35.1799, Calls: DGfS 2025 workshop - The role of semantic extension and pragmatics in synchronic language change, language development and language variation

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Subject: 35.1799, Calls: DGfS 2025 workshop - The role of semantic extension and pragmatics in synchronic language change, language development and language variation

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Date: 15-Jun-2024
From: Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos [camilorr at uio.no]
Subject: DGfS 2025 workshop - The role of semantic extension and pragmatics in synchronic language change, language development and language variation


Full Title: DGfS 2025 workshop - The role of semantic extension and
pragmatics in synchronic language change, language development and
language variation

Date: 04-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Camilo Rodriguuez Ronderos
Meeting Email: camilorr at uio.no

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 08-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

This is a workshop that will be held as part of the annual conference
of the German Linguistics Society.

Call for Papers:

We (Guendalina Reul, Cologne University, Camilo R. Ronderos, Oslo
University) are now accepting abstracts for the workshop “The role of
semantic extension and pragmatics in synchronic language change,
language development and language variation” as part of the 47th
annual conference of the German Linguistics Association (DGfS
Jahrestagung) in Mainz, Germany, on March 4-7, 2025.


We invite 1 page abstracts (excl. references) for 20 min presentations
(+ 10 min discussion). Please submit abstracts by September 8th, 2024
via the following link:


https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/75762/submitter


Here is the call for papers:


Words with a fixed denotation are often used creatively, with novel
meaning extensions becoming part of the mental lexicon via repeated
use. As the meaning of words changes over time, how do language users
make sense of this continuum of novel and established word meanings?
Contemporary approaches to the study of meaning change have
highlighted the potential of experimental studies for addressing this
question. Theories have posited a gradual process where ad hoc
semantic extensions gradually become conventionalized and lead to the
creation of a new lexical entry (Bowdle and Gentner, 2005). Recent
work in experimental and developmental pragmatics has studied how
non-literal language is processed as it becomes conventionalized, and
how conventionality plays a critical role in the development of
non-literal language comprehension (e.g., Falkum, 2022; Schumacher et
al., 2023). This workshop aims to bring together these different
strands of research to study the ontogenetic and phylogenetic role of
conventionality and its relation to non-literal language.


We invite work that addresses the following questions:





(i) What are the cognitive underpinnings of semantic change?



(ii) Which pragmatic principles lead to semantic extension and change?



(iii) How can conventionalization processes be studied experimentally?



(iv) How does conventionalization impact the development of
non-literal language comprehension?



We invite contributions from researchers working on these issues from
both theoretical pragmatics and experimental perspectives. The goal of
the proposed panel is to foster the ongoing interaction between
diachronic and cognitive linguists to elucidate the cognitive
mechanisms that give rise to language change.


Invited Speakers:


Ingrid Lossius Falkum (Oslo University)

Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh)


Organizers


Guendalina Reul (Cologne University)

Camilo R. Ronderos (Oslo University)



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