35.1859, Calls: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Semantics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)

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Date: 22-Jun-2024
From: Denis Jamet [denis.jamet at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Semantics / Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology (Jrnl)


N°26 – Re-thinking frozenness and variability / Vers une redéfinition
du (dé)figement
Deadline for sending in final versions of papers: 30 September 2025

Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology – will publish its 26th issue in
2024. It will be edited by Vincent Hugou (Sorbonne Université, France)
and Mathilde Pinson (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) and will
deal with the topic “Re-thinking frozenness and variability”.

Re-thinking frozenness and variability
The definition of a frozen sequence can be limited to a phrasal
polylexical expression (e.g. a proverb), or an infra-phrasal
expression (e.g. a nominal compound, a phrase), which is identifiable
by its morpho-syntactic fixedness, its non-compositionality and
because it is often also the place where cultural representations can
be found. The importance of frozen sequences in language, compared
with free sequences (according to Erman & Warren [2000], there are
more than 50% of prefabricated expressions in oral and written
discourse), underlines the fact that this is by no means a marginal
phenomenon, as is abundantly clear from the many studies on the
subject (e.g. Gross [1988], Mejri [2013], for French; Brinton &
Traugott [2005], for English, etc.). The ‘deformation’ of an
expression is traditionally seen as the normal counterpart of
‘frozenness’. In fact, frozenness is obviously a necessary
pre-requisite for deformation, i.e. the introduction of variability
within a frozen expression, thereby entailing the transgression of
certain syntactic restrictions and, prototypically, a return to a
literal meaning. A frozen sequence would thus pertain to langue
(language), and its manipulated counterpart to parole
(speech/discourse).
However, adopting a traditional definition of frozen sequences and
their deformation may give an overly simplistic view of the phenomenon
under study. The 26th issue of Lexis offers to take a fresh look at
these two concepts.

Read the whole CFP in English:
https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/8213



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