34.792, Calls: English; Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.792, Calls: English; Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

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From: Denis Jamet [denis.jamet at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: English; Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

CFP for Lexis 22 (Scopus indexed) extended to February 28, 2023

Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology – will publish its 22nd issue in
2023. It will be edited by Romain Delhem (Université Clermont
Auvergne, France) and Caroline Marty (Sorbonne Université, France) and
will deal with the topic “Margins and boundaries in linguistic
categorization”.
Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization

Categorization is a basic cognitive process. Humans use language to
categorize, primarily through the nominal category (Mignot [2017]).
More particularly, categorization enables them to better organize the
world around them in order to make learning and decision-making easier
(Lakoff [1987]). Metaphorically, humans resort to cognitive boundaries
to define their everyday experiences and bring them together according
to the properties they have in common, or the “family resemblances”
(Familienähnlichkeit) that they share, i.e. networks of more or less
significant similarities (Wittgenstein [1953]).

The classical view of categorization considers categories as clear-cut
and homogeneous – no element can belong to two distinct categories,
and all the elements within a category have the same status. However,
Rosch’s [1973] research in psychology posits that categories are
organized around a central element called “prototype”, with other
elements moving progressively further from it. Thus, categories
include marginal elements – for example, a chair is considered a more
prototypical piece of furniture than a telephone (Rosch [1975]).  In
linguistics, various authors have taken up the notion of prototype. In
his work on notional domains, Culioli [1990] puts forward the notions
of “inside” and “outside”, separated by a boundary, while Lakoff
[1987] defines cognitive models as categories built around a
membership gradient, a generator (i.e. a specific, central member of
the class) and common features.
Prototype theory is used more or less explicitly in the study of many
lexical units, whether it is kinship (Lounsbury [1964]), color (Berlin
& Kay [1969]) or taxonomy (Wierzbicka [1992]).

Taylor [1998] applies categorial gradience to linguistic description.
He posits that a specific lexical unit should not be categorized
according to strict selection criteria (which would imply a clear
boundary and equality of the members within the class), but according
to tests of prototypicality which make it possible to distinguish
central members from marginal ones. This point of view is taken up by
Aarts [2007], who puts forward the notion of “subsective gradience”:
lexical categories are organized around prototypes, and within these
classes some elements are closer to the center or to the periphery
(e.g. utter is a less typical adjective than happy).

Subsective gradience can be the source of intersective gradience: a
peripheral element within a linguistic category can also be at the
margin of another category, and therefore be a kind of hybrid, such as
near (both an adjective and a preposition). This more flexible view of
parts of speech also calls into question some traditional cases of
conversion: in real good or come quick, are the units real and quick
adverbs derived from adjectives, adjectives used as adverbs, or units
belonging to both categories?

Complete CFP at https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6553

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