Meaning, Context and Cognition MCC 2017
20-22 April 2013
University of Lodz; Faculty of Philology, Łódź, ul. Pomorska 171/173
Contact: [email protected]
Thursday 20th April
10:00 – 12:00
Registration
(& during conference)
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:55
Conference Opening
Winnie Cheng (The Hong Kong Politechnic University) Editorial stances of commercial and government news: The Hong
Kong Chief Executive election
Room: A5
Room A5
Room 2.20
13:00 – 13:30
Ayo Osisanwo:
The social media impact and the online reader response in the representation of
goodluck Jonathan administration on Boko Haram
Ewa Mioduszewska:
Contexts, Concepts, Analogies
13:30 – 14:00
Chie Urawa:
A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of Cautionary Statements in the Corporate
Annual Reports: Sony and Panasonic
Yaroslav Bilyk:
Meaning and Game
14:00 – 14:30
Elwira Szehidewicz:
Mind-reading in Socratic dialogue
Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk:
Lying, ad hoc concepts and explicature
14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:55
Coffee break
Adrian TIEN (Trinity College, Dublin) The Semantics of Music: Semantic and cognitive analyses of musical concepts
Room A5
Room A5
Room 2:20
16:00 – 16:30
Agnieszka Muszyńska:
Stage directions in libretto of an opera: a linguistic imagery
Agnieszka Piskorska:
A joint look at humour and metaphors from the perspective of Relevance Theory
16:30 – 17:00
Kamila Ciepiela
From general to situated and back. Spiral development of the meaning of
toponyms
Maria Sandra Peña Cervel:
Construction across different levels of linguistic description: a case study
17:00-17:30
Olexiy Bilyk:
Science and non-scientific methodology
Agnieszka Solska:
Selected models of utterance comprehension on processing puns
19:05
Supper (CSK: University Conference Centre)
Friday 21st April
9:00 – 9:55
Kasia JASZCZOŁT (Cambridge University) Perspective, functional indexicals, and semantic representation
Room: A5
Room A5
Room 2:20
10:00 – 10:30
Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska:
A moderate relativist account of sub-sentential speech acts
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & Paul Wilson:
Event-Linking Devices of Negative Emotion Clusters in Spoken Language
10:30 – 11:00
Cécile Barbet:
When some triggers a scalar inference out of the blue An electrophysiological
study of a Stroop-like conflict elicited by single words
Maria Jodłowiec:
Towards resolving the explicit-implicit borderline problem
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
Room A5
Room 2.20
Mateusz Włodarczyk:
Processing different aspects of meaning. Experimental report.
Juani Guerra, Marta Silvera, Michal Góral:
From EATING IS THINKING to HEALTH IS IDENTITY: a biopoetic approach
to cultural conceptualization in nutritional education. The case of the
mediterranean diet.
12:00 – 12:30
Anna Brożek:
The phenomenon of comicality. Some contributions to the analysis.
Maria Luisa Diez Arroyo:
Is the road the new catwalk? Metarepresentation and fashion in car advertising
12:30-13:00
Ewa Wałaszewska:
Are racehorses athletes? Category extension in relevance theory
Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Zahra Mustafa & Majdi Sawalha:
Arab women in news discourse during the Arab Spring: Emerging images and
broken stereotypes
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
Room: A5
14:00 – 14:55
Room 2:20
Jacqueline VISCONTI (University of Genova) The diachrony of contrast markers
15:00 – 15:30
Mi Zhou & YaoYao:
On the strictly scalar exclusive focus particle pianpian in Mandarin Chinese
Irina Ivanova-Mitsevich:
Semantic structure of the sentence: cognitive and pragmatic aspects
15:30 – 16:00
Houda Khabcheche:
Instructional Effectiveness in Interlanguage Pragmatics:
Joanna Blochowiak:
How does the notion of epistemic vigilance help reassessing procedural
Awareness & Production of Appropriate Apologies by Algerian EFL Learners
16:00 – 16:30
information.
Coffee break
17:30 – 18:00
Magdalena Adamczyk:
A cross-linguistic look at the Polish discourse particle ot
Alina Kwiatkowska:
Art and the real. Playing with figures and grounds in Dónall Dempsey’s
ekphrastic poem
18:00 – 18:30
Johannes HEIM & Martina Wiltschko:
How Particles and Intonation Can Modify Speech Acts
Zbigniew Maszewski:
The Language of Emotions in Bruno Schulz’s „Spring”
Łódź tram tour
18:30 - 19:30
19:30
Conference dinner (Anatewka at Manufaktura)
Saturday 22nd April
9:00 – 9:55
Małgorzata KRÓL (University of Łódź) Meaning in the Context of Law
room: A5
10:00 – 10:30
Room: A5
Room 2:20
Jadwiga Maszewska:
Ghulam Raza & AyeshaZafar:
Meanings in the adverbial propositions of the psych verbs
Louise Erdrich’s The Round House as a Literary Version of Section 904 of the
Violence Against Women Act
10:30 – 11:00
Katarzyna Poloczek:
Linguistic Parallax: the moved angles of vision in Sinéad Morrissey’s 2013
poetic volume
Mikołaj Deckert:
On parameters of construal-guided event conceptualisation
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:25
Sylwia WOJTCZAK & Iwona WITCZAK-PLISIECKA (University of Łódź) workshop:
Cognitive perspective on legal language: focus on metaphor
Room: A5
room: A5
Room 2:20
12:30 – 13:00
Larisa ILYNSKA, Oksana IVANOVA:
Professional Communication: Decoding of Meaning
Marina Platonova:
Poster, Poster on the Wall,Do you Really Mean It All? Decoding Visual
Metaphor ‘Global Warming’ in Public Awareness Campaign
13:00 – 13:30
Iza Molińska:
Maged Zakher:
Towards more Contextualized Research Interviews – Sacred Texts as InterviewEnhancing Tools
TBA
13:30
Conference Closing
14:00 –
Lunch (optional)
15:00
Guided Tour of Łódź (optional)