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MetaCol – Collocations in the Light of Metaphors and Metonymies
Duration
03 Oct 2024 - 04 Oct 2024
Language
English
Status
REGULAR
ECTS points
5
Course directors :
Aneta Stojić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Dunja Jutronić , University of Split, Croatia
Zvjezdana Vrzić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Cecelia Cutler , City University of New York, Graduate Center (CUNY), United States
Unn Røyneland , University of Oslo, Norway
Course description:

The aim of the conference is to provide various insights into the principles underlying the creation of collocations and the linguistic description of its semantic and pragmatic aspects, while bringing the metaphorical and metonymical dimension of collocations to the foreground and discussing also their possible implications for applied linguistics. Proposals can include, but are not limited to studies dealing with metaphorical and metonymical collocations from the perspectives of:

  • Semantics (e.g., degree of lexicalization, motivation/transparency etc.)
  • Cognitive Linguistics (e.g., conceptual metaphors and metonymies)
  • Construction Grammar (CxG) • Pragmatics • Contrastive Linguistics
  • (Meta-)Lexicography • Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • (Machine) Translation • Language Learning and Teaching
  • Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) etc.

Since the conference is organized within the framework of the scientific research project Metaphorical collocations – syntagmatic relations between semantics and pragmatics (for more information about the project visit the official website https://metakol.uniri.hr/en/), which is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, the project staff will be presenting their research results pertaining to the project goals.

The conference will be held both in English and German. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minute slot for discussion. We invite you to submit your abstracts by 31 January 2024 via the following form: https://forms.gle/xbgdSBKfTDc9FRjr9

Lecturers:

  1. Zoltán Kövecses from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary),
  2. Cornelia Müller from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany)
  3. Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij, affiliated professor at Stockholm University (Sweden)
  4. Christine Konecny, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
ECTS requirements
Attendance, presentation, publication of paper
Course lecturers:
Marco Agnetta , University of Innsbruck, Austria
Katarina Aladrović Slovaček , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Magdalena Baer , Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy , University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
Ksenija Benčina , Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Goranka Blagus Bartolec , Institute for Croatian Language, Croatia
Marija Brkić Bakarić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Marios Chrissou , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Janja Čulig Suknaić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Katja Dobrić Basaneže , Juraj Dobrila University, Pula, Croatia
Dmitrij Dobrovoljskij , Russian Language Institute, Russia
Gerhard Edelmann , University of Vienna, Austria
Georgina Frei , University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Natallia Funt , University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Laura Giacomini , University of Innsbruck, Austria
Snizhana Holyk , Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine
Monika Hornáček Banášová , University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Nataša Jakop , Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Christine Konecny , University of Innsbruck, Austria
Mirjana Matea Kovač , University of Split, Croatia
Zoltán Kövecses , Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Felicja Księżyk , University of Opole, Poland
Vladimir Legac , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Magdalena Malechová , University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ivana Matas Ivanković , Institute for Croatian Language, Croatia
Mihaela Matešić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Zsuzsa Máthé , Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Dorota Miller , University of Rzeszov, Poland
Ivana Moritz , Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Lucia Načinović Prskalo , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Joanna Nawacka , University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Marija Nijemčević Perović , University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Dunja Pavličević-Franić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Nerina Piedra Molina , University of Granada, Spain
Goran Schmidt , Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Marta Smykała , University of Rzeszov, Poland
Michael Spagnol , University of Malta, Malta
Irena Srdanović , Juraj Dobrila University, Pula, Croatia
Aneta Stojić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Anna Sulikowska , University of Szczecin, Poland
Marko Tadić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Joanna Targońska , University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sabina Tsapaeva , University of Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Vodanović , University of Zadar, Croatia
Wei Xue , Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Iuliia Zaitova , Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Shan Zhang , Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Irena Zovko Dinković , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Alessandra Zurolo , University Federico II, Naples, Italy
Attached documents
Course_ Programme30.9_ (002).docx