5th ICCLS Symposium

Figurative language - creativity, entrenchment, conventionality

29 January 2009
16.00	Opening (Hans-Jörg Schmid, Munich)
16.15	Deirdre Wilson (London) Metaphor and relevance: a pragmatic account
17.15	Friedrich Ungerer (Munich) Figurative language, metaphors and categorization
18.30	Conference warm-up

30 January 2009
09.00	Cornelia Müller (Frankfurt/Oder) A dynamic view on multi-modal metaphors in language use
10.00	Seana Coulson (San Diego) Metaphor and the brain
11.00	Coffee
11.30	Aivars Glaznieks (Munich) Children’s variation of idioms: what children’s idiomatic creativity reveals about the entrenchment of metaphors
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Peter Koch (Tübingen) Diachrony in the lexicon
15.00	Sandra Handl (Munich) The conventionality of metonymies: corpus-evidence and conceptual prerequisites
16.00	Coffee
16.30	Richard Waltereit (Newcastle) Entrenchment, convention and diachronic change: negation in French
17.30	Lynne Cameron (Milton Keynes) Metaphor creativity: poetic and prosaic
18.30	Closing remarks (Ulrich Detges, Munich)
19.30	Conference dinner (Weißes Bräuhaus im Tal)