36.3323, Confs: Sound Affects: Voice, Language and Emotion (Switzerland)

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Subject: 36.3323, Confs: Sound Affects: Voice, Language and Emotion (Switzerland)

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Date: 30-Oct-2025
From: Tim Wharton [t.wharton at icloud.com]
Subject: Sound Affects: Voice, Language and Emotion


Sound Affects: Voice, Language and Emotion
Short Title: SA
Theme: Prosody and emotion

Date: 27-Apr-2026 - 27-Apr-2026
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Dr Tim Wharton
Contact Email: t.wharton at brighton.ac.uk
Meeting URL:
https://formulaire.unige.ch/cisa/survey/index.php/173995?lang=en

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Submission Deadline: 31-Dec-2025

The way we say the words we say helps us convey the meanings we
intend. The way words are ‘chunked’ into intonation phrases conveys
information about grammatical structure and constituency relations,
and within these phrases, differences in the relative amplitude,
length and pitch of syllables help direct a listener’s attention to
the most salient points of a message. But as well as conveying
linguistic information, prosodic elements such as pitch, stress and
intonation convey information about a speaker’s affective state. This
one-day workshop focusses on the latter group of cases: on the way the
voice is used to communicate affect and emotion, even – in some cases
– betraying the emotional state of the speaker, perhaps against their
wishes.
We invite applications from speakers for a one-day workshop in Geneva
which will explore all aspects of voice, language and emotion.
The workshop will offer participants the possibility of exploring the
various ways that human (and, perhaps, non-human) vocal expression
shapes affect and emotion.
The aims of the event are genuinely interdisciplinary, and
applications are invited from:
 - Affective scientists
 - Linguists
 - Philosophers
 - Neuroscientists
 - Artists
 - Speech therapists
 - Mental health professionals
And professionals from other relevant domains. It is envisaged that
selected papers will be collected and published in an edited volume
with Cambridge University Press.
Papers are invited for 20 min. talks (+10 min. Q&A) in any of the
areas at the intersection of voice, language and emotion as described
above.  Please submit your title and abstract (max 300 words including
references) using the link provided below before 31st December 2025.



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