36.1025, Calls: Sinn und Bedeutung 30 - Special Session LingDem (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1025, Calls: Sinn und Bedeutung 30 - Special Session LingDem (Germany)

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Date: 24-Mar-2025
From: Lennart Fritzsche [fritzsche at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Sinn und Bedeutung 30 - Special Session LingDem


Full Title: Sinn und Bedeutung 30 - Special Session LingDem

Date: 23-Sep-2025 - 23-Sep-2025
Location: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Web Site: https://vicom.info/sub30-lingdem/

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics;
Psycholinguistics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

***Third CfP, Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025***
*Sinn und Bedeutung 30* (SuB30) will take place at Goethe University
Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. We are beyond happy that there
will be a special session on September 23, 2025, titled *Beyond
Descriptive Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrations
and Depictions* (LingDem).
Invited speaker: Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam)
Website: https://vicom.info/sub30-lingdem/
**Description**
In all modalities of natural language, information is primarily
conveyed through descriptive meaning, where signers and speakers
interpret arbitrary expressions based on conventionalized linguistic
rules. However, speakers and signers may also add demonstrational and
depictive layers of meaning to their utterances, which are iconic in
their nature. Linguistic theory has increasingly recognized the
significance of demonstrations and depictions in various contexts,
revealing their pervasive role in language. For instance, speakers
utilize different parts of the body and their voice, e.g., manual and
non-manual speech-accompanying gestures, ideophones, and prosodic
modulations, to demonstrate different aspects of an event in an iconic
fashion. Similarly, signers may use different parts of the body to
iconically demonstrate an event, with various body parts potentially
representing different arguments simultaneously.
For this special session of Sinn und Bedeutung 30, we invite
submissions from researchers interested in empirical studies and
linguistic theories of demonstration and depiction in all modalities –
spoken, signed, and written. The main focus will be on recent
theoretical advancements in the analysis of (multimodal)
demonstrations and depictions. Potential topics include – but are not
limited to – the following:
- Theoretical and empirical contributions to distinguish between
descriptive and depictive meaning
- Theoretical modeling of demonstrations and depictions in formal
semantics
- Experimental and corpus-based studies to validate linguistic
theories of demonstration and depiction
- Semantic and pragmatic status of gestural components in sign and
spoken languages
- Conventionalization and lexicalization of gestural demonstrations
and depictions
- Implementation of iconicity in formal semantics
- Analysis of phenomena featuring iconicity (classifiers, role shift,
iconic gestures, ideophones, prosodic modulations, …)
- The role of demonstrations and depictions in spoken and signed
quotation and speech reports
We are pleased to offer interpretation between English and IS for the
LingDem special session if needed (call in International Sign:
https://vimeo.com/1064266335). If you plan to attend the special
session and need interpretation, it would be helpful for our planning
if you could send us an email (sub30 at vicom.info).
**Call for abstracts**
We welcome abstract submissions for talks or posters on topics related
to natural language semantics, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics
interface, philosophy of language, and psycho-/neurolinguistic studies
related to meaning. We especially encourage contributions that
incorporate experimental evidence, although all submissions should aim
to advance a formal model of natural language semantics and
pragmatics.
Abstracts must present original research that has neither been
published nor accepted for publication at the time of submission. Each
individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as a sole author and
one as a co-author (or two as a co-author) for both the main and
special sessions combined. Abstracts submitted for the special session
will also be considered for the main session.
Authors should indicate whether they would like their abstract to be
considered for a talk, a poster, or both.
Submissions should be anonymous and should not include any identifying
information.
Abstracts should be formatted to fit within two pages (letter size or
A4 paper, with 2.54 cm or 1-inch margins on all sides, 12-point Times
New Roman font). An additional third page may be included exclusively
for references (mandatory), large figures or tables, and lines
corresponding to glosses and translations in non-English examples.
Examples, whether glossed or not, should be integrated into the main
text rather than collected at the end.
Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview by Monday,
March 31, 2025 (23:59 Central European Standard Time):
https://openreview.net/group?id=SuB/2025/LingDem_Special_Session
*Note that you will first need to create an author profile at
OpenReview and it may take some time before your account gets fully
activated and ready for submission. Please make sure to do so as soon
as possible in order to ensure that your account is active before the
submission deadline.*
**Important dates**
 - March 31, 2025: Submission deadline LingDem special session
 - May 16, 2025: Notification
 - June 2, 2025: Registration opens
 - September 23, 2025: Special Session LingDem
 - September 24-26, 2025: Main session
 - September 27, 2025: Special Session PhilLingNeg



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