Metaphor Matters
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Metaphor researchers are a friendly bunch. And it turns out that they are pretty sneaky too… As the chair of the local organizing committee for RaAM 2020, I was approached by two separate groups of researchers. The ringleaders for the first group were Ana Piquer-Píriz, and Rafael Alejo-González, who wanted to hold a special session…
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The 13th conference for the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 2020) was scheduled to take place from 18-21 June 2020 at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Hamar, Norway. As you can all probably guess, that physical event did not take place. But in a time when so many other scientific conferences…
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Camilla Stoltenberg is the director general of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the Norwegian governmental agency that works within the fields of infectious disease control, epidemiology, and related areas. This agency currently plays a pivotal role in advising the Norwegian government, so that politicians are best able to make informed policy decisions. Keeping…