34.2593, Calls: Lexical and Phraseological Neologisms in Contemporary English
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Subject: 34.2593, Calls: Lexical and Phraseological Neologisms in Contemporary English
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Date: 30-Aug-2023
From: Ramon Marti Solano [ramon.marti-solano at unilim.fr]
Subject: Lexical and Phraseological Neologisms in Contemporary English
Full Title: Lexical and Phraseological Neologisms in Contemporary
English
Date: 26-Sep-2024 - 28-Sep-2024
Location: Alicante, Spain
Contact Person: Ramon Marti Solano
Meeting Email: ramon.marti-solano at unilim.fr
Web Site: https://web.ua.es/es/biclce2024/cfp-neologisms-biclce10-alic
ante2024.pdf
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
English (eng)
Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2023
Meeting Description:
See call for papers
Call for Papers:
The lexical dynamics of the English language lead to a constant ebb
and flow of analogical formations (Mattiello 2016), compounds,
derivatives and innovations of all types giving rise to new words and
phrases that fit novel situations in an ever-changing society or in
specialized fields, and also to flash-in-the-pan coinages (Klégr 2018)
that reflect the high level of creativity of the general public and
language professionals (Fischer 1998, Munat 2007).
This workshop welcomes papers that aim at identifying, analysing and
studying both lexical and phraseological neologisms in 21st-century
English and expects to contribute to an update on the state-of-the-art
research into the various mechanisms of word-formation and lexical
creativity. One of the most salient and overarching communication
phenomena of the last two decades or so is the galloping development
of the internet and social media. Their impact on all levels of human
(and non-human) activity, including language, and consequently on the
number of new lexical items that have been produced, is simply
overwhelming (Kerremans 2015).
In the lexical domain, attention could be turned to single-word and
compound units coined by any word-formation process within English and
with English stems and formants, “new words, i.e. new forms with new
meanings” (Kerremans et al. 2012: 60). In the phraseological sphere,
the same principle will apply to multi-word units such as binomials,
idioms, proverbs, proverbial phrases, antiproverbs (Mieder 2007),
catchphrases, slogans and other sentence-like units.
Blending seems to be one of the most productive word-formation
processes at play in contemporary English (Balteiro and Bauer 2019),
and this is particularly evident if one observes the new entries in
the Oxford English Dictionary since 2010. They account for a total of
53 items such as sharenting (from share and parenting), phablet (from
phone and tablet) or brinicle (from brine and icicle), which raises
the central question of productivity and its application to
non-concatenative processes. Blends, as other types of neological
formation, can, nevertheless, be either enduring or transient words
depending on different linguistic and extralinguistic factors that
determine their relative potentiality (Kjellmer 2015).
Lexical and phraseological neologisms can, among other approaches, be
studied in different language varieties, specialized languages, and
genres — for instance, literature, and especially science-fiction,
fantasy books and dystopias (López Rúa 2021), children books (Poix
2018), or TV series (Renner & Renwick 2019, Terry 2021) — , World
Englishes (Anesa 2018), wordplay (Zirker & Winter-Froemel 2015),
terminology (Humbley 2008), social media (Grieve et al. 2018,
Würschinger 2021).
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- the diffusion, institutionalization and lexicalization of
neological formations
- the monitoring of the development of neologisms
- the evolution of productivity of neologisms
- new analogical formations and their lexical networks
- flash-in-the-pan coinages and the reasons for their fade from
use
- the role of humour and wordplay in lexical and phraseological
creativity
- issues of motivation/non-motivation and transparency/opacity
in novel formations
- sociolinguistic aspects of euphemism and dysphemism
- neology and language registers (written and oral, formal and
informal)
- the rise and development of new splinters and combining forms
- the development of special web crawlers for detecting
neologisms.
Abstracts no longer than 400 words (excluding references) should be
sent to the three convenors (ramon.marti-solano at unilim.fr;
raluca.nita at univ-poitiers.fr; vincent.renner at univ-lyon2.fr) by 15
December 2023.
Ramón Martí Solano (Université de Limoges, France,
ramon.marti-solano at unilim.fr)
Raluca Nita (Université de Poitiers, France,
raluca.nita at univ-poitiers.fr)
Vincent Renner (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France,
vincent.renner at univ-lyon2.fr)
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