[Slling-l] 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature

[Pamela Perniss]

Dear colleagues,

We invite submissions to the 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2016

Note: If you are a sign language user and are interested in attending this symposium, please contact Pamela Perniss (p.perniss at brighton.ac.uk<mailto:p.perniss at brighton.ac.uk>) as early as possible.

Meeting Description:

University of Brighton, UK
11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL), 6-8 April 2017
http://www.iconicity.ch/en/conferences/index.php

The eleventh in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – resemblance mappings between form and meaning – in language and in literature. The theme of the 2017 symposium is the “operationalization of iconicity” – concerned with being able to define and describe different types and levels of iconicity as they appear in different media and modalities. We especially welcome proposals for papers dedicated to this theme, but encourage submissions investigating iconicity from a broad range of perspectives.


Call for Papers:

Previous ILL symposia have concentrated, on the one hand, on iconicity as a driving force in language (spoken and signed) on all grammatical levels, as well as in language change, language acquisition, and language processing. On the other hand, they have addressed iconicity in language use across a range of media (from print to performance), incorporating the uses of iconic images,
diagrams and metaphors at different levels of abstraction and in all varieties of text and discourse (literary texts, historical texts, political texts, advertising, etc.). These possibilities remain open for the 2017 symposium.

The symposium will be hosted by the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, UK. The symposium language will be English. Please contact the organisers regarding sign language interpretation. Presentation time for papers will be 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. A selected number of essays will be published in the Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL) series published by John Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ill/main).

Keynote speakers:
Neil Cohn (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Lucia Santaella (São Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)

Abstract submission: We invite abstracts (450 words maximum, excluding references) of unpublished work for individual papers and theme panels. Theme panels should focus on a well-defined topic and should consist of three individual papers (corresponding to a two-hour slot). Abstracts for individual papers composing a theme should be submitted in addition to an abstract proposing the theme.

Important dates: The deadline for abstract submission is 15 November 2016.
Please submit abstracts to all three organizers (see names and emails listed below).

For further information about the Iconicity Research Project, see the website:
http://www.iconicity.ch

Organizers:
Dr Pamela Perniss
University of Brighton
Email: P.Perniss at brighton.ac.uk<mailto:P.Perniss at brighton.ac.uk>

Prof Dr Olga Fischer
University of Amsterdam
Email: O.C.M.Fischer at uva.nl<mailto:O.C.M.Fischer at uva.nl>

Prof Dr Christina Ljungberg
University of Zurich
Email: cljung at es.uzh.ch<mailto:cljung at es.uzh.ch>


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