36.3320, Calls: Studii de lingvistică - "Special Issue: Neological Competition in Multimodal Contexts: Toward an Ecosystemic and Phraseological Theory of Neology" (Jrnl)

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Date: 30-Oct-2025
From: Daciana Vlad [dvlad at uoradea.ro]
Subject: Studii de lingvistică - "Special Issue: Neological Competition in Multimodal Contexts: Toward an Ecosystemic and Phraseological Theory of Neology" (Jrnl)


Journal: Studii de lingvistică
Issue: Neological Competition in Multimodal Contexts: Toward an
Ecosystemic and Phraseological Theory of Neology
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Studii de lingvistică, Issue 16 (December 2026)
Neological Competition in Multimodal Contexts: Toward an Ecosystemic
and Phraseological Theory of Neology
Guest Editors:
Chris Smith (Université de Caen Normandie)
Albin Wagener (Université Catholique de Lille)
Overview:
This thematic issue investigates how multimodal and discursive
environments shape lexical and phraseological innovation. It invites
contributions that reconceptualize neological competition – between
words, affixes, expressions, and iconic signs – as an ecosystemic
process of lexical adaptation to social, technological, and media
change.
Description:
This special issue of Studii de lingvistică examines lexical and
phraseological creativity in both synchrony and diachrony, across
multimodal contexts. Contributors are encouraged to explore
word-formation, discourse diffusion, and phraseological patterning
from usage-based, constructional, or variationist perspectives.
The objective is to develop an ecosystemic theory of lexical change
connecting neology, phraseology, and multimodality through time.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Morphological and lexical competition (affix rivalry, synonymy,
productivity)
 - Multimodality and neosemiosis (emojis, gifs, memes, hashtags)
 - Discursive and algorithmic constraints on neological innovation
 - Phraseological neology and constructional patterning
 - Competition and cooperation in constructional networks
 - Diachronic and usage-based perspectives on lexical adaptation
Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (1–2 pages)
outlining:
 - The corpus and methodology
 - Main findings and references
 - Five keywords
 - Author’s name and institutional affiliation
Submissions should be sent to:
studiidelingvistica at gmail.com, chris.smith at unicaen.fr, and
albin.wagener at gmail.com
Articles may be written in English or French and will undergo
double-blind peer review.
Timeline:
 - Abstract submission: January 15, 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2026
 - Full paper submission: May 15, 2026
 - Peer-review feedback: June-July 2026
 - Revised papers due: September 15, 2026
 - Publication: December 2026
Author guidelines:
https://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro/instructiuni-en.html
Full-text of the Call for Papers:
https://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro/docs/CfP%20SL16.pdf
Indexing:
Studii de lingvistică is indexed in Web of Science (ESCI), SCOPUS,
ANVUR (classe A), CNCS (A), ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, ProQuest, and DOAJ.
Contact:
Chris Smith – Université de Caen Normandie
Albin Wagener – Université Catholique de Lille
Website: http://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics




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