35.1728, Calls: Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)

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Subject: 35.1728, Calls: Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)

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Date: 10-Jun-2024
From: Katharina Turgay [expressivity-dgfs2025 at rub.de]
Subject: Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)


Full Title: Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)
Short Title: (DGfS 2025 – ExVaC)

Date: 05-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: University of Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Katharina Turgay
Meeting Email: expressivity-dgfs2025 at rub.de
Web Site: https://expressivity-dgfs2025.rub.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the
direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their
description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic
level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions,
intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts.

While there has been made tremendous progress in our understanding of
the semantics, pragmatics, and (to a lesser degree) syntax of
expressive language, the great majority of this work has focused on
individual languages from a synchronic view. Hence, our understanding
of the variation of expressivity between languages is very limited and
mostly concerns aspects in which expressivity does not vary much
between languages. And while there are some hints at variation within
a language (see e.g. Gutzmann/Turgay 2015 on expressive intensifiers),
this has not been studied systematically. And on the broader
typological level, we do not even have a good idea of what the
parameters are along which expressivity may vary between languages.
Similarly, there is not much dedicated diachronic work on
expressivity, so that the little that there is mostly borrows from
grammaticalization and/or pragmaticalization theory (e.g.
Davis/Gutzmann 2015, Müller 2024), leaving us without much insight
into how expressive language actually and systematically emerges and
evolves.

This workshop aims at filling this gap by encouraging and bringing
together research on variation and change in expressivity. Questions
that may be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited to)
the following:

 * With respect to which parameters/aspects does the expressions of
expressivity vary across languages and which aspects are rather stable
(and may point towards universals regarding expressivity)?
 * What are intra-language variations regarding expressivity? Are
there, e.g., inter-speaker factors that influence the expression and
use of expressive meanings (such as age, region, gender, and other
sociolinguistic aspects)?
 * How do expressive expressions emerge and evolve over time? Are
there regular patterns that can be attested? Can existing theories of
semantic change explain these or are there specific ways in which
expressivity arises and changes?

Contributions are encouraged to take broader views (and are invited to
be a bit speculative in their conclusion), but studies on single
expressive phenomena in languages that are understudied with respect
to expressivity are also welcome.

Organization:
 * Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
 * Katharina Turgay (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

Invited speakers:
 * Andrés Saab (CONICET + University of Buenos Aires)
 * Ashwini Deo (University of Texas, Austin)

Important notes about DGfS 2025:

The workshop is part of the 47th annual meeting of the German
Linguistics Society (DGfS 2025) to be held from March 5–7 at
University of Mainz. Participants are not allowed to give talks at
different workshops (even though their name can appear as a co-author
of talk at other workshops). Participants must register for the DGfS
conference and pay the conference fee (we expect the fee to be between
30–130 € depending on status and time of registration). There are no
additional fees for the workshop. DGfS 2025 will feature 15 different
workshops and four plenary talks (Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (U Cairns,
Australia), Alex François (LATTICE, Paris), Gerhard Jäger (U
Tübingen), Annemarie Verkerk (U Saarland)), as well as additional
satellite events on Tuesday March 4 and during the conference. There
will also be social program in the evenings. We expect about 400
participants from all other the world. For more information watch out
for the official DGfS 2025 website at University of Mainz (not online
as of the time of this writing).

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions addressing the variation and change in
expressivity and phenomena at all linguistic levels and working in all
linguistic frameworks.
 * Please submit your abstract by August 31, 2024 to
expressivity-dgfs2025 at rub.de.
 * Abstracts should not exceed one page (DIN A4, 2.5cm margins, 12pt
font, minimum of 1.2 linespacing)
 * You can include up to one additional page for examples and
graphics.
 * You can include up to one additional page for references.

Important dates
 * Submission deadline: August 31, 2024
 * Notification: September 10, 2024
 * Workshop: March 5–7, 2025



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