Program

Thursday, December 8, 2016

8:30- 9:00

Registration

9:00-9:15

Welcome from the organizers

9:15-10:15

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Manfred Sailer, University of Frankfurt

A multi-dimensional semantic analysis of the literal and the idiomatic meaning of kinegrams

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:05

11:05-11:40

11:40-12:15

Oral student presentations 10:30-12:15

Marta Wierzba (Potsdam): An experimental view on the syntactic flexibility of idioms
Laura Dörre (Konstanz): When the pig is bought in a poke--the influence of transitivity and constituent adjacancy on the processing of passivized idiomatic sentences
Saskia Brockmann & Susanne Riecker (Tübingen): Figurative Meaning in Poetry as a Source for Linguistic Analysis

12:15-13:45

Lunch Break

13:45-14:45

Keynote: Dr. Simone Sprenger, University of Groningen

Speaking in chunks: How the use of formulaic language makes us fluent

14:45- 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-15:35

15:35-16:10

16:10-16:45

Oral Student Presentations 15:00-16:45

Ruth Kessler (Tübingen): An Ontogenetic Perspective on Mental Representation of Idioms
Stanley Donahoo (Arizona State): Can cats pick up chainsaws? Figurative language processing in context
Dr. Franziska Köder (Oslo): Children's processing of metonyms: The eyes know more than the mouth

16:45-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-18:00

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Callies, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Figurative language understanding: inferential issues

19:30-21:00

Workshop Dinner : Weinstube Forelle

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72070 Tübingen

UPDATED--Friday, December 9th, 2016--UPDATED

9:30-10:30	Keynote: Dr. Gareth Carrol, University of Birmingham From snakes with feet to cows on the ice: How idioms are far from lost in translation for bilingual speakers
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:20	Oral Student Presentations 10:15-11:25 Ellen Palmer (Newcastle): Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenia
11:20-11:40	Coffee Break
11:40-12:40	Keynote: Dr. Alexander Rapp, University of Tübingen Figurative language research on brain function and diseases: What should young researchers know?
12:45-14:35	Poster Lunch Sara Beck (Tübingen): Seeing the error of one’s ways in L1 and L2 idiom processing: Testing the effects of context and literality with self-paced reading Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucharest): A Corpus-based Analysis of Negative Polarity Idiomatic Expressions Jesse Berwouts (Ghent): Brand-level metaphors as a means towards strategic advantage in the nutritional supplement industry Jelena Mitrovic (Passau): Computational rhetoric – rhetorical figures in semantic networks, domain ontologies and beyond Patrawat Samermit (UC Santa Cruz): Ironing out Irony: Ironic Language Understanding as Embodied Simulation Beatrice Giustolisi & Francesca Panzeri (Milano-Bicocca): The role of linguistic abilities in irony comprehension Diana Michl (Potsdam): Straightforward metonym, versatile metaphor: The power of non-literalness in how adults perceive idioms A. La Roi, S.A. Sprenger & P. Hendricks (Groningen): Gray matters: Age-related differences in context-dependent idiom processing Aleksandra Sopina (St. Petersburg): On Meaning Production in Intertextual References Processing
14:45- 15:45	Keynote: Prof. Dr. Herbert Colston, University of Alberta Back to the Future of Figurative Language
15:45-16:15	Concluding Remarks, Coffee, and Discussion

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