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Seminar with Marnie Holborow, March 20, 2013

The Language of Neoliberalism; Metaphors and Ideology by Marnie Holborow, Dublin City University. The seminar discusses the impact of neoliberal ideology on language and language use. It will describe the symbolic and semantic mechanisms through which the ideology is articulated, focusing specifically on metaphorical processes surrounding the notion of the market and markets as they…

Lecture by Masako Hiraga, April 6, 2007

Iconic Creativity in Haiku: A Linguistic Analysis of Basho’s Revisions by Masako Hiraga, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley This presentation focuses on the styles of meaning creation by metaphor and iconicity in Basho’s haiku. The analysis particularly looks at the revising process of his two haiku texts, in terms of semantics,…