On May 17th there will be a pre-seminar workshop led by Ray Gibbs and Thomas Wiben Jensen. The workshop is open to both Ph.D. students as well as senior researchers:
Please note, the pre-seminar workshop is limited to 30 places, so please register early!
Enacting Metaphor in Everyday Life
The idea of the workshop is to explore the various ways people live (and not just "live by") or enact metaphor in different ways in life, including language, gesture, different expressive, artistic actions and ordinary private moments. At the core of this way of looking at metaphor is the idea of “metaphorical enaction”. As an alternative to the more traditional notion of “metaphorical expression”, implying the idea of previously formed mental concepts, metaphorical enaction gives priority to the idea that we create our experience through our bodily activities, cultural practices, social actions and so forth. In this sense the environment is shaped by the way we act. This means that metaphorical enaction is also a way of bringing forth ways of life. Following from this the workshop invites contributions looking at different perspectives and methods for exploring metaphorical enaction. A central question is what kind of theory is needed to account for the diversity of metaphorical experiences and ways of bringing forth double meanings. Thus, we invite work from a range of different ways of analyzing metaphor such as experiments, corpus work, literary analysis, art work, or multimodal social interaction, as well as phenomenological ways to uncover the presence of metaphor in our lives.
In cooperation with RaAM, a number of bursaries will be made available (details to follow soon).