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METAPHORS and METAPHORICITY
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-10-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-07-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
169692 |
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The Inter Litteras Research Centre invites submissions in English, French or German for the second 2009-issue of the academic journal “CONCORDIA DISCORS vs DISCORDIA CONCORS: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Translation and Cross-Cultural Strategies” on the topic Metaphors and Metaphoricity.
Whether viewed as essential ingredients of language acquisition, i.e. as a natural and normal phenomenon (Rumelhart), or as heavily relying on systematic violation of semantic rules (Cohen), as a feature of language per se (Sadock) or as more likely to be located in thought rather than in language (Reddy), whether creating new similarities (Black) or, in social contexts, resulting in cognitive myopia (Schön), metaphors definitely make all the difference in the run-of-the-mill drab life of nowadays’ zoon technikon.
Suggested below are possible subtopics for comparative approaches:
- the “conduit” metaphor: metaphors we live by;
- image-metaphors and imagable idioms;
- the ever fuzzier distinction between metaphorical and non-metaphorical;
- metaphorical approaches to corporeality in modern and post-modern literature;
- spatio-temporal metaphoricity in modern literature;
- the text viewed as macrometaphor;
- translating (conceptual) metaphors: case studies;
- underlying patterns in the discourse on translation: beyond clothing, digestive, sexual, colonialist etc metaphors;
- metaphors as models of mediation in transtexts and transcultures;
- therapeutic values of metaphor in ethnographic descriptions
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