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Cognitive Science of Metaphor and Concepts. Psychology Professor.
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Confs: 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language
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Confs: 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language
The 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL9) continues the tradition of regular forums for the discussion of links between figurative thought and language established in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015), Osijek (2017), Braga (2018), Sofia (2020), Poznań (2022), Genoa (2023), and Klagenfurt (2025). FTL9 will focus on the theme Blending Minds and Machines: Figurative Language, Creativity, AI, and Computational Linguistics. This edition aims to explore how figur
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Books: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)
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Books: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)
Linguistic synesthesias combine different senses, as in English smooth melody (touch→sound). For nearly a century, researchers have gathered data that has been interpreted as supporting the notion of a hierarchical ordering of the senses. According to this proposal, expressions map the presumed-to-be 'lower' senses of touch, taste, and smell onto the presumed-to-be 'higher' senses of sound and sight. Here, this proposal is tested in the first-ever meta-analysis of linguistic synesthesias, combin
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Schuyler Laparle
3 months ago
We got to play our new climate metaphor card game at this year's Researching and Applying Metaphor conference! Thank you
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
for yet another awesome conference, and all you awesome participants for joining the fun ☺️ Free print & play version coming soon!
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Ana M. Piquer Píriz
3 months ago
Immensely enriched and grateful after the RaAM 17 conference
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
. A really high quality programme and impeccable organisation. Delighted to present our work in individual papers and a theme session with Rafael Alejo,
@mmartingilete.bsky.social
and Laura Fielden.
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Vicky Lai
3 months ago
Our lab at
#RaAM2025
: Laura Baiocco talked about emotional dimensions of metaphors, Lindsay Krebs talked about student-produced metaphors and science concept learning, Cagatay Cora presented the neural correlates of visual metaphors. Thank the organizers Hamad
@al-azary.bsky.social
for a great time!
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor
3 months ago
That’s a wrap! It’s been a blast! What a wild ride! I’ll end my metaphors there. Eloise, your postgraduate liaison, over and out! 👋
#RaAM17
#RaAM2025
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Yufeng Liu (Kiki)劉雨鳳
3 months ago
At
#RaAM17
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
, I was pleased to present, on behalf of our team, one study from the 4D Picture project, on “Metaphors, identities, and gender in online interactions about cancer”. It was my first in-person RaAM, and I loved every bit of it.
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Maite Taboada
3 months ago
Amber Rynearson and I presented today at
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification. What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad
@al-azary.bsky.social
and team!
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor
3 months ago
Welcome to day 2 of
#RaAM17
🙌 There are so many exciting things happening today, including 3 parallel sessions of talks, a poster session at 1:30pm and a wonderful plenary by
@bodowinter.bsky.social
#RaAM2025
#RaAM17
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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst
3 months ago
Ready. Set. Go! Great start to
#RaAM17
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
in Southfield Detroit!
@al-azary.bsky.social
officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
4 months ago
📣 John Benjamins will be present at the 17th Researching & Applying Metaphor Conference (RaAM17), hosted by Lawrence Technological University, 7-10 August! 📚 Check out our promo material and order form here: 👉
benjamins.com/conferences/...
📚 Or come and browse our books at the exhibit!
#raam17
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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst
3 months ago
Just arrived in Detroit for the
#RaAM17
conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating
#metaphors
with
#AI
" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎
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Special Issue of the Mental Lexicon, "Words in the World" - co edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and myself. This features great psycholinguistics papers produced by trainees around the world! 🌍
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Tommaso Lamarra
8 months ago
I'm very happy to join the metaphor community 👥 at the RaAM17
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
, in Lawrence, MI (US)
@al-azary.bsky.social
I will present 🗣️ an
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
research by
@mariannabolog.bsky.social
and me about the importance of different levels of abstraction▪️◾◼️ in metaphors!
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor
8 months ago
📢 Exciting news for metaphor researchers! RaAM 17 is happening in Lawrence, MI (USA), on 7–10 August 2025, and registration is officially OPEN! Register now in the members' area of RaAM Association website! 🔗
www.raam.org.uk
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