34.3307, Calls: SLE workshop: Creativity in word-formation: psychological, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects
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Subject: 34.3307, Calls: SLE workshop: Creativity in word-formation: psychological, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects
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Date: 03-Nov-2023
From: Pavel Stekauer [pavel.stekauer at upjs.sk]
Subject: SLE workshop: Creativity in word-formation: psychological, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects
Full Title: SLE workshop: Creativity in word-formation: psychological,
psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects
Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Pavel Stekauer
Meeting Email: pavel.stekauer at upjs.sk
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2023
Meeting Description:
The workshop aims to discuss primarily the following questions:
- What is the influence of the general creative potential upon
the creative performance manifested in coining new complex words?
- What is the manifestation of the fundamental, psychologically
defined properties of word-formation creativity?
- What methods can be used for testing and evaluating creative
potential and creative performance in word-formation?
- What is the scope of word-formation creativity?
- What is the relation between word-formation creativity and
productivity?
- Sociolinguistic factors affecting word-formation creativity
- Any other relevant issues
Call for Papers:
Creativity has become a field of rapid growth and is of growing
interest to linguists, psychologists as well as philosophers,
especially because “creativity is not the exclusive preserve of the
individual genius, a property of exceptional people, but an
exceptional property of all people” (Carter 2015). This assumption
reflects the most recent comprehension of creativity as the creative
potential of each human being to generate products that are novel
(original), appropriate (relevant), effective, based on an intentional
activity and that occur in a specific context. The creative potential
is manifested in the creative performance at all language levels,
including the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic
levels.
There are different views of linguistic creativity. Bergs (2019)
suggests that the only genuine type of linguistic creativity is an
aberration. Authors working on lexical creativity (e.g. Arndt-Lappe et
al. 2018) maintain that creativity refers to the coinages and uses of
existing words that serve primarily as attention-seeking devices,
means of humour, playfulness, ludicity, puns, or wordplay, Mattiello
(2013) emphasizes the extra-grammatical essence of morphological
creativity. Eitelmann and Haumann (2022) discuss the "extravagant
morphology". Körtvélyessy, Štekauer and Kačmár (2022) maintain that
creativity is reflected in the formation of new words that are
appropriate signs of a class of objects to be named as a result of
deliberate creativity (cognitive activity) of language users; these
linguistic signs are useful and effective because they serve the
communication purposes of a speech community, and since word-formation
creativity manifests the universal, biologically preconditioned
feature of human beings any and all speakers of a language can produce
a new word. Moreover, if we accept the view that the product of
creativity has to be something different, new, or innovative, each new
complex word meets these criteria because each such new coinage is
different from the existing actual words, that means, from the
institutionalized vocabulary of a language and, by definition, it is
innovative with regard to the naming needs of a speech community. All
in all, each new word results from the creative activity (creative
performance) of a speaker of a language.
The workshop therefore aims to discuss primarily the following
questions:
- What is the influence of the general creative potential upon
the creative performance manifested in coining new complex words?
- What is the manifestation of the fundamental, psychologically
defined properties of word-formation creativity?
- What methods can be used for testing and evaluating creative
potential and creative performance in word-formation?
- What is the scope of word-formation creativity?
- What is the relation between word-formation creativity and
productivity?
- Sociolinguistic factors affecting word-formation creativity
- Any other relevant issues
References:
Arndt-Lappe, S., A. Braun, Claudine Moulin and E. Winter-Froemel, eds.
2018. Expanding the Lexicon: Linguistic Innovation, Morphological
Productivity, and Ludicity. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bergs, A. 2019. “What, If Anything, Is Linguistic Creativity?” Gestalt
Theory 41/2: 173-184.
Carter, R. 2015. Language and Creativity. The art of common talk. 2nd
ed. London/New York: Routledge.
Eitelmann, M. and D. Haumann (eds.). 2022. Extravagance in morphology.
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Körtvélyessy, Lívia, Pavol Štekauer, and Pavol Kačmár. 2022.
Creativity in word-formation and word-interpretation. Creative
potential and creative performance. Cambridge: CUP.
Mattiello, Elisa. 2013. Extra-grammatical morphology in English.
Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
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