32.3951, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 32.3951, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:28:45
From: Maria Flaksman [mariia.flaksman at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Workshop: De-iconization in Spoken and Sign Languages at the 13th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature

Full Title: Workshop: De-iconization in Spoken and Sign Languages at the 13th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature 
Short Title: ILL-13 

Date: 31-May-2022 - 02-Jun-2022
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Maria Flaksman
Meeting Email: mariia.flaksman at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: http://ill13.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2021 

Meeting Description:

Words with an iconic correlation between form and meaning (onomatopoeic,
mimetic, echoic words, and ideophones) are found across the globe (Hinton et
al., 1994; Voeltz et al., 2001). Their number varies from language to
language, as do their exact characteristics and semantic affiliations
(Dingemanse, 2012). Nevertheless, imitative words constitute a vital part of
the vocabulary of a language. Moreover, they are also subjected to language
change (Carling & Johansson, 2014). 
Language change has a very specific effect on imitative words - they tend to
lose their iconic link between form and meaning. This process is called
'de-iconization'. De-iconization is the gradual loss of iconicity caused by
the simultaneous processes of regular sound change and regular sense
development (Flaksman, 2017). There are four stages of de-iconization, from
the most vivid, recently coined imitative interjections to words which have
completely lost both their original form and meaning. 
Ideophones, despite their exceptionality, also de-iconize - they are often an
important source of new adverbs, nouns, and verbs (McGregor, 2001); moreover,
they tend to lose their peculiar non-systemic traits on the way (Dingemanse &
Akita 2017). Sign languages do not differ from spoken languages in this
respect. Klima and Bellugi (1979) introduced their own gradation of
(historical) iconicity loss for sign languages. They distinguish transparent,
translucent, obscure, and opaque signs (transparent signs being the most
iconic, opaque - the least). Thus, a gradual move from iconicity to
arbitrariness seems to be a universal feature of human language.
This workshop welcomes papers on any aspects of historical change in imitative
words, etymologies of imitative words and words which can be traced to
historically onomatopoeic roots, cases of phono-semantic inertia (exceptions
to regular sound changes), as well as papers on iconicity loss in sign
languages.

References
Carling, G. & Johansson, N. (2014) Motivated language change: processes
involved in the growth and conventionalization of onomatopoeia and sound
symbolism. In Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 46(2), 199-217. 
Dingemanse, M. & Akita, K. (2017). An inverse relation between expressiveness
and grammatical integration: on the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones,
with special reference to Japanese. Journal of Linguistics, 53(3), 501-532.
Dingemanse, M. (2012). Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones.
Language and Linguistics Compass 6(10), 654-672.
Flaksman, M. (2017). Iconic treadmill hypothesis. the reasons behind
continuous onomatopoeic coinage. In M. Bauer, A. Zirker, O. Fischer & Ch.
Ljungberg (Eds.), Dimensions of Iconicity [Iconicity in Language and
Literature 15] (pp. 15-38) Amsterdam: John Benjamins 
Hinton, L., Nichols, J., & Ohala J. J. (Eds.). (1994). Sound symbolism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Klima, E., & Bellugi, U. (1979). The Signs of Language. Harvard: Harvard
University Press.
McGregor, W. (2001). Ideophones as the source of verbs in Nothern Australian
languages' In F. K. E. Voeltz & Ch. Kilian-Hatz (Eds.), Ideophones.
Typological Studies in Language 44 (pp. 205-222). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Voeltz, E. F. K. & Kilian-Hatz. Ch. (Eds.). (2001). Ideophones [Typological
Studies in Language 44]. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Call for Papers:

Conference webpage: https://ill13.sciencesconf.org/

Contact person: Maria Flaksman mariia.flaksman at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de

Abstracts: 450 words maximum (excluding references), in English to be
submitted to mariia.flaksman at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de (please, indicate
'ILL-13 abstracts' in the letter heading)

Presentations will be 30 minutes in length, with 10 minutes for
questions/discussion.

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