Friday, August 12, 2016

Practical Information (Travel and Accommodation)

VENUE:
The conference venue is in Building G of Masaryk University (adderss: Gorkeho 7). Easily accessible by Tram #12 (stop: Grohova) from the railway station.

TRAVEL INFORMATION:
If you arrive by air, there are three possible destinations to choose from:
1. Brno Tuřany Airport: Brno has a small international airport. Every 30 minutes there is a bus that takes you to the city center. Taxi is another inexpensive choice.
http://www.brno-airport.cz/en/parking-and-transport/public-transport/
http://www.brno-airport.cz/en/parking-and-transport/taxi/

2. Vienna Airport. There is a direct bus service that connects Vienna Airport and Brno (2 hours' ride), operated by Student Agency.
https://www.studentagency.eu/en/

3. Prague is another option. From the airport you may take the same Student Agency bus service to Brno, but the waiting time between the two buses is long (if included, ca. 4.5 hours in total). Alternatively, from the airport you may take Airport Express to the train station, and continue your journey to Brno by train.
http://www.prg.aero/en/parking-transport/transport/train-airport-express/

Train schedule in English available here.
https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm#

Brno is 2.5 hours by bus/train from Prague.

ACCOMMODATION:
Masaryk University has a contract that offers a deal at a four-star hotel close to the train station. The price is 1600 CZK (slightly higher than 60 EUR) per single room per night, breakfast included.
http://www.grandhotelbrno.cz/index.html

If you wish to make a reservation, contact Wei-lun LU at wllu@phil.muni.cz.

CLiB 2016: Research Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (Call for Papers)

CLiB (for Cognitive Linguistics in Brno) is an annual forum on cognitive linguistics organized by the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). It aims to bring together researchers interested in cognitive approaches to the study of language. This year, we are honored to have Prof. Laura A. Janda (Tromsø, Norway) as our keynote speaker. The conference theme for 2016 is “Research Methods in Cognitive Linguistics”.

We invite proposals of oral presentations. The presentation format is 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussions. We plan to publish a volume of selected papers from the conference with an international publisher. Speakers will be invited to submit a full paper for review by 15 January 2017.

Submission of presentation proposals: 30 June 2016.
Notification of selection results: 15 July 2016.
Conference date: 19 October 2016 (Wednesday).
            Submission of full papers: 15 January 2017.

If interested, send a 300-word presentation proposal (including references) to cog.ling.brno@gmail.com. Please also have in the proposal your affiliation and a short bio (1-200 words).

Registration is free of charge.


If you have any question, please feel free to contact Dr. Wei-lun LU at wllu@phil.muni.cz. We look forward to welcoming you in Brno.

CLiB 2015 Program

Date: 18 April 2015
Venue:  Room G32, Building G (in Gorkeho 7, Brno)


Speaker
Chair
9:40
Arrival and registration
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9:50
Opening and welcome
Jana Chamonikolasova
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10:00
Plenary talk: Where do metaphors come from?
Zoltán Kövecses
Jana Ch.
11:00
Metaphor in Society

What's in a name? A corpus-cognitive analysis of synonymy and metaphor in Taiwanese presidential rhetoric
Wei-lun Lu
Jana Ch.
Metaphoric conceptualizations of disasters triggered by nature
Dita Trčková
Jana Ch.
11:50
Reception
13:00
Metaphor in Interpersonal Communication

On formal manifestation of spatial conceptualization in Japanese
Jiří Matela
WL
Embodiment at its root: Multimodal metaphors for movement and interaction
Michael Kimmel
WL
13:50
Metaphor in Science and Language Teaching

Some aspects of interplay between
evaluation, metaphor and metonymy
Jaromir Haupt
WL
Observations on causation and analogical mapping in science writing: Is the genre relevant?
Christoph Hasse
WL
Teaching polysemous nouns in the EFL classroom: a frame-based approach
Ronald Kemsies
WL
15:10
Closing and coffee


CLiB 2014 Program

Date: 17 June 2014
Venue: G23 (Gorkeho 7)


Speaker
Chair
9:50
Registration
--
--
10:00
Opening and welcome
Jana Chamonikolasova
--
10:10
Use of parallel texts as a new methodology in viewpoint study
Wei-lun Lu
Jana Ch.
10:30
Subjecthood in Japanese
Jiri Matela
Jana Ch.
10:50
Pronouncing the Dreams by Foregrounding the Rhemes
Martin Drapela
Jana Ch.
11:10
Mimsy borogoves, or, the craft of word de/formation
Jiri Rambousek
Jana Ch.
11:30
Use of Parallel Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics
Magdalena Honcova
WL
11:50
Specialized Language and Cognitive Linguistics
Ivana Kralikova
WL
12:10
Revised approach to plus-minus parameter of image-schema theory for phrasal verbs
with up and down
Alena Holubcova
WL
12:30
General Discussion
All