*Go Figure 2013 - Understanding Figures of Speech*
20-21 June 2013
*Institute of Philosophy, London.*
Malet Street, Senate House, South Block
Room G22/26 (Ground Floor)
*Programme *
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*Day 1: June 20th*
9.15 Registration and Coffee
9.40
9.45
11.00
12.15
13.00
14.15
15.30
15.45
17.00
18.15
18.30
Introduction and Welcome
Mitchell Green: Learning from Metaphors
Anne Bezuidenhout:* *Categories and analogies
Lunch
Stephen Schiffer: Figures of Speech
Ofra Magidor: Category mistakes and figurative language
Tea
Emma Borg: Figurative meaning and the semantics/pragmatics divide
John Barnden: Metaphorical Attitudes
Reflective Summary of Day 1: Guy Longworth
Close
*Day 2: June 21st*
9.30
9.45
11.00
12.15
13.00
14.15
15.30
15.45
17.00
18.15
18.30
Late registration and Coffee
Larry Horn: Lie-Toe-Tease: Double negatives and unexcluded middles
Catherine Wearing: TBA
Lunch
Deirdre Wilson: Figurative Utterances and Speaker’s Meaning
Stephen Neale: Speaker’s Meaning and Figurative Utterances
Tea
Stephen Barker: The Said and the Unsaid meets Figuration
Mihaela Popa: Embedded Irony, Speech-acts, and the Said/Unsaid distinction
Reflective summary of Day 2: Robyn Carston
Close
*ANALYSIS BURSARIES*
We still have one Analysis bursary for graduate students from outside
London to attend Go
Figure. For those interested please contact
popa.michaela@gmail.com<to%3Apopa.michaela@gmail.com>
*SPONSORS*
We gratefully acknowledge support from:
Institute of Philosophy London, Mind Association, British Society of
Aesthetics, Aristotelian Society, Analysis, and Leverhulme Trust.
More information about the workshop and registration can be found on the
conference website at:
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/go-figure/index.html
*ORGANISERS*:
Mihaela Popa and John Barnden (University of Birmingham).
Barry Smith and Shahrar Ali (Institute of Philosophy, London)
For any queries or questions, please contact: popa.michaela@gmail.com
Please feel free to circulate the announcement!
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