Call for papers
The 6th International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought, to be held at Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador-Brazil), from October 24th-27th, covers a large range of topics related to the research on Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics. The conference theme is Metaphor and Multimodality. However, we invite a broad range of papers on all the topics related to Metaphor studies, such as:
· Metaphor and multimodality;
· Metaphor and complexity;
· Metaphor and teaching;
· Metaphor and culture;
· Metaphor in different theoretical-methodological views;
· Metaphor and neurosciences;
· Metaphor and discourse.
The languages of the conference are English and Portuguese (with translation for workshops, conferences, and panel sessions)
Submission formats
Session slots will be allocated 20 minutes, which includes questions and discussion.
1. Theme sessions
Deadline for proposals: 1 April - 15 August 2017; notification: until 29 August 2017*
Deadline for abstracts submission: 30 August 2017
- Theme session organizers should submit their theme session proposals over EasyAbs in a .doc(x) format. Theme session proposals should include: session title, name and affiliation of the theme session convener, a proposal of up to 300 words, followed by a list of the authors and titles of the individual papers, and all abstracts for the theme session in a suitable order.
- The conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 3 slots (20 minutes each), including time for introduction and general discussion. The maximum length of the theme session is 6 slots. Papers in each theme session should be thematically linked. We strongly encourage diversity at the level of the affiliations involved at the theme session. Theme session conveners are encouraged to launch a broad call for submission.
- Once the theme session has been accepted as a whole, theme session organisers will need to submit all the abstracts from their theme session in a single file (with one abstract per sheet).
2. Oral presentations, Works in progress (Master and PhD) and poster sessions
Deadline: 1 April to 15 August 2017; notification: 15 days after the submission, until 30 August 2017
Abstract Submission
Submissions should include: title of the presentation, name(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es) of the author(s), three to five keywords, and a 300-word abstract (including examples, and excluding figures and references). Submissions should be formatted in the following way: please use 10 point Arial font, single-spaced, and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. The submission should be in a .doc(x) format.
Link to EasyAbs abstract submission page:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cimlp2017 (for submissions in Portuguese) and http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cimlp2017eng (for submissions in English).