LINGUIST List 14.729

Thu Mar 13 2003

All: Reviews - Another Core Service from LINGUIST

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. linguist, All About Reviews on LINGUIST
2. linguist, Spotlight Naomi - Student Reviews Editor
3. linguist, How to Donate to LINGUIST and Contributors So Far

Dear LINGUIST subscribers,
	
Providing LINGUIST List book reviews is one of our core services in
the publication area. Last year we posted over 200 book reviews, and
in the first two months of this year we have already posted about 50
reviews. This past year, we also added all the reviews that have ever
appeared in LINGUIST (about 900 altogether) to our publications
database, linking them to the announcements of the books that they
review. In addition, as each new review is posted, it is immediately
linked to the appropriate book announcement.

The Reviews index page on the LINGUIST website can be accessed by
clicking on "Publications", and then "Reviews". Facilities are
provided on that page for browsing or searching for specific reviews
by author or title, for listing all the reviews of books produced by
specific publishers, and for immediately accessing all the reviews
posted in 2003. The URL for the 2003 listing of reviews is

http://linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2003r.html

And to find the listing of reviews for any other year from 1994 to
2002, simply replace "2003" by the desired year in the URL. We plan to
add additional functionality to this page in the coming year.

Our process for selecting reviewers remains the same as in the
past. We first announce books as AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW at the beginning
of each month, except January, (see the most recent one at:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-327.html). We invite subscribers
to tell us which books they're interested in reviewing, and their
qualifications to do the review. Review editors Terry Langendoen and
Simin Karimi then meet to select reviewers by matching prospective
reviewers' qualifications with the books they are to review. Once
reviewers are selected, we mail books out to them. Reviewers receive
a book with our detailed review instructions and are asked to send
their reviews back to us electronically within six weeks. Simin and
Terry check the content of reviews to maintain high quality of
reviews, and student review editor Naomi Ogasawara formats and posts
them on the LINGUIST List within 48 hours after their submission.

The interest of our supporting publishers and of our subscribers in
our review service is very high, judging from the number of books we
receive for review, and the number of responses we get to each of our
calls for reviewers. We are interested in your suggestions to make our
review service even better. Please write to us at
siminlinguistlist.org, terrylinguistlist.org or
naomilinguistlist.org.

We believe we provide an excellent service at low cost. But we do have
costs. Simin and Terry contribute their time, but Naomi like every
other student editor, receives support for her graduate education in
linguistics, in part from LINGUIST. We also have substantial mailing
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choice.

We also welcome your reviews of the cookbook, though we reserve the
right not to post them.

Sincerely yours,

LINGUIST List Reviews at University of Arizona
Editors: Terry Langendoen and Simin Karimi
Student editor: Naomi Ogasawara

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Thank you for keeping LINGUIST alive.

Greetings!

I have been working for the LINGUIST List for almost four years. I
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LINGUIST List is fascinating to me in many ways. It has been
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Last summer I moved to Tucson, Arizona to pursue a PhD degree. I was
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Naomi Ogasawara

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
 
 Cambridge University Press
	http://www.cup.org 
 Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
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 John Benjamins
	http://www.benjamins.com/
	http://www.benjamins.nl
 Kluwer Academic Publishers
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 Lincom GmbH
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 MIT Press
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 Oxford University Press
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 Rodopi
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 Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	http://www.routledge.com/ 
 

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

 CSLI Publications
 http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ 
 Cascadilla Press
 http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
 Evolution Publishing
 http://www.evolpub.com 
 Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
 http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm 
 International Pragmatics Assoc.
 http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ 
 Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
 http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
 MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
 http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 
 Multilingual Matters
 http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
 Palgrave Macmillan
 http://www.palgrave.com 
 SIL International
 http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 
 St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
 http://www.stjerome.co.uk/ 
 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
 http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

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