28.3535, Calls: General Linguistics/South Africa

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Subject: 28.3535, Calls: General Linguistics/South Africa

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:52:54
From: Rebekah Baglini [rbkh at stanford.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Ideophones in the Language Sciences

 
Full Title: Workshop on Ideophones in the Language Sciences 

Date: 02-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: Rebekah Baglini
Meeting Email: rbkh at stanford.edu
Web Site: http://icl20capetown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=193&Itemid=2676 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

Ideophones are highly salient words which depict sensory experiences. Like
onomatopoeia, ideophones use iconicity to evoke aspects of non-linguistic
phenomena. Yet their semantic territory ranges far beyond sound mimicry, as
ideophones can convey experiences such as extreme silence (Wolof: miig),
intense dryness (Kisi: kádi), and bright sparkling (Japanese: kirakira).
Besides iconic flavor and sensory semantics, ideophones are grammatically
marked, featuring aberrant phonotactics, phonology, prosody, or morphosyntax
which set them apart from other parts of speech. Although documented in all
major language families, ideophones have a fraught history in the language
sciences because they tend to confound theoretical rigidity and challenge
widely-held beliefs about the nature of human language, such as the Saussurian
principle of the arbitrariness of the sign. 

Recent years have brought unprecedented (and long overdue) attention to
ideophones, due in part to increased interest in the interface of language and
cognition and to the emergence of cross-linguistic comparison as a method in
formal semantics and pragmatics. In addition to more traditional descriptive
and typological approaches, much recent research has investigated how
ideophones' phonotactics, phonology, morphosyntax, prosody, and semantics are
integrated with linguistic subsystems. Some researchers are bringing new
techniques and tools to the study of ideophones; for example, by designing
experimental studies which probe the interplay of arbitrariness and iconicity
in this unique word class, and which considers the implications for word
learning. 


Call for Papers: 

At this exciting juncture in ideophone studies, this one-day workshop aims to
bring together research from typological, experimental, and theoretical
perspectives and foster scholarly exchange across disciplines. We also hope to
highlight the rich linguistic diversity of ideophone systems, and especially
welcome submissions focusing on African languages.

This workshop is part of the 20th International Congress of Linguists (ICL 20)
Abstracts (200-350 words) should be submitted through the ICL online
submission portal: 
http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts .

Once inside the portal, please select the Ideophones workshop for your
submission. 

Abstracts should not include any images or diagrams. As English is the working
language of the congress, we regret that we can only receive abstracts written
in English.




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