Mapping Metaphor Colloquium
Friday 28 March 2014
(Venue: Hugh Fraser seminar room and Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow)
Coffee/tea available from 9am
9.15 Welcome (Wendy Anderson)
9.30 Jeremy Smith, ‘The state of the art: some implications of the Historical Thesaurus’
9.45 Keynote talk: Antonette Healey, ‘Home truths and fugitive pieces: mapping metaphor at Toronto’s Dictionary of Old English’
10.45 Coffee/tea
11.00 Mapping Metaphor at Glasgow panel 1 (10-minute talks) (Chair: Wendy Anderson)
Carole Hough, ‘From Hillhead to Hillfoot: metaphor in the landscape’
Rachael Hamilton, ‘Cool, clear and clashing colours: the metaphorical qualities of colour’
Irene Wotherspoon, ‘Homonymy, a data snapshot’
Fraser Dallachy, ‘A lot to take in’
(10 minute break for questions)
Marc Alexander, ‘‘Wear a horn and blow it not’: power and authority’
Daria Izdebska, ‘Taking a stab at it: metaphors and military equipment’
Carole Biggam, ‘Plant-related metaphors’
12.30 Lunch
(Chair: Christian Kay)
13.30 Kathryn Allan and Philip Durkin, ‘‘Literal’ and ‘metaphorical’ meanings of borrowed words: exploring words for “sweet” using HTOED’
14.00 Jane Roberts, ‘Reading and mapping: metaphor soup’
14.30 Irma Taavitsainen, ‘The case of terms of address in the history of English’
15.00 Kenneth Austin, ‘Fear and (self-)loathing: expressions of religious anxiety in Early Modern England’
15.30 Coffee/tea
15.50 Mapping Metaphor at Glasgow panel 2 (10-minute talks) (Chair: Carole Hough)
Alison Wiggins, ‘Metaphor in Renaissance letters’
Judith Paterson, ‘He doth nothing but talk of his horse’
Ellen Bramwell, ‘The madness of coding’
Wendy Anderson, ‘It’s electrifying: metaphors of pleasure and excitement’
(10 minute break for questions)
Christian Kay, ‘Food for thought’
Ross McLachlan, ‘Spatial metaphors in physics’
Beth Ralston, Heather Valentine, George Hardwick, ‘Biting the dust: metaphors of death in the Historical Thesaurus’ (15 minutes)
17.20 Discussion, led by Andrew Prescott
17.50 End