Marianna M. Bolognesi, Ph.D.
CV
Academic Achievements
2015-2017
EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at University of Amsterdam.
2013-2014
6-months Postdoctoral project coordinator within NWO Vrije Competitie program
‘Visual metaphor: A psycholinguistic approach’, coordinated by Prof. Gerard Steen.
2008-2011
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Università di Torino, Italy.
Thesis: “The bilingual mental lexicon and the corpus-driven models of lexica based on
the distributional hypothesis: a comparison between motion and psychological verbs”
(Supervisors: prof. Carla Marello, prof. Alessandro Lenci)
20014-2006
MA, Applied Linguistics: Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics.
Università di Pavia, Italy.
Thesis: “The structure of the mental lexicon in BFLA (bilingual first language
acquisition): a case-study.” (Supervisors: prof. Elisabetta Jezek, prof. Cecilia
Andorno, prof. Anna Giacalone)
1999-2003
BA, Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Università di Pisa, Italy.
Academic Scholarships, Grants and Sponsorships
2015-2017
Marie Curie individual research fellowship (IEF) ~ 187,000 EUR
2016
KNAW Royal Dutch Academy of Science symposium grant - 3200 EUR
2016
ABC Amsterdam Brain and Cognition symposium grant - 2500 EUR
2016
Network Institute Amsterdam symposium sponsorship - 500
2014
Network Institute Amsterdam research sponsorship - 2000 EUR
2013-2014
Postdoctoral project: VisMet: A corpus of visual metaphors.’ Final part of NWO Vrije
Competitie program ‘Visual metaphor: A psycholinguistic approach’, coordinated by
Prof. Gerard Steen – 12,000 EUR
2013
Network Institute travel grant - 1000 EUR
2008-2011
PhD fellowship - Università di Torino, Italy ~ 36,000 EUR
2009
Italian Ministry for University and Research visiting PhD fellowship (UCL London,
UK) - 1500 EUR
2006
EDiSU scholarship (exchange student at Universität Konstanz, Germany) -1500 EUR
2005-2006
Erasmus scholarship for Warsaw University, Poland - European Commission ~ 1200
EUR
2005
EILC European Commission visiting scholarship, Jagellonsky University, Krakow,
Poland. -500 EUR
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Academic research experience
2017-2018
Scientific committee member – RaAM 12 Researching and Applying Metaphor
international conference 2018.
2017
Organizing Committee member – Brain Day 2017, ABC- Amsterdam Brain and
Cognition, UvA University, NL.
2016
Main organizer and coordinator: Abstract Concepts 2017 – Structure, processing and
modeling of abstract concepts. International Symposium and Debate, University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands (https://abstractconceptsnet.wordpress.com/).
2016
PhD committee member “Language-mediated visual search: When semantics guide
overt selection” VU University Amsterdam.
2016
Organizing committee member - Metaphor Festival 2016 international conference.
2015
Seminar organizer with international keynote speaker. Invited guest: prof. Ken
McRae (University of Western Ontario, Canada). Title: The importance of Event
Knowledge in the Organization and Structure of Semantic Memory.
2015
PhD committee member “Looking for and making sense of special words: metaphor
recognition and interpretation by school children” VU University Amsterdam.
2015
MA thesis co-supervisor: “Can machines interpret visual metaphors?” VU University
Amsterdam.
2012/pres.
PI and Coordinator of the Metaphor Geeks Lab, Siena (http://metaphorgeeks.com/)
2011-pres.
Reviewer for: Behavioral Research Methods International Journal; Intercultural
Pragmatics, SKY Journal of Linguistics, Helyon (Elsevier), Ampersand (Elsevier).
2013-2014
PI and Coordinator of the VisMet project for the construction of a corpus of visual
metaphors (VU University, Amsterdam).
2013
Scientific committee and conference coordinator of the session on metaphors at the
3rd international conference Intercultural Horizons.
2011
Organizing committee: International Symposium IPSL (Portland, Oregon / Siena,
Italy).
Research Training
2013
Invited talk and participation at Metaphor Lab Winter school: The Next level, VU
University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2011
Summer School Language and Speech Technologies participation, Tarragona, Spain.
2011
Awarded participation to Spring School Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
(EMCL5), Freiburg, Germany.
2010-2011
Collecting experimental data with Italian foreign learners for the VALICO corpus,
University of Torino Italy.
2009
Awarded participation to SIT, Summer School TRIPLE (Research Desk on Word and
Lexicon), Rome, Italy.
2009
Collecting experimental data (for PhD dissertation) with bilinguals at UCL, London,
UK.
2006
Collecting experimental data (MA thesis) with bilingual children in Konstanz, DE.
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International Associations Memberships
2015-ongoing
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam theme leader (theme: Metaphor and Multimodality:
http://metaphorlab.org/research/multimodal-metaphor/ )
2017-ongoing
SALC (Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition)
2016-ongoing
UK-CLA (UK Cognitive Linguistics Association)
2016-ongoing
RaAM (International Research and Applied Metaphor Association)
2016-ongoing
Language and Mind Research Network, University of Edinburgh.
Academic teaching experience
2017
International PhD winter school lecturer: “Methods
Identification and Analysis”, University of Amsterdam.
for
Metaphor
2016
MA Seminar within the research master course ‘The Power of Metaphor’, VU
University, Amsterdam.
2015
International PhD summer school lecturer: “Methods for Metaphor
Identification and Analysis”, University of Amsterdam.
2015
Professional winter school lecturer: “Metaphors, dreams and psychoanalysis”,
Institution of psychoanalysis, Pisa, Italy.
2012-2014
MA course: Intercultural pragmatics (MA program in Intercultural
Development, Concordia University, USA)
2011-2014
BA course: History of Italian Folk Music (various BA programs)
2008-2014
Co-coordinator of the Italian Language department at International Center for
Intercultural Exchange, Siena, Italy.
2008/2014
Faculty member, International Center for Intercultural Exchange / Siena
Italian Studies, Siena, Italy.
2009
BA course: Sociolinguistics (various BA programs).
2009
BA course: History of Italian Emigration (seminar, various BA programs).
Other teaching experience
2015
Highschool, 10 special lectures: “Visual Metaphors and the COGVIM project”
Siena, Italy.
2005/2006
Language instructor, Italian language for Polish students, Warsaw (Poland).
Publications
As Editor:
Bolognesi M., Steen G. (accepted) Abstract concepts: Structure, processing and modeling. TopiCS in
Cognitive Science, Special Issue.
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Bolognesi M., Despot K., Brdar M. (in prep.) Building Repositories of Figurative Language: Methods,
Risks, Challenges. Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Company.
Bolognesi M., Steen G. (in prep.) Perspectives on abstract concepts: From cognitive processing to
semantic representation. Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Company.
As Author:
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International Peer reviewed journals
Bolognesi M. (in prep.). How do words vs. images construct and represent metaphor.
Bolognesi M., Strik-Lievers F. (under review). Exploring visual synaesthesia in print advertising.
Bolognesi M., Aina L. (2017) Similarity is Closeness: Using Distributional Semantic Spaces to model
Similarity in Visual and Linguistic Metaphors. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2016-0061
Bolognesi M., Pilgram R., Van den Heerik R. (2016). Reliability in semantic categorization: the case of
semantic features norms. Behavior Research Methods. DOI 10.3758/s13428-016-0838-6
Bolognesi M. (2016). Using semantic features norms to investigate how the visual and verbal modes
afford
metaphor
construction
and
expression.
Language
and
Cognition.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.27.
Bolognesi M. (2016) Modeling semantic similarity between metaphor terms of visual vs linguistic
metaphors through Flickr tag distributions. Frontiers in Communication, 1:9. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2016.00009.
Bolognesi M., Bichisecchi, R. (2014). Metaphors in dreams: where cognitive linguistics meets
psychoanalysis. Language and Psychoanalysis, 3(1), 4-22.
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National Peer reviewed journals
Bichisecchi, R., Bolognesi, M. (2014) La metafora onirica tra linguistica cognitiva e psicoanalisi.
Quaderni di psicoterapia.
Bolognesi M. (2011) Il lessico mentale bilingue e gli spazi semantici distribuzionali: e similarità tra i
verbi in L1, in L2 e nei corpora. (The bilingual mental lexicon and the distributional semantic spaces:
semantic similarity between verbs in L1, in L2 and in corpora) In Studi di Glottodidattica, Bari.
Bolognesi M. (2011) Il Lessico Mentale Bilingue, i Legami Semantici e quelli Episodici, un esperimento.
(The bilingual mental lexicon, semantic and episodic links: an experiment). In Studi di Glottodidattica,
Bari.
Bolognesi M. (2010) La Competenza Lessicale nei Processi di Apprendimento di L2 e All’interno del
Metodo Didattico FICCS. (Lexical competence in foreign language learning processes and within the
educational approach FICCS) In Bollettino Itals VIII, 35.
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Book chapters (peer reviewed)
Bolognesi M. (accepted) Grammatica visiva e apprendimento: aspetti semiotici delle vignette di Valico
e trasposizione verbale nelle descrizioni di anglofoni.
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Bolognesi, M. Van den Heerik R., Van den Berg E. (forthcoming) VisMet: a corpus of visual metaphors.
In Steen G. (ed.) Visual Metaphor: structure and process. Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishers.
Bolognesi M. (2016) Flickr Distributional Tagspace: Evaluating the Semantic Spaces emerging from
Flickr Tags Distributions. In M. Jones “Big Data in Cognitive Science”. New York: Routledge.
Bolognesi M. (2016) Metaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models. In Metaphor and
Communication. Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
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Conference proceedings (peer reviewed)
Bolognesi M. (forthcoming) Conceptual Metaphors and Metaphoric Expressions in Images. Figurative
Thought and Language Conference (FTL2). Cambridge: Scholars.
Bolognesi M., Ghaffaryan S. (2015) The concept of power in Iran and U.S.A.: metaphors and mental
images from a cross-cultural perspective. Proceedings of the 3rd int. conference Intercultural Horizons
2013.
Bolognesi M. (2014) Distributional Semantics meets Embodied Cognition. In Selected Papers from the
4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 18-35.
Bolognesi M. (2010) The Bilingual Lexicon, Semantic Links in L1 versus Episodic Links in L2: a case
study. In Proceedings of YLMP 2010, Poznan.
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Other editorial projects
Bolognesi M. (under contract) Reading competences. In “A comprehensive grammar for public Italian
highschools”. Milano: Mondadori.
Bolognesi M. (under contract) Writing competences. In “A comprehensive grammar for public Italian
highschools”. Milano: Mondadori.
Bolognesi M, Biagi F, Bracci L, Filippone A. (2011) Workbook for study abroad university students,
learners of italian: “L’italiano…in Servizio! Un modello di service learning per l’apprendimento della
lingua italiana”. (Italian language…in service! A model of service-learning for the acquisition of Italian
language) Cantagalli, Siena.
Bolognesi M. (2010) L’acquisizione lessicale. In L’educazione Riflessiva ed Interculturale: L’approccio
FICCS allo Studio della Lingua e della Cultura Italiana. (transl. “Intercultural reflective competence:
the FICCS approach to the study of Italian language and culture”) Carocci, Roma.
Invited Talks and Invited Seminars
2017
(upcoming) Invited Speaker – at UCD, University College Dublin, Ireland, Creative Language
System Group (talk: “Distributional similarity beyond linguistic co-occurrences”).
2017
Invited Speaker – at University of Firenze, LABLITA Lab for computational linguistics and
lexicography (talk: “Linguistic Metaphors and Visual Metaphors: a distributional approach”).
2016
Invited Speaker – at OAP (Senior Researchers Day, at ACLC, UvA University, talk:
“Distributional similarity beyond linguistic occurrences: the strange case of metaphor
similarity in images and texts”)
2016
Invited Plenary Speaker - at Symposium Building Figurative Language Repositories: Methods,
Risks and Challenges. Zagreb, Croatia (talk: “Vismet 1.0: an Online Annotated Corpus of Visual
Metaphors”).
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2016
Invited speaker at CompSem Lab, Computer Science Dep., University of Colorado, USA (Talk:
“Flickr Distributional Tagspace”).
2016
Invited Lecturer at Academy for text and image, Amsterdam (talk: “Better write it or draw it?”).
2016
Invited speaker at Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research meeting (“The current status of the
COGVIM project”).
2015
Workshop at IH 2015 international conference (Italy). “Visual metaphors and migration”.
2015
Invited speaker at ACLC group Research meeting (“COGVIM: cognitive grounding of visual
metaphor”).
2015
Invited speaker at Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research meeting (“Visual metaphors, verbal
metaphors, and dangerous things”).
2013
Invited speaker at Metaphor Lab, VU University Amsterdam (“Visual Metaphors: where the
mappings come from”).
2013
Invited speaker Dep. Language and Communication, Universita’ di Torino (“Distributional
semantics: a study on foreign language acquisition and a comparison between corpora of
linguistic data and corpora of annotated images”).
2013
Invited speaker Dep. Language and Communication, Universita’ di Torino (“Visual
Metaphors”).
Conference Presentations
2017
(upcoming) “Flickr Distributional Tagspace: Modeling the multimodal semantic information
encoded in Flickr tags”. International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Developing
New Theories and Methods, Osnabruek, DE.
2017
(upcoming) “Concreteness ratings meet Metaphoricity”. SALC 6, Scandinavian Association for
Language and Cognition Conference 2017, Lund, SWEDEN.
2017
(upcoming) “Concreteness ratings meet Metaphoricity”. ICLC International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference 2017, Tartu, ESTONIA.
2016
“Visual synaesthesia in print advertising”. Perception Metaphor 2016. Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL.
2016
“Similarity is Closeness: Using Distributional Semantic Spaces to model Similarity in Visual
and Linguistic Metaphors”. Metaphor Festival 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2016
“Exploring visual synaesthesia in print advertising”. Metaphor Festival 2016, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
2016
“Exploring the content of source and target domains in visual vs verbal metaphors through
semantic features norms”. 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor UK.
2016
“Visual Metaphor: an online corpus and a model of analysis”. RaAM 11 Researching and
Applying Metaphor international conference, Berlin, Germany.
2015
“The cognitive operations between domains in visual metaphors” IV International conference
on Metaphor and Discourse. Castelló de la Plana, Spain.
2015
“Conceptual metaphors and metaphoric expressions in images: toward a multimodal theory of
metaphor” 2nd International Symposium on Figurative thought and language. Pavia, Italy.
2015
“Visual metaphor: an online corpus and a model of analysis”. Metaphor Festival 2015.
Stockholm, Sweden.
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2013
“Metaphors for Power: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective” Intercultural Horizons
2013, ICIE Italy.
2013
“The behavior of source and target domains of verbal and visual metaphors in corpora of texts
and corpora images: where the mappings come from”. International conference Metaphor
Festival 2013, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
2013
“The behavior of source and target domains in corpora of text and images: where the mappings
come from”. CRAL 3rd International conference on Meaning Construction and Meaning
Interpretation. Finalist for the award of best post-doc presentation.
2013
“Visual metaphors: properties and distributions of source and target domains” Winter school
Metaphor Lab: the next level. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2012
“Distributional semantics meets embodied cognition: a case study based on tag-sets of Flickr
images” 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, London, UK.
2011
“Supporting language acquisition in Service contexts” International Symposium IPSL, Siena,
Italy.
2011
“Cognitive metaphors and motion verbs in L1 and L2” Metaphor Festival, Stockholm.
2011
“Cognitive metaphors and motion verbs in Italian and English” Metaphor and Communication,
International Conference, Cagliari, Italy.”
2010
“Full Immersion: Culture, Content, Service. Siena Italian Studies Didactic Approach” IPSL
International Conference, Portland, OR, USA.
2010
“The Bilingual Lexicon: Semantic Links in L1 versus Episodic Links in L2” poster presentation.
3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, London, UK.
2010
“Semantic memory and Episodic memory in the Bilingual mental lexicon” Young Linguists
Meeting in Poznan, Poland.
2008
“Social Networking and Language Teaching” American Association of Italian Studies and
American Association of Teachers of Italian, Taormina, Italy.
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