30.795, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Translation/Italy

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Subject: 30.795, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Translation/Italy

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:47:23
From: Victoria Bogushevskaya [victoria.bogushevskaya at unicatt.it]
Subject: Speaking and Writing about Colours

 
Full Title: Speaking and Writing about Colours 

Date: 28-Nov-2019 - 29-Nov-2019
Location: Milan, Italy 
Contact Person: Victoria Bogushevskaya
Meeting Email: victoria.bogushevskaya at unicatt.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Russian (rus)

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Indo-European; Latin Subgroup; Romance; Sino-Tibetan; Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

This conference addresses the representation of the phenomenon of colour in
linguistics, literature, philosophy, and arts.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Maria Grossmann, Glottologia e linguistica, Università degli Studi
dell’Aquila
Prof. Paolo D'Achille, Linguistica italiana, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Prof. Christine Mohr, Laboratoire d'étude des processus de régulation
cognitive et affective, Université de Lausanne
Dr. Élodie Ripoll, Romanische Literaturen, Universitat Stuttgart 

The conference languages are English, Italian, French, and Russian (the latter
three require an abstract in English). Speakers should be prepared for a
20-minute presentation followed by questions.

Conference dates: November 28-29, 2019
Location: Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures, Catholic
University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy
Meeting URL: TBA


Call for Papers:

Speaking and Writing about Colours
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul” 
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

The most exquisite paradox of colour is that it comprises the possibilities of
the logical (conceptual) and eidetic (sensorial-figurative) ways of world
cognition. For philological studies, this peculiarity of colour is
fundamental; once the colour is lexically expressed in a literary text, it
transforms non-verbal (eidetic) experience into verbal (logical) coding. At
the same time, “colour, in a western technical sense, is not a universal
concept and in many languages there is no unitary terminological equivalent”
(Conklin 1955).
 
The referents of colour terms fall into a number of broad general categories
of both environmental and cultural importance. A word can either “remember” or
“forget”, even “reconstruct” some notions relevant to a speaker’s cultural
tradition. Colour can be expressed in a language either explicitly (i.e., by
naming directly the colour itself or describing it through another colour) or
implicitly (i.e., via naming an object that has a characteristic typical
colour assigned by a cultural tradition); this method inspires appearing of
associative and connotative semes (Uporova 1995). Colour metaphors are
pervasive across languages, very often related with the conveyance of
emotional content, yet also very variable in their content association.

When analyzing colour in literature, it is crucial to consider the entire
artistic specificity of the text where colour merely makes a part. In this
case the study of colour involves an analysis of colour-related poetic
figures, the arrangement of colour nuances in the text, and their correlation
not only with the strophic and rhythmic organization of the text, but also
with other artistic categories, such as space and time. All this allows seeing
“how colour resists language and also how it ceaselessly requires and solicits
language” (Harrow 2017). 
This conference addresses the representation of the phenomenon of colour in
linguistics, literature, philosophy, and arts.

Papers are welcome on the topics listed below:

1. Semantics & Semiotics
2. Literature
3. Translation Studies
4. Media Studies
5. Arts & Culture

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words as email attachment in .doc
format to colour.unicatt2019 at gmail.com by June 15, 2019. Proposals should
contain paper title, full name(s), institutional affiliation, and contact
details. Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection can be expected by
July 1, 2019. 

Organizing Committee:
 
Victoria Bogushevskaya
Davide Vago




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