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2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the 2022 Annual Meeting we will host three sessions: 1) an invited panel co-sponsored with Hebrew Poetry; 2) an open, themed session co-sponsored with Biblical Lexicography; and 3) an open session. The invited panel will discuss the approach to biblical poetry using cognitive poetics presented in Emmylou Grosser’s Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press) and reflect on further steps of theory and method for engaging in the subjective enterprise of biblical poetry interpretation – in terms of both poetic structure (i.e., lineation) and the relationship between the poetic line and poetic effects. Call for the Open Themed Session: Our joint goal with Biblical Lexicography in co-sponsoring this session is to integrate more traditional modes of philology with theoretical cognitive linguistics. We are specifically interested in papers that apply insights from cognitive semantics to Hebrew and Greek lexicographical description. Papers may focus on more theoretical issues in semantics or on practical aspects of dictionary-making. Call for the Open Session: Papers should use and explore at least one cognitive-linguistic method to study a biblical text or corpus. We are especially interested in approaches that are underrepresented in biblical studies, for example, construction grammar, viewpoint analysis, applications of embodied cognition, prototype theory, force dynamics, conceptual blending, frame semantics, and conceptual metonymy. We welcome papers that use conceptual metaphor theory to explore a biblical text or corpus but will give priority to approaches that are under-utilized by biblical scholars. Strong candidates for the open sessions must go beyond methodological reflection and include exegetical and linguistic results. Proposals should reveal the author’s assessment of the payoffs and the challenges of the chosen models and/or methods for analyzing biblical material.

Program Unit Chairs

Elizabeth Currier
Johan de Joode

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