First announcement and call for papers.
The local organising committee is pleased to announce the seventh international conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7), to be held at the University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, from 29th to 31st May 2008.
The biennial RaAM conferences aim to gather researchers interested in metaphor and other figurative phenomena, such as metonymy, hyperbole or irony, as they relate to ‘real world’ issues. Further aims are to encourage the development of rigorous research methods in the study of metaphor in real-world contexts and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in this field of study. (For more information about RaAM, its aims and previous events, visit the organisation’s website at http://raam.org.uk)