Project meetings

Meeting on May 27th 2016

Croatian Institute of History

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ivan Pandžić

Daily agenda:

  1. Presentations at the BFLR symposium
  2. Report on financial plan
  3. Metaphors of morality (analysis of examples, discussion)
  4. Other

Meeting on April 5th 2016
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić, Ivan Pandžić

Daily agenda:

  1. Symposium (programme, our presentations, logistics)
  2. A proposal to amend the financial plan to increase fees for our developers
  3. Proposal for new procedures detecting metaphors in corpora
  4. Application of the new procedures on metaphors of time
  5. Articles, training, participation in conferences…
  6. Other

Meeting on January 14th 2016
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić, Ivan Pandžić

Daily agenda:

  1. Linguistic tasks connected with computational/technical tasks for the second year (Prof. Essert)
  2. Financial plan for second year
  3. Work plan for second year
  4. Project symposium: “Building Metaphor Repositories: Methods, Risks and
    Challenges” (list of participants, sending invitation letters and first notifications, preliminary program)
  5. Metaphors of economy, governance and welfare (analysis of examples, discussion)
  6. Other

Meeting on July 23rd 2015
Northumbria University, Newcastle

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić

Daily agenda:

  1. Report on presentations and participating in the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
  2. Report after the second big objective is achieved (mind metaphors)
  3. Changes in names of categories of metaphors
  4. Making the project website and the metaphor database available to the public
  5. Work and financial plan for the second year of the project
  6. Other

Meeting on May 14th 2015
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić, Ivan Pandžić
Daily agenda:

  1. Report by Kristina Štrkalj Despot on time spent at the University of Berkeley
  2. Discussion of event structure and mind metaphors
  3. Instructions on how to upload information on metaphors
  4. Report on mind conceptualization experiment
  5. Report on experiments dealing with PSYCHOLOGICALLY DIFFICULT / EASY IS PHYSICALLY DIFFICULT / EASY
  6. Preparations for the ICLC conference
  7. Report on project finances
  8. Report after the first project checkpoint: EVENT STRUCTURE METAPHORS
  9. Other

Meeting on November 26th 2014
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić, Ivan Pandžić
Daily agenda:
1. Report and discussion on the structure of the database
2. Analysis of table of event structure metaphors with synchronic and diachronic examples
3. Instructions for entering event structure metaphors into the database
4. Other

Meeting on November 14th 2014
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić
Daily agenda:
1.  Report on the construction of the framework for the MetaNet.HR database
2. Discussion on the current database structure
3. Report and discussion on the forming of the figurative speech bibliography
4. Instructions on working with the database
5. Other

Meeting on September 4th 2014
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Present: Kristina Štrkalj Despot, Mario Brdar, Mario Essert, Mirjana Tonković, Benedikt Perak, Bruno Nahod, Ana Ostroški Anić
Daily agenda:
1.  Presenting the members of the research team
2. Discussion on the details of the work plan
3. Discussion on the financial plan
4. Buying equipment
5. Discussion on specializations during the project
4. Overview of the work plan and distribution of tasks
5. Other