Salvatore Attardo: Salience of Incongruities in Humorous Texts

Geert Brône: Towards a Dynamic and Layered Account of Humorous Meaning: Analysing Humour in Terms of Discourse and Mental Spaces

Władysław Chłopicki (convenor): Visual Imagery as a Pre-requisite and Background to Humour

Patricia Gómez Blázquez: Narratological Issues Concerning Humour in Film: The Case of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall

Dan McIntyre: Humour, Politeness and Multiple Meanings in Peter Cook’s “One Leg Too Few”

Margherita Dore: Interpretation and Translation of FEI-Based Puns

Text Grammar – Narratology

Ken Ireland (chair): Making Sense of Time: Sequential Dynamics in the Stories of Thomas Hardy

Kira Andreeva: Post-Modern Narrative: In Search of Structure and Sense

Natalia Filistova: Textual and Cognitive Structure of the Detective Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of English and Russian Crime Stories

Phraseology and Lexicology as Sense-Making Mechanisms

Grzegorz Szpila (chair): In Search of Phraseo-Sense: Salman Rushdie’s Idiomatic Meanings

Linda Straume: Discoursal Modifications of Idioms as a Means of Creating A Modified Reality in Fantasy Genre Literature

Elissavet Evdoridou: From
Semantics to Semiotics

Maria Langleben (chair): Linguistic Experiments in Russian Poetry and Prose: From Kruchenykh to Petrushevskaia

Alexander Yemets: The Vertical Reading of Prose Texts as the Key to Revealing Prose Poeticalness

Eva Lilja: Rhythm Systems and the Rhythm of Free Versification

Philosophy of Language and Worldview

James W. Underhill (chair): Literature, the Meaning of Worldview and Humboldt’s View of Language

Inna Medchuk: Existence as the Concept of Linguistic and Philosophical Research (On the Basis of the Encyclopaedic Sources)

Wojciech Majka: Between the Almagest and the Revolutions

Michał Choiński: “What have you done with the scissors?” – A Look at Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming Through Socio-Pragmatic Lenses

Narrative and Metaphor

Monika Fludernik (convenor)

Esther Romero and Belén Soria: Metaphorical Identification in Fictional Discourse

Bo Petterson: Imagine a World in Which...: Bridging Narrative and Figural Accounts in Cognitive Literary Studies

Michael Kimmel: "Metaphor Mesh” and Other Ways of Reconstructing Narrative Plot Comprehension by Combining Image Schemas

Beatrix Busse: “Writing Is Medicine”: Conceptual Blends in Interplay with Fundamental Metaphorical Mappings in Paul Auster’s Narrative Fiction

John Douthwaite: Metaphor and Other Devices in Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Benjamin Biebuyck: Configurative Pra- and Micronarrativity. Considerations on the Role of Metaphor on the Intersection of Rhetoric and Narratology, with References to Nietzsche’s Über die Zukunft der Bildungsanstalten

Updated Ways of Making Sense of Shakespeare

Mireille Ravassat (convenor): In Search of Meaning: A Diachronic Approach to the Oxymoron in Shakespeare

John Drakakis: Present Text: Editing The Merchant of Venice

Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey: Who Kills Duncan?: Macbeth by the Brothers Karamazov

Reader-Response

Hans-Ulrich Mohr (chair): The Non-Sense of Aesthetic Experience

Maciej Maryl: Empirically Suspected: Stanley Fish in the Eyes of His Critics

Lesley Jeffries: Nonsense or Poetry? Meaningful Gaps in Contemporary Poems

Beyond Metaphor: Other Macro- and Metafigures of Thought and Language

Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska (convenor):
Philosophical Underpinnings of Metatropes: Is Vico’s Tropological Circle a Vicious Circle?

Olga Vorobyova: The Poetics of REFLECTION in V. Woolf’s Short Fiction: In Search of Multiple Sense

Monika Markiewicz:
Phenomenological View of Macrosynecdoche

Anna Walczuk: Irony: Constructive or Deconstructive Strategy of Sense-Making in Literary Fiction?

Larissa Belekhova: Conceptual Oxymoron: Cognitive Mechanism of New Verbal Poetic Images Formation

Katarzyna Kuczma: Sensing Illusions: The Works of Paul Auster

Lin Zou: Beyond Sense and Non-Sense – AFFECT as a Figurative Structure

Theoretical and Cognitive Aspects of Interpretability

Leonard Orr (chair): Hermeneutic Resistance: Four Test Cases for the Notion of Literary Uninterpretability

Ulf Cronquist: Start Making (Postmodern) Sense? A Cognitive Approach to John Hawkes’s “Sex Trilogy”

Ming-Yu Tseng: A Cognitive-Critical Linguistic View of Image-Schematic Compounds

Literary Hermeneutics

Eva Aldea: (chair) Magic as Nonsense: Magical Realism and Deleuze’s Logic of Sense

Adina Abadi: Nonsense in the Prose of the Hebrew Writers O. Castel-Bloom and H. Levin

Hsiu-Chih Tsai: The Quest for Self-Identity: The Construction of Verbal Significance in Wuthering Heights

Non-Cognitive Models of Interpretation

Nina Nørgaard (chair): Hallidayan Sense Meets Joycean Nonsense

Dorota Zielińska-Długosz: A Procedural Model of Categorization in Natural Language and Its Implications for Literary Semantics

D. Murthy: Towards the Law of Literary Semantics: Resurrection of Leo Tolstoy and Cila Nerangalil Cila Manitarkal of Jayakanthan – A Comparative Microstudy

(Non)Sense in Translation

Marc Charron (chair): Thanks to Rather than Despite of Translation:
A Post-Modern Incursion into the World of Quixotic Inconsistency

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Reading and Translation: Dimensions of Imaginative Understanding

Metaphors in Legal, Philosophical and Political Discourse

Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (chair): Linguistic Perspectives on Legal Texts

Andrzej Pawelec: Metaphors in Philosophical Discourse

Lyudmila Slavova: Comparative English and Russian Political Discourse: Cognitive Aspects