35.2732, Calls: WFT Workshop: Methods of Research Into Sound-Symbolism

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Date: 03-Oct-2024
From: Livia Kortvelyessy [livia.kortvelyessy at upjs.sk]
Subject: WFT Workshop: Methods of Research Into Sound-Symbolism


Full Title: WFT Workshop: Methods of Research Into Sound-Symbolism
Short Title: MRS

Date: 26-Jun-2025 - 26-Jun-2025
Location: Kosice, Slovakia
Contact Person: Livia Kortvelyessy
Meeting Email: livia.kortvelyessy at upjs.sk
Web Site: http://kaa.ff.upjs.sk/en/event/45/word-formation-theories-vi
i-typology-and-universals-in-word-formation-vi

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonetics; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop is organized within the conference Word-Formation
Theories VII & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation VI.

The idea of sound symbolism as “an inmost, natural similarity
association between sound and meaning” (Jakobson and Waugh 2002: 182),
and as “a recurrent and remarkable singularity of meaning and form
correspondence” (Childs, 2014: 302) in onomatopoeia and, more broadly,
in ideophones, has a long tradition. As noted by Akita (2015: 5), “the
large majority of studies agree that languages involve sound
symbolism, and speakers of the languages can more or less sense this”.
Well-known is Humboldt’s view (1836: 79) that unlike direct imitation,
in the case of sound symbolism a language “selects sounds which partly
independently and partly in comparison with others produce an
impression which to the ear is similar to that which the object makes
upon the mind.”

While the idea underlying the term sound symbolism might seem to be
simple and unambiguous, i.e., a sound or a combination of sounds,
retrieved from the phonological stock of a particular language, stands
for a meaning, the opposite is true. As noted by Johansson et al.
(2020: 255) “[d]espite the progress made in the field of sound
symbolism and iconicity… our understanding of sound symbolism and its
mechanisms remains patchy.”

Given this situation, the workshop aims to focus on methods of
exploration of sound-symbolic phenomena – both experimental and
empirical methods – that contribute to our understanding of their role
in onomatopoeia-formation and, more broadly, in ideophones. By
implication, the workshop should devote special attention to the
status, identification and function of phonesthemes in individual
languages as well as from a cross-linguistic point of view.

Call for Papers:

Abstract submission:
Abstracts of 300 words max., devoted to the sound-symbolic questions
mentioned in the workshop description, should be sent to Livia
Körtvélyessy (livia.kortvelyessy at upjs.sk) and Pius Akumbu
(pius.akumbu at cnrs.fr) as email attachments. The information about the
acceptance of papers will be available by 15 April, 2025.



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