Call for Papers

A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor
Latvia, 17-18 Dec 07

The symposium will take place on 17-18 December 2007 at the University of
Latvia in Riga and is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and
Semantics of the University of Latvia:
http://www.lu.lv/eng/general/structure/study/ccss/
and the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University:
http://www.ksu.edu/philos/

Invited speakers include:

Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina)
Elizabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis)
Sam Guttenplan (Birkbeck College)
David Hills (Stanford)
Michael Leezenberg (Amsterdam)
Ernie Lepore (Rutgers)
Douglas Patterson (Kansas State)
Esther Romero (Granada)
Marga Reimer (Arizona)
Belen Soria (Granada)

A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the
symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic
International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication:
http://cognition.lu.lv/board.html

Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion.
Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be
accompanied by a 200 word abstract.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
-Metaphor in the general theory of meaning
-Interpretation of metaphorical utterances
-Metaphor identification
-The status "semantic, epistemological, pragmatic" of metaphors
-The cognitive significance of metaphor
-Metaphor and aesthetic effects
-Natural language processing theories and metaphor
-Cognitive linguistics and metaphor
-Metaphor and rhetorical categories

All submissions should be prepared for blind review, and should be sent
electronically to:

metaphorksu.edu

Deadline for submission is August 15 2007.
Authors will be notified in September 2007.

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Sandra Lapointe
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Kansas State University
201 Dickens Hall
Manhattan, KS, 66506
lapointeksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lapointe/