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December 5, 2026 (Dates/Time showsn in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9))
December 5, 2026 (Dates/Time showsn in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9))
10:30-10:45
On-site registration/Greetings
10:45–11:15
Welcome
Introduction to Ideophones in Use
Kiyoko Toratani (York University) &
Kimi Akita (Nagoya University)
11:15–12:15
Plenary talk:
Wild ideophones, weak sound symbolism and the possible power of unique variation in Amazonian Kichwa
Janis Nuckolls (Brigham Young University)
12:15–14:15
Lunch
14:15–14:45
TBA
14:45–15:15
From ideophone-based innovative verb to ordinary verb: how tekateka and teka-ru are used in beauty-product discourse
Ryoko Uno, Masayuki Ishizuka, Kanako Komiya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), and Masayuki Asahara (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
15:15–15:30
Break
15:30–16:00
Japanese ideophones as emotional expressions
Eugenia Diegoli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Giordano Stocchi (Independent Scholar)
16:00–16:30
The missing puzzle-pieces. Non-onomatopoeic ideophones in Russian dialects
Maria A. Flaksman (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg)
16:30–17:00
Domains of ideophone usage in Khalkha Mongolian
Veronika Zikmundova, Veronika Kapišovská, and Jan Křivan (Charles University)
December 6, 2026 (Dates/Time showsn in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9))
December 6, 2026 (Dates/Time showsn in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9))
10:30-10:45
On-site registration/Greetings
10:45–11:15
The remarkable unremarkableness of ideophones in Kiksht iqanuchk
Philip T. Duncan (University of Kansas)
11:15–11:45
On the use of ideophones at Japanese Sustainable Taster Lunches
Polly Szatrowski (University of Minnesota)
11:45–12:15
Explorations in Jarai expressivity
Jeffrey P. Williams and Lap Siu (Texas Tech University)
12:15–14:15
Lunch
14:15–14:45
Ideophones as interactional resources in joint story construction in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
Yusuke Mochizuki (Matsuyama University) and Jiyeon Park (University of Ulsan)
14:45–15:15
Mapping the semantics of roundness: a comparative study of articulatory ideophones in “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier and its Chinese translation
Yulia Sedelkina (Saint-Petersburg State University) and Zichen Shao (Universiti Malaya)
15:15–15:30
Break
15:30–16:00
The sound patterns of magical Basque
Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER)
16:00–16:30
Making a language visible: Ideophones and linguistic identity in Basque and Aragonese linguistic landscapes
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (University of Zaragoza)
16:30–17:00
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