29.3502, FYI: Iconicity: Call for Theme Session at ICLC 15, 2019

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:21:16
From: Arie Verhagen [Arie.Verhagen at uantwerpen.be]
Subject: Iconicity: Call for Theme Session at ICLC 15, 2019

 
Call for theme session papers at ICLC 15 − 6-11 August 2019, Nishinomya, Japan

Integrating Iconicity: Recent Work and Future Directions

We invite short abstracts for a theme session on this topic at the 15th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15) in Nishinomiya,
Japan, 6-11 August, 2019
(https://iclc2019.site/conference-information/call-for-papers).

The study of iconicity −-the resemblance- or simulation-based mapping of form
and meaning-− is seeing a renaissance across the language sciences. Studies of
signed and spoken languages show the importance of iconicity alongside other
organizing principles in lexical and grammatical structure, learning
experiments show how iconicity may help word learning and rely on widespread
cross-modal associations, the study of natural discourse organization
demonstrates how theatrical staging of action plays a fundamental role, and
work in experimental semiotics reveals the affordances and limitations of
iconicity in the origin and evolution of communication systems.

With growing interest in iconicity there is also a growing need to clarify its
place in the larger network of the language sciences. While it may be
rhetorically attractive to cast iconicity as solitary slayer of the dogma of
arbitrariness or solution to the enigma of language evolution, ultimately its
explanatory power must be positioned relative to (and in interaction with)
other known principles of linguistic organisation such as frequency, economy,
conventionality, or systematicity; and its roles in learning and communication
must be understood in relation to factors like multimodality, embodiment, and
intersubjectivity.

This session is devoted to the theme of integrating iconicity. It brings
together current work on the varied roles of iconicity in linguistic
organisation and communication, with a special interest in contributions that
link recent insights from iconicity research to 'classic' cognitive linguistic
topics like intersubjectivity and embodiment.

We invite researchers from across the language sciences to submit their work
by sending a short (maximum 100 words) abstract to both Mark Dingemanse
(mark.dingemanse at mpi.nl) and Arie Verhagen (Arie.Verhagen at uantwerpen.be) by 14
September, 2018. Theme sessions may comprise a maximum of 11 papers, and the
conference organisation also imposes some further restrictions on the
structure and content of a session and on its participants. Depending on the
number and nature of abstracts we receive, we may therefore have to make some
selection (taking the goals of the session into account).

Mark Dingemanse (https://www.mpi.nl/people/dingemanse-mark)
Arie Verhagen (http://www.arieverhagen.nl)
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics





 



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