Plenary Speakers: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden) Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool, UK) Catherina Nyström Höög (Stockholm University, Sweden) Brian Walker (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Call for Papers: Although it has its roots in classical rhetoric, modern stylistics arose from the Russian formalist literary critical movement of the early twentieth century, from which emerged the notion of defamiliarization that is central to the stylistic concept of foregrounding.

This paper challenges the hypothesis that ideophonic sequences are syntactic structures built from lexical roots by the recursive operation Merge through the mediation of a functional head, taken to b...

The La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics journal is an archive for papers, honours theses and similar works. The journal was published from 1988-2001.  Cultural Sensitivity Some material...

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Final Call for Papers: IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together on 21-23 February 2026 hosted by the Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities. The deadline has been extended till 15 September 2025. Please send a 2-page abstract (including everything) in the following format: