RTG workshop on ideophones
Date: June 10-11, 2025
Location: Nikolausberger Weg 23
Contact: marta.herget@uni-goettingen.de
Organisation
Marta Herget
Josiah Nii Ashie Neequaye
Markus Steinbach
Vanessa W.Y. Tsang
Invited presenters
Kathryn Barnes (University of Frankfurt/Main)
Aleksandra Ćwiek (ZAS Berlin)
Description
The RTG workshop on ideophones mainly targets PhD students of the RTG and anyone who is interested in research on ideophones. The aim of the workshop is to discuss our current research on the topic, discuss both theoretical and methodological questions, address problems we have encountered, and exchange a lot of ideas.
We have invited Kathryn Barnes (University of Frankfurt) and Aleksandra Ćwiek (ZAS Berlin) for the workshop. Kat is a post-doctoral researcher in formal semantics and experimental pragmatics working on iconicity in language, and Aleksandra (Ola) is a post-doctoral researcher working on (acoustic and prosodic) iconicity, sound symbolism, and multimodality of communication.
We wish to keep the schedule flexible so that it provides a lively environment for open discussions about ideophones, sound-symbolism and related topics like iconicity in general. Of course, we also welcome discussions about iconic enrichments at all linguistic levels.
Program
Tuesday, 10.06.
09:30-10:00 Welcome (Overview)
10:00-11:00 Session 1: RTG Joint project – Marta Herget, Josiah N. A. Neequaye, Vanessa W. Y. Tsang
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Project discussion – Kathryn Barnes (& Markus Steinbach)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break (Café Botanik)
14:30-16:00 Session 3: Project discussion – Aleksandra Ćwiek
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Session 4: Research Methods – Josiah N. A. Neequaye, Jacqueline Wolf
17:30-18:00 Wrap up discussion for Day 1
18:30 Joint Dinner (Fellini)
Wednesday, 11.06.
09:30-11:00 Session 5: Review of day1 and Project discussion – Marta Herget
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 General discussion I: Concepts, definitions & formal semantics
12:30-14:00 Lunch break (Meeting Room)
14:00-15:00 General discussion II: Future collaborations
15:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 RTG2636 Colloquium Talk – Aleksandra Ćwiek
18:00-19:00 RTG student session (internal)
19:00 RTG Dinner (place tba)