37.3614, Calls: Epilogos - "Special issue: What Does Synesthesia Mean to You, to Us?" (Jrnl)

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Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Daphné Cousin--Martin [daphne.cousin-martin at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Epilogos - "Special issue: What Does Synesthesia Mean to You, to Us?" (Jrnl)


Journal: Epilogos (ISSN 2262-5992)
Issue: What does synesthesia mean to you, to us?
Call Deadline: 07-Nov-2026

As pointed out by the Académie française, the term synesthesia comes
from the Greek sunaisthêsis, “to perceive simultaneously”, itself made
up of “sun”, “with”, and aisthêsis, “sense perception”. Both the
academic world and the general public have taken a renewed interest in
the subject for the past fifteen years. First a key notion of nineteen
century medical, poetic and aesthetic considerations notably with I.
A. Richards (1924), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945), Henri Morier (1961)
and Preminger & Brogan (1993), theories and practices of synesthesia
are being reconsidered in the 21st century. Cognitive linguist
Lawrence E. Marks (in Simner & Hubbard, eds. 2013: 761-789)
distinguishes between conscious and intentional “weak synesthesia” and
the medical meaning of unconscious and unintentional “strong
synesthesia”. Despite its prevailing medical and neurological
dimension (Simner & Hubbard, 2013), other fields such as literary
studies, linguistics and translation studies reevaluate synesthesia in
light of this more recent research (Digonnet, 2018, for “sensory
linguistics”; Cousin-Martin, 2024 for “Tartan Noir”).
This call for papers stems from the international one-day conference
“What does synesthesia mean to you, to us?” which was held at Rouen
University on June 9th, 2026, as part of the research project
“Synesthesia and translation in the 21st century” led by José Vicente
Lozano, Laura Cacheiro Quintas and Daphné Cousin-Martin » within
ERIAC’s Thematic Axis 4. Its aim was to highlight new research
perspectives on synesthesia, and to consider its contemporary
expressions, how they contribute to a variety of genres, languages and
metalinguistic approaches, as well as how they translate. The rich
discussions of June 9th covered psychology, stylistics, linguistics
and translation studies. They involved work on German, Arabic, English
and French, and engaged with a diversity of media and corpora.
To pursue these lines of inquiry further, we invite proposals from
contributors who have been unable to attend the conference.
Pluridisciplinary research, comparative approaches and
cross-methodological approaches are warmly welcome.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
 - Synesthesia, languages and cultures
 - Synesthesia, cognition and perception
 - Experience(s) of synesthesia
 - Expressions and functions of synesthesia
 - The linguistics of synesthesia
 - Synesthesia, stylistics and poetics
 - Synesthesia, Synesthésie, pedagogy and learning
 - Translating synesthesia
 - Synesthesia and creativity
 - Synesthesia and critical perspectives
Submission Guidelines:
Abstract submission: Nov 7
Notification of tentative acceptance: November 20, 2026
Article submission deadline: January 20, 2027 Reviewers’ comments:
March 20, 2027; final article submission: June 20, 2027
Expected publication: autumn 2027.
Proposals – 300 to 500 words, bibliography included, and 5 key words
All submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
Please send your proposals to both jose.vicente-lozano at univ-rouen.fr
and daphne.cousin-martin at unicaen.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)
                     French (fra, stan1290)
                     Spanish (spa, stan1288)


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