31.510, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Lexicography, History of Linguistics / Lexis (Jrnl)

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Subject: 31.510, Calls:  General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Lexicography, History of Linguistics / Lexis (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:41:33
From: Denis Jamet [denis.jamet at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Lexicography, History of Linguistics / Lexis (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Lexis 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Lexicography; Linguistic Theories 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2020 

Call for Papers:

The e-journal Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology – will publish its 16th
issue in 2020. It will be guest-edited by Chris Smith (Université de Caen) and
Sylvie Hancil (Université de Rouen) and will deal with “diachronic lexical
semantics”. This topic will naturally include issues of lexicogrammatical
nature and the interface between lexicon and grammar, i.e. questions of
grammaticalisation and lexicalisation of forms.

Lexical semantics is a field of semantics dealing with the study of meaning in
words and expressions. The diachronic perspective allows for the study of
meaning through time, and therefore holds the additional benefit of
considering lexical meaning as being subject to change rather than being
purely conventional. The timescale of diachronic study can naturally span as
little as a few decades or, alternatively, can cover several centuries. As far
as the semantic approach is concerned, it is of course understood that all
approaches to meaning are equally acceptable and interesting, and that
includes cognitive semantics, componential feature-based semantics,
structuralist semantics and other approaches as can be found in the overview
of semantic theories in Geeraerts [2009].

This edition welcomes papers of exploratory descriptive, or theoretical
nature. Both onomasiological and semasiological approaches may be used, and
potentially combined, for this edition, which purports to provide an overview
of research in a field which is growing rapidly. 
Papers may focus on how to identify instances of semantic change, which
methods and techniques can be used to detect change reliably, and how to
assess change both quantitatively and qualitatively (see Allan & Robinson
[2012]).

The question of the motivation behind semantic change will be a key aspect. In
particular, it will be worth identifying and distinguishing occurrences of
so-called natural change such as metaphor and metonymy from change which is
viewed as irregular or sporadic (see Blank [1999], Traugott et Dasher [2005],
Koch [1999], [2012]). Discussions regarding the relative prominence of
metaphorical and metonymical change will be welcome, and in particular any
papers addressing formal issues, such as the following. How do metaphor and
metonymy relate to one another (see Koch [1999], [2012], Kovecses & Radden
[1998]) and is one more essential, or systematic, than the other ? Can either
metonymy or metaphor account for other types of less systematic, less
frequent, sporadic change such as sound symbolic change? (For issues of
semantic change see Koch [1999], and for issues of phonosymbolic change see
Smith [2016]). Another question worth pondering is how essential mechanisms of
lexical semantic change such as metonymy and metaphor relate to
grammaticalisation (Traugott & Dasher [2005]), and what is the relation
between major mechanisms of semantic change with analogical or sporadic change
in the lexicon (see Joseph [1998], Miller [2014])? 

These questions lead to the essential issue of propagation of change, methods
for quantifying patterns of change, and assessing the importance or regularity
of trajectories of change, as with the theory of S-curve propagation (Blythe &
Croft [2012]). 

The morphosemantic aspect of change is another interesting avenue of research
for this issue of diachronic lexical change. This issue will welcome papers
focusing on morphology-related semantic change in the lexicon such as patterns
of neologisms over time, or semantic change in loan words (Durkin [2014],
Smith [2018]. This may include any studies covering the relation between
morphological structure and semantic behaviour over time, such as
specialisation of meaning, restriction of meaning in derivatives, or
compounds, or other word formation types.




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