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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for

The Fourth Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition
The Fourth Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC IV) will take place on the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), June 12 - 14, 2013.

The conference will be organized by the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC), the Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association (FiCLA) and the UEF language departments. [...]

Call for Chapters

(Deadline for Abstracts: 16 November 2012)

Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse

Editors: Graham Low (The University of York, UK)

Wan Wan (The University of York, UK)

General Description

Scholars of metaphor have for several years collected evidence for the important claim that the use of elicited metaphor, as a research tool can be helpful in raising reflection and consciousness among students and teachers, uncovering belief systems/conceptualizations of their learning and/or teaching practices and ultimately in predicting behaviours likely to follow from them (e.g., de Guerrero & Villamil, 2002; Jin & Cortazzi 2011; Oxford et al., 1998; [...]