2025
Abou Mikhael, Kamal. (2025, September 24). The potential of c2xg’s unsupervised learning for metaphor extraction in African American novels. Poster presented at The Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and Natural Language Processing (CxGs+NLP 2025). Düsseldorf, Germany.
Stickles, Elise; and Schuyler Laparle. (2025, August 10). Climate change metaphors: Critical approaches to representation in media and research. Theme panel organized at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.
Laparle, Schuyler; Ashby, Simone; Hanna, Julian; and Oyku Yildirim. (2025, August 8). Critiquing climate change metaphors through play. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.
Stickles, Elise; Grogan, Kimberly; Arrieta-Zamudio, Ana; Levesque, Joshua; and Laura Schneider. (2025, August 8). A systematic literature review of climate change related metaphors in English, Spanish and French: Methods and preliminary results. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.
Sweetser, Eve; Fan, Lorianne & Kimberly Grogan. (2025, August 8). Multimodal metaphor data and enrichment of corpus interpretation. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 17). Southfield, Michigan, USA.
Grogan, Kimberly; and Elise Stickles. (2025, July 15). Selective projection and viewpoint: How conceptual blending theory clarifies metaphoric framing. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Grogan, Kimberly; Steinfeld, Leah; and Elise Stickles. (2025, July 14). RELIGION metaphors in climate change discourse: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison between the US, Canada and France. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sweetser, Eve; Stickles, Elise; Fan, Lorianne Z.; Cao, Jiani; and Jiaying Zhang. (2025, July 15). PANDEMIC IS WAR metaphors: multimodal blends with varied inputs and meanings. Paper presented at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2024
Abou Mikhael, Kamal; and Elise Stickles. (2024, November 8). Introducing Multilingual MetaNet: A cross-linguistic database of metaphors, semantic frames, and syntactic constructions across varieties of English, French, and Spanish. Poster presented at the virtual conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities. Online.
Sweetser, Eve; and Elise Stickles. (2024, October 8). MetaNet – Its Current Status and Future Directions. Paper presented at the 21st EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography) International Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Grogan, Kimberly; and Elise Stickles. (2024, June 27). ‘Climate cults’ and ‘climate sin’: Religious metaphors and the framing of climate change in American and Canadian newspapers. Paper presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America, Montréal, Quebec.
2023
Grogan, Kimberly. (2023, June 28). “Multimodal persuasion: Metaphor in climate change activism”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. [download poster pdf]
Johnstone, Caitlin, Browning, Celeste, and Elise Stickles. (2023, June 28). “Diffusing the time bomb – Differential impacts of metaphor on climate doomism”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. [download presentation pdf]
Bonnefille, Stéphanie. (2023, June 29). “A new word for a new concept. How is “eco-anxiety” framed in the press (January 2018-January 2023)?”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Wallace, Bryce, and Eve Sweetser. (2023, June 29). “Anti-Vax framings and metaphors: What makes an Anti-Vaxxer?”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. [download presentation pdf]
Laparle, Schuyler. (2023, June 30). “Metaphors for displacement in times of crisis”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Stickles, Elise, Arrieta-Zamudio, Ana, Lozano, Inés, Olavarría, Yorka, and Rodolfo Ortiz. (2023, June 30). “¿El virus del dragón o un pequeño covicho?: Variation and change in COVID-19 metaphors across varieties of Spanish”. Researching and Applying Metaphor 16. Alcalá de Henares, Spain. [download presentation pdf]
Grogan, Kimberly. (2023, August 8). “Climate change discourse: Blending and viewpoint in multimodal artifacts”. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 16. Düsseldorf, Germany.
Johnstone, Caitlin. (2023, August 8). “The Future is Now: Blending theory and the reconfiguration of the climate crisis”. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 16. Düsseldorf, Germany.
Grogan, Kimberly, and Elise Stickles. (2023, August 9). “Climate change: a constructional approach”. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 16. Düsseldorf, Germany.
Moar, Sarah, Bonnefille, Stéphanie, Sweetser, Eve, and Elise Stickles. (2023, August 10). “Building the French-language MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis en français”. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 16. Düsseldorf, Germany.
2022
Stickles, Elise; Laparle, Schuyler; Browning, Celeste; Du, Vivian; Jones, Kelly; Lahouli; Med Amine; Lozano, Inés; and Eve Sweetser. (2022, September 21). Challenges for multilingual metaphor corpora: Methods and guiding principles. Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland. [download pdf]
Laparle, Schuyler; Stickles, Elise; Sweetser, Eve; and Bryce Wallace. (2022, September 21). Moral framing and pandemic metaphors. Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland. [download pdf]
Browning, Celeste; and Elise Stickles. (2022, September 21). Microvariation in inner circle Englishes: COVID-19 metaphors in Canadian and American English. Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland. [download pdf]
2021
Sweetser, Eve; Laparle, Schuyler; Jones, Kelly; Getter, Daniel; and Akash Kulgod. (2021, June 24). Choosing source domains to guide metaphoric health reasoning. Researching and Applying Metaphor 14. Vilnius, Lithuania.
2020
Sweetser, Eve; and Schuyler Laparle. (2020, June 18). Harmful Living Beings: a family of metaphors for cancer. Researching and Applying Metaphor 13. Hamar, Norway.
2018
Stickles, Elise; and Ellen Dodge. (2018, August 25). Mapping it all out: Delineating the role of metaphors and frames in a constructional approach. Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, Helsinki, Finland.
David, Oana. (2018, August 25). Grammar meets metaphor: The current state of the art and computational inroads. Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, Helsinki, Finland.
Dodge, Ellen; Luca, Gilardi; and Elise Stickles. (2018, August 25). Re-thinking frames from a constructional perspective. Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, Helsinki, Finland.
Laparle, Schuyler; and Eve Sweetser. (2018, June 29). Ecological vs. military invasions: Reasoning metaphorically about cancer. Researching and Applying Metaphor 12. Hong Kong.
David, Oana; Quintana, Gloria; and Teenie Matlock. (2018, March 1-3). Blogging about cancer is a perilous journey: Metaphor in English and Spanish cancer narratives. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Atlanta, GA.
Matlock, Teenie; David, Oana; and Matthew Turner. (2018, March 1-3). Violence metaphors are not always the good, the bad, and the ugly. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Atlanta, GA.
2017
David, Oana; Matlock; Teenie, and Dalia Magaña. (2017, July 13). Computational and corpus methods in the cross-linguistic study of cancer metaphors. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 14. Tartu, Estonia.
Dodge, Ellen; and Elise Stickles. (2017, July 13). Analyzing metaphoric source-domain language in corpora: A MetaNet approach. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 14. Tartu, Estonia.
David, Oana. (2017, May 18-19). Victims of our own metaphors: Is cancer a war in every language? The 6th Specialised RaAM Seminar. Odense, Denmark
David, Oana. (2017, April 20-22). Beyond war metaphors in cancer discourse. The 6th Meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition. Lund, Sweden.
Dodge, Ellen; Trott, Sean; Gilardi, Luca; and Elise Stickles. (2017, March 27). Grammar scaling: Leveraging FrameNet data to increase Embodied Construction Grammar coverage. AAAI Spring Symposium on Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. Stanford, California.
2016
Stickles, Elise; and Ellen Dodge. (2016, October 6). A computationally-aided frame and construction-based analysis of motion metaphors in corpora. International Conference on Construction Grammar 9. Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Stickles, Elise. (2016, July 22). A multimodal Embodied Construction Grammar approach to image schematic structure in metaphoric gesture. International Society for Gesture Studies 7. Paris, France.
Stickles, Elise; and Ellen Dodge. (2016, January 7). Literal vs. figurative language use affects the frequency of syntactic patterns. Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C.
2015
David, Oana; Dodge, Ellen; Stickles, Elise; and Jisup Hong. (2015, July 24). Metonymy, metaphors and constructions in a corpus-based Embodied Construction Grammar framework. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 13. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; and Elise Stickles. (2015, June 5). MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, NAACL HLT. Denver, CO.