13th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature — Sorbonne University
We invite the submission of abstracts to the 13th Biennial International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature initiated by the Iconicity Research Project, with the first symposium held in Zurich 1997, see http://www.iconicity.ch/. The topic of iconicity – resemblance between form and meaning – continues to be highly relevant for the study of language (in both spoken and signed modalities) and literature, but also for other semiotic systems and media involving gesture, depiction and music, and for interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science and cognitive semiotics. At the theoretical level, the understanding of the concept of iconicity supposes a good understanding of the notions of resemblance or analogy. The theme of the 13th Symposium is therefore “Iconicity and analogy”.
Previous symposia have concentrated on iconicity as a driving force in language (both spoken and signed) on all grammatical levels, as well as in language change, language acquisition, and language processing. They have also 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, language and music, word and image, etc.). These possibilities remain open for the 2022 symposium, and we welcome abstracts to topics such as (but not limited to), the following:
Iconicity in the speech signal (“sound symbolism”, “ideophones”)
Iconicity in grammar and text
Iconicity in literature
Iconicity in philosophy
Iconicity in signed languages
Iconicity in gestures
Iconicity in pictures and other visual media
Iconicity in music
Iconicity in intermediality
Iconicity in narration
Iconicity in imagination (“mental imagery”)
Iconicity in metaphors within and across semiotic systems
Iconicity across sensory modalities (“multimodality” and “cross-modality”)
Iconicity in evolution
Iconicity in child development
Given the wide scope of the topic, accepted presentations need to be made accessible for an interdisciplinary audience. The symposium will be held in French and in English.
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