34.3347, Calls: International Conference on Constructed Languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3347. Wed Nov 08 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.3347, Calls: International Conference on Constructed Languages

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Date: 08-Nov-2023
From: GUILLAUME ENGUEHARD [guillaume.enguehard at univ-orleans.fr]
Subject: International Conference on Constructed Languages

Full Title: International Conference on Constructed Languages
Short Title: ICON2024

Date: 04-Jul-2024 - 05-Jul-2024
Location: Orléans, France
Contact Person: GUILLAUME ENGUEHARD
Meeting Email: icon2024 at sciencesconf.fr
Web Site: https://icon2024.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling &
Literature; Linguistic Theories
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
Language Family(ies): Artificial Language

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

The second International Conference on Constructed Languages comes
after a first edition in Torino in 2022 to offer a forum dedicated to
multidisciplinary research on constructed languages.

The study of constructed languages is the site of a proliferation of
ideas and innovations in the linguistic field, which challenge the
human ability to provide new forms of linguistic expression, for
wide-ranging purposes. This phenomenon is not only relevant in
linguistics, but in many other disciplines in the human sciences, as
well as in the arts and letters, and this extends far beyond academic
circles.

>From the 19th century, international auxiliary languages have been one
of the most fruitful sites for invention. Of all the languages that
have been published, the Esperanto language is of particular interest
here, insofar as the language gave rise to a new community of speakers
(including native speakers) on a long period of time, a community
which have developed its own culture and sociology, as well as its own
history and literature. It seems relevant today to call for proposals
about the Esperanto language, as a language and as a social and
historical phenomenon, without actually excluding proposals on other
international auxiliary languages that have played a role in the
history of interlinguistics (such as Volapük, Ido, Occidental,
Interlingua, etc.) or recently elaborated or even on other types of
constructed languages.

Constructed languages are also playing an increasingly important role
in our cultural environment through artistic and literary languages,
fictional languages. Through their imagination, human beings invent
languages to ground their fictional worlds and create a fictional
ecosystem that is plausible within its own diegesis. We can find
fictional languages in literature, cinema, arts, television or video
games, where they are used to bring futuristic, exotic or fantastic
civilisations to life. The international conference is open to
proposals on these languages of the imagination, whatever the language
or the approach (contrastive, sociological, geographical, artistic,
etc.). We invite not only academic researchers to join us, but also
the conlangers who wish to share their experience or/and their
constructed language.

Finally, a site that favors an increased reflection on the language is
that of the languages more recently elaborated for pedagogical,
logical or experimental purposes. In line with the proto-languages
that were reconstructed to test the phylogenetic hypotheses from the
19th century, we can find languages whose purposes are not so much to
be used as to virtually test the Sapir-Whorf theory (ex. Loglan), to
explore the possibilities of a linguistic contact (ex. Brithenig), or
to push back the limits of polysemy (ex. Toki Pona). Some of those
languages have sometimes a dual nature which label them both in
experimental and artistic languages (ex. Láadan) or even auxiliary
(ex. Sona). Considering the experimental applications of other
constructed or natural languages (ex. the propaedeutic aspect of
Esperanto) can also be relevant.

The creation of a constructed language may have various purposes, but
their study reveals a common set of questions, which the I-CONLANG II
2024 intends to address. Here is a non-exhaustive list of research
questions:

   - The different purposes of constructed languages and the means
used to achieve them;
   - The various (or not)  linguistic resources used in the context of
constructed languages;
   - The specific constraints encountered in the creation and/or the
use of a constructed language;
   - The social and cultural implications of constructed languages;
   - The project development on creating constructed languages as well
as its symbolic, psychological, sociological and historical outcomes;
   - The challenges and limitations of such languages;
   - The differences or similarities between constructed languages and
natural languages.

Call for Papers:

In order to reflect the diversity of constructed languages, the
conference will be organised through three session of oral
communications (in line with the Gnoli’s triangle):

    A session of auxiliary languages, especially Esperanto;
    A session on fictional languages (in literature, cinema, video
games, etc.)
    A session on constructed languages with pedagogical, logical or
experimental purposes.

An additional poster session will be organised to present the creation
of new constructed languages, and we invite all conlangers to send us
their proposal accordingly, whether they are students, researchers, or
any person who works outside of the academic field.

Practical information:

Conference website: https://icon2024.sciencesconf.org/
Link for submissions:
https://icon2024.sciencesconf.org/user/submissions
Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2024
Format of proposal (oral communication and/or poster): 1 page maximum
(including bibliography)
Date and place of the conference: Orléans, France, July 2024, 4-5th
Duration of talk: 20mns of presentation and 10mns of discussion
Conference languages: French and English

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