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New! Publication of the volume Studies in Cognitive Classical Semantics

The eight papers that comprise this volume address questions relative to classical languages from the perspective of cognitive semantics and have all been inspired by the application of embodiment theory, conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive narratology to ancient texts. The various chapters explore the metaphorical workings of cognition as reflected in Latin and Ancient Greek, focusing on embodied imaginative mechanisms and image schemas; they seek to show some interesting effects in the semantic systems of these languages, covering prepositions, verbs, emotion words, collocations, phraseologies and etymology. The data discussed provide further evidence for the twin assumptions that the human body constitutes a fundamental interpretive template for understanding and expressing reality in both ancient and modern languages, and that metaphor is a key organizing principle of conceptual and linguistic structure, one that operates with wideranging effects and at multiple levels of analysis.

Contributions by José Miguel Baños (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Luisa Brucale (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Federica Colella (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), Irene De Felice (Università degli Studi di Genova), Riccardo Ginevra (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Roberta G. Leotta (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Egle Mocciaro (Università Masaryk, Brno), Guillermo Salas Jiménez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Cristina Tur (Universidad de Salamanca).

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Organized events

"Emotional Responses to Verbal and Visual Narrative: Vision, Visualization, and Emotional Contagion", invited talk by Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh, within the Seminar Intersezioni tra Filologia e Linguistica greca e latina. University of Genoa, May 16, 2022.
"Akrasia and Elegy", invited talk by Donncha O'Rourke, University of Edinburgh. University of Genoa, December 2, 2021.
"La fenomenologia delle emozioni in latino. Prospettive linguistiche, letterarie, antropologiche". University of Genoa, April 22, 2021.
"From cerae to computer. Latin metaphor annotation in theory and practice", talk at the Seminar Series In absentia. Incontri linguistici, University of Roma Tre, June 4.