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.
Lakoff, George. (2016). Preface. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 131-132. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.001pre
Petruck, Miriam. (2016). Introduction to MetaNet. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 133-140. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.01pet
Sullivan, Karen. (2016). Integrating constructional semantics and conceptual metaphor. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 141-165. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.02sul
Stickles, Elise, Dodge, Ellen, David, Oana, and Jisup Hong. (2016). Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory: A structured repository for metaphor analysis. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 166-213. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.03sti
David, Oana, Lakoff, George, and Elise Stickles. (2016). Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 214-253. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.04dav
Dodge, Ellen. (2016). A deep semantic corpus-based approach to metaphor analysis: A case study of metaphoric conceptualizations of poverty. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 256-294. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.05dod
Hong, Jisup. (2016). Automatic metaphor detection using constructions and frames. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 295-322. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.06hon
Stickles, Elise, David, Oana, and Eve Sweetser. (2016). Grammatical constructions, frame structure, and metonymy: Their contributions to metaphor computation. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) 2015, 317-345. download
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.
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.
Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; and Elise Stickles. (2015). MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. In E. Shutova, B. B. Klebanov, & P. Lichtenstein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 40-49). NAACL HLT 2015. download
Stickles, Elise; David, Oana; and Eve Sweetser. (2014, November 14). Frame role type constraints and frame metonymy in metaphoric interpretation. High Desert Linguistics Society 11. Albuquerque, NM.
Stickles, Elise; Dodge, Ellen; and Jisup Hong. (2014, November 7). A construction-driven, MetaNet-based approach to metaphor extraction and corpus analysis. Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 12. Santa Barbara, CA.
Dodge, Ellen; David, Oana; Stickles, Elise; and Eve Sweetser. (2014, September 4). Constructions and metaphor: Integrating MetaNet and Embodied Construction Grammar. International Conference on Construction Grammar 8. Osnabrück, Germany.
David, Oana; Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; Stickles, Elise; and Eve Sweetser. (2014, September 4). Building the MetaNet metaphor repository: The natural symbiosis of metaphor analysis and construction grammar. International Conference on Construction Grammar 8. Osnabrück, Germany.
Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; Stickles, Elise; and Oana David. (2013, June 26). The MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 12. Edmonton, AB.
David, Oana; and George Lakoff. (2013, June 24). Wikis, beans, and cats: The cascade theory of metaphor. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 12. Edmonton, AB.
Hong, Jisup; Stickles, Elise; and Ellen Dodge. (2013, June 24). The MetaNet metaphor repository: Formalized representation and analysis of conceptual metaphor networks. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 12. Edmonton, AB.
Narayan, Srini; and Jisup Hong. (2013, June 24). A multilingual functional repository for cognitive linguists. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 12. Edmonton, AB.
Sessional Lecturer of Spanish
Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies
University of British Columbia
Email: rortiz26@mail.ubc.ca
Websites
https://fhis.ubc.ca/people/rodolfo-ortiz/
https://blogs.ubc.ca/rebellion/
http://www.mariposamundial.com/
Education
PhD in Hispanic Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
MA in Arts and Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh, USA
MA in Latin American Literature, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
Certificate of Advanced Study on Latin America Center of Latin American Studies UCIS-CLAS, University of Pittsburgh, USA
BA of Psychology, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Bolivia
BA of Literature, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
Dissertation
“Knots and Tangles: Barbarian Circuits and Belligerent Polemics in the Andean Magazines of the Early Twentieth Century” [cIRcle]
