35.3055, Calls: SLE-58 Workshop: Insights Into Lexical Iconicity: Onomatopoeia, Ideophones, and Sound Symbolism

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Subject: 35.3055, Calls: SLE-58 Workshop: Insights Into Lexical Iconicity: Onomatopoeia, Ideophones, and Sound Symbolism

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Date: 01-Nov-2024
From: Maria Flaksman [maria.flaksman at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: SLE-58 Workshop: Insights Into Lexical Iconicity: Onomatopoeia, Ideophones, and Sound Symbolism


Full Title: SLE-58 Workshop: Insights Into Lexical Iconicity:
Onomatopoeia, Ideophones, and Sound Symbolism
Short Title: SLE58 WS Iconicity

Date: 26-Aug-2025 - 29-Aug-2025
Location: Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Contact Person: Maria Flaksman
Meeting Email: maria.flaksman at uni-bamberg.de
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Study of iconic (imitative) words goes beyond lexicology. Iconicity
studies, is a rapidly developing branch of linguistics. It employs
methods of lexicology, phonetics and phonology, psycholinguistics,
neurolinguistics, etymology, language typology, semiotics, semantics
and pragmatics, and cognitive sciences.
Lexical iconicity studies focus on origin and evolution, typology, and
function of imitative lexical elements both in modern (see Akita 2009,
Dingemanse 2012, Enckell & Rézeau 2003, Kakehi et al. 1998, Van Hoey &
Thompson 2020, and others) and ancient languages (Malkiel 1990;
Flaksman 2024, and others). Also, iconicity deals with less evident
cases of form-meaning similarity, such as sound symbolism, including
phonaesthemic sound symbolism (Abelin 1999, Jespersen 1933, Ohala
1994; Smith 2016).
There is a great variation within the imitative lexicon, including the
variation according to the degree of iconicity. There is a
juxtaposition between non-lexicalised ideophones and more lexicalised
ones. Thus, a non-lexicalised zzz is more iconic than a lexicalised
buzz, a non-lexicalised grr is more iconic than the lexicalised growl
(Anderson 1998: 335). The gradation according to degree of iconicity
is revealed by means of psycholinguistics (Winter et al. 2024) and
etymology (Flaksman 2024).

Workshop focus:

The focus of this workshop is variation in lexical iconicity. We
welcome proposals on the linguistic description and comparison of
different classes of imitative words (ideophones, onomatopoeic, and
sound symbolic words) in languages from across the globe. Thus, we
welcome a broad range of talks on all aspects of imitative forms
including but not limited to the following:

Word formation and lexical aspects
 - borrowing of imitative words
 - diachronic changes in imitative words
 - onomasiological approaches to iconicity in the lexicon: are there
pockets of the lexicon more represented by iconic words?
Experimental studies
 - cross-linguistic and experimental studies in sound symbolism
 - experimental research on lexical iconicity
 - frequency and exposure to iconic words in language learning
 - the role of iconicity in structuring the lexicon of learners
 - the crossmodal functions of iconicity from an embodiment
perspective
Corpus and discourse studies
 - onomatopoeic or imitative words from a usage-based perspective in
corpora
 - the pragmatics of imitative words in interaction and in different
genres
 - the pragmatics of iconicity in mediated communication (CMC corpora,
including emojis, memes, emoticons)
 - morphosyntax and collocational behaviour of iconic words:
phraseological aspects of iconicity
Typology and theoretical challenges
 - onomatopoeic words, their typology and classification
 - phonaesthemic sound symbolism
 - typology and classification of ideophones
 - theoretical aspects of sound symbolism and imitative forms in
languages: construction grammar approaches to meaning-form
associations
 - expressivity and markedness of iconic words; how do frequency,
expressivity and innovation coexist alongside iconicity?
 - the role of analogy and iconicity in the lexicogrammatical
continuum

Thus, the workshop is envisioned as a platform for the discussion on
differences and similarities between iconic words and related
phenomena in languages from across the globe and on different
approaches to their classification and research

Call for Papers:

Workshop organisers:  Maria Flaksman (Otto-Friedrich University of
Bamberg) and Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie)

Submission of abstracts:  Provisional abstracts (300-word, excluding
references) for 20-minute presentations should be submitted by 15
November 2024 to maria.flaksman at uni-bamberg.de and
chris.smith at unicaen.fr. We will inform all presenters of a preliminary
acceptance of their abstracts before the workshop proposal is
submitted to the SLE (which is 20 November 2024). If the workshop
proposal is accepted, presenters will be asked to submit a 500-word
abstract in EasyChair by 15 January 2025.



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