Sanaz Javanbakht

BSc Student
Combined Major in Microbiology and Oceanography
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of British Columbia

Josh Levesque

MA Student
Department of English Language and Literatures
University of British Columbia

Email: joshl800@mail.ubc.ca

We are pleased to announce that several papers by MetaNet affiliates were accepted for presentation at the inaugural meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America, in Montréal, Quebec, from June 27-29, 2024.

Kim Grogan will present “EARTH IS AN OBJECT: Figurative framing of ecological crisis mitigation in World Wildlife Fund posters”.

Kim Grogan and Elise Stickles will present “‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sin’: Religious metaphors and the framing of climate change in American and Canadian newspapers”.

Kamal Abou Mikhael and Elise Stickles will present “Canadian English metaphoric constructions in the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles“.

Kamal Abou Mikhael will present “NP patient/theme argument run Constructions in North American Slave Narratives”.

Eve Sweetser will present “Multimodal intertextuality and blending”.

Jiani (Brenda) Cao

BA Student
Department of English Language and Literature
Xiamen University

Leah Steinfeld

BA Student
Department of English Language and Literatures, minor in French
University of British Columbia

2019

Despot, K., Tonković, M., Essert, M., Brdar, M., Perak, B., Anić, A. O., Nahod, B., & I. Pandžić. (2019). In M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar, & K. Despot (Eds.), Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language (pp. 123–146). John Benjamins. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.8.06des

Lin, T. (2019). Automatic Classification of Verb-Direction Constructions in Mandarin Chinese. PhD Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder. https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/jw827c71w

Rajeg, G. P. W. (2019). Metaphorical profiles and near-synonyms: A corpus-based study of Indonesian words for HAPPINESS. PhD Dissertation, Monash University. https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Metaphorical_profiles_and_near-synonyms_A_corpus-based_study_of_Indonesian_words_for_HAPPINESS/7968002

Skrynnikova, I. V. Crosslinguistic Repository of Political Metaphors: Structure and Methodological Issues. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie, 128-146. doi: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.2.12

2020

Abdo, M. S., Alghonaim, A. S., & Essam, B. A. (2021). Public perception of COVID-19’s global health crisis on Twitter until 14 weeks after the outbreak. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(3), 509-524. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa037

Aseh, F. M. (2020). Outer and inner circle rhetoric specificity in political discourse: a corpus-based study. PhD Dissertation, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. https://doi.org/10.17904/ku.opus-602

Busso, L., & Tordini, O. (2021). “Ricostruire senza Macerie”: la crisi sanitaria da Covid-19 nel linguaggio giornalistico italiano tra Fase 1 e Fase 2. “Ricostruire senza Macerie”: la crisi sanitaria da Covid-19 nel linguaggio giornalistico italiano tra Fase 1 e Fase 2., 45-66. https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5046017

Skrynnikova, I. V. (2020). Analogical reasoning in uncovering the meaning of digital-technology terms: the case of backdoor. Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research, 4, 23-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.4995/jclr.2020.12921

Wicke, P., & Bolognesi, M. M. (2020). Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter. PloS one, 15(9), e0240010. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240010

2021

Badryzlova, Y., Lyashevskaya, O., & Nikiforova, A. (2021). Automated metaphor identification in Russian and its implications for metaphor studies. In Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2: Special Sessions 18th International Conference 18 (pp. 86-96). Springer International Publishing. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86887-1_8

Despot, K. Š., & Anić, A. O. (2021). A War on War Metaphor: Metaphorical Framings in Croation Discourse on COVID-19. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, 47(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.47.1.6

Despot, K. Š., Sekulić Sović, M., Vilibić, M., & Mimica, N. (2021). Metaphor Production by Patients with Schizophrenia–A Case Analysis. Metaphor and Symbol, 36(3), 119-140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2021.1893606

Ilievski, F., Oltramari, A., Ma, K., Zhang, B., McGuinness, D. L., & Szekely, P. (2021). Dimensions of commonsense knowledge. Knowledge-Based Systems, 229, 107347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107347

Isaza, C., & Ossewaarde, R. (2021). Corruption in Public Discourses: A Comparison Between Colombian and European Metaphors. Public Integrity, 23(4), 401-425. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2021.1881299

Stowe, K., Beck, N., & Gurevych, I. (2021, November). Exploring metaphoric paraphrase generation. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (pp. 323-336). doi: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.conll-1.26

2022

Dalpanagioti, T. (2022). Marrying Frame Semantics with Task-Based Language Teaching. Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 24, 253-269. doi: https://doi.org/10.26262/istal.v24i0.9160

Gamonal, M. (2022, July). A descriptive study of metaphors and frames in the multilingual shared annotation task. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Dimensions of Meaning: Distributional and Curated Semantics (DistCurate 2022) (pp. 1-7). doi: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.distcurate-1.1

Gangemi, A., & Presutti, V. (2022). Formal Representation and Extraction of Perspectives. In P. Vossen & A. Fokkens (Eds.), Creating a More Transparent Internet: The Perspective Web, (pp. 208-228). Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641104.016

García Cuadrado, R. (2022). Lectura Fácil: identificación de metáforas. PhD Dissertation, Universidad Politécnia de Madrid. https://oa.upm.es/71157/

Hong, W. (2022). Traduire les métaphores conceptuelles : enjeux linguistiques, cognitifs et culturels de la traduction des métaphores des émotions français-chinois et chinois-français. PhD Dissertation, Université Grenoble Alpes. https://theses.hal.science/tel-04032646

Hong, W., Rossi, C., & J.-P. Chevrot. (2022). Investigating The Impact Of Cultural Embeddedness On Metaphor Translation. In A. Bagasheva & N. Tincheva (Eds.), Figurativity across Domains, Modalities and Research Practices (pp. 187-210). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7787-9/

Khalifa, H., & Essam, B. A. (2022). How does Maya Angelou perceive the African female body?. Journal of African American Studies, 26(2), 203-220. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-022-09581-7

Lievers, F. S. (2022). Types of metaphors and their structure: Annotation guidelines between theory and practice. In M. Prandi & M. Rossi (Eds.), Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account. (pp. 91-107). Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184041-7

Neumair, P. A. (2022). Emotionen und Heimat: Konzeptuelle Metaphorik im öffentlich-politischen Sprechen über Flucht und Vertreibung. Studia Germanica Gedanensia, 47, 40-53. doi: https://doi.org/10.26881/sgg.2022.47.03

Skrynnikova, I. V., & Astafurova, T. N. (2022). Figurative framing around pandemic discourse: from metaphorical wars on coronavirus to wars on anti-vaxxers. Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Serii︠a︡ 2, I︠A︡zykoznanie, 21(2), 136-148. doi: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.2.11

Wachowiak, L., Gromann, D., & Xu, C. (2022, December). Drum Up SUPPORT: Systematic Analysis of Image-Schematic Conceptual Metaphors. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP) (pp. 44-53). doi: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.flp-1.7

Yu, N. (2022). The Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach. Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2023.2234125

2023

Dalpanagioti, T. (2023). What frame semantics can offer to task‐based language teaching. TESOL Journal, 14(2), e692. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.692

De Giorgis, S. (2023). Ethics in the flesh: formalizing moral values in embodied cognition. PhD Dissertation, University of Bologna. https://amsdottorato.unibo.it/11040/

Pitarch, L., Bernad, J., & Gracia, J. (2023, September). MEAN: Metaphoric Erroneous ANalogies dataset for PTLMs metaphor knowledge probing. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (pp. 147-152). https://aclanthology.org/2023.ldk-1.13.pdf