Metaphor in end-of-life care (MELC)

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Conference presentations

• BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, UK, 22 February 2013.
  See our abstract.
• RaAM Seminar 2013 at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland, 2-3 May 2013
  See our abstract and slides.
• A Narrative Future for Health Care at King's Guy's Hospital Campus London, UK, 19-21 June 2013
  See our slides
• Corpus Linguistics 2013 at Lancaster University, UK, 23-26 July 2013
  See our slides
• Death, Dying and Disposal conference at The Open University, UK, 5-8 September 2013.
  See our abstract and slides.
• A meeting of the Amsterdam Critical Discourse Community (ACDC) on 5 September 2013
  See our slides
• Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, on 7-9 March 2014.
• International Observatory on End of Life Care Research Seminar on 10 April 2014, Lancaster University, UK and online via WebEx Video Conferencing. See the IOELC website archive for a recording of the presentation.
• A talk titled 'Corpus Linguistics and Health Communication' at Georgetown University, USA, 11 April 2014.
  See the abstract.
• ICAME 35 Conference, University of Nottingham, 30th April - 4th May 2014
  See our slides
• 8th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Lleida, Spain, 5-7 June 2014
See the slides.
• THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE: Science, Practice and Academia, An International Conference hosted by CERLIS, University of Bergamo, Italy, 19-21 June 2014
  See our slides
• Researching and Applying Metaphor 10 conference, Cagliari/Italy, 20-23 June 2014
  See our slides (for the talk "Metaphors for good and bad deaths in interviews with hospice managers")
• 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Lancaster, UK, 29-31 July 2014
  See the abstract for the plenary talk by Elena Semino
• CADAAD 5, at ELTE, Budapest, 1st-3rd September 2014
• BAAL 2014, Warwick, UK, 4-6 September 2014
  See our abstract
• Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Demmen, J., Hardie, A., Koller, V., Payne, S. and Rayson, P. (2014) A 'battle' or a 'journey'? A large-scale study of metaphors for cancer. NCRI Cancer Conference, Liverpool, UK, 2-5 November 2014.
  See our abstract
• D-Day Research Day, Kingston University, UK, 7 November 2014.