New Metaphor & Symbol paper with Dr Sarah Duffy and Jeannette Littlemore : "Power, gender, and individual differences in spatial metaphor: The role of perceptual stereotypes and language statistics". Thread ⬇️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Das Forscherpaar, dem wir den wahrscheinlich ersten #Corona-#Impfstoff zu verdanken haben, sind Gastarbeiter Kinder aus der Türkei und heißen #UğurŞahin und #ÖzlemTüreci. Tebrikler! 👏🏼 GermanDream 🇩🇪❤️🙏🏻

First talk tomorrow!

This year's RaAM conference is going virtual. Registration for non-presenters is still open, so take your chance and join us for the coolest conference on metaphor!😎

The 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association has been postponed to March 2022

Ich bin Barbara, Germanistin, Postdoc, seit 12 Jahren befristet auf der gleichen (halben) Stelle. Leite das Theater an meiner Uni (eigtl Vollzeitjob), für eigene Forschung keine Zeit. Überarbeitet & müde. Alleinerziehende Mutter. Aktueller Vertrag = wohl der letzte. #IchBinHanna

Out just in time for a bit of late summer reading! Paula P Sobrino Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy)

For anyone interested, I'll be presenting on AntConc 4 for the first time at the LADAL Opening Webinar Series 2021 (online) on Sept 27 (Mon) at 5pm Brisbane, 4pm Tokyo, and 9am Berlin time. Anyone can attend. Just click the Zoom link at: slcladal.github.io/opening.html See you there!

My first @RaAMconf was in 2012 and 9 years later it still is my favourite metaphor event of the year. That is why I'm standing for the position of Conference Secretary. More info about candidates and how to vote here (deadline 15 Nov!): raam.org.uk/elections/

🚨FUNDING ALERT 🚨Do you have an idea for an #experiment on #figuration but need💰 to participants? Does your next project involve some #fieldwork and you don't have any cash? @RaAMconf is launching a call for research grants - up to 2000GBP per project! 📅Deadline: 28 Feb 2022

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has caused so much interesting and important debate I could not resist doing a corpus analysis of tweets about it (how very 'meta' of me!). Here are the highlights of what I've found so far 🧵

Join us in revisiting some of the most influential works of #ConstructionGrammar: Lotte Sommerer and I are inviting proposals for our special issue of #Constructions, "35 Years of Constructions"! Deadline for expressions of interest is in 5 days: constructions.journals.hhu.de/announcement/v…

Our Modern Idioms book has been out for 6 months so to mark the occasion we're giving away 2 free copies! Retweet this message by midday (BST) on August 25th and we'll randomly choose 2 Retweeters to receive a copy. Good luck! modern-idioms.com/books ReadtosucceedwithCollectiveInk

Liebe Community, ich recherchiere zur #Präsenz-Situation an den #Hochschulen im #Wintersemester. Wo gibt es konkrete Pläne, Lehrgebäude/Labore/Büros zu schließen, Öffnung von Bibliotheken & Co zu verkürzen oder Kurse ins Digitale zu verlegen? Danke für Hinweise, bitte retweeten

Ich habe ein Buch geschrieben. Yay! benjamins.com/catalog/milcc.…

New book out on motion metaphors in music. I explore how motion metaphors for music are based on conceptual metaphors and show that their perceived degree of metaphoricity depends on musical background knowledge with musical experts perceiving them as less metaphorical.

It turns out that it depends on where you are born - we asked 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹🇩🇪🇭🇰 to be sure! so happy that this book with Jeannette Littlemore @MariannaBolog Nina Julich and Danny Leung is about to leave the oven!

What are the most pressing challenges in metaphor research (as of today)? Nina Julich and I invited colleagues to reflect on this - check our hot off the press special issue for Metaphor and the Social World @johnbenjamins benjamins.com/catalog/msw.13… See 🧵 below for a taster

It’s out! This has been great fun to work on with our lovely international team, exploring the reasons why people associate emotions with colours across different languages. Free download avail for a couple of weeks Paula P Sobrino @MariannaBolog Nina Julich

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment by Jeannette Littlemore @MariannaBolog Nina Julich Chung-hong Danny Leung and Paula P Sobrino Free access available until 25 July ow.ly/BNfX50P8lyS #cambridgeelements