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THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH STUDIES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY
(ELALT 2)

Novi Sad, 16 March 2013, Faculty of Philosophy

Plenary Talks

12.00 – 12.45
Kino-sala (Projection Room)

Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Metaphor Use and Context

The production and comprehension of utterances, that is, the construction of meaning, is always influenced by and emerges in context. The context involves, in addition to the speaker and addressee, the circumstances under which the utterance is made (“who,” “to whom,” “when,” “where”), the circumstances of the action of which the utterance is a part
(the intentions and other mental states that provide the motivation for making the utterance, i.e., that respond to the question of “why”), as well as the background knowledge attaching to the topic of communication (that is, the circumstance that answers the question of “about what”).
Of all the contextual factors that play a role in meaning construction in general, which are the ones that also play a role in metaphorical meaning construction? Are there any additional ones that predominantly apply to metaphorical conceptualization, but not necessarily to meaning construction in general? And what is the full range of contextual factors that influence metaphorical conceptualization? These are the questions that I attempt to address in this paper.

12.45 – 13.30
Kino-sala (Projection Room)

Darko Suvin, McGill University, Montreal

To Laputa and Back: A Missing Chapter of Gulliver's Travels

The lecture is divided into three parts. Part 1, Entering Laputa in the Winter of Our Discontent, deals with general presuppositions, including those on intellectuals in Post- Fordism and as members of de facto English Departments. Part 2, Visiting the Word- Machine, deals with some aporias of literary and English studies. Part 3, How to Leave Laputa, asks what might be some components of our agenda today. It includes a plea for English studies as an independent, international field of inquiry and teaching, and discusses some possible orientations for us.

Please feel free to attend the plenary talks of the conference. More information is available at the conference web site, elalt.info