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The Creative Power of Metaphor, 29th – 30th March 2019 at Worcester College, Oxford, UK

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The Creative Power of Metaphor

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29th – 30th March 2019 at Worcester College, Oxford, UK

Join us for a 2-day conference on the nexus between Metaphor, Linguistic Diversity, and Creativity.

The conference will be structured around four themes. Each theme will be introduced in a keynote lecture, and developed in a panel discussion.

  1. Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity

Keynote speaker: Lera Boroditsky 

  1. Metaphor and Emotion

Keynote speaker: Zoltán Kövecses

  1. Metaphor and Communication

Keynote speaker: Gerard Steen

  1. Metaphor and Creativity

Keynote speaker: Rachel Giora

Call for Panel Participation

Each panel is designed to explore issues raised by the preceding lecture, elucidating current thinking on areas relevant to the theme, and debating matters of controversy. We invite expressions of interest in participation. Your submission should include the following:

  • The panel in which you wish to participate
  • Your name, affiliation and, if relevant, the URL for your web profile
  • What you consider to be the most burning questions concerning the theme (max. 150 words)
  • Your relevant expertise and research (max. 150 words)
  • Your main relevant publications.

Call for Poster Presentations

We invite abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations that are relevant to one or more of the four themes of the conference. Your abstract should include the following:

  • The theme or themes of the conference your poster will address
  • Your name, affiliation and, if relevant, the URL for your web profile
  • Your relevant research
  • Your research methods
  • Your findings and/or theoretical advances.

Submissions

We welcome submissions from early career researchers to the panels and posters.

Please send submissions as email attachments to the following address:

creativemetaphor2019@gmail.com

DEADLINE: 31ST OCTOBER 2018.

Registration

Conference fee: £90

Reduced fee for students: £50

Registration will open in early November. Limited accommodation will be available.

The Organisers

Professor Katrin Kohl

Dr Marianna Bolognesi

Dr Ana Werkmann Horvat

The conference is part of the multi-institutional research programme Creative Multilingualism (www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Our research group is a large cross-disciplinary team of academics working on the nexus between linguistic diversity and creativity. The conference is being organised by Strand 1 of Creative Multilingualism: Embodying Ideas – the Creative Power of Metaphor: https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/research/metaphor.

We look forward to welcoming you in Oxford!

THEMES AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Research questions on the four themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity
  • What is the significance of linguistic diversity for metaphor theory?
  • How does linguistic diversity in metaphorical expression affect and interact with thought?
  • Is a unified metaphor theory that can account for the variability in linguistic data possible?
  • How are cultural differences actualized in metaphorical expressions?
  • Do truly universal metaphors exist?
  1. Metaphor and Emotion
  • What is the connection between metaphor and emotion? Is it systematic across languages?
  • Are emotions more likely to be expressed using figurative language?
  • Is there a correlation between expression of emotion and creative use of metaphor? If so, is this universal or culturally specific?
  • To what extent are metaphors that are used to express emotions universal? Is there a systematic difference by comparison with other areas of expression?
  • How does multilingual competence relate to the interaction between metaphor and emotion? Does the expression of emotions using figurative language differ depending on whether the speaker is using a native language or a non-native language?
  1. Metaphor and Communication
  • Is the use of metaphors favoured as a persuasive communicative device across languages or are there languages/cultures/cultural contexts in which metaphors are avoided for such a purpose? To what extent are creative and deliberate metaphors used in communication (e.g., in political speech) affected by cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variability?
  • Does the use of metaphor to change attitudes and opinions correlate with the conventionality/creativity of the chosen metaphors?
  • How and why does resistance to metaphor develop?
  • What is the role of figurative language use in multilingual settings and does this differ from such use in monolingual settings?
  1. Metaphor and Creativity
  • Is metaphor an area of language that offers more scope for creativity than other areas of language? Is any correlation universal or culturally specific?
  • What are the differences in understanding creative vs. non-creative figurative language?
  • How are creative figurative expressions perceived by speakers and listeners?
  • What constitutes a good metaphor in terms of creativity?
  • Are speakers of different languages creative in different ways in metaphor use?

SAVE THE DATE: The Creative Power of Metaphor 29th – 30th March 2019, Oxford, UK

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SAVE THE DATE: The Creative Power of Metaphor

#creativemetaphor 

29th – 30th March 2019 at Worcester College, Oxford, UK

Join us in Oxford for a 2-day conference designed to investigate the nexus between the following three elements: Metaphor, Linguistic Diversity, and Human Creativity.

The conference will be structured around four keynote lectures and four panels which will investigate four themes, outlined below. A call inviting participation in the panels and presentation of poster contributions will be advertised at the beginning of September.

1. Panel topic: Metaphor and linguistic diversity 

Keynote speaker: Lera Boroditsky

2. Panel topic: Metaphor and emotion

Keynote speaker: Zoltan Kövecses

3. Panel topic: Metaphor and communication

Keynote speaker: Gerard Steen

4. Panel topic: Metaphor and creativity

Keynote speaker: Rachel Giora

We look forward to welcoming you in Oxford!

The Organisers:

Professor Katrin Kohl

Dr Marianna Bolognesi

Dr Ana Werkmann Horvat

Creative Multilingualism (https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/).

Our research group is a large cross-disciplinary team of academics working on the nexus between linguistic diversity and creativity. The conference is being organised by Strand 1 of Creative Multilingualism: Embodying Ideas – the Creative Power of Metaphor: https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/research/metaphor.

Dr Nikki Kiyimba

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Affiliation: University of Chester

Dr Nikki Kiyimba is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for MSc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma. Nikki is also a lecturer and supervisor on the DProf Counselling/Psychological Trauma. She has been working as a Clinical Psychologist within the NHS for a number of years with a particular interest in working with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems, including personality disorder, psychosis, childhood trauma, dissociative disorders and PTSD. Nikki’s main interest is in qualitative research, particularly using discursive approaches to investigate therapeutic interactions.

Email: n.kiyimba@chester.ac.uk

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“Discourse Analysis Workshop” at University of Edinburgh, School of Health in Social Science

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There will be a series of workshops with an focus on “discourse analysis in health and social science”.
  
ALL ARE WELCOME but places are limited. Please contact me directly laura.cariola@ed.ac.uk to reserve your place for the workshops. No prior knowledge of discourse analysis is required, but an interest of using qualitative approaches to health-related data is necessary.
 
Workshop 1 – 9thth October 2017, 3-5pm
Workshop 2 – 30th October 2017, 3-5pm
Workshop 3 – 20th November 2017, 3-5pm

Location: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
 

“Trialogue: An Exercise in Communication Between Users, Carers, and Professional Mental Health Workers Beyond Role Stereotypes” M. Amering

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Abstract

Communications and collaborations between mental health care users and user activists, family carers and friends, and mental health professionals and policy makers outside and beyond traditional clinical and pedagogic encounters are needed to strengthen a rights-based approach in the field of mental health and further civil society involvement. The Trialogue experience – an exercise in communication between service users, families and friends and mental health workers on equal footing – is indicative of our capacity for surviving and gaining from serious discussions of adverse issues as well as the great possibilities of cooperative efforts and coordinated action.

Link to original article in the book “The Stigma of Mental Illness – End of the Story?”

“Saying good goodbyes to your clients: A functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) perspective” by Mavis Tsai, Tore Gustafsson, Jonathan Kanter, Mary Plummer Loudon & Robert J. Kohlenberg

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Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) promotes client growth by shaping clients’ daily life problems that also show up in session with their therapists. FAP therapists create evocative contexts within therapy that afford clients the opportunity to practice, refine, and be reinforced for new, more adaptive behaviors which then can be generalized into their outside lives. In FAP, the termination process will vary from client to client depending on the nature of the client’s problems and targets. For many clients, the process can be a rich, multifaceted, final opportunity to evoke, reinforce, and promote generalization of clients’ in-session improvements, particularly improvements related to vulnerable self-expression in the service of intimate and close relationships. By making explicit agreements at the outset of therapy to participate in an intentional termination process, and by later providing an evocative structure for ending therapy with vulnerable emotional expression, clients have the opportunity to develop more adaptive behaviors in the context of relationship endings which can be a painful part of the human experience. Equipped with the skills of open-hearted communication developed from an authentic relationship with their therapist, clients can leave therapy on a trajectory of further growth in interpersonal connection and living more boldly.

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“Multilingualism and psychotherapy: exploring multilingual clients’ experiences of language practices in psychotherapy” by Louise Rolland, Jean-Marc Dewaele & Beverley Costa

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This study investigates bi- and multilingual clients’ self-reported language practices in counselling and psychotherapy. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through an international web survey inviting adults who had experienced one-to-one therapy to describe their experiences. Analysis of responses by 109 multilingual clients revealed that clients did not always have an opportunity to discuss their multilingualism with therapists, and for some this inhibited their language switching. Others were assertive in their language choices, or benefited from working with a therapist who was either bilingual or skilled at creating an inclusive linguistic environment. Very few reported two main therapy languages, while nearly two thirds of participants reported short code-switches. These happened occasionally within sessions and were typically linked to difficulties in translation, expressing emotion, accessing memories or quotation. Over a third of respondents used a second or additional language as their main therapy language, nearly half of whom reported never switching to their first language in sessions, despite some using it daily for inner speech. The implications for therapy and further research are discussed, including the role of the therapist in inviting the client’s multiple languages into the therapeutic frame.

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“Communication and Psychotherapy” New Regular Special Issue – Call for Papers

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“Communication and Psychotherapy” is a new regular special issue featured by the journal “Language and Psychoanalysis”. The special issue welcomes original contributions to further understand of communication and language in psychotherapeutic processes. It focusses on a wide range of approaches to counselling and psychotherapy, including person-centred, CBT, integrative and holistic therapies.

Any relevant manuscripts with an emphasis on communication and language in counselling and psychotherapy will be considered. The journal also publishes short research reports, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, and readers’ comments.

Manuscripts should be send to the managing editor Dr. Laura A. Cariola laura.cariola@ed.ac.uk
Manuscript submission due date: 31st March 2017

communication-and-psychotherapy

ISSN: 2399-5041

Dr Laura Thompson

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Affiliation: Birkbeck College

Laura Thompson is a Chartered Psychologist and Lecturer in Social Psychology at Birkbeck College. Her research is applied and ‘real-world’, focusing broadly on health, communication and socio-psychological approaches to occupational psychology. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Laura draws across a range of methods, in particular conversation analysis, to help solve problems within the health sector, psychiatry and private or public companies. Her research aims to form the foundations for psychological treatments and interventions for individuals with health conditions, including schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis. 

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Prof Lisa Mikesell

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Affiliation: Rutgers – State University of New Jersey

I use mixed methods to investigate the communication and social practices used to negotiate interactions in a variety of health and mental health contexts. My scholarship consists of three intertwining threads guided by my interest in patient engagement in real world contexts. The first thread is situated in the community and reconceptualizes the notion of communicative competence by centering on what patients do in their everyday lives. Much of this work examines the situated communication practices of individuals diagnosed with neurological and psychiatric disorders to provide a grounded perspective on everyday functioning and community participation.

The second thread is situated in the clinic and is informed by my work in the community reconceptualizing competence. I also examine clinical work practices and clinical reasoning to consider applications of patient-centered constructs such as shared decision making. These first two threads weave together a situated understanding of the “everyday-ness” of an individual’s functioning – which is often neglected or misunderstood – with an understanding of what happens in the clinic.

The final thread considers the societal need for patient participation in the collective sense, namely how to reach and work with patient communities to pose more relevant research questions and develop more sensitive research strategies to better serve patient populations and better assist caregivers and clinicians. My work informs our understanding of best practices, intervention development and implementation and therefore contains a strong applied component, particularly to inquiry in health services.

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