29.2334, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 29.2334, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:26:39
From: Cornelia Ebert [ebert at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Iconicity in Language

 
Full Title: Iconicity in Language 

Date: 06-Mar-2019 - 08-Mar-2019
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Cornelia Ebert
Meeting Email: ebert at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: http://www.leibniz-zas.de/dgfs_iconicity.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the 41st meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Bremen,
Germany

It has long been a general assumption that natural languages exhibit an
arbitrary pairing of form and meaning. The arbitrary mapping of form to
meaning has even been formulated as a defining property for natural languages
(Hockett 1960). In recent years, however, there is increasing empirical
evidence that iconicity in language is more pervasive than often thought. 

One of the best-known examples for iconicity in spoken language are
phonaesthemes, meaningful entities that are true subparts of morphemes, i.e.
gl in glow, glisten, glimmer, or ideophones, often onomatopoetic words words,
which evoke sensory imagery, like English splish-splash or German
holterdipolter. Blasi et al. (2016) show in their study about the 100 most
important vocabularies in over 4000 languages strikingly similar non-arbitrary
sound-meaning relations, which cannot be explained as language contact
phenomena. Another example for iconicity in spoken language involves iconic
prosodic modulations (Perniss & Vigliocco 2014). Here, prosodic features such
as duration and fundamental frequency are modulated to express additional
meaning components such as size and speed as in looooooooong (in written or
spoken language) to iconically express extreme length/size/duration/... of the
item under consideration. In sign languages, there is a long tradition for the
investigation of the iconic aspects of these languages. Recently, also
gestures in spoken languages and their iconic contributions have been
investigated more systematically under formal semantic and pragmatic aspects
(Ebert & Ebert 2014, Schlenker 2016).

In our workshop, we want to deal with all these different aspects of iconicity
and pursue the following questions among others: in which contexts and why do
we use iconic means in communication? Which pragmatic meaning and function do
they have? What are language universal and what are language specific iconic
means? Which prosodic, gestural, or written means are used to express
iconicity? 

Organizers: Aleksandra Ćwiek, Cornelia Ebert, Susanne Fuchs, and Manfred
Krifka (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin); cwiek|ebert|fuchs|krifka at leibniz-zas.de


Call for Papers:

We look forward to contributions addressing one of the following subjects:
sound symbolism, phonaesthemes, onomatopoeia, ideophones, iconicity expressed
in signs and gestures, and further aspects of iconicity in spoken, signed, and
written language.

Abstracts should be anonymous and at most 2 pages in length, 12pt, examples
and references included. Please send your abstracts electronically in
pdf-format to khnvanessa at yahoo.de, and include your name, affiliation and the
title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail. The talks will be 20 minutes
+ 10 minutes discussion. 

Submission deadline: August 20, 2018

Notification: September 10, 2018




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