Plenary Speakers
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Ivana Bianchi, Università di Macerata, Italy Title: "The perception and cognition of opposites"
![Rosario Caballero Rosario Caballero](/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/rosario_caballero.jpg)
Rosario Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Title: "Much more than motion events: theoretical and applied challenges"
![Mark Dingemanse Mark Dingemanse](/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Mark_Dingemanse.jpg)
Mark Dingemanse, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Title: "Iconicity in language: form, meaning and use"
![Dirk Geeraerts Dirk Geeraerts](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/7/csm_DirkGeeraerts_01_8bf0094b1c.jpg)
Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
Title: "What's your philosophy? The phenomenological tradition and Cognitive Linguistics"
![Raymond Gibbs Raymond Gibbs](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/7/csm_RaymondGibbs3_01_181fc42f71.jpg)
Raymond Gibbs, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Title: "Metaphor and the automatic mind"
![Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano](/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/iraide.ibarretxe-antu_ano_01.jpg)
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Title: "Much more than motion events: theoretical and applied challenges"
![Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi](/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/joanna.r_czaszek-leonardi_01.jpg)
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, University of Warsaw, Poland
Title: "Ungrounding symbols in development"