Mark Dingemanse -

Presentations

Upcoming

1. Ideophones at the intersection of theory and methods in African linguistics
   Plenary address at the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics
   March 15-17, Tulane University, New Orleans

2012

1. Ideophones and creativity
   Lecture in the Organised Session "Ideophones, Grammar and Cultural Expression" at LSA Annual Meeting
   January 6-8, Portland, Oregon

2011

5. Curse or blessing? Africa's linguistic heritage in the 21st century
   Plenary address at the Afrika Studiedag of the Netherlands African Studies Assocation
   November 5, 2011, Afrikamuseum Berg en Dal
4. Ideophones and gesture: contrasts and parallels
   Donders Theme Meeting, gesture & Sign group
   September 15, 2011, Nijmegen
3. Ideophones and creativity: documented cases of ideophone creation in a corpus of naturally occurring speech
   41th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
   August 29-31, 2011, Leiden
2. Ideophones: Challenge and Opportunity for Language Documentation
   Language Documentation and Description in the Netherlands
   April 8-9, 2011, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
1. Iconicity and performance
   Invited talk at the Keio-Tamagawa Workshop on Sound-Symbolism and Mimetics
   February 18, 2011, Tamagawa University, Japan.

2010

6. Ideophones and the study of African languages
   Invited talk at the journée scientifue du LLACAN
   December 10, 2010, LLACAN, Paris.
5. How to do things with ideophones: a field guide
   Invited talk at workshop on African Responses to Language Endangerment
   December 2-4, 2010, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.
4. Linguistic research and fieldwork: what researchers want
   AVATecH Expert Workshop
   November 16-17, 2010, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
3. Ideophones and verbal art
   Humanities of the Lesser Known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics
   September 10-11, 2010, Lund University, Sweden
2. The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu
   40th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
   August 23-25, 2010, Leiden
1. How to Do Things with Ideophones: Towards A Social Interactional Approach
   36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
   February 6-7, 2010, Berkeley

2009

11. Ideophones and the senses. The interplay of language, culture, and the perceptual world in a West-African society
    108th Annual AAA meeting
    December 2-6, 2009, Philadelphia
10. Ideophones and the Communal Ethos of the Mawu people
    Invited ad hoc lecture at Princeton University Department of Music
    December 3, 2009, Princeton
9. Ideophones in unexpected places
   Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2
   November 13-14, 2009, London
8. The semi-Bantu noun class system of Siwu (na-GTM, Ghana)
   39th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
   August 24, 2009, Leiden
7. What do we really know about ideophones?
   6th World Congress of African Linguistics
   August 20, 2009, Cologne
6. The interaction of syntax and expressivity in Siwu ideophones
   2009 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
   August 9, 2009, Berkeley
5. Ideophones in Siwu: New methods and findings
   Invited Talk at the Research Colloquium of the Institut für Afrikanistik
   July 15, 2009, Köln
4. Sound-symbolism in Ideophones
   Workshop on Cross-modality and sound-symbolism, MPI for Psycholinguistics (presenting joint work from the Ideophones and Sound-symbolism project)
   July 7, 2009, Nijmegen
3. Ezra Pound among the Mawu: the everyday poetics of ideophones in a West-African society
   7th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
   June 9-14, 2009, Toronto
2. How To Do Things With Ideophones: Observations on the use of vivid sensory language in Siwu
   Invited Talk at SOAS Research Seminar
   June 3, 2009, London
1. Ideophones and iconicity in Siwu
   Workshop Universals of Sound Symbolism
   February 26-27, 2009, Nijmegen

2008

4. Ideophones and the slippery slope of expressivity in Siwu
   2nd International Worshop on the Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages
   August 3-8, 2008, Ho, Ghana
3. A first look at Siwu ideophones: spontaneous conversations and folk definitions
   26th West African Languages Congress
   July 26-August 2, 2008, Winneba, Ghana
2. Ideophones in the wild
   Dept. of Linguistics, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
   May 9, 2008, Leipzig
1. Ideophones in the wild: Notes on the cultural ecology of ideophones in Siwu (Niger-Congo, eastern Ghana)
   Expressives Workshop
   April 11, 2008, Nijmegen

2007

2. The semantics of Bantu noun classification
   Invited Lecture in a course on Nominal classification in Bantu
   October 9, 2007, Leiden University
1. Notes on Siwu
   Round Table Conference on the GTM Languages
   March 28, 2007, Leiden University