http://linguistlist.org Latest FYI Issues en-us Copyright 2008 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:00:01 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-996.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-996.html Gill Philip <gill.philip@unimc.it> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:24:50 EST
The RaAM Early Career Research Prize aims to encourage the production and dissemination of high quality research in the field of metaphor. The prize will be awarded biennially for the best research paper published by a researcher who has recently completed a PhD.

The prize for 2016 will be GBP200 + 1 year's free membership of RaAM.
The deadline for submitting a paper is 31 March 2016.

See also: http://www.raam.org.uk/about-raam/early-career-prize/

Criteria for the award

The RaAM Early Career Research prize will be awarded for the paper that best demonstrates the following qualities, reflecting the stated aims of the RaAM organisation:

- originality
- rigour in research methodology
- contribution to metaphor studies
- relevance and significance to real world context.

Eligibility

1. Applicants must have been awarded a PhD degree in the 4 year period immediately preceding the RaAM Prize presentation date (or, exceptionally, be enrolled/registered as a PhD student). The date of the PhD award is taken as the date the degree was conferred by the university. For 2016, this is the period 1 July 2012 – 1 July 2016.
2. The applicant must be the sole author, or first author having made the major contribution to the paper. If not the sole author, the applicant must include signed statements from the other author(s) as to the level of the applicant's contribution.
3. An applicant may submit only one paper in one prize year.
4. The paper submitted must be published in a journal or edited collection, and must have been peer-reviewed. It may be published in print or electronically.
5. It must be in print (or otherwise out in a definitive, archived form in the public domain) at the time of application.
6. The paper must be centrally concerned with metaphor in real world contexts.
7. The paper may be in any language (but see point 4 below).


Procedure for submitting a paper

1. In each RaAM Conference year, there will be a deadline for applications that will normally be at least two months before the Conference. For 2016, this will be 31 March 2016.
2. Applicants must submit their papers to the RaAM Prize Panel by the deadline and to the address provided, either in print (4 copies) or by pointing to a publicly accessible electronic version.
Mailing address for 2016: gill.philip@unimc.it
3. Each application must be accompanied by:
a. a statement, no longer than 500 words, justifying the claim that the candidate paper meets the Award Criteria of originality, rigour in research methodology, contribution to the field and relevance to real-world context.
b. evidence that the applicant and the paper meet the eligibility criteria set out above, i.e. evidence of date of PhD award; evidence of main authorship, if not sole author; evidence of peer review (e.g., letter from editor).
4. If the paper is not written in English then the applicant must supply a 1000-word abstract in English, and must designate someone prepared to translate the paper if the RaAM Prize Panel requests this.


Judging and Awarding

1. A RaAM Prize Panel will be formed at appropriate points by the RaAM Executive Committee, with term-limited membership, and subject to such regulations (e.g. concerning successive membership terms) as will be agreed from time to time by the RaAM Board. The RaAM Prize Panel will be solely responsible for deciding on eligibility and awards. For 2016:
- Dr Gill Philip, University of Macerata, Italy
- Prof. Albert Katz, Western University, Canada
- Dr Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2. RaAM Executive Committee take due measures against possible conflicts of interest, and members of the Prize Panel will not be connected to applicants or their PhD process, e.g. as examiner or supervisor.
3. Awards will be announced at the end of the 2016 RaAM Conference in Berlin, July 1 - 4, 2016 http://www.raam2016.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Translation

[Linguist List announcement 27.996]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-987.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-987.html Adrian Tien <tiena@tcd.ie> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:12:51 EST https://www.tcd.ie/Asian/teaching/chinese/)

This interdisciplinary two-year taught Master's degree in Chinese Studies offers a unique opportunity for you to engage deeply and critically with China today, and to provide a solid and rigorous foundation for your career aspirations.

Our Master's degree in Chinese Studies seeks to develop students' in-depth knowledge and understanding of China in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within a comparative, global context. We approach the study of China from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including modern Chinese history and thought, politics and governance, language, society and culture.

It is principally aimed at students with a primary degree in humanities or social science subjects. It produces employable graduates equipped with the analytical and methodological skills for future careers requiring a strong knowledge of contemporary China, and provides a unique opportunity to undertake subject-specific study and research training in the context of contemporary China. Opportunities for further doctoral research are available in a variety of subject areas.

Flexible Design

You can tailor your Master's programme according to your language ability and interests. Students choose between two key strands in this taught Master's degree. Each strand offers a range of core and elective modules which provide different disciplinary perspectives on contemporary China. Strand 1 offers you intensive Mandarin tuition in addition to the core modules on contemporary China, and aims to you to an intermediate proficiency level in spoken and written Mandarin. Strand 2 provides for students who have prior Chinese language learning experience, through their undergraduate programme, other study or work experience, and is also suitable if you are a native speaker of Mandarin. If you enrol in Strand 2, you may choose to polish your Chinese language proficiency through intermediate to advanced Mandarin modules.

Study in China

The first two semesters of the degree are delivered in Dublin. In the third semester of the degree, you will gain first-hand experience and understanding of Chinese life and society through our Study Abroad programme in one of Trinity's partner universities (including for instance Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Beihang University, the University of Nottingham-Ningbo, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore).You then return to Trinity College to complete the fourth and final semester, and submit a Master's dissertation.

More information

Please contact the Chinese Studies programme director Professor Adrian Tien (tiena@tcd.ie) with your queries about the degree or email our office staff at tcas@tcd.ie.


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

[Linguist List announcement 27.987]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-969.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-969.html Ian Pratt-Hartmann <ipratt@cs.man.ac.uk> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:28:37 EST
Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.info) has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2015.

Who qualifies:

Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2015 and December 31st, 2015. Theses must be written in English; however, the Committee accepts submissions of English translations of theses originally written in other languages, and for which a PhD was awarded in the preceding two years (i.e. between January 1st, 2013 and December 31st, 2014). There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or on the university where the Ph.D. was granted.

Prize:

The prize consists of:

-a certificate
-a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation
-an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer).

How to submit: See http://www.folli.info/?page_id=213
Queries: Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt@cs.man.ac.uk)

Important dates:

Deadline for Submissions: May 9, 2016
Notification of Decision: July 18, 2016
ESSLLI summer school: August 15 - 26, 2016


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.969]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-936.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-936.html Eric Bakovic <ebakovic@ucsd.edu> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:54:53 EST Katie Fortney at the University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication writes:

''In November 2015, the editorial board of Lingua, a linguistics journal published by Elsevier, resigned en masse to begin a new open access journal, Glossa. […] Several UC linguistics faculty have now issued a statement declaring their support for the new journal and urging their colleagues and the UC libraries to no longer support Lingua. In response, the UC libraries have informed Elsevier that they wish to cancel their subscription to Lingua. […] In making this statement of support for Glossa, the UC Linguistics faculty have joined their colleagues at institutions like the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and MIT; in addition MIT recently announced its support for Open Library of Humanities, which is supporting Glossa's move to its new home at Ubiquity Press.''

For the full story (including relevant links), see here:
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2016/02/uc-lingustics-faculty-support-glossa/

The statement of support, list of signatories, and related information can be found here:
http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~ebakovic/glossa/


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.936]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-935.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-935.html Ana Piquer-Píriz <anapiriz@unex.es> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:54:10 EST
We are very pleased to announce that the first part of the European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) can be searched by registered users via the internet. Interested researchers may now access the 58,834-word corpus of 27 office hours’ consultations carried out in English as academic lingua franca at four different universities in Europe (Ireland, England, Sweden and the Netherlands). The transcripts may be downloaded as XML or txt.

This is the first corpus of its kind to be made widely available. It provides transcripts of academic conversations between undergraduate Erasmus students (L1 Spanish) and their lecturers at different host universities. It may thus prove of interest to those whose research interests include spoken academic discourse, intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca, study abroad experiences or the assessment of oral skills, among others. Apart from the transcripts of academic mentoring sessions recorded between lecturers and Spanish undergraduate Erasmus students, full contextual information is provided in all cases (background information on participants, detailed description of the setting, topics covered or participants’ subjective judgments of possible on-stage effects on their interaction). The transcripts record (from left to right) (1) the speech entry number; (2) speaker identification; (3) transcribed speech (4) time stamp (every 30 seconds) and word/fragment of speech at which it occurs. The system of transcription used is based on the one developed by for the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) (VOICE Project. 2007. VOICE Transcription Conventions [2.1]. http://www.univie.ac.at/voice/documents/VOICE_mark-up_conventions_v2-1.pdf (date of last access 04/06/2013). Full details of the transcription system used can be found at:
http://www.eurocoat.es/web_sections_1/the_corpus_eurocoat_the_european_corpus_of_academic_talk_12

This corpus is the result of a three-year research project supported by the Spanish ‘Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad’ (ref. FFI2011-22809).

We kindly invite all interested researchers to visit www.eurocoat.es for further details about the project, the corpus and how to access it.

Ana Piquer-Píriz, on behalf of the research team.


Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

[Linguist List announcement 27.935]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-918.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-918.html Shudong Huang <shudongh@gmail.com> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:29:44 EST
Highlights:

- Two confirmed evaluation tasks: MT and NER (Topic Labeling is under development)
- Two training conditions: constrained (required) and unconstrained
- Surprise language evaluation
- Three evaluation checkpoints to gauge performance based on training resources given

2016 Schedule:

Feb 19 - May 2: Registration period
Jun 2 - 8: Dry run period
Jun 29: Encrypted evaluation data released
Jul 6: Surprise language announced and evaluation begins
Jul 13: Checkpoint 1 due
Jul 20: Checkpoint 2 due
Aug 3: Checkpoint 3 due
Aug 28 – 29: Post evaluation workshop in Washington state

For more information about the LoReHLT16 evaluation, please see the evaluation plan at http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt16.cfm. If you have any questions, contact us at lorehlt_poc@nist.gov.

Feel free to forward this message to your colleagues who may find the evaluation of interest.

Best Regards,
NIST LoReHLT team


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.918]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-908.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-908.html Shudong Huang <shudongh@gmail.com> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:22:21 EST
NIST is running the 2016 Open Keyword Search technology evaluation on conversational telephone speech in a ''surprise'' language to be announced July 20, 2016. If you or colleagues are interested in participating, please go to http://nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openkws16.cfm for details and signup information. There are many exciting changes featured in this years's evaluation including data releases of 24 Babel languages to support for multilingual keyword search research.

Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested.
Best regards,
Jon Fiscus


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.908]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-906.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-906.html Vera Ferreira <vferreira@cidles.eu> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:50:45 EST https://sites.google.com/site/savedbylanguagedocumentary/, a documentary about how a Bosnian Sephardic boy saved his life in the Holocaust by speaking Judeo-Spanish), will be offering their film and other Judeo-Spanish films for people to watch for free, in commemoration of International Mother Language Day at: http://muestroespanyol.com/.


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.906]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-898.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-898.html Paul Peranteau <paul@benjmains.com> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:35:56 EST
The new editorial configuration will be:
Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro | University of Illinois at Chicago
Kimberly L. Geeslin | Indiana University

Romance linguists are by definition not only aligned with their theoretical paradigm (e.g. usage-based sociolinguists to generative grammarians), but rather there is a sense of a larger community to which all Romance linguists belong by virtue of the languages studied. Spanish and Portuguese are two of the top ten most widely spoken languages in the world. They are by far the largest two in the Romance family of languages in terms of number of speakers. It is fair to say that there is a strong sub-community of Romance linguists also aligned by virtue of their research foci on Spanish and Portuguese. Beyond providing high quality work applicable to the linguistic sciences in general, the aforementioned community of Hispanic and Lusophone linguists is precisely the audience to which we believe this book series will appeal to the most.

The aim of this book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics is to provide a single home for the highest quality monographs and edited volumes pertaining to Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics. In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the series hopes to include volumes that represent the many sub-fields and paradigms of linguistics that do high quality research targeting Iberian Romance languages. We seek projects pertaining to all dialects in the world where these languages (co-)exist (e.g. Europe, South and North America, Africa) as well as projects on the acquisition of these languages anywhere Spanish and Portuguese are acquired in childhood or adulthood. Because our goal is to consider manuscripts from all relevant linguistic approaches, the common thread across the books within this series will be the languages themselves. Although we anticipate that the majority of the books will focus on Spanish and Portuguese, for obvious reasons, we would like to encourage book proposals that engage other Iberian-Romance languages in Europe (e.g., Galician, Catalan, Aragonese, etc.) and/or examine Spanish and Portuguese in their co-existence with other non-Romance languages in Europe (e.g. Basque), indigenous languages in Latin America, English in North America, and other national and regional languages across the Hispanic and Lusophone world. Projects that engage several of these languages together are especially welcome. We will consider proposals that focus on formal syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics/phonology, pragmatics from any established research paradigm, as well as psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. The editorial board is comprised of experts in all of the aforementioned fields.

Editorial Board:
Patrícia Amaral | Indiana University
Sonia Colina | University of Arizona
João Costa | Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Inês Duarte | Universidade de Lisboa
Daniel Erker | Boston University
Timothy L. Face | University of Minnesota
Sónia Frota | Universidade de Lisboa
Ángel J. Gallego | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
María del Pilar García Mayo | Universidad del País Vasco
Anna Gavarró | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Michael Iverson | Indiana University
Matthew Kanwit | University of Pittsburgh
Paula Kempchinsky | University of Iowa
Naomi Lapidus Shin | University of New Mexico
Juana M. Liceras | University of Ottawa
John M. Lipski | Pennsylvania State University
Gillian Lord | University of Florida
Jairo Nunes | Universidade de São Paulo
Acrisio Pires | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pilar Prieto | Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jason Rothman | University of Reading
Liliana Sánchez | Rutgers University
Ana Lúcia Santos | Universidade de Lisboa
Scott A. Schwenter | Ohio State University
Carmen Silva-Corvalán | University of Southern California
Miquel Simonet | University of Arizona
Megan Solon | State University of New York
Juan Uriagereka | University of Maryland
Elena Valenzuela | University of Ottawa
Bill VanPatten | Michigan State University

ISSN 2213-3887
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/books/ihll/main


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
                            Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

[Linguist List announcement 27.898]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-897.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-897.html Paul Peranteau <paul@benjamins.com> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:35:41 EST
Dawn Archer | Manchester Metropolitan University
Susan Fitzmaurice | University of Sheffield

In addition, Graham T. Williams | University of Sheffield has accepted the position of Review Editor.

The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization.

Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach. However, the focus of the articles is always on the communicative use of language.

The Journal of Historical Pragmatics contains original articles, research reports and book reviews. Occasionally focus-on issues are published on specific topics within the editorial scope of the journal.

2014 Impact Factor: 0.045 (5-year: 0.086)
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique, Linguistics Abstracts, Scopus, Bibliography of Pragmatics Online, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Scisearch, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, ERIH PLUS

Editorial Board:
Cynthia L. Allen | Australian National University, Canberra
Leslie K. Arnovick | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Marcel Bax | University of Groningen
Marcella Bertuccelli Papi | University of Pisa
Jonathan Culpeper | Lancaster University
Andreas Fischer | University of Zurich
Gerd Fritz | Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson | Uppsala University
Gudrun Held | University of Salzburg
Andreas H. Jucker | University of Zurich
Terttu Nevalainen | University of Helsinki
Noriko O. Onodera | Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Roger D. Sell | Åbo Akademi University
Irma Taavitsainen | University of Helsinki
Elizabeth Closs Traugott | Stanford University

ISSN 1566-5852 | E-ISSN 1569-9854 | Electronic edition
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/journals/jhp/main


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics

[Linguist List announcement 27.897]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-896.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-896.html Paul Peranteau <paul@benjamins.com> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:35:22 EST As of Volume 7 (2016), the new editorial configuration is:

Editors:
Sandra Benazzo | Université Paris 8 | lia-sfl@cnrs.fr
Marianne Gullberg | Lund University
Henriette Hendriks | University of Cambridge
Georges Daniel Véronique | Université d'Aix-Marseille

Co-editors:
Marion Blondel | CNRS - Université Paris 8
Sophie Wauquier | Université Paris 8
Assistant Editor: Dana Cohen | Université Paris 8
Former editors Maya Hickmann and Dominique Bassano will remain on the the Editorial Board.
Editorial Board:
Anne Baker
Dominique Bassano
Sandra Benazzo
Marion Blondel
Beppie van den Bogaerde
Dominique Boutet
Jean-Marc Colletta
Christine Dimroth
Cyrille Granget
Jonas Granfeldt
Peter Griggs
Michèle Guidetti
Marianne Gullberg
Henriette Hendriks
Maya Hickmann
Dominique Klingler
Monique Lambert
Gary Morgan
Aliyah Morgenstern
Aslı Özyürek
Rebekah Rast
Marie-Anne Sallandre
Ellenor M. Shoemaker
Elin Thordardottir
Anne Trévise
Edy Veneziano
Georges Daniel Véronique
Marzena Watorek
Sophie Wauquier
Advisory Board:
Inge Bartning
Ruth A. Berman
Giuliano Bernini
David Birdsong
Geneviève Calbris
Deborah Chen Pichler
Soonja Choi
Eve V. Clark
Jacques Cosnier
Christian Cuxac
Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Michel Fayol
Paul van Geert
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Harriet Jisa
Michèle Kail
Adam Kendon
Wolfgang Klein
David McNeill
Brian MacWhinney
Rachel I. Mayberry
Richard P. Meier
Carmen Muñoz
Elena Nicoladis
Colette Noyau
Simona Pekarek Doehler
Judy Reilly
David Singleton
Dan I. Slobin
Christiane von Stutterheim
Laurice Tuller
Virginia Volterra

Language, Interaction and Acquisition/ Langage, Interaction et Acquisition is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.

This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Linguistics Abstracts, LLBA, MLA Bibliography, LB, Scopus, IBR/IBZ, ERIH PLUS
ISSN 1879-7865 | E-ISSN 1879-7873 | Electronic edition
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/journals/lia/main


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition

[Linguist List announcement 27.896]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-895.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-895.html Laurel Plapp <l.plapp@peterlang.com> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:34:54 EST Peter Lang welcomes new proposals to our book series:
Language, Migration and Identity
Edited by Vera Regan
www.peterlang.com?LMI

This series fills a hitherto neglected but now growing area in the treatment of migration: the role of language and identity. This topic is central in a globalized world where the definition of community is constantly challenged by the increased mobility of individuals. Linked to this mobility is the issue of identity construction, in which language plays a key role. Language practices are indicators of the socialization process in bilingual and multilingual settings, and part of the strategies by which speakers assert membership within social groups. Migrant speakers are constantly engaged in identity construction in varying settings.

Language, Migration and Identity invites proposals for revised dissertations, monographs and edited volumes on language practices and language use by migrant speakers. A wide range of themes is envisaged, within the area of migration, but from a broadly linguistic perspective. The series welcomes studies of migrant communities and their language practices, studies of language practices in multilingual educational settings, and case studies of identity building among migrants through language use. Proposals might focus on topics such as second language acquisition in social contexts, variation in L2 speech, multilingualism, acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, hybridity and ‘crossing’ in relation to identity. A multiplicity of approaches in the treatment of this interdisciplinary area will be welcome, from quantitative to ethnographic to mixed methods.

The series welcomes established scholars as well as early career academics and recent PhD research.

For more information, please contact Christabel Scaife, Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, United Kingdom. Email: c.scaife@peterlang.com. Tel: ++44 (0)1865 514160.

New Approaches to Applied Linguistics

Edited by Mark Garner, Annabelle Mooney and Barbara Fennell

www.peterlang.com?NAAL

This series provides an outlet for academic monographs and edited volumes that offer a contemporary and original contribution to applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is understood in a broad sense, to encompass language pedagogy and second-language learning, discourse analysis, bi- and multilingualism, language policy and planning, language use in the internet age, lexicography, professional and organisational communication, literacies, forensic linguistics, pragmatics, and other fields associated with solving real-life language and communication problems. Interdisciplinary contributions, and research that challenges disciplinary assumptions, are particularly welcomed. The series does not impose limitations in terms of methodology or genre and does not support a particular linguistic school. Whilst the series volumes are of a high scholarly standard, they are intended to be accessible to researchers in other fields and to the interested general reader.
New Approaches to Applied Linguistics is based at the Centre for Language Assessment Research, University of Roehampton.
For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, United Kingdom. Email: l.plapp@peterlang.com. Tel: ++44 (0)1865 514160.


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.895]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-865.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-865.html Shlomo Izre'el <izreel@post.tau.ac.il> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:53:10 EST http://cosih.com/ (Hebrew main page) or http://cosih.com/english/index.html (English main page).


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Hebrew (heb)

[Linguist List announcement 27.865]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-829.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-829.html Charlotte Taylor <charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:02:32 EST Call for papers: Conspicuous by Absence: Exploring silence and absence in discourse

Contributions are invited for an edited collection dedicated to absence and silence in discourse. Although it is acknowledged that absences contribute to the meaning of what is present, discourse analysis has frequently focussed on what is said and, to date, the systematic analysis of what is unsaid and silenced, rare or absent in linguistic data, has received relatively little attention. In part, this is due to the methodological challenges of identifying, accessing and investigating absences. More conceptualisation is also required on how we can interpret absences in discourse as meaningful. These are the issues that we intend to tackle in this innovative volume. The aim is to bring together researchers who have been investigating absence and silence and to present a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent (and yet structuring of the discourse). In so doing, the volume aims to promote the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse and to give them a more central position in discourse analysis.

We invite contributions from a range of perspectives, which discuss and demonstrate ways of analysing silence and absence empirically. We particularly welcome proposals which go beyond the identification of an absence to include reflection of how to systematically identify that kind of absence/silence, and how absence can actually be analysed as part of the interpretation of a discourse.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

- absence/silence as the result of suppression to support a dominant discourse, as a result of hegemony and the absence of alternatives
- absence/silence as the result of the development of discourses; what becomes absent in a process of development from a more heterogeneous discourse into hegemonic narratives or what gets left out of successive drafts/different versions of texts and/or as the result of addressee orientation
- absence/silence regarding participants in events; voices that are heard or absent, make themselves heard or are silenced, participants that strategically claim they have been silenced
- absence/silence as the result of (the process of) translation; which texts get selected for translation, which aspects of discourse determined, culture specific or time bound meaning get ‘lost in translation’
- absence/silence in metaphors; how does metaphorical conceptualisation contribute to the foregrounding and backgrounding of aspects of the phenomenon in question
- absence/silence in multimodal texts; what is reinforced or silenced in the interplay between different modes of communication
- metadiscourse about absence/silence; how are silences identified and evaluated by discourse participants, what is it that makes silence meaningful to them

We invite abstract proposals of up to 300 words (excluding references) to be submitted to the editors Melani Schröter (m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk) and Charlotte Taylor (charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk) by 30 April 2016. If accepted, we will ask for first drafts of chapters (up to 9000 words) to be submitted by 1 October 2016 with view to publication with an international publisher (expressions of interest already in place) in 2017.
About us: The editors, Melani Schröter and Charlotte Taylor, have both been investigating and grappling with absence for some time. Melani is the author of ‘Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse’ and Charlotte is the co-author of ‘Patterns and Meaning in Discourse: theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies’ both published with Benjamins. We run an occasional blog on the topic at https://absencediscourse.wordpress.com/

Melani Schröter | https://reading.academia.edu/MelaniSchroeter
Charlotte Taylor | https://sussex.academia.edu/CharlotteTaylor


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

[Linguist List announcement 27.829]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-826.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-826.html Anna Farrell <farre223@umn.edu> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:51:34 EST www.reconsideringdevelopment.org

You are cordially invited to attend a panel discussion with some of the authors from this issue on February 29, 2016 at 4:00PM Central time.

Live: This event will take place at the University of Minnesota (Wilkins Room 215, Humphrey School of Public Affairs).

Online: The panel will also be broadcast online and you are welcome to submit questions via Twitter or email. Link to broadcast: https://plus.google.com/events/cgd8mk43qml0bc2btur8v5qrseo

Sincerely,
Anna Farrell
Guest Editor - Reconsidering Development
University of Minnesota


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics

[Linguist List announcement 27.826]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-802.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-802.html Lucía Fernández-Amaya <lferama@upo.es> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:00:51 EST
Although research on service encounters has now a long standing tradition (Merrit 1976), there is a pressing need for further research that focuses on the consequences that outsourcing, globalization (Sifianou 2013) and the new technologies have had on this genre (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2015). To that end, this volume aims to further explore interaction in mediated service encounters. We welcome chapter proposals focusing on the following topics, but not exclusively:

- Email communication and service encounters
- Commercial websites
- Online chats and service encounters
- Online forums and service encounters
- Outsourcing, globalization, and mediated service encounters
- Telephone service encounters
- (Im)politeness, conflict and aggression in mediated service encounters
- Gender in mediated service encounters
- Mediated health care communication
- Conversational structure of mediated service encounters
- Negotiation in mediated service encounters
- Mediated service encounters in academic contexts
- Mediated service encounters in business contexts
- Mediated service encounters in tourism contexts
- Mediated service encounters and social media
- Mediation in mediated service encounters
- On-line reviews
- Communication between service providers and customers in cross-cultural contexts
Proposals (original research) should be circa 350 words long and should focus on multimodality/or discourse analysis. All submissions should be written in English and sent to the editors before 31 March 2016:

- Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (pgblitvi@uncc.edu)
- Lucía Fernández-Amaya (lferama@upo.es)
- María de la O Hernández-López (mariolahl@upo.es)

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions and feel free to circulate this call for papers among those who may be interested.


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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