28.2731, Calls: Anth Ling, Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Poland

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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:40:44
From: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk [conf.orient at uw.edu.pl]
Subject: Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage: A Comparative and Typological Perspective

 
Full Title: Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage: A Comparative and Typological Perspective 

Date: 08-Dec-2017 - 09-Dec-2017
Location: Warsaw, Poland 
Contact Person: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Meeting Email: conf.orient at uw.edu.pl
Web Site: http://linguisticembodiment.uw.edu.pl/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, invites submission of
abstracts for an international workshop to be held at the University of
Warsaw, Poland. Each paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for
discussion.

The embodied character of language is supported by research in semantics and
cultural studies, but also by empirical evidence coming from neurolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, anthropology, biosemiotics, neurology, and other sciences.
Body-related lexicon is highly polysemous and easily extends onto other
domains in numerous figurative senses. Transfers of body part terms share a
number of cross-linguistic tendencies in the domain of grammaticalization,
emotions, reasoning and social interactions, and figurative senses of body
part terms often coincide in numerous unrelated languages of the world. The
bodily lexicon also constitutes a good source for extension of truly
culture-specific, highly unpredictable senses and idiomatic expressions.

The workshop aims at a close examination of body part terms from the
comparative perspective of unrelated, geographically distant and culturally
differentiated languages. It will contribute to research on linguistic
embodiment, but also to investigation of more general issues, such as studies
on metaphor and metonymy, polysemy and representation of a lexical category,
regularity of semantic change and cognitive universals, as well as problems of
language-culture connection. 


Call for Papers:

We invite papers which focus on one specific language or
comparative/typological studies. Possible topics to be covered include:

- coding and categorization of body parts
- polysemy and semantic change of  body part terms
- conceptualization processes (metaphor, metonymy) via body parts 
- expressing emotional concepts through their “embodiment”
- grammaticalization processes 
- usage patterns of constructed senses 
- corpus studies of body part terms (e.g. frequency, collocations)
- compounding and noun incorporation
- “special” syntax (e.g. inalienable possession, use of pronouns)
- morphological derivation and semantic autonomy
- language-culture issues and idiomatic constructions

Invited Keynote Speakers:

- Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, USA)
- Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Lodz, Poland)
- Helma Pasch (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Ning Yu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will host a panel discussion
devoted to the question of linguistic equivalence in the domain of body part
terms and their figurative senses. It will focus on theoretical issues of
cognitive mechanisms triggering extended meanings and on a practical
possibility of constructing a database – a multilingual semantic lexicon
organized as a network of lexical entries, their senses and examples of uses.

Organizing committee:

- Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
- Izabela Will
- Ahmad Shehu

Please send abstracts (a named version and an anonymous version, preferably in
the pdf format) at: conf.orient at uw.edu.pl.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, but a separate page with references may
be added. Abstracts and papers should be in English.

Abstracts’ deadline: July 30, 2017
Abstracts’ notification: August 30, 2017

The registration fee will be 100 euro. It covers workshop materials,
refreshments during coffee breaks and lunches.




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