Seminar Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, Schmid, Winter Term 2019/20

Semester Plan
Date Topics Aims Preparatory
reading
17.10. Introduction and Grasp different ways of defining and
organization; conceptualizing metaphor:
historical  similarity/comparison
background on  substitution
metaphor  interaction;
 big names: Plato, Aristotle, Richards,
Black, Searle, Ricœur
24.10. Metaphors we live Grasp basic ideas and terminology of CMT: Lakoff and
by:  metaphorical expression vs. conceptual Johnson (2003:
The origin of metaphor; 1-53);
conceptual metaphor  source domain, target domain, mapping; Kövecses (2010:
theory (CMT)  systematicity of MRs; 1-49)
 hiding and highlighting;
 orientational, ontological, structural,
primary MRs
31.10. Metonymy in CMT Grasp metonymy as understood in CMT and Barcelona
elsewhere (2015: 143-152)
 terminology;
 functions of metonymies;
 similarities and differences to MR;
 frequent types of metonymy
07.11. Conceptual blending Grasp basic ideas and terminology of CBT: Ungerer and
theory (CBT)  mental spaces; Schmid (2006:
 blending; 257-267)
 vital relations;
 types of blends;
 projection and emergent structure
14.11. Catch up and apply
22.11. The methodology of Learn how to analyze expressions and texts Steen et al.
CMT with regard to metaphor and metonymy: (2010: 25-42)
 understand and apply the MIPVU
procedure
28.11. Extracting metaphor Learn how to use corpora for large-scale Stefanowitsch
and metonymies analyses of metaphor and metonymy: (2006)
from corpora  source-domain based analysis
 target-domain based analysis
Date Topics Aims Preparatory
reading
05.12. Discourse metaphor Appreciate a case study of discourse metaphor Demmen et al.
and its application and understand the augmented corpus (2015)
methodology
12.12. Metaphor: Discuss the tension between the potential Kövecses
universality and universality of conceptual metaphors and (2005);
cultural variation sources of inter- and intra-cultural variation: Pitt and
 conceptual metaphors and embodiment Casasanto
 cross-cultural similarities (2019)
 cultural variation
 intra-cultural variation
19.12. Metaphor and Grasp the cline from highly creative and Lakoff and
metonymy: original MRs and MYs to highly Turner (1989);
conventionality and conventionalized or ‘dead’ ones: Handl (2011)
creativity  conventionality of metaphorical
expressions vs. of conceptual metaphors
 conceptual metaphor and metonymy in
literary language, advertising etc.
09.01. Metaphor and Grasp the role of MR and MY as means of Allan (2008)
metonymy in the extending the lexical resources of language:
lexicon and in  MR and MY, figurative extension of
language change meaning and polysemy
 the role of MR and MY in lexical change
16.01. Metaphor and Understand some of the evidence and Boroditsky
metonymy: controversies around how MR and MY are (2000);
psycholinguistic processed: Casasanto and
evidence  literal and figurative language; Boroditsky
 abstract vs. concrete (2008)
 TIME IS SPACE
23.01. Metaphor and Understand the brain’s responses to MR and Coulson (2008);
metonymy in the MY: Lai et al. (2019)
brain  literal and figurative language;
 abstract vs. concrete;
 involvement of right hemisphere in
processing of metaphor
30.01. Applications of CBT Applying CBT to: Ungerer and
in language and  compounding and morphological blends; Schmid (2006:
beyond  advertising 268-288)
 other fields
06.02. Summary and
evaluation
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