Past Events
Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience: Language, Cognition, and Culture (AEDE)
3-5 July 2024, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga (north of Portugal).
11th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation
Almería (Spain), July 3 - 5 2024.
RaAm 2024 Specialized Seminar on Metaphor, Inclusion and Accessibility
6-7 June 2024, Macerata, Italy.
44η Ετήσια Συνάντηση Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας
Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, 31 Μαΐου 2024
26th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL)
19-21 April 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece.
16th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
Thessaloniki 14-17 December 2023.
Figurative Thought & Language (FTL) 7 in Genoa, Italy
20-22 September 2023
On-line workshop on Political Language in Motion
The workshop is organised by the RG member Dr Anastasios Vogiatzis and it will take place on January 28th 2023.
Workshop description and CFP - Keynote abstracts - Book of abstracts - Programme - Registration form
Culture and Cognition in Language 3, Rzeszów
27-28 April, 2023
The Department of English Studies at the University of Rzeszów has the pleasure of announcing the third edition of the conference Culture and Cognition in Language: CCL 3. The conference is aimed at viewing language as a both cultural and cognitive phenomenon. This year’s leading theme is: Figurativeness in language and beyond. More here.
43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics
4-6 May 2023 - Call for Papers
15th RaAM Conference: The Social Impact of Metaphor
University of Bialystok, Poland, 21–24 September 2022. More here
15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 15)
Belgrade, Serbia, 15-18 September 2022. More here
12th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO)
University of La Rioja in Logroño, Spain, 27-30 June 2022. More here
25th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
13-15 May 2022. More here
42nd Annual Meeting, Department of Linguistics, School of Philology
(42η Συνάντηση Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας). Thessaloniki, 6-8 May 2022. More here
6th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL5)
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 20-24 April 2022. Updated Conference Programme. More here
Social and cultural aspects of language and their figurative potential
Proposed online workshop organized by Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research group, 29 January 2022. More here
54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE 2021)
Athens, Greece, 31 August-3 September 2021. More here
14th RaAM Conference: Metaphor and Space
Vilnius University, Lithuania, 23-26 June 2021. More here
Τhe Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC-2021)
Budapest, Hungary 16-18 JUNE 2021. More here
41st Annual Meeting, Department of Linguistics, School of Philology
(41η Συνάντηση Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας). Thessaloniki, 13-15 May 2021. More here
5th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL5)
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridsky"", 29-31 October 2020 (New date). The Conference will take place virtually. More here
24th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Thessaloniki, 2-4 October 2020. The Conference took place virtually. More here
12th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
La Rioja, 9-12 September, 2020 (Cancelled. New date to be announced). More here
Coronavirus and figuration
Proposed seminar/workshop organized by Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research group 15 & 16 July 2020.
Watch the video recording of the event here!
Seminar Program - Book of Abstracts
The seminar will take place online. The seminar aspires to bring together scholars to discuss the figurative facets of the coronavirus pandemic. We are daily confronted with verbal and nonverbal ways in which the pandemic is conceptualized and expressed. It is manifested figuratively, via metaphors, metonymies, hyperboles, ironies, similes,…. Moreover, though one can identify up to a degree, commonalities in its expression across languages and cultures (see the “ReFrame COVID” project by Koller et al), interestingly enough there are striking idiosyncracies. This can be seen through verbal but also through pictorial or verbo-pictorial cues (cartoons, comics, memes, animation) in newspapers, in TV programs, and in any social, cultural, political, or ideological framework. More here.
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) 2019
May 16–17, 2019: specialized seminar. ULiège, Belgium. More here
12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12)
Final Call for Papers: Extended Deadline (15 November 2018)
3-5 May 2019 Lund University, Sweden.
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40th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics
5-6 April, 2019: A.U.Th., Thessaloniki, Greece. Call for papers in Greek and English.
The Creative Power of Metaphor
March 29 - 30, 2019: Worcester College, Oxford, UK More here
11th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
October 17-19, 2018: 11th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association.
4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language - FTL4
October 23 – 26, 2018: 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language - FTL4. Catholic University of Portugal, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences - Braga, Portugal. More here
Joint Conference
July 23 – 26, 2018
Joint Conference co-organised by The 38th International LAUD Symposium (LAUD2018) and The Second Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC2018). University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany.
3rd International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language
8 members of the Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group participated in the 3rd International conference on Figurative Thought and Language held in Osijek, Croatia, 26-28 April 2017.
The following members presented their papers:
- Martha Lampropoulou
Blends in Serbian folktales - Paraskevi Pavlopoulou
The conceptualisation and expression of the emotions of ‘jealousy’ and ‘envy’ in Greek - Giota Syrpa
When big is not big; an Active Zone approach to the one dimensionality of big - Maria Theodoropoulou & Kiki Tsapakidou
Orientational metaphors of emotion and feeling in Greek: The interweaving of the analogical and the cultural - Kiki Tsapakidou
Emotive talk: when ‘feeling’ becomes ‘emotion’ - Efthymia Tsaroucha
Conceptual autonomy and dependence on English phrasal verbs - Angeliki Athanasiadou participated in the Round table (Figurative language and figurative (inter)action: The category of IRONY) with G. Radden (Metonymy) and Annalisa Baicchi (Metonymy and Illocutionary Indirectness)
- Katerina Tsaroucha, financed by the CogMod project, attended the conference.
Giota Syrpa was awarded the 1st
prize of
the best presentation in ‘Young Researchers’ Award Ceremony’
March 31st,2017, 15.00-17.00
On March 31st, 15.00-17.00, room 308 loft, Dr Anna Piata, postdoctoral researcher, University of Geneva, will give a talk entitled "Metaphor, time and affective valence in language use".
Visiting Professor Meeting May 25, 2016 | 12:00-15.00
Farzan Sharifian, Professor of Cultural Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, MONASH University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia will give a talk in Central Library Amphitheater, AUTH.
FTL2
October 28-30, 2015
2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought & Language (FTL2), University of Pavia, Italy.
Prof. Angeliki Athanasiadou is among the plenary speakers. Members of the group who are presenting their papers are: I. Athanasiadou, A. Christakidou, M. Lampropoulou, L. Manney, G Syrpa, E. Tsaroucha
One-day Workshop - Tuesday, 6 October 2015
One-day Workshop on Creative Approaches to Blending in Music: theoretical, empirical and computational perspectives. Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki.
Organised by the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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ICLC13
July 20-25, 2015
13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou jointly with Herbert Colston organised a theme session on Irony. Research Group members that participated in the conference were Ifigenia Athanasiadou and Anna Piata.
Workshop in Metaphor & Communication
May 22, 2015
The Research Group organised a workshop on conceptual metaphor. Gerard Steen, Professor of Language and Communication, Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam presented his work on metaphor and communication via teleconference.
ISTAL22
April 24-25, 2015
22nd International Symposium of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Research Group members who presented their papers were I. Athanasiadou, Μ. Lampropoulou and E. Tsaroucha.
Workshop in Conceptual Integration
February 27-28, 2015
The Research Group in collaboration with the Cognitive and Computational Musicology Group of the School of Music Studies, AUTH organized a workshop dedicated to Conceptual Integration Theory and supported by the Concept Invention Theory (COINVENT) project. The workshop was titled: Conceptual Blending: Language, Music, Multi-Modal Communication. Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, presented his research program: The Disturbed Little Red Hen Lab via teleconference. Research Group members that participated were A. Christakidou, S. Kefalidou, A. Piata and E. Tsaroucha.
Visiting Professor Meeting
October 07, 2014
Panos Athanasopoulos, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University presented his research program: Motion events in language and cognition.
Workshop in Multimodal Communication
May 03-04, 2014
The Research Group participated via teleconference in the 2nd Cognitive Science Symposium, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Niš, Serbia. Research Group members that participated were A. Athanasiadou and A. Piata.
FTL1
April 25-26, 2014
The Research Group organised and hosted the 1st International Symposium on Figurative Thought & Language (FTL1). Research Group members that participated were Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou, I. Athanasiadou, A. Chardalias, A. Christakidou, I. Karatsori, M. Lampropoulou, A. Piata, G. Syrpa, M. Theodoropoulou, E. Tsaroucha and A. Vogiatzis). FTL1 was enthusiastically welcomed and deemed a success; so much so, that by the end of it, FTL2 had already been in the making.
Visiting Professor Meeting
April 18 & May 16, 2013
Ioannis Veloudis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki gave two lectures on Metonymy: Part for whole.
ISTAL21
April 06, 2013
21st International Symposium of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics.
The research Group actively participated by organizing a theme session titled: Motivation of grammatical structure by figurative thought: metonymy and metaphor. Research Group members that participated were Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou, A. Christakidou, I. Karatsori, V. Kyriakou, M. Lampropoulou, D. Saratsli, G. Syrpa, E. Tsaroucha, A. Vagenas, A. Vogiatzis.
Visiting Professor Meeting
March 22, 2013
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Professor of English Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of La Rioja presented Metonymy and metonymic complexes in linguistic description and explanation: lexical, pragmatic and grammatical perspectives.
Research Program
February 01, 2013 - January 31, 2014
The research program Metaphor and Language of Emotions over Two Successive Election Campaigns in Greece focused on the two successive elections that took place in Greece on the 6th of May and on the 17th of June 2012. This research project aimed to examine the hypothesis that the metaphoric language used in these election campaigns activated certain emotions to the addressee such as fear, anger, compassion/sadness and pride. Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou, was project leader, while three (3) members (A. Christakidou / E. Tsaroucha / A. Vogiatzis) were on her research team. It was supported by the AUTH Research Committee.