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GENOA 2016: 
ADVANCES IN METAPHOR STUDIES 
http://www.lingue.unige.it/eventi/metaphor2016 
 
 
20th - 22nd May, 2016 
University of Genoa, Italy 
 
The so-called "Cognitive Revolution" brought with it, among other features, Cognitive 
or Conceptual Metaphor (CM) (Reddy, Lakoff and Johnson), refining and expanding 
theories of comparison and property attribution. In the period 1970-1990 circa, CM 
gradually came to dominate the metaphor scene, consolidating its position in the twenty 
years that followed, also bolstered by relevance theory and Gricean pragmatics. 
Naturally, there were "offshoots" and complementary strands - developments such as 
blending theory − which enriched the scene. Unsurprisingly, inadequacies were also 
identified and "alternatives" or "integrations", such as perceptual simulation (Gibbs, 
Barsalou), framing (Schoen, Reddy) offered. Indeed, framing may be combined with 
conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner), the importance of pragmatics and context 
(Douthwaite, Kovecses), and of narratological theory (Biebuyck and Martens). There 
have also been more radical criticisms of this broad line of investigation, tending to 
come within more traditional domains of literary criticism and rhetoric theory (part one 
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of Fludernik). In this domain non-cognitive approaches have not failed to make their 
mark (e.g. a revitalisation of analogy, Coenen). 
Just as the theoretical domains are extremely wide-ranging, so are the domains of 
application, with every area of language having been treated − literary, conversation, 
politics, classroom, art, medicine, law, economics to name but a few. 
Papers are therefore invited from all disciplines, including literature, linguistics, 
psychology, sociology, criminology, anthropology, communication studies, medicine 
and the hard sciences, on any aspect of metaphor theory and its applications. Papers are 
also welcome which trace the development of metaphor theory and how developments 
in metaphor theory are related to more general developments in the field of science. 
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