[Lingtyp] The 4th Iconicity Seminar (Nagoya, Japan)

[JOO Ian]

Dear typologists,


The Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) is an international conference dedicated to linguistic iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning.

The 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem 4) will be held on 21-22 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan).

We call for papers for 30-minute presentations (20min presentation + 10min Q&A) dealing with any aspect of linguistic iconicity, such as:

  *   Sound symbolism
  *   Onomatopoeia and ideophones
  *   Sign language iconicity
  *   Syntactic iconicity
  *   Iconicity and language change
  *   Iconicity in writing systems
  *   Phonaesthetics
  *   Phonaesthemes

Please send a 2-page abstract (including everything) in the following format:

  *   A4 paper
  *   2.5cm margin
  *   12pt Times New Roman

Please send your anonymized abstract to Hinano Iida (iida.hinano.i1s at mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp<mailto:iida.hinano.i1s at mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp>). Your anonymous abstract will then be reviewed by two anonymous reviewers.

The deadline is 1 October 2025. Decisions will be communicated to you on a rolling basis within two weeks.

For more details, please visit: https://ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4


From Tokyo,

Ian

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朱　易安
JOO, IAN
准教授
Associate Professor
小樽商科大学
Otaru University of Commerce

🌐 ianjoo.github.io
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