34.2975, Confs: Encoding Perception Across Languages: New Insights and New Methods

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Subject: 34.2975, Confs: Encoding Perception Across Languages: New Insights and New Methods

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Date: 10-Oct-2023
From: Denys Teptiuk [denys at ut.ee]
Subject: Encoding Perception Across Languages: New Insights and New Methods

Encoding perception across languages: New insights and new methods

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Denys Teptiuk
Contact Email: denys at ut.ee

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Languages differ in the way they encode sensory perception and in how
systematically they do it for particular senses. Some encode
perception mode through dedicated evidentiality markers (Aikhenvald
2004), while others adhere to lexical strategies or employ ‘depictive’
devices such as onomatopoeias and ideophones (Dingemanse 2011).
Perceptual meanings can also be expressed by demonstratives, e.g.
Dyirbal ngala- ‘not visible; either audible or remembered’ (Evans &
Wilkins 2000), or by specialized morphemes, e.g. the Tundra Nenets
odorative suffix xal’a-yə- ‘smell of fish’ (Nikolaeva 2014).

Sensory perception is commonly considered to be “a cultural, as well
as a physical act” (Classen 1997). Prominence of some senses in
particular languages is often explained with reference to cultural
peculiarities. Limited eye contact is the norm in some aboriginal
communities, leading to greater prominence of hearing (Evans & Wilkins
2000; Aikhenvald & Storch 2013). Speakers from hunter-gatherer
communities have been argued to exhibit higher codability of smell
than non-hunter-gatherers (Majid et al. 2018), while sound receives
higher codability in communities with developed singing traditions
(Teptiuk & Nikitina 2023). Ecological and genetic factors are often
discussed in connection with classifications of odors in some cultures
(Majid 2021).

While a number of typological studies (Chafe & Nichols 1986; Johanson
& Utas 2000; Aikhenvald & Dixon 2003; Aikhenvald 2004) focus on how
information source and perception modes are expressed with grammatical
means, they tend to leave lexical expressions out of discussion.
Studies focusing on semantic extensions of perception verbs and
sensory ideophones (Viberg 1984; Sweetser 1990; Evans & Wilkins 2000;
San Roque et al. 2015; Dingemanse & Majid 2012) provide accounts of
how languages organize the semantic space of perceptual experience but
do not consider developments in the evidential system beyond these
categories. Research on the encoding of perception has moreover
focused on the basic five senses, largely ignoring interoception
(sensitivity to inner physiological conditions) or proprioception
(sense of balance and body posture). Exploring the full range of human
perception in relation to language opens up new perspectives on
pragmaticalization paths from external perception to internal states
(e.g. from SEEING to BELIEVING) and potentially implicates grammar
beyond evidentiality, such as modality. This workshop aims to bridge
the gap between these various strands of research by addressing these
and other questions that have not as yet been confronted.

Call for papers:

This workshop aims to bring together scholars addressing topics
related to the linguistic expression of sensory perception. We invite
submissions based on data from underdescribed and poorly documented
languages, as well as typological studies. Also welcome are
submissions on major languages, provided that they are based on solid
empirical evidence. Topics include but are not limited to:

•       the typology of perception expressions;
•       semantic extensions/polysemy of perception verbs and
perceptual metaphors;
•       universals and rara in the expression of sensory perception;
•       perceptual language beyond the five senses and multimodal
perceptual expressions;
•       methodological challenges and advances in research on
perceptual language;
•       extralinguistic factors behind the encoding of sensory
perception.

Abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) shall be sent to the
conveners by November 6.

Conveners:
Denys Teptiuk (University of Tartu), denys at ut.ee
Stef Spronck (Utrecht University), m.s.spronck at uu.nl
Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS), tatiana.nikitina at cnrs.fr

Please also find the full description of the workshop and call for
papers in the following link: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/w
p-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/Encoding_perception_across-languages
_New_insights_and_new_methods.pdf

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