26.5199, FYI: Call for Chapters: Cognitive Perspectives on Taboo

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:06:40
From: Andrea Pizarro Pedraza [andrea.pizarro at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Cognitive Perspectives on Taboo

Call for Book Chapters:

Preliminary Book title: Cognitive perspectives on Linguistic Taboo.
Editor: Andrea Pizarro Pedraza

The book will be sent for consideration to Cognitive Linguistics Research series [CLR] (De Gruyter)

Dear colleagues,

I would like to invite you to contribute a chapter proposal to the book project “Cognitive perspectives on Linguistic Taboo."

Synopsis:

This book intends to be the first collection of papers adopting cognitive frameworks to study taboo-related phenomena: interdiction, taboo words, euphemism, dysphemism, verbal abuse, political correctness, etc. (see Allan and Burridge 1991, 2006). In that sense, it wants to move towards a new generation of linguistic taboo studies, which will consider the social, cultural and cognitive aspects of this complex phenomenon. This perspective has received increasing attention in recent years (Casas Gómez, 2009; Crespo Fernández, 2008, 2015; Chamizo Domínguez, 2004, 2009; Pizarro Pedraza 2015), as we could experience in the homonym session organized in ICLC 13 (Northumbria, July 2015). 

The book aims at gathering original, unpublished research papers that address theoretical, methodological, and analytical challenges of linguistic taboo. Contributors are asked to support their reflections with empirical analyses (corpus-based, experimental,...) of written or spoken data (or multimodal), synchronic or diachronic, in any taboo field (sexuality, death, illness, aging, race and ethnicity…), in any language.

Interested researchers are encouraged to submit an abstract related to any of the following topics:

- cultural conceptualizations of taboo
- embodiment and taboo
- linguistic taboo and prototype theory
- construal of taboo concepts (cognitive metaphor, cognitive metonymy, vagueness…)
- taboo effects on cognitive grammar
- cognitive sociolinguistics of linguistic taboo
- cognitive pragmatics and linguistic taboo
- linguistic taboo and the brain
- problems in studying taboo with cognitive methods

Guidelines for prospective authors:

The abstract (in English, 300-500 words, excluding references,) must include 1. A title. 2. The author(s)’s name(s) and affiliation(s). 3. Specific information about the theoretical background, research questions, data, methodology and (preliminary) results. 4. A reference list. The abstract should make clear how the paper intends to contribute to the topic of Linguistic taboo from Cognitive Linguistics.

Please send the abstracts to the editor, Andrea Pizarro Pedraza (andrea.pizarro[AT]uclouvain.be) for evaluation, before 15 January, 2016. Evaluation will be carried out on the basis of the quality of the paper and its contribution to the topic, but also in terms of the coherence of the volume. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts by 30th January 2016. Full chapters (in English, max. 10 000 words, including references) will be handed in by 1st September 2016. (Final details will be given along with the acceptance notification). Authors may be asked to review one or more chapters.

The deadline for abstracts submission is January 15, 2016.

The chapters are expected on September 1, 2016. (TBC)

Contact:
Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
Post-doc researcher (Move-In fellowship) 
Institut Langage et Communication, Centre de recherche Valibel - Discours et variation 
Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres
Place Blaise Pascal, 1 bte L3.03.33
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
andrea.pizarro at uclouvain.be
https://trismegistos.academia.edu/AndreaPizarroPedraza

Selected references:
Allan, K., and Burridge, K. 2006. Forbidden words. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Casas Gómez, M. 2009b. “Towards a New Approach to the Linguistic Definition of Euphemism.” Language Sciences, 6(31), 725-739.
Chamizo Domínguez, P. J. 2009. “Linguistic interdiction: Its status quaestionis and possible future research lines.” Language Sciences, 31(4), 428-446.
Crespo Fernández, E. 2008. “Sex-related Euphemism and Dysphemism: An analysis in Terms of Conceptual Metaphor.” Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 2 (30), 95-110.
Jay, T. 2000. Why we curse. Philadelfia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2015). Who said “abortion”? Semantic variation and ideology in Spanish newspapers’ online discussions. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35(1), 53–75.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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