[CEL] ANNULATION Conférences | Professeurs invités : Prof. Andreas Musolff

Because of the Covid-19 crisis, the series of conferences has ben postponed

April 21:

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

10-12: Metaphor/Metonymy
14-16: Metaphor Production and Metaphor Understanding (questionnaire exercise)
 

April 22:

CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY: APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS

10-12: Cognitive Metaphor Theory and its limitations
14-16: Intra- and Cross-cultural Variation, Diachronic Variation, Discourse Metaphor
 

April 23:

ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR IN DISCOURSE

10-12: Discourse Scenario Analysis
14-16: Relationship: metaphor - irony - sarcasm

Prof. Andreas Musolff read Linguistics, German and English Philology at the Universities of Dűsseldorf and London (SOAS, UCL). After finishing the first degree, he worked at a School for Disabled Children and the Volkshochschule Dűsseldorf. In 1989, he obtained his PhD for work on the history of psycholinguistics and in 1996 his habilitation for work on political discourse analysis. In 2013 he held a Visiting Fellowship at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in 2009 a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Queen Mary University of London and in 2004 a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Queen Mary University of London. In 1993, he was awarded the Unilever Prize for innovative language teaching.