26.2934, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ RMN Newsletter (Jrnl)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-2934. Wed Jun 17 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.2934, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ RMN Newsletter (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:23:41
From: Ilya Sverdlov [snerrir at gmail.com]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics/ RMN Newsletter (Jrnl)

Full Title: RMN Newsletter 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2015 

The Ecology of Meter: Meter and Language - Meter and Literature - Meter's
Past, Present and Future

Special issue

Metrics is sometimes described as discipline run by people who spend their
lives counting syllables. Nothing could be farther from truth - poetic meters
do not exist in a mathematical vacuum, and knowing the number of syllables,
feet etc. per line rarely equals knowing what a given meter is and how it
works. Meter is a creative tool that shapes, and is shaped by, language (John
Miles Foley used to talk about ''trademark symbiosis between metre and
language''), tradition, textual and social environments, as well as other
co-existing meters and ultimately the people who use, abuse and transmit texts
composed in it. The combined action of these factors, seemingly
extra-metrical, constitutes in fact what we would like to call the ecologly of
meter. Meter is a living thing of language(s) and literature(s) that depends
on this ecology as much as the poetry itself; the two, consequently, can (and
should) be approached from a variety of angles and studied by a variety of
methods that touch upon and connect different aspects of a meter's ecology.

We would thus like to shed the dry image of metrics as a field of study and
address the ecology of various meters in various traditions. The special issue
on meter ecology calls for both research articles (up to 15 pages + works
cited) and reviews (up to 7 pages + works cited). The research articles will
be peer reviewed. We invite articles treating various poetic sources in
various languages on themes such as:

The symbiotics of meter and language

- Which linguistic features of a given language are used as the basis of a
meter?
- Which linguistic features are ignored?
- Which are affected or altered by metrical use?

Systems of meters in a given tradition

- What are the differences, similarities and interactions of different meters
in a given linguistic, social or cultural environment?

The meaningfulness of meter and metricality

- What is the social significance of metrical versus non-metrical discourse?
- Do certain meters have connotative, iconic or other significance in language
use?
- How does the evolution of multiple meters interface with a social semiotic
of poetic expression?
- How is the meaning potential of meter affected by context?

Meters on the move

- What happens when a meter devised in one language is used to compose texts
in another language?
- What happens when a meter is more generally adapted to a new ecology?

Contexts and variation in practice

- How does meter or its perception vary in 'oral' versus 'written' discourses?
- Can social context affect metrical variation?
- How do meter and metrical features vary by genre, and why?

Relationships between meter and techniques of composition

- How does the symbiosis of a traditional meter and language evolve resources
for producing metrically well-formed lines?
- How do compositional techniques and resources reciprocally relate to or
affect a meter?
- How do such techniques function in relation to meter?

If you are interested in participating in this international and
cross-disciplinary discussion, please submit a 500 word abstract of your
proposed contribution, with your name, affiliation and contact information to
guest editor Ilya Sverdlov at snerrir at gmail.com.

The deadline for paper proposals is 1st July 2015. The deadline for completed
paper submission is 31st August 2015.

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