34.2937, Calls: Poetic Language

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2937. Mon Oct 09 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2937, Calls: Poetic Language

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Date: 08-Oct-2023
From: Barbara Sonnenhauser [barbara.sonnenhauser at lmu.de]
Subject: Poetic Language


Full Title: Poetic Language

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Barbara Sonnenhauser
Meeting Email: barbara.sonnenhauser at lmu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

It is well known that cultures and speaker communities often employ
language in a way that intends to signal and negotiate social
relations. A pertinent example is poetic language: As a cultural
technique, it may serve as an important glue within social groups
(Baumann and Briggs 1990). On the formal side, poetic language
involves much more than the stylistic elaboration of linguistic forms:
It appeals to aesthetic evaluation that arises from coding techniques
by which the choice and arrangement of linguistic material is driven
not only by purely linguistic necessity, but by entropy reducing
patterns of equivalence such as, e.g., rhyme, parallelism, or
alliteration. This form of arrangement of linguistic material is
referred to as ‘poetic function’ by Jakobson (1979).
It is often hypothesized that poetical use of language is an
omnipresent, if not universal trait of human culture. As any cultural
practice it is transmitted and spread across generations, communities,
and space. As other related vocal behaviour, it is rooted in
widespread rhythmic processes (Andreetta et al. 2021) which are often
deployed together (Menninghaus et al. 2018) and contribute to the
synchronisation of behaviour within and across individuals, e.g.,
marching in step, dancing, applauding (Kotz, Ravignani, and Fitch
2018). Becoming meaningful through the regular ordering of linguistic
units, poetically used language affects cognitive processes (Blohm et
al. 2021) and triggers specific aesthetic perceptions shared among
social groups (Jacobs 2015). As important as poetic practices are from
a social perspective and as revealing they are when it comes to the
sociocultural relevance of language, their basic linguistic
underpinnings, the cross-cultural diversity, and performative
conditions are still not understood in a comprehensive way.
While concerning music, progress is being made in understanding its
evolutionary roots (e.g. Savage, Loui, et al. 2020; Mehr, Krasnow, et
al. 2020) as well as the potentially universal aspects underlying its
diversity and areal patterning (Mehr, Singh, et al. 2019; Yurdum et
al. 2023), the contribution of language to vocal music, the position
of poetically used language on the ‘musilinguistic spectrum’ (Savage,
Merritt, et al. 2012) as well as the cross-linguistic and
cross-cultural diversity and impact of poetic language still await an
encompassing investigation, including questions of vertical
transmission and areal clustering. A crucial prerequisite
for this endeavor consists in developing an descriptive approach that
is able to capture Vedic hymns, Korean Sijo poetry, Albanian heroic
songs, Nordic skaldic poems or Shakespearean sonnets alike, just to
mention a few examples of the wealth of historic and living poetic
traditions around the globe.

The workshop intends to address these and related questions on a broad
empirical basis by bringing together researchers from various
disciplines – such as philology, linguistics, anthropological
linguistics, cognitive linguistics, musicology, cultural anthropology,
etc. – dealingwith the emergence, diversity and function of poetically
used language as a deeply entrenched cultural technique. Possible
topics include – but are not restricted to – the following:

• What does the design space of poetic language look like?

• How can we best capture the cross-cultural diversity of poetic
language, e.g., in terms of units, patterns, and rules?

• How are poetic compositions performed and perceived? How are they
embedded in cultural practices? What functions do they serve?

• How can we model the evolution and diffusion of poetic language and
poetic traditions?

• How can we assess the aesthetic effects of poetic language, also as
compared to non-poetic language?

• What are the cultural and biological roots of poetic language and
poetic practice?

Call for Papers:

Abstracts of 300 words max. (including figures and tables but not
references) should be sent to both workshop organisers by November 10,
2023:

Paul Widmer (University of Zurich): paul.widmer at uzh.ch
Barbara Sonnenhauser (LMU Munich): barbara.sonnenhauser at lmu.de



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