Conference

Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors

Date: Monday 30 September 2024 - Tuesday 1 October 2024
Location: Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden
Room: Monday: room EM 1.09 | Tuesday: room BW 0.05

The conference aims to bring together scholars working on conceptual metaphors within the fields of comparative or historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics and/or philology. It is organized as part of the research project ‘Winged Words: the Prehistory of Communication Metaphors’ funded by the Leiden University Fund (LUF) and conducted by Lucien van Beek.

Confirmed invited speakers are:

Alexander Forte (NYU)
Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)

The main focus of the conference is on early Indo-European languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit or Hittite, but contributions dealing with modern languages or other language families are also welcomed. It is hoped that this will result in cross-fertilization between scholars working in different fields and on different languages, and thus widen and deepen our understanding of Conceptual Metaphors, and of semantic change generally.

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Programme and conference booklet

View or download the programme (PDF, version 27 September)

View or download the conference booklet (PDF, version 26 September)

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