Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Program for CLiB2016


Date: 19 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Venue: Room G31 of Masaryk University (Gorkého 7, Brno)
Time
Talk title
Speaker
Chair
9:10
Opening and welcome
Jana Chamonikolasova
--
9:20
Keynote speech: Methodological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics
Laura A. Janda
J. CH
10:40
Coffee break
10:50
Methods in Cross-linguistic Research

Use of translation as a research method in contrastive cognitive poetics: Word formation in Jabberwocky and its Ukrainian translations
Wei-lun Lu
Suzanne Kemmer
Svitlana Shurma
Jiři Rambousek
J.  MATELA
Parts of speech membership as a factor of meaning extension: Comparison of Czech nouns and Japanese verbs in adnominal modification
Petra Kanasugi
J. MATELA
On oblique relative clauses in German English
Daniel Jach
J. MATELA
12:10
Lunch
13:30
Approaches to Constructions

Massive corpora and models of cross-cultural communication styles in cognitive linguistics— The case of  the N1 V (for) N2 to-infinitive construction in English
Vladan Pavlović
N. KUD.
Analyzing constructions of reported thought as a viewpoint device in conversation: The case of xiangshuo “think/thought” in Mandarin Chinese
Chester Chen-Yu Hsieh and Lily I-wen Su
N. KUD
On the novel Chinese modifier-head construction shejian shang de X:
An analysis of meaning construction
Tongquan Zhou
N. KUD.
Applying principles of Cognitive Grammar to the description of Finnish inflection
Petra Hebedova
N. KUD
15:10
Coffee break
15:30
Methods in Metaphor Research

Methodological problems in metaphor identification and analysis
Zbigniew Kopec
W. LU
Framing social agenda in contemporary mass media
Elina Paliichuk and Svitlana Shurma
W. LU
A CIT-based study of multimodal metaphors in print ads: A case study of the four covers of The Economist
Weizhong Lu
W. LU
16:50
Closing Remarks

In addition to the conference itself, we are pleased to announce a series of talks by Prof. Laura A. Janda as the conference’s satellite events:
1) Oct 17 10:50 - 12:20 – Introduction to Construction Grammar (in Room G316, Gorkého 7)
2) Oct 17 14:10 - 15:50 – A Cognitive Linguistics View on Aspect (in Room N41, Janáčkovo nám. 2)
3) Oct 18 10:50 - 12:20 – Synonymy in Cognitive Linguistics (in Room N41, Janáčkovo nám. 2)
4) Oct 18 14:10 - 15:50 ­- Word Classes in Cognitive Linguistics (in Room G316, Gorkého 7)