27.2338, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Subject: 27.2338, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:45:22
From: Laura Speed [l.speed at let.ru.nl]
Subject: Perception Metaphor Workshop

Full Title: Perception Metaphor Workshop 

Date: 12-Oct-2016 - 13-Oct-2016
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Laura Speed
Meeting Email: l.speed at let.ru.nl
Web Site: http://meaningculturecognition.ruhosting.nl/workshops/perception-metaphor-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 19-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

The humanities and social sciences are in the throes of “embodiment” and this
has put perception to the forefront of inquiry. In this workshop we explore
the myriad ways perceptual language serves as the basis of, or target for,
metaphorical extension. We bring together scholars from linguistics,
anthropology, and psychology to tackle perception and metaphor from
historical, typological, corpus, experimental, and developmental perspectives.
In doing so, we hope to stimulate debate and exchange on a number of key
issues.

In particular, we seek to address fundamental questions such as how does
metaphor and metonymy work in perceptual domains. Sensory domains have been
characterized as physical and relatively concrete, making for potential source
domains in metaphorical mapping. Vision is often singled out amongst
perceptual categories as the source of metaphorical mappings (e.g., Sweetser
1990), and a recent cross-linguistic study (San Roque et al. 2015) showed that
in everyday conversation reference to vision outnumbers reference to other
sensory modalities. But what happens in the perceptual domains beyond vision?
A short foray to audition shows rather than sound being the source of
metaphors, it is often the target (e.g., space → pitch: high note, low note;
touch → loudness: soft sigh). So, what types of metaphor and metonymy are
there into and out of perceptual domains? And how do the lesser-considered
senses of smell and taste behave?

Are there really “universal” perceptual metaphors? Do perception verbs behave
in similar ways cross-linguistically? What about adjectives or nouns? Patterns
of polysemy suggest different trajectories for different word classes, with
verbs moving from higher to lower senses, but adjectives perhaps doing the
opposite. What can data from understudied languages tell us about these
tendencies?

There are many examples cross-linguistically of perceptual terms having
multiple meanings (e.g., ‘I see the dog’ vs. ‘I see what you mean’, or ‘I
smell the smoke’ vs. ‘I smell a rat’), especially where the extended senses
apply to concepts outside of the perceptual domain. In these cases, how do we
establish which meaning is primary? To what extent can we use historical
linguistics to understand semantic change within lexicon from the perceptual
domain?

Confirmed Speakers:

- Wendy Anderson (University of Glasgow)
- Rosario Caballero (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
- Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Universidad de Zaragoza)
- Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University)
- Bambi B. Schieffelin (New York University)
- Martine Vanhove (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire)
- Bodo Winter (University of Birmingham)
- Ulrike Zeshan (University of Central Lancashire)

Organisers:

Asifa Majid, Carolyn O’Meara, Lila San Roque, Laura Speed

Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission:

We invite submission of abstracts for this workshop for short talks and
posters. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words. Please send abstracts to the
following email address (l.speed at let.ru.nl) with the title “Perception
Metaphor Workshop”. In the body of the email, please include the following:
the title of the talk, author’s name(s), author’s affiliation(s), email
address where you wish to be contacted, whether you prefer a talk or a poster,
and attach the abstract as a pdf file. The deadline for submitting abstracts
is 19 June 2016. Notice of acceptance will be made by 29 July 2016.

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