35.2585, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: Extravagance and Creativity Through the Empirical Lens

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Subject: 35.2585, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: Extravagance and Creativity Through the Empirical Lens

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Date: 21-Sep-2024
From: Stefan Hartmann [hartmast at hhu.de]
Subject: ICLC17 Theme Session: Extravagance and Creativity Through the Empirical Lens


Full Title: ICLC17 Theme Session: Extravagance and Creativity Through
the Empirical Lens

Date: 14-Jul-2025 - 18-Jul-2025
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact Person: Stefan Hartmann
Meeting Email: hartmast at hhu.de
Web Site: https://extravity.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Theme session proposal for the 17th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference (ICLC17)

Convenors:
Stefan Hartmann, HHU Düsseldorf
Tobias Ungerer, University of Toronto

Creative and “extravagant” uses of language have drawn considerable
attention in recent cognitive-linguistic work. Both theoretical
approaches to delineating the concepts in question (Bergs 2019,
Hoffmann 2018, 2024, forthc.) and empirical attempts at making them
operationalizable using quantitative methods (e.g., Petré 2017, De Wit
et al. 2020, Ungerer & Hartmann 2020, Baumann & Mühlenbernd 2022,
Kempf & Hartmann 2022, Hartmann & Ungerer 2023, Neels et al. 2023,
Morin forthc.) are currently flourishing. Following Sampson (2016),
Bergs (2019) has influentially distinguished “F(ixed)-creativity”,
i.e., the rule-bound extension of a pattern, from
“E(extending)-creativity”, i.e., innovative uses of language that go
beyond the current language system in some way. The concept of
extravagance (Haspelmath 1999) in turn offers an explanation for why
language users are E-creative in the first place: in order to be
socially successful, they follow the maxim “talk in such a way that
you are noticed” (Keller 1994). Constructions that have been discussed
as examples of “extravagant” language use include reduplication
patterns like fixer-upper (Lensch 2022) and shm-reduplication (Brexit,
shmexit, Hartmann & Ungerer forthc.) or “snowclones” like [X is the
new Y], as in ICLC17 is the new ICLC16 (Hartmann & Ungerer 2023) or
[She X on my Y til I Z], as in She ebbin on my neezer til I scrooge
(Lactaoen 2024).

Despite this surge in research on linguistic creativity, many
important questions remain. Firstly, even though various authors have
tried to offer operationalizable definitions, it is not entirely clear
what exactly the concepts of (E-)creativity and extravagance encompass
and how they relate to similar concepts such as expressivity (Gutzmann
2019), evaluativeness (see, e.g., the literature on evaluative
morphology, Grandi & Körtvélyessy 2015, Battefeld et al. 2018), and
salience (see, e.g., Schmid 2007, Schmid & Günther 2016, Boswijk &
Colern 2020). Secondly, attempts to empirically operationalize such
concepts are often in danger of circularity, as they tend to rely on
the presence of other, similarly “extravagant” patterns in the
vicinity of the target construction (e.g., the co-presence of emphatic
markers, Petré 2017; other “extravagant” expressions in the context,
Kempf & Hartmann 2022) or on crowdsourced but ultimately intuitive
judgments (Ungerer & Hartmann 2020). Thirdly, another relevant open
question in this context is how exactly notions like E- and
F-creativity as well as extravagance relate to the concept of
productivity (e.g. Barðdal 2008, Goldberg 2019).

This theme session aims to address these open questions by asking how
we can assess creativity, extravagance, and related notions with the
help of empirical case studies, and how such empirical studies can in
turn inform our theoretical understanding of these concepts. In
particular, we would like to bring together corpus-based and
experimental work that showcases what sets “E-creative” uses of
language apart from merely “F-creative” ones.

Call for Papers:

We invite 100-word abstracts until October 20, 2024. Please send your
abstract to Stefan Hartmann (hartmast at hhu.de). We will let you know
whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed theme session
until the end of October. If our theme session is accepted, we will
ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an extended
abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission system until
January 15. The extended abstract will then be subject to peer review
by the ICLC17 scientific committee. If the theme session is rejected,
or if we cannot incorporate your abstract in the theme session, you
are of course free to submit your abstract to ICLC17 for consideration
as a general session paper.



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