34.1906, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1906. Thu Jun 15 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1906, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

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Date: 12-Jun-2023
From: Denis Jamet [denis.jamet at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: English; Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology – will publish its 24th issue in
2024. It will be edited by Damien Villers (Université Toulouse Jean
Jaurès, France) and will deal with the topic “The birth and
propagation of Phraseological Units”.

Phraseology – the study of preconstructed expressions also known as
phrasemes, set phrases, phraseological units, multi-word units,
formulaic language, word combinations, etc. – has been a very
productive and major field of research since its “coming of age” in
the 1990s (Cowie [1998]). It has generated numerous works on a wide
variety of topics. However, the birth and propagation of
phraseological units has been among the least discussed aspects.
Several reasons might account for such a dearth, such as the passing
of time, which makes it tedious and difficult to study the origins of
phrasemes, most of which are centuries old and mainly present in the
oral tradition. Another reason is the difficulty to differentiate the
creator of a phrase from a famous user (Villers & Mieder [2017]),
despite gigantic corpora that include billions of words. Finally, as
pointed by Burger et al. [2007], certain areas of research have come
to assume a more “central role” in phraseology, such as the cognitive
(Dobrovol’ski & Piirainen [2005], Gibbs [1995], Wray [2008]), the
cultural (Piirainen [2012], Sabban [2007], Szerszunowicz [2009]), the
didactic (Fielder [2007], Meunier & Granger [2008]), or lexicographic
approaches (Cowie [2012], Mel’cuk [2012], Moon [1998]). This has left
very little limelight for phenomena like the birth and propagation of
phrasemes. The current issue of Lexis aims to fill this gap and expand
on existing research.
Among specialised literature, where subtypes like proverbs and idioms
are often the focus of research, it is generally accepted that a
substantial portion of phrasemes originates in written works such as
the Bible, Latin and Greek classics and the translations of Erasmus’s
collections of sayings, or Antique fables (Mieder [2015], Paczolay
[1997], Piirainen [2012]). Nowadays, the sources have evolved, making
a corpus-based approach slightly easier. Scholars who have focused on
modern phrasemes note that they tend to originate in mass media (Lau
et al. [2004], Mieder [2015]): films (Run, Forrest, run! from Forrest
Gump), TV shows (Is that your final answer? from Who wants to be a
millionaire), advertising slogans (Because you’re worth it from
L’Oreal), songs (Eye of the Tiger by Survivor), viral images on the
Internet, i.e. memes (Haters gonna hate) and even video games (The
cake is a lie from Portal, Villers [2018]). Unsurprisingly, some of
them also stem from social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram,
or TikTok.
The process of phraseological birth and propagation is even more
elusive than the identification of the sources and creators. Scholars
generally consider that PUs are “linguistic signs that are handed down
historically and coined culturally” (Piirainen [2012]). Their creation
is traditionally viewed as a particular type of lexicalisation (Bauer
[1983], Fielder [2007]). This famous and controversial notion may be
summarised as a diachronic and progressive process whereby a new
element is coined and becomes accepted by a larger community,
resulting in semantic or formal modifications that imply a loss of
motivation or departure from productive rules (Bauer [1983], Hohenhaus
[2005], Lipka [1992]).

Full CFP available here: https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6919

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