* Invited
2024
* Soriano, C. (2024). La expresión lingüística de la emoción. Seminario Internacional “Entre letras y latidos: perspectivas científicas sobre la relación entre lenguaje y emoción” (Psylex VI). Zaragoza (Spain), November 7 – 8.
* Soriano, C. (2024). Emotion and metaphor. Invited plenary lecture. XIII AELCO/ SCOLA conference. University of Granada, Granada (Spain), September 25-27.
Soriano, C & Ogarkova. A. (2024). Frustration: A language-specific concept? International conference ISRE 2024. Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast (Ireland), July 17 – 20.
* Soriano, C. (2024). The emotion lexicon across languages and cultures. Invited plenary lecture. International conference “Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience: Language, Cognition, and Culture (AEDE)”. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga (Portugal), July 3-5.
Soriano, C. (2024). “‘Frustration’ does not mean the same across languages”. Annual Research Forum of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences. University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland), February 1-2.
2022
* Soriano, C. (2022). “Emoción y lenguaje”. Invited talk. 1st meeting of the Spanish researchers in Switzerland, Italy and France. Organized by Association of Spanish Researchers in Switzerland (ACECH). CERN, Geneva (Switzerland). November 19-20
2021
* Soriano, C. (2021). “El lenguaje emocional y el lenguaje sobre las emociones: perspectivas interculturales”. Invited keynote lecture. Jornada Internacional de Lengua, Emoción e Identidad. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), September.
* Soriano, C. (2021). Cross-cultural emotion conceptualization: Methods for the study of literal and figurative language. Invited keynote lecture. Conference “Language, Semantics and Cognition: Saying and conceptualizing the world from Ancient Egypt to Modern Times”. Yale University (USA), April 17. View lecure here
2020
Lagier, S. & Soriano, C. (2020). The metaphor factory. Workshop for CUSO – Programme Transversal de Développement des Compétences Génériques. September 1.
* Soriano, C. (2020). El estudio de las emociones a través de sus nombres en distintas lenguas y culturas. Invited lecture. Universidad Nebrija, Madrid (Spain), June 12.
2019
* Soriano, C. (2019). Affective meaning in language. Invited lecture. Sympoisum “Emotion, Expression, and Language”. University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland), November 4.
* Soriano, C. (2019). Metaphor and Emotion. A cross-disciplinary dialog in the Affective Sciences. Invited plenary lecture. Conference “Metaphor Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Disciplines”. Liège (Belgium), May 16-17.
2018
Soriano, C. & Piata, A. (2018). Valence or power? A corpus study on the affect bias in time conceptualization. 11th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). Córdoba (Spain), October 17-19.
Lagier, S., LeBoeuf, A. & Soriano, C. (2018). The metaphor factory. Workshop at Ecsite Annual Conference 2018. Geneva, June 7-9.
* Soriano, C. (2018). El lenguaje de las emociones. Invited lecture. XIII Seminario Internacional de Lengua y Periodismo “El lenguaje en la era de la post-verdad”. San Millán de la Cogolla (Spain), May 29-30. [video] (NOTE: my talk was presented by David García on my behalf due to illness)
* Soriano, C. (2018). Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of emotion, metaphor and identity. Invited lecture. International Workshop “Metaphor, Emotions, and Identity”. Pamplona (Spain), February 16-17. [interview1] [interview2]
2017
Piata, A. & Soriano, C. (2017). “That Time will come and take my love away”: Time and affective valence in language and literature. 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC). Tartu (Estonia), July 10-14.
Piata, A. & Soriano, C. (2017). “Spatial representations of time and emotion: Evidence on mental imagery from the PoetiCog literary database”. International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Developing New Theories and Methods. Osnabrück (Germany), June 9-11.
Soriano, C., Gillioz, C., Fontaine, J. & Scherer, K. (2017). Linguistics and emotion words: The meaning of nouns and adjectives. Symposium “Emotion process competence: Integrating multidisciplinary approaches”. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS). Vienna (Austria), March 23-25.
2016
* Soriano, C. (2016). Emotion language and emotion conceptualization. Invited lecture. Workshop “Language and Emotion”. University of Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland), December 1-2.
* Soriano, C. (2016). La categorización de las emociones en distintas lenguas. Invited talk. VIII International Congress of Hispanic Linguistics. Leipzig (Germany), September 26-29
2015
Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2015). “The meaning of “frustration” across languages”. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE 2015). Geneva (Swizerland), July 8-10.
Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2015). “Metaphorical profiles of ANGER nouns in three languages: Converging evidence with cross-cultural emotion psychology”. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE 2015). Geneva (Swizerland), July 8-10.
2014
Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2014). “Triangulating results from CMT and emotion psychology”. IX International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). “Applied Cognitive Linguistics: New Challenges”. Badajoz (Spain), October 15-18.
* Soriano, C., Fontaine, J. & Scherer. K. (2014). “Surprise in the GRID”. Invited talk at the International Symposium “Describing and Expressing Surprise”. Paris (France), October 10.
Soriano, C. (2014). “Conceptual metaphors and the GRID paradigm. A case study on ‘anger’ in English and Spanish”. Conosortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE). Berlin (Germany), March 27-28.
2013
* Soriano, C. (2013). “Las emociones y sus nombres. Un estudio interdisciplinar”. Invited lecture. Linguistics Department, University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza (Spain), October 23. [announcing poster] [review] [video]
Soriano, C. (2013). “Applications of the GRID paradigm in linguistic inquiry”. International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE 2013). Berkeley (USA), August 2-6.
Ogarkova, A,. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Metaphor in emotion concepts: Experimental testing of corpora evidence”. Workshop “Emotions in Language, Culture, Cognition”, International Congress of Linguistics. Geneva (Switzerland), July 22-27.
Alonso-Arbiol, I., Soriano, C., & Van De Vijver, F. J. R. (2013). “The Conceptualization of despair in Basque, Spanish, and English using the GRID instrument”. XII European Conference on Psychological Assessment (ECPA12). San Sebastián (Spain), July 17-20.
* Soriano, C. & Schnall, S. (2013). “Morality, moral emotions, and metaphor”. Workshop at the International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS 2013), on “Emotion, Morality and Value”. Château de Bossey, Celigny (Switzerland), July 7.
Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2013). “Dimensional congruence and colour-emotion associations in Spanish”. XII International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC). Alberta (Canada), June 23-28.
* Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Voices and Sounds in Emotion Metaphor: Insights from the Metaphorical Profile Approach”. Workshop “Gods and Performers: The Affective Semantics of Voices and Sounds”. Geneva (Switzerland), May 29.
Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Across disciplinary boundaries: Feature-based and metaphorical profiling methods in the comparative study of ANGER conceptualization”. Specialized workshop of the International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) “Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions”. Poznan (Poland): May 2-3.
Soriano, C. (2013). “Cross-disciplinary communication in the study of emotion concepts: semantic foci as tertium comparationis for observed and elicited data”. Specialized workshop of the International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) “Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions”. Poznan (Poland): May 2-3.
Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Emotion and the body: a corpus-driven investigation of metaphorical containers of anger across languages”. SAUTE 2013. Lausanne (Switzerland): April 19-20.
2012
Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2012). “Triangulating cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches in cross-cultural research on emotion conceptualization”. V International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Freiburg, October 10-12.
Soriano, C & Ogarkova, A (2012). “ANGER revisited: Cross-linguistic corpus evidence for a new model”. UK-CLC4. London (UK), July 10-12.
Ogarkova, A & Soriano, C (2012). “What metaphorical profiles of emotion nouns can tell us about emotions: converging evidence with (cross cultural) emotion psychology”. UK-CLC4. London (UK), July 10-12.
* Soriano, C (2012). “Conceptual integration, metaphor and emotion”. Guest speaker at the workshop “Rethinking Metaphor: Conceptual Integration and Empirical Methods”. Murcia (Spain), May 10-12.
* Soriano, C (2012). “Interdisciplinary approaches in the study of emotion concepts”. Invited talk. Centre for Languages and Literature. Lund University (Sweden), April 4.
Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2012). “”Frustration” in Europe: Cultural specificity in the meaning of emotion cognates”. 35th International LAUD Symposium (Cognitive Psycholinguistics: Bilingualism, Cognition and Communication). Landau (Germany), March 26-29.
Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2012). Conceptual metaphor in the study of emotion: method and applications. Workshop “Emotion and metaphor, ancient and modern: Interdisciplinary perspectives”. Geneva (Switzerland), March 14.
2011
* Sacharin, V., Soriano, C. & Ferdenzi, C. (2011). “Linguistic approaches to measure emotion and subjective experience”. Workshop held at the International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS 2011). Céligny, Switzerland, 25 Aug 2011.
2010
Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A, & Lehr (C.) (2010). “Different ways of being angry. Intracategorial variation in the metaphorical conceptualization of emotion”. VII International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association (AELCO/ SCOLA): “Figuring the World”. Almagro (Spain), September 30 – October 2.
Soriano, C., & Valenzuela, J. (2010). “Interdisciplinary approaches in the study of emotion concepts: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the GRID approach”. VII International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association (AELCO/ SCOLA): “Figuring the World”. Almagro (Spain), September 30 – October 2.
Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. & Lehr, C. (2010). “Types of anger and their metaphors. MPA in English, German, Spanish and Russian”. RaAM 8: “Metaphors and Domains of discourse”. Amsterdam (Netherlands), June 30 – July 3.
Soriano, C. (2010). “Lectal variation in the conceptualization of anger in Spanish”. 34th LAUD Symposium: “Cognitive Sociolinguistics”. Landau (Germany), March 15-18.
2009
Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2009). “Linguistic approaches to the meaning of emotion terms:
Relationships to the GRID componential approach”. Symposium “Language and Emotion: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Emotion Words”, Conference of the International Society for the Research on Emotion (ISRE). Leuven (Belgium), August 6-8.
Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. & Lehr, C. (2009). “Cultural differences in labeling conflict emotions”. International conference of the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS).
Orlando (Florida, USA), June 11-13.
Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. & Lehr, C. (2009). “The mapping method in establishing (translation) equivalence: A case study of conflict emotions in 5 European languages”. Workshop “Emotions in Translation: Lost or Found?”. Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA), Université de Genéve (Switzerland), May, 6.
Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2009). “¿Importa el tamaño? Sobre la relación metafórica entre el dominio subjetivo de la importancia y el dominio físico del tamaño”. IX Simposio de Psicolingüística. University of Santiago (Spain), April 23-25.
2008
Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2008). “Is “friendship” more important than “money”? A psycholinguistic exploration of the IMPORTANT IS BIG primary metaphor. ”. VI International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association (AELCO/SCOLA). University of Castellón, Spain), October, 22–24.
Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, V. (2008). “Looking at emotion metaphors with experimental methods”. Interdisciplinary Workshop “Metaphor and Emotion: Theory, Practice and Experiment”. Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA), Université de Genéve (Switzerland), September, 18-19.
Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2008). “Sensorial perception as a source domain: A cross-linguistic study”. VII International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7), University of Extremadura, Cáceres (Spain), May 29-31.
2007
Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2007). “Are conceptual metaphors accessible online? A psycholinguistic exploration of the CONTROL IS UP metaphor”. X International Cognitive Lingusitics Conference (ICLC 2007). Krakow (Poland) July 15-20.
2006
Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2006). “Is CONTROL really UP? An experimental investigation”. V International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association (AELCO/SCOLA). Murcia (Spain) October 19-21.
Keinänen, Nely & Soriano, C (2006). Seminar “Emotion, Language and Literature”, August 29. VIII Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE-8). London (UK) 2006. 29 August – 2 September.
* Soriano, C. (2006). “‘On a short fuse’. The metaphorical conceptualization of anger across cultures”. Invited talk at the XI Curso de Lengua Extranjera, Sociedad y Cultura. Murcia (Spain), March, 16.
2005
Soriano, C. (2005). “‘You are swelling me’. Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to the study of anger in Spanish and English”. 6th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference (RaAM6). Leeds (UK), April 10–12.
Soriano, C. (2005). “Replicability, representativeness and generalizability in metaphor studies”. New Directions in Cognitive Lingusitics Conference (NDCG). Brighton (UK), October 23-25.
2004
Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2004). “A picture-word priming task as a test for the existence of conceptual metaphor”. IV International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association (AELCO/ SCOLA). Zaragoza (Spain), May 13-15.
2003
Soriano, C. (2003). “Conceptual metaphors and metonymies of anger in Spanish and English”. VIII International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003). Logroño (Spain), July 20-25.
Soriano, C. (2003). “Empirical methods in cognitive metaphor research”. I Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Workshop at Cornell University, Ithaca (USA), May 2-4
2002
Soriano, C. & Cantos, P. (2002). “Una aproximación estadística al dominio de la ira”. III International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO/ SCOLA). University of Valencia, Valencia (Spain), May 12-15
Soriano, C. (2002). “The “HEAT” metaphor in the expression of anger in English and Spanish”. Mind, Language and Metaphor. EuroConference on Consciousness and the Imagination. Kerkrade (The Netherlands), April 20-24.
Soriano, C. (2002). “Metáforas y metonimias cognitivas en la conceptualización de la ira. Estudio contrastivo inglés-español”. XVII International Young Linguists Association Conference. University of Alicante, Alicante (Spain), April 18-20.