{"id":1072,"date":"2015-11-12T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:12:35","slug":"cllear-seminar-wed-18th-november-2015-prof-jeannette-littlemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2015\/11\/12\/cllear-seminar-wed-18th-november-2015-prof-jeannette-littlemore\/","title":{"rendered":"CLLEAR seminar Wed 18th November 2015: Prof Jeannette Littlemore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Please join us for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/cllear\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) <\/a>seminar.<\/p>\n<p>When: Wednesday 18th November 2015, 4-6pm<\/p>\n<p>Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C<\/p>\n<p>Who:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/elal\/littlemore-jeannette.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Prof Jeannette Littlemore<\/a>, University of Birmingham<\/p>\n<p><em>The Creative Use of Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Studies of figurative language (particularly metaphor) have shown that it performs key functions, such as: the signalling of evaluation; agenda management; mitigation and humour; reference to shared knowledge; and topic change. An ability to use metaphor appropriately can thus contribute to a language learner\u2019s communicative competence. In this talk I focus on the use of creative metaphor and metonymy by language learners and those who communicate with them, looking at the challenges it presents and the opportunities that it affords. I then move on to look at the creative use of metaphor and metonymy in advertising and in computer-generated tweets, and report on findings from two studies investigating how creative metaphor and metonymy are understood and appreciated by people with different linguistic backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for the seminar and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a wine and cheese reception afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 18th November 2015, 4-6pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who:\u00a0 Prof Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham The Creative Use of Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication Studies of figurative language (particularly metaphor) have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,4217],"tags":[661451,1037811,1037814,260,430840,1037813],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-cllear","tag-figurative-language","tag-intercultural-communication","tag-linguistics","tag-metaphor","tag-metonymy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-hi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}