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* Invited <\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* <\/strong>Soriano, C. (2025). Anger: A language-based perspective. Invited Talk. Workshop “Dies Irae<\/em>“. Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve (Switzerland), May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* <\/strong>Soriano, C. <\/strong>(2024). What can emotion words tell us about affective experience across cultures? Invited lecture. The 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting<\/em>. Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). Shanghai (China), December 5\u20136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* <\/strong>Soriano, C. <\/strong>(2024). La expresi\u00f3n ling\u00fc\u00edstica de la emoci\u00f3n. Invited keynote lecture. Seminario Internacional \u201cEntre letras y latidos: perspectivas cient\u00edficas sobre la relaci\u00f3n entre lenguaje y emoci\u00f3n<\/em>\u201d (Psylex VI). Zaragoza (Spain), November 7 \u2013 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* <\/strong>Soriano, C. <\/strong>(2024). Emotion and metaphor. Invited plenary lecture. XIII AELCO\/ SCOLA conference<\/em>. University of Granada, Granada (Spain), September 25-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C & Ogarkova. A. (2024). Frustration: A language-specific concept? International conference ISRE 2024<\/em>. Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast (Ireland), July 17 \u2013 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* <\/strong>Soriano, C. <\/strong>(2024). The emotion lexicon across languages and cultures. Invited plenary lecture. International conference  \u201cAffective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience: Language, Cognition, and Culture <\/em>(AEDE)\u201d. Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, Braga (Portugal), July 3-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2024). \u201c\u2018Frustration\u2019<\/em> does not mean the same across languages\u201d. Annual Research Forum of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences<\/em>. University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland), February 1-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. <\/strong>(2022). \u201cEmoci\u00f3n y lenguaje\u201d. Invited talk. 1st<\/sup> meeting of the Spanish researchers in Switzerland, Italy and France<\/em>. Organized by Association of Spanish Researchers in Switzerland (ACECH). CERN, Geneva (Switzerland). November 19-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2021). “El lenguaje emocional y el lenguaje sobre las emociones: perspectivas interculturales”. Invited keynote lecture. Jornada Internacional de Lengua, Emoci\u00f3n e Identidad. Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 (Spain), September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* 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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lagier, S. & Soriano, C. (2020). The metaphor factory<\/a>. Workshop for CUSO – Programme Transversal de D\u00e9veloppement des Comp\u00e9tences G\u00e9n\u00e9riques. September 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2020). El estudio de las emociones a trav\u00e9s de sus nombres en distintas lenguas y culturas. Invited lecture. Universidad Nebrija, Madrid (Spain), June 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2019). Affective meaning in language. Invited talk. Sympoisum \u201cEmotion, Expression, and Language<\/em>\u201d. University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland), November 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2019). Metaphor and Emotion. A cross-disciplinary dialog in the Affective Sciences. Invited plenary lecture. Conference \u201cMetaphor Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Disciplines<\/em>\u201d. Li\u00e8ge (Belgium), May 16-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> (AELCO). C\u00f3rdoba (Spain), October 17-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lagier, S., LeBoeuf, A. & Soriano, C. (2018). The metaphor factory<\/a>. Workshop at Ecsite Annual Conference 2018. Geneva, June 7-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2018). El lenguaje de las emociones. Invited lecture. XIII Seminario Internacional de Lengua y Periodismo \u201cEl lenguaje en la era de la post-verdad\u201d. San Mill\u00e1n de la Cogolla (Spain), May 29-30. [video<\/a>]<\/strong> (NOTE: my talk was presented by David Garc\u00eda on my behalf due to illness)<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* 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<\/a>] [interview2<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piata, A. & Soriano, C. (2017). \u201cThat Time will come and take my love away”: Time and affective valence in language and literature. 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference<\/em> (ICLC). Tartu (Estonia), July 10-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piata, A. & Soriano, C. (2017). \u201cSpatial representations of time and emotion: Evidence on mental imagery from the PoetiCog literary database\u201d. International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Developing New Theories and Methods<\/em>. Osnabr\u00fcck (Germany), June 9-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C., Gillioz, C., Fontaine, J. & Scherer, K. (2017). Linguistics and emotion words: The meaning of nouns and adjectives. Symposium \u201cEmotion process competence: Integrating multidisciplinary approaches\u201d. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS)<\/em>. Vienna (Austria), March 23-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2016). Emotion language and emotion conceptualization. Invited lecture. Workshop “Language and Emotion”. University of Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland), December 1-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2016). La categorizaci\u00f3n de las emociones en distintas lenguas. Invited talk. VIII<\/em> International Congress of Hispanic Linguistics<\/em>. Leipzig (Germany), September 26-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2015). “The meaning of “frustration” across languages”. International Society for Research on Emotion<\/em> (ISRE 2015). Geneva (Swizerland), July 8-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> (ISRE 2015). Geneva (Swizerland), July 8-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2014). “Triangulating results from CMT and emotion psychology”. IX International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association<\/em> (AELCO). “Applied Cognitive Linguistics: New Challenges”. Badajoz (Spain), October 15-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2014). “Conceptual metaphors and the GRID paradigm. A case study on \u2018anger\u2019 in English and Spanish”. Conosortium of European Research on Emotion<\/em> (CERE). Berlin (Germany), March 27-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. (2013). “Las emociones y sus nombres. Un estudio interdisciplinar”. Invited lecture. Linguistics Department, University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza (Spain), October 23. [announcing poster<\/a>] [review<\/a>] [video<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2013). “Applications of the GRID paradigm in linguistic inquiry”. International Society for Research on Emotion<\/em> (ISRE 2013). Berkeley (USA), August 2-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogarkova, A,. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Metaphor in emotion concepts: Experimental testing of corpora evidence”. Workshop “Emotions in Language, Culture, Cognition”, International Congress of Linguistics<\/em>. Geneva (Switzerland), July 22-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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)<\/em>. San Sebasti\u00e1n (Spain), July 17-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C. & Schnall, S. (2013). \u201cMorality, moral emotions, and metaphor\u201d. Workshop at the International Summer School in Affective Sciences<\/em> (ISSAS 2013), on “Emotion, Morality and Value”. Ch\u00e2teau de Bossey, Celigny (Switzerland), July 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2013). “Dimensional congruence and colour-emotion associations in Spanish”. XII International Cognitive Linguistics Conference<\/em> (ICLC). Alberta (Canada), June 23-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Voices and Sounds in Emotion Metaphor<\/a>: Insights from the Metaphorical Profile Approach”. Workshop “Gods and Performers: The Affective Semantics of Voices and Sounds”. Geneva (Switzerland), May 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2013). “Emotion and the body: a corpus-driven investigation of metaphorical containers of anger across languages”. SAUTE 2013<\/em>. Lausanne (Switzerland): April 19-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>. Freiburg, October 10-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C & Ogarkova, A (2012). “ANGER revisited: Cross-linguistic corpus evidence for a new model”. UK-CLC4<\/em>. London (UK), July 10-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>. London (UK), July 10-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C (2012). “Conceptual integration, metaphor and emotion”<\/a>. Guest speaker at the workshop “Rethinking Metaphor: Conceptual Integration and Empirical Methods”. Murcia (Spain), May 10-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Soriano, C (2012). “Interdisciplinary approaches in the study of emotion concepts”. Invited talk. Centre for Languages and Literature. Lund University (Sweden), April 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2012). “”Frustration” in Europe: Cultural specificity in the meaning of emotion cognates”. 35th International LAUD Symposium<\/em> (Cognitive Psycholinguistics: Bilingualism, Cognition and Communication). Landau (Germany), March 26-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* 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<\/em> (ISSAS 2011). C\u00e9ligny, Switzerland, 25 Aug 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/em>(AELCO\/ SCOLA): “Figuring the World”. Almagro (Spain), September 30 – October 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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)<\/em>: “Figuring the World”. Almagro (Spain), September 30 – October 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. & Lehr, C. (2010). “Types of anger and their metaphors. MPA in English, German, Spanish and Russian”. RaAM 8<\/em>: “Metaphors and Domains of discourse”. Amsterdam (Netherlands), June 30 – July 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2010). “Lectal variation in the conceptualization of anger in Spanish”. 34th LAUD Symposium<\/em>: “Cognitive Sociolinguistics”. Landau (Germany), March 15-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> (ISRE).  Leuven (Belgium), August 6-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. & Lehr, C. (2009). “Cultural differences in labeling conflict emotions”. International conference of the International Society for Language Studies<\/em> (ISLS).
Orlando (Florida, USA), June 11-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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), Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e9ve (Switzerland), May, 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2009). “\u00bfImporta el tama\u00f1o? Sobre la relaci\u00f3n metaf\u00f3rica entre el dominio subjetivo de la importancia y el dominio f\u00edsico del tama\u00f1o”. IX Simposio de Psicoling\u00fc\u00edstica<\/em>. University of Santiago (Spain), April 23-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2008). \u201cIs “friendship” more important than “money”? A psycholinguistic exploration of the IMPORTANT IS BIG primary metaphor. \u201d. VI International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association<\/em> (AELCO\/SCOLA). University of Castell\u00f3n, Spain), October, 22\u201324.

Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, V. (2008). \u201cLooking at emotion metaphors with experimental methods\u201d. Interdisciplinary Workshop “Metaphor and Emotion: Theory, Practice and Experiment”. Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA), Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e9ve (Switzerland), September, 18-19.

Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2008). \u201cSensorial perception as a source domain: A cross-linguistic study\u201d. VII International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor<\/em> (RaAM 7), University of Extremadura, C\u00e1ceres (Spain), May 29-31.

2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. (2007). \u201cAre conceptual metaphors accessible online? A psycholinguistic exploration of the CONTROL IS UP metaphor\u201d. X International Cognitive Lingusitics Conference<\/em> (ICLC 2007). Krakow (Poland) July 15-20.

2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2006). \u201cIs CONTROL really UP? An experimental investigation\u201d. V International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association<\/em> (AELCO\/SCOLA). Murcia (Spain) October 19-21.

Kein\u00e4nen, Nely & Soriano, C (2006). Seminar “Emotion, Language and Literature”, August 29. VIII Conference of the European Society for the Study of English<\/em> (ESSE-8). London (UK) 2006. 29 August – 2 September.

* Soriano, C. (2006). \u201c\u2018On a short fuse\u2019. The metaphorical conceptualization of anger across cultures\u201d. Invited talk at the XI Curso de Lengua Extranjera, Sociedad y Cultura. Murcia (Spain), March, 16.

2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2005). \u201c\u2018You are swelling me\u2019. Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to the study of anger in Spanish and English\u201d. 6th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference<\/em> (RaAM6). Leeds (UK), April 10\u201312.

Soriano, C. (2005). \u201cReplicability, representativeness and generalizability in metaphor studies\u201d.  New Directions in Cognitive Lingusitics Conference<\/em> (NDCG). Brighton (UK), October 23-25.

2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Valenzuela, J. (2004). \u201cA picture-word priming task as a test for the existence of conceptual metaphor\u201d. IV International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Lingusitics Association<\/em> (AELCO\/ SCOLA). Zaragoza (Spain), May 13-15.

2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. (2003). \u201cConceptual metaphors and metonymies of anger in Spanish and English\u201d. VIII International Cognitive Linguistics Conference<\/em> (ICLC 2003). Logro\u00f1o (Spain), July 20-25.

Soriano, C. (2003). \u201cEmpirical methods in cognitive metaphor research\u201d. I Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Workshop<\/em> at Cornell University, Ithaca (USA), May 2-4

2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soriano, C. & Cantos, P. (2002). \u201cUna aproximaci\u00f3n estad\u00edstica al dominio de la ira\u201d. III International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association<\/em> (AELCO\/ SCOLA). University of Valencia, Valencia (Spain), May 12-15

Soriano, C. (2002). \u201cThe \u201cHEAT\u201d metaphor in the expression of anger in English and Spanish\u201d. Mind, Language and Metaphor. EuroConference on Consciousness and the Imagination<\/em>. Kerkrade (The Netherlands), April 20-24.

Soriano, C. (2002). \u201cMet\u00e1foras y metonimias cognitivas en la conceptualizaci\u00f3n de la ira. Estudio contrastivo ingl\u00e9s-espa\u00f1ol\u201d. XVII International Young Linguists Association Conference<\/em>. University of Alicante, Alicante (Spain), April 18-20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Invited 2025 * Soriano, C. (2025). Anger: A language-based perspective. Invited Talk. Workshop “Dies Irae“. Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve (Switzerland), May 15. 2024 * Soriano, C. (2024). What can emotion words tell us about affective experience across cultures? Invited lecture. The 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting. Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). … <\/p>\n

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