The Dynamics of Metaphors I

09.30-18.00 / 23 October 2009 – Building: 1467 – Room: 415

Center for Semiotics – Århus Universitet

09h30

General presentation and workshop introduction

Riccardo Fusaroli & Simone Morgagni

10h00             

C. S. Peirce and metaphor

Bent Sørensen (Aalborg Universitet)

10h30

Generality and variation: a habit-oriented approach to the life of metaphors in society

Riccardo Fusaroli (SUM – Bologna & Center for Semiotics, Århus Universitet)

11h00             

Coffee break

11h30             

Thinking in action and in perception. Why metaphors are not (only) conceptual

Simone Morgagni (LIAS-IMM – EHESS/CNRS & SUM – Università di Bologna)

12h00             

General discussion

12h30

Lunch

14h30             

Metaphors and Semiotic Practices: the Question of Perceptual Models

Jean Lassègue*, Victor Rosenthal#, Yves-Marie Visetti* (* CREA – Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS, # MoDyCo – Université Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense/CNRS & LIAS-IMM – EHESS/CNRS)

15h30             

Affective metaphor in everyday speech: an exploration through six languages

Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc (Center for Semiotics, Århus University)

16h00             

Coffee break

16h30             

Metaphors in conversation

Anders Hougaard (Institut for Sprog og Kommunikation – Syddansk Universitet)

17h00             

General discussion and future perspectives

The workshop is organized by the Center for Semiotics – Århus Universitet and the LIAS-IMM – EHESS/CNRS. The workshop is hosted and partly financed by the Center for Semiotics and partly financed thanks to the ANR “Perception sémiotique et socialité du sens” (ANR-06-BLAN-0281) project.

Here the program in pdf version