29.341, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics / Argotica (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:58:34
From: Laurențiu Bălă [lbala at central.ucv.ro]
Subject: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics / Argotica (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Argotica 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Romanian (ron)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2018 

Call for Papers:

The Slang of Music & Musicians 

Every art, every science has a vocabulary of its own, and music is no
exception. Its universal nature explains why many of its terms belong to a
lexicon common to many languages. If some of these languages have been great
providers of borrowings, such as German, Italian (10% of French Italianisms
come from the lexicon of music - Margarito 2005) and now English, all of them
have also shaped their own musical vocabulary. Shared by some in a transparent
way, but made opaque for others, the slang of music and musicians, as one
could term it (or jargot as it has to been called (Sourdot 1991) so as to
highlight the porous nature of the borders between slang and the technolect
native to the musical professions) has been relatively little studied and even
less recorded systematically, apart from Gouget (1892), Bouchaux et al. (1992)
or Levet (1992, 2006).

A wide range of approaches is possible to examine of this particular lexical
field and multiple research areas are pertinent: 
- the study of semantic and/or formal processes that are particularly
productive in the creation of the slang of music 
- to distinguish, within the slang of music, lexical subcategories specific to
particular musical domains 
- to examine how the words of music have fed into popular expressions and have
informed and fertilized the vocabulary of other domains or specialisms
- to study the place and role of the slang of music within language practices,
for example by assessing the function of slang (identity, cryptic, etc.) in
the musical environment, both in terms of its production (among professionals,
students, music lovers) and at the reception level (with fans, critics and
musicologists)
- it would be interesting to ask to what extent the slang of music
participates in the construction of an individual or collective ethos and
helps to pose or to exceed the borders circumscribing ''musical territories''
(type of music, group, etc.) 
- an analysis of the role of musical slang in the emergence of a theory or
musical current would also usefully illuminate the history of music and its
evolution
- to study and analyse in French, Francophone or any other literature how and
to what end authors nourish their texts with borrowings taken from the slang
of music (isotopias and lexical fields, literary postures, staging or
scenography of the musician). Some literary neologisms, such as Boris Vian's
famous 'biglemoi' and 'pianocktail', could also be interesting to research.

References
Delaplace, D., «Les mots des groupes dans les recueils d'argot», Langage et
sociétés, 92/2002, 5-24.
Bouchaux, A. et al., L'argot des musiciens, Paris, Climats, 1992.
Colin, J.-P. et al., Dictionnaire de l'argot et du français populaire, Paris,
Larousse, 2010.
Gouget, É., L'argot musical: curiosités anecdotiques et philologiques, Paris,
Fischbacher, 1892.
Guiraud, P., Dictionnaire érotique, Paris, Payot, 2006.
Levet, J.-P., Talkin' that talk. Le langage du blues, du jazz et du rap,
Paris, Outre mesure, 2006.
Margarito, M., «Les italianismes de la langue française illustrés par
l'exemple lexicographique: notes pour une quête identitaire», in M. Heinz
(éd.), L'exemple lexicographique dans les dictionnaires français
contemporains, Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2005, 359-368.
Normand, P., Dictionnaire des mots des flics et des voyous, Paris, Balland,
2010.
Pierron, A., Dictionnaire des mots du sexe, Paris, Balland, 2010.
Schapiro, N. & N. Nentoff, Écoutez-moi ça!, Paris, Buchet Chastel, 2015.
Sourdot, M., «Argot, jargon, jargot», Langue française, 90/1991, 13-27.




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