"Future Directions in Cognitive Linguistics and Literary Studies"
University of Helsinki
4th October 2013
A symposium organised by the Faculty of Arts research network on linguistics and literary studies.
PROGRAMME
Metsätalo, sali 6 (Fabianinkatu 39, 3rd floor)
9.15 Welcome and introductions
9.30
Bo Pettersson (Helsinki) Literary Imagination: A Once and Future Focus in Literary Studies
10.15
Pirjo Lyytikäinen (Helsinki) Depicting and Inspiring Emotions: Some Questions of the Cognitive Study of Literature
11.00 Coffee
11.15
Peter Stockwell (Nottingham) Title TBA
12.15 Lunch break
13.45
Elena Semino (Lancaster) Figurative Language and Characters’ Minds in Fiction About Autism
14.45
Karin Kukkonen (Turku) Probability and the Shape of the Fictional World
15.30 Coffee
15.45-17.45
Minna Jaakola and Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö (Helsinki) Construing the Reader
Riikka Rossi (Helsinki) The Reality Effect as a Cognitive Effect
Howard Sklar (Helsinki) Reading Other Minds: Ethical Considerations on the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Fiction
Merja Polvinen (Helsinki) Cognition in the Literature Classroom
All welcome!
For more information, please contact
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