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The Socio-cultural, Cognitive & Neurological Bases of Metaphor...

• Luciane Corrêa Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Ceara) and Ray Gibbs (UC Santa Cruz): Inferring conceptual metaphor entailments during verbal metaphor understanding.

• Daniel Casasanto (Stanford University): Body-specific abstract concepts: mental metaphors without linguistic metaphors.

• Alan M. Wallington (University of Birmingham): Generic as specific metaphors.

• Martin Hilpert (UC Berkeley): The cognitive motivation behind mixed metaphors: Evidence from usage data.

• Shane Lindsay (University of York): Explaining why MORE IS UP: Shared lexico-semantic and E36 neurocognitive systems for the processing of spatial and non-spatial magnitude.

• Jörg Zinken (University of Portsmouth): How metaphors structure domains of activity.

• George Lakoff (UC Berkeley) and Vyv Evans (University of Brighton): Theme session discussion.