UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND GENER AL LINGUISTICS TEPEN CONFERENCE 2015.9-10.12

PROGRAMME OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Events and in Language TEPEN

Wednesday, 9th December 2015 8.30-9.15: registration 9.15-9.30: conference opening/ room 1 in CK UŁ (Conf. Centre)

9.30-10.30: Prof. Piotr Cap , University of Łódź, Poland, Follow-ups in the US anti-terrorist narrativ e

Section 1: Section 2 : 10.30-11.00 Annika Christensen, University of Leeds, UK Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin , Performing histories: Narrative elements in traditional Faroese balladry and dance and University of Łódź, Poland Time-creating Event Markers in a Contrastive Perspective

11.00-11.30 Kamila Ciepiela, University of Łódź, Poland Dorota Filar, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland Embedding story events in interactional contexts "The human beng in the rain”: Language as “Grand narrative" 11.30-12.00: coffee break 12.00-12.30 Ankica Bralić, University of Zadar, Mikołaj Deckert , University of Łódź, Poland Spoken and written in the 10th and 11th century medieval documents of the Construals of magnitude and event conceptualisation Dalmatian city of Zadar 12.30-13.00 Marta Sibierska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Adam Biały, University of Wrocław, Poland Non-verbal narratives: The narrative potential of pictures and pantomime Prefixes and events

13.00-13.30 Alina Kwiatkowska, University of Łódź Waliński Jacek, University of Łódź, Poland Ekphrastic narrations Construal of caused motion events as a challenge for translators 13.30-15.00: lunch break

15.00-16.00: Prof. Barbara Tversky , Stanford University, California, U.S.A. Cutting wholes into parts and connecting the parts: from space to time to narrative

16.00-16.30 Katarzyna Stadnik, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland Janusz Badio, University of Łódź, Poland Imagery of the narrative: the space-time of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale Counting events in sentences, some methodological issues UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND GENER AL LINGUISTICS TEPEN CONFERENCE 2015.9-10.12

16.30-17.00 Sanja Škifić, Rajko Petković University of Zadar, Croatia Regina Jokel, Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto, Canada Intertextual symbolism, language conflict and language ideology in “Daughters of the Discourse as a diagnostic tool Dust”

17.00-17.30 coffee break

18.00-19.00: Video conference and lecture at … UŁ Video Conference Room

Prof. Benjamin Bergen , University of California, San Diego USA (title to be announced)

Grammar and style affect embodied event comprehension

19.00 … Evening out and dinner

UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND GENER AL LINGUISTICS TEPEN CONFERENCE 2015.9-10.12

Thursday, 10 th December

9.30-10.30: Prof. Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak , Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland . A narrative-discursive approach to life stories: towards transdisciplinarity

Section 1: Section 2 :

10.30-11.00 Jarosław Wiliński, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland Olga O’Toole, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Sporting events in American politics: a metaphostructional analysis Narrative events, embedded affect in turn-taking, and the flouting of maxims in American conversational storytelling interaction among females 11.00-11.30 Ted Bergman, University of St Andrews, UK Matthew Voice, University of Sheffield, UK Storytelling, legal procedure, and narrative construction in Spanish Inquisitorial From grammar to discourse and back: modelling intentionality in Cognitive Grammar records 11.30-12.00 Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Anna Wieczorek , University of Łódź, Poland Narrative production in Russian-speaking SLI preschoolers: Functional dynamic Narrative worlds in political discourse approach 12.00-12.30: coffee break 12.30-13.00 Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, University of Łódźm Poland Irina Thomieres, University of Paris - La Sorbonne, Speech acts, tacit events and narratives Events in the text. Evidence from modern Russian 13.00-13.30 Anna Ewert, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Aleksandra Majdzińska, University of Łódź, Poland Path and manner information in Polish motion verbs: Implications for crosslinguistic Alternative construals in 's "Exercises in Style" research 13.30-14.00 Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, University of Łódź, Poland Kosecki Krzysztof, University of Łódź, Poland “Beings of secondary order”: Framing and intertextuality as narrative tools in A.S. Metonymy-based frames in languages of the deaf Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” 14.00.14.30 Anna Kryshtaliuk , Kamianets-Podilsky Ivan Ogienko National University, Ukraine The embodied representation of events in the modern English newspaper discourse

14.00-14.10 Planned - end of conference