Way We Think. The Contemporary Linguistics, 2006, N2:174-180.
12. Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001. Applied cognitive linguistics I: theory and language acquisition. Berlin/NY: mouton de Gruyter.
13. Putz, Martin., Niemeier, Susanne., and Dirven, Rene. 2001. Applied cognitive linguistics II: language pedogogy. Berlin/NY: mouton de Gruyter.