20 | LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

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)

Attendance, presentation, publication of paper