35.1069, Calls: On Marginal Figures Again

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Subject: 35.1069, Calls: On Marginal Figures Again

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Date: 25-Mar-2024
From: Angeliki Athanasiadou [angath at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: On Marginal Figures Again


Full Title: On marginal figures again

Date: 28-Sep-2024 - 28-Sep-2024
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact Person: Angeliki Athanasiadou
Meeting Email: angath at enl.auth.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

This workshop continues a discussion that began in a theme session at
FTL 6, 2022, entitled “On the margins of figurative thought and
language”;  some of these papers later appeared in a special issue of
Lingua (2023-24).  In both the theme session and the special issue, it
was established that marginal figures are pervasive in thought and
language, as are mainstream figures such as metaphor, metonymy and
irony. In particular, it was emphasized that forms of language use
such as allegory, antonomasia, euphemism, hypallage, litotes,
oxymoron, paragon, tautology, zeugma, and others should be
foregrounded as significant figures, and not be viewed as marginal
rhetorical devices. Moreover, the conceptual structure of such figures
as well as their pragmatic properties should be clearly determined
through carefully constructed analyses.
The present workshop once again aims to shift the discussion of
figurative thought and language from central exemplary figures to
those figures considered to be marginal or those which have remained
unexplored as figures of speech; however, the workshop might also
serve to advance the study of any of the figures mentioned above. The
central aim is to develop an enhanced understanding of the term
figurative by providing in-depth analyses of relevant conceptual
structure; in this approach, the term figurative conveys much more
than simply a departure from literal meaning.
Key questions we aim to explore in the present workshop are the
following:

•       Are marginal figures subordinate to central figures, or do
they have an independent status?

•       What conceptual constructs are needed to fully define marginal
figures? In particular, should marginal figures be treated in terms of
frames, domains or mental spaces, or explained as the result of
cognitive operations such as similarity and contiguity?

•       How do cognitive grammar and construction grammar contribute
to an in-depth understanding of figurativity?

•       How does figurativity guide pragmatic inference?

•       What are the sociocultural and affective factors that motivate
the creation of marginal figures?

•       Can marginal figures be situated on a continuum which ranges
from literal to figurative?


Some of these questions have been previously explored (FTL 6 and the
corresponding special issue) but continue to be relevant to the
present workshop.

Proposals for short abstracts (not more than 300 words) on the margins
of figurative thought and language are encouraged. Presentations will
be no longer than 15 min. The workshop is meant primarily as a
discussion forum that would motivate research on the margins of
figuration and their link to central figurative mechanisms. The
presentations may constitute the first step for the organization of a
theme session in the upcoming FTL 8 conference.
There is no registration fee.

Let me know if you would be interested in participating and, if so,
please send me your abstract by July 15th. Then you will be informed
on the details of the online platform we will be using.
Should you have any further inquiries do not hesitate to contact me
(angath at enl.auth.gr)



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