Conference
Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
- Date
- Monday 30 September 2024 - Tuesday 1 October 2024
- Location
- TBA
The conference aims to bring together scholars working on conceptual metaphors within the fields of comparative or historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics and/or philology. It is organized as part of the research project ‘Winged Words: the Prehistory of Communication Metaphors’ funded by the Leiden University Fund (LUF) and conducted by Lucien van Beek.
Confirmed invited speakers are:
- Alexander Forte (Harvard/NYU)
- Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)
- William Short (Exeter)
The main focus of the conference is on early Indo-European languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit or Hittite, but contributions dealing with modern languages or other language families are also welcomed. It is hoped that this will result in cross-fertilization between scholars working in different fields and on different languages, and thus widen and deepen our understanding of Conceptual Metaphors, and of semantic change generally.
Call for papers
The deadline for submission is 3 June 2024.
Programme
The programme will be published on this page in July 2024.
Registration
The link for registration will be posted at a later date.