Mapping Metaphor

Account of 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' & 'Metaphor in the Curriculum' projects. Tweets by Wendy Anderson.

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

The beautifully visualised, online Metaphor Map of the English language is available at: http://t.co/M1wsiDODye

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

@marcobagli @ruizdemendoza @dg_mouton @UniGenova @UniperugiaNews @umbrapg congratulations, Marco!

[Karen Corrigan @CorriganKaren]

Interested in a funded PhD project at Newcastle University/QUB with NMNI? Check out: https://t.co/vmRoaGCnlz N.B. Contact supervisors: [email protected] or [email protected] and apply to Newcastle or QUB by 13th January 2021, 4pm.

[Voices, Brogues and Tongues @IrishTongues]

Funded PhD opportunity @QUBelfast and NU on a new project 'Eavesdropping on our past: Mapping the oral soundscape of Northern Irish English'. Research includes creating a digital map of linguistic structures of Northern Irish English. 👇https://t.co/g5UhvRc7xm

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

We have educational resources on metaphor in English that some who are #homeschooling might find useful - see https://t.co/F9OfP7q4jU and follow links to our app too!

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

My fantastic PhD student, Kamilia, is looking for people to complete a survey about metaphor and menstrual language for her research - please consider taking part, and please retweet!

[Kamilia Boughenout @KamiBoughi]

Participants needed!

If you'd like to take part in a study around menstrual language and metaphors, please follow the link below to a 20-minute survey. *Everyone* is welcome to respond! https://t.co/BSryckHMwq

(Please retweet so more people can see this! Thank you!)

[University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow]

A group of senior women from UofG have recreated a 150-year-old all-male professors’ photo ahead of celebrations for #IWD2020 ♀️ 🎓

In terms of equality, we've come a long way, but we know we still have a way to go #InspiringWomen #EachforEqual

More 👉 https://t.co/Zjiu2zAoyP

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

@MichaelSkyer @neuropoetic That would be *very* interesting. I’m sorry we don’t have the data to do it, but hope that someone does!

[Natalie Finlayson @natalie_eloise]

Looking for native German speakers to complete a short (10-15 min) online study as part of my PhD on identifying core topic vocabulary for learners of German. I'd be so grateful if you could share with anyone that might be interested/able to help - thanks!
https://t.co/PQWfxCHgDI

[Sally Zacharias🇪🇺💙 @ZachariasSally]

Do you know any moon idioms? It can be in any language!! I'm collecting them for a workshop I'm doing at the @GlasgowSciFest I'd be over the moon and would love you to the moon and back if you do & RT! @creativelangs @Moon50Festival

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

Great talks at #creativemetaphor, and great geese too.

[Colin Reilly @ColinFReilly]

Looking forward to my talk on 'Language use and language attitudes in Malawian universities' at the @UofGEnglishLang Research Seminar this Thursday. Excited to share data from my classroom recordings for the first time!

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

Ewan Hannaford is using corpus linguistics to investigate illness discourses in the press. #CLiS_2017

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

Carole MacDiarmid is the last speaker in today's #CLiS_2017 event: she's talking about keywords in medical genetics.

[Prof Joanna Kopaczyk-McPherson @JoannaKopaczyk]

@_Aliciaftw on the language of #gaming with #corpus #linguistics tools - fascinating stuff! #CLiS_2017

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

We're moving on to the impact of corpus linguistics to History with Helen Kingstone's study of the Dictionary of National Biography. #CLiS_2017

[Prof Joanna Kopaczyk-McPherson @JoannaKopaczyk]

We're in the middle of #CLiS_2017 @UofGlasgow looking at #corpora and cross-disciplinary research: check out abstracts here: https://t.co/90ZsYs203K @corpusnscotland

[Mapping Metaphor @MappingMetaphor]

@CorpusnScotland https://t.co/WLmgvtztmO

[UofG English Lang & Ling @UofGEnglishLang]

'Corpus linguistics and cross-disciplinarity', CLiS network event, Glasgow, 11 Dec 2017. Details & call for talks: https://t.co/5Jj1rkI5my.

[Marcello Giovanelli @mmgiovanelli]

Call for Papers for BAAL/Routledge workshop: Cognitive Approaches to Language in Education https://t.co/DngHQBANeu

[Michael Hunger 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @[email protected] @mesirii]

Had fun importing @MappingMetaphor into #Neo4j

Try it yourself.

https://t.co/UoMX8C3fbU

[University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow]

Proud to be named 'Scottish University of the Year' by @thetimes and the @thesundaytimes! #UofGWorldChangers https://t.co/7Dt5kDVg82