Metaphors and Linguistic Variability
This event will be the next part of a thematic lecture series called Figurative Language Across Cultures. Title of the talk: Metaphors and Linguistic Variability
"In this lecture, I will talk about the interplay between bilingualism and creativity, applied to metaphor, and about how people who speak different languages tend to process the same metaphorical stimuli in different ways. In this second part I will illustrate a case study based on a metaphoric filmic advertisement of a perfume, which was shown to a sample of American English native speakers (USA), a sample of Spanish native speakers (Spain) and a sample of Persian native speakers (Iran)."
Marianna Bolognesi is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her research focuses on word meaning representation and multimodal communication. Currently she is working on the representation and processing of abstract concepts and on the role that metaphor and metonymy play in conceptual and categorical abstraction. She uses experimental methods that bridge psychological investigation with computational (corpus-driven) modelling.
Time and place: 1st of March 2021, 18:00‒19:00 (CET, Budapest time); MS Teams platform
Please register by sending an email to szabo.rita@btk.elte.hu and you will be added to the Teams group.