The 3rd Iconicity Seminar
The Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) is an international conference dedicated to linguistic iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning.
Previously an online conference, the 3rd IcoSem (IcoSem 3) will be held on 8-9 February 2025 in hybrid mode at the Otaru University of Commerce (Otaru, Japan).
All times are Japanese time.
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Lunch at Otaru University of Commerce | |
| 13:00 | Ian Joo | Iconicity research: where we are now |
| 13:30 | Amy Pei-jung Lee | Iconicity and types of ideophonic templates in Formosan languages |
| 14:00 | Olivia Griffin | Same same, but different: Iconicity along the dimension of identity |
| 14:30 | Natalie Côté | Iconic vowel alternations in Korean ideophones |
| 15:00 | Tour in Otaru and conference dinner |
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Victoria Bogushevskaya | What went wrong in conveying diagrammatic iconicity in the Chinese translation of the Russian ergourbanonym Eda i točka. Azija? |
| 09:00 | Loic Renoud | Iconicity and self-evidencing in speech |
| 09:30 | Short break | |
| 10:00 | Nathan Nguyen and Veronica Vecchione | Chunk or Chonk: A case study of sound symbolism |
| 10:30 | Alexander Kilpatrick | The negativity bias is reflected in the iconic markedness of emotional valence |
| 11:00 | Samuel Akinbo and Salem Ǒchála Ẹ̀jẹ̀bá | Tonal alternation and repetition in the derivational morphology of Igala ideophones |
| 11:30 | Patrice Kanndèl Edouard | Iconicity in Haitian Creole: The onomatopoeic origins of bird names |
| 12:00 | Long break | |
| 15:00 | Onyinye Anulika Chiemezie | The role of consonant features and alternations in Igbo ideophones |
| 15:30 | Sami Huttunen | Sound-action symbolism in (manual) action verbs: preliminary results from a crosslinguistic study |
| 16:00 | Simon David Stein | Iconicity versus indexicality: The case of /x/ |
| 16:30 | Camil Staps | Iconic features in nominal reduplication |
| 17:00 | Short break | |
| 17:30 | Valeria Malysheva | English tw- phonaesthemic words vs their non-iconic correlates in other Germanic languages |
| 18:00 | Jiyeon Park | Expressing lengthening in Korean ideophones |
| 18:30 | Michal Ornan-Ephratt | The onomatopoeic sounds of silence |
| 19:00 | Maria Flaksman | The Iconic Treadmill Hypothesis and surprisal: Offsetting the cognitive costs of de-iconization |
To register for the conference as an online auditor, please click here. (The presenters need not register)
We call for papers for 30-minute presentations (20min presentation + 10min Q&A) dealing with any aspect of linguistic iconicity, such as:
Please send a 2-page abstract (including everything) in the following format:
Please send your anonymized abstract to joo@res.otaru-uc.ac.jp. Your anonymous abstract will then be reviewed by the organizer.
The extended deadline is 31 October 2024. Decisions will be communicated to you on a rolling basis as soon as possible.
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Otaru is a small coastal city in Hokkaido, the northernmost province of Japan. It is a popular tourist destination constantly rated as one of the most attractive Japanese cities. The Otaru Snow Light Path Festival will also take place in mid February, which the participants of the conference may be able to enjoy. The nearest airport is the New Chitose Airport (CTS), which has connections to several major Asian Pacific cities.