News Bulletin

Figurative Thought and Language 8 (FTL 8) – University of Klagenfurt, July 9-11, 2025 - Call for papers

Research Group meetings for the 2024–2025 Winter Semester will take place on-line via Zoom on 5/10, 19/10, 2/11, 16/11, 30/11, 14/12, 11/1, 25/1 and 8/2.

2024-2025 Call for Participation - read here

On marginal figures again - Online Workshop, 28 September, 2024 - Call for papers

Call for Participation - read here

43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, 4-6 May 2023 - Call for Papers

Research Group meetings for the 2022-2023 Spring Semester will take place on-line via Zoom on 4/2, 18/2, 4/3, 18/3, 1/4, 29/4, 13/5, 27/5, 10/6, 24/6.

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.

Call for Participation - More here

Research Group meetings for the 2022-2023 Winter Semester will take place on-line via Zoom on 8/10, 22/10, 5/11, 19/11, 3/12 and 17/12.

Prof. Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg University), will give a talk on March 22nd (2:30-4:30 PM, Milan time [3:30-5:30 PM Thessaloniki time]) on “Conceptual metaphors and historical linguistics – some case studies”. This talk is in the frame of the lecture series “Historical Linguistics and Philology” of the University of Pavia. To participate please register in advance by sending an email to riccardo.ginevra@unicatt.it, specifying if you plan to attend in person or online. Online participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link.

Research Group meetings for the 2021-2022 Spring Semester will take place on 15/1, 12/2, 26/2, 19/3, 9/4, 7/5, 21/5, 4/6 and 18/6. Meetings will be held on-line via Zoom unless face to face meetings are allowed in the University.

Τhe Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC-2021). Budapest, Hungary 16-18 JUNE 2021 (New Date). Submission deadline for new abstracts: 15 Νovember 2020. For submissions see here.

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"Dimensional Adjectives in Cognitive Linguistics: The case of big” Public oral defense of TCLRG member Panagiota Syrpa. Tuesday 7^th July 2020. The defense will take place virtually.

"Conceptualization and expression of count and mass nouns: an experimental investigation in language acquisition" Public oral defense of TCLRG member Ifigeneia Athanasiadou. Tuesday 23^rd June 2020. The defense will take place virtually.

«Words in Crisis. Metaphor valence in persuasive communication». Oral defense of TCLR group member Tasos Vogiatzis. Wednesday 26/6/2019, 11:00, (Room 308 loft).

FTL 4 in Braga (23-26 October 2018) has been a very successful conference with really inspiring presentations.
Seven members of the RG took part and presented papers in general and in theme sessions: Angeliki Athanasiadou, Martha Lampropoulou, Vivian Pavlopoulou, Giota Syrpa, Maria Theodoropoulou, Kiki Tsapakidou, Thodoris Xioufis.

A very important event within the conference was the Young Researchers’ Award. Information on it is available here.
There are also photos taken by the organisers. You can also download them via this link.

RG member Despoina Felekidou received funding for her PhD Study from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Project: Strengthening Human Resources Research Potential via Doctorate Research (MIS-5000432).

PhD defense: One of the members of the RG, Effie Tsaroucha, is going to defend her PhD thesis on Friday, June 29, at 11 o'clock, at Room 308 loft. The title of the thesis is: "A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to English Phrasal Verbs".
You are all invited.

Dr Diana Forker will visit the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics during the week 23-27 April. She will give a lecture, in the framework of the undergraduate course "Cognitive English Grammar" (2-492), on Tuesday April 24th, 16.00-18.30. The title is: The linguistic expression of space in languages of the Caucasus and beyond.
On Wednesday April 25th, 10.00-13.00, she will give a lecture in the framework of the postgraduate course "Language Structure and Cognition" (522). The title is: Evidentiality and related categories.
On Thursday April 26th at 14.00 she will participate in the meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Research Group, Room 308 loft.

Research Group Meeting: Friday, March 23. Invited speaker Professor Ioannis Veloudis will give a talk on:
ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΦΡΑΣΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ Η λειτουργική αξιοποίηση της ανθρώπινης εμπειρίας για την έκφραση της αντίθεσης-εναντίωσης

Cognitive Semantics Volume 3, Issue 1, 2017

On linguistic borders and cultural conceptualizations

6^th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (5, 6 and 7 July, 2017)

CONTACTS & CONTRASTS: Language, Literature, Culture - Conference

3^rd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL3)

TESOL Macedonia/Thrace: Welcome Back, Day Conference - Sunday 25/9/2016, 10:00 - 16:00
Amphitheatre of the Central Library, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Prof. Angeliki Athanasiadou will give a keynote speech entitled Current Research on Cognitive Linguistics and its application to areas of English Grammar.

Articles and Interviews Posted with Online Magazines | Individual Member Achievement
TESOL e-bulletin: Exploring the World of Cognitive Linguistics features articles and interviews by G. Syrpa and A. Vogiatzis.

16/6/2016, Room 417 junior, New Philosophy Building. Research Group member Martha Lampropoulou is publicly defending her PhD entitled “Τhe cognitive process of metonymy and its functions in the acquisition of areas ofgrammar: the word-formation process of suffixation”.

'Cognitive Poetics in Service of Poetry Writing': A creative writing workshop will be offered on Friday 16th October by Alexandra Christakidou (Ph.D. candidate; School of English, Department of Applied and Theoretical Linguistics).
This writing workshop is going to take place at School of English Library (New Philosophy Building 3rd floor) between 18:00-20:00.
**A certificate of attendance will be provided**
The places available for this workshop are limited. So If you're interested in attending, please forward your emails to: ellikara@enl.auth.gr
This event is organized by the School of English Book Club 'Transparent Windows'. For more information about our group please click on the following link: http://www.enl.auth.gr/trans_windows_en.html.

Poetry Collection Published | Individual Member Achievement

A. Christakidou has penned a poetry collection titled: Το Ηλιόκρινο To Iliokrino (The Sun Lilly), published by Εκδόσεις Σπανίδης (Spanidis Publications). Much of the material in the collection was inspired by research into Cognitive Poetics.

Articles Posted with Online Magazines | Individual Member Achievement

A. Vogiatzis has posted articles with online opinion magazines Parallaxi and Athens Voice . Written in a popular science style, his articles comment on developments in the Greek political scene, utilizing insights from Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics. [Under construction]

New Books

Modeling Irony
Figurative Thought and Language 12, 2022
Ines Lozano-Palacio and Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Figurative Language-Intersubjectivity and Usage
Figurative Thought and Language 11, 2021.
Augusto Soares da Silva.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Producing Figurative Expression
Figurative Thought and Language 10, 2020.
John Barnden & Andrew Gargett.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Figurative Thought and Language 9, 2020.
Annalisa Baicchi.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics
Figurative Thought and Language 8, 2020.
Agnieszka Piskorska.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Figurative Thought and language 7, 2020.
Laura Hidalgo-Downing & Blanca Kraljevic Mujic.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Polularize Science
Figurative Thought and Language 6, 2020.
Anke Beger & Thomas Smith.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Drawing Attention to Metaphor
Figurative Thought and Language 5, 2020.
Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson & Markus Egg.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here

Event Structure Metaphors through the Body
Figurative Thought and Language 4, 2018 (to appear).
Daniel R. Roush
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature.
Figurative Thought and Language 3, 2018.
Anna Piata, University of Neuchâtel.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising.
Figurative Thought and Language 2, 2017.
Paula Pérez Sobrino Universidad Politécnica of Madrid.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

Irony in Language Use and Communication.
Figurative Thought and Language 1, 2017.
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. and Herbert L. Colston, University of Alberta, Canada.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language.
Human Cognitive Processing 56, 2017
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

Advances in Cultural Linguistics.
Cultural Linguistics, 2017.
Edited by Farzad Sharifian, Monash University, Australia.
Springer. More here.

Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures.
Editor(s): Annalisa Baicchi, Erica Pinelli. 2017.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
This volume contains a selection of revised papers originally presented at the Second International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 2), Pavia Italy, 2016. Papers written by the group members A. Christakidou, M. Lampropoulou and G. Syrpa are included. More here.

New Book Series

Figurative Thought and Language.
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Aristotle University, and Herbert L. Colston, University of Alberta).
John Benjamins Publishing. More here.

Cultural Linguistics.
Edited by Professor Farzad Sharifian, Monash University.
Springer. More here.