LINGUIST List 21.2577 Sat Jun 12 2010 FYI: New Journal Announcement and Call for Volume Proposals Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Jeff Runner, Call for Volume Proposals: Syntax and Semantics         2.    Martina Temmerman, Tangens: New Journal on Language and Communication Message 1: Call for Volume Proposals: Syntax and Semantics Date: 10-Jun-2010 From: Jeff Runner <runnerling.rochester.edu> Subject: Call for Volume Proposals: Syntax and Semantics E-mail this message to a friend The editor of book series 'Syntax and Semantics' invites proposals for volumes to be published in its series. The aim of the Syntax and Semantics Series is to publish exciting and innovative research involving the sub-systems of grammar that interface with syntax and semantics. This crucially includes the syntax-semantics interface itself, but also the systematic interplay of syntax and semantics with pragmatics, information structure and discourse. The series will promote in particular research that brings novel forms of empirical evidence to bear on issues in theoretical syntax and semantics. Syntax and Semantics is listed on the ISI Web of Knowledge. You can find more information on Syntax and Semantics by visiting http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=0092-4563. Volumes can be a monograph piece by one or two authors, or an edited collection of papers by various authors. They are often (but not universally) theme-based, and seek to highlight the latest research. To submit a proposal, please complete an Advanced Title Information Form (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/guides/advanced_title_information_form.doc) providing a brief synopsis, a provisional table of contents and a list of contributors (if known). The form should also contain a tentative title, estimated manuscript length and date for submission. This form should be submitted to the Series Editor, Jeff Runner, runnerling.rochester.edu. For more information on being a Volume Editor, please visit http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/guides/multi_author.htm, or contact the Series Editor. Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax Message 2: Tangens: New Journal on Language and Communication Date: 07-Jun-2010 From: Martina Temmerman <martina.temmermanehb.be> Subject: Tangens: New Journal on Language and Communication E-mail this message to a friend Tangens is a new journal from the Department of Applied Linguistics at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels, Belguim. This international journal for interdisciplinary language and communication research will be published biannually. The journal welcomes contributions on language and communication from writers of diverse backgrounds, including linguistics, literature, second language acquisition, translation, journalism, and professional writing. Contributions must be written in English. Tangens will appear in thematic issues, each issue co-edited by an issue editor. The first issue (to appear in February 2011) will gather contributions addressing the question 'What’s in a name?'. Names are generally considered to be arbitrary but on the other hand, the importance of choosing the right names cannot be underestimated. Naming analysis examines the different names that are used to refer to (social) actors or events within a given text . As such, naming analysis examines onomasiological variation (Geeraerts et al. 1994). This type of lexical variation refers to the fact that the same kind of referent may be named by various semantically distinct lexical categories. Onomasiological variation is a form of conceptual (or "semantic") variation: it involves differences in categorization. It takes its starting point on the level of semantic values and describes how a particular semantic value may be variously expressed by means of different words (Geeraerts et al. 1994: 3-5). Since "the vocabulary one is familiar with provides sets of preconstructed categories, and representation always involves deciding how to 'place' what is being represented within these sets of categories" (Fairclough 1995: 109), it must be clear that every linguistic representation brings along a specific meaning, based on a specific viewpoint. In this way, naming analysis is concerned with both form and meaning. One of the basic principles is that 'meanings are necessarily realized in forms, and differences in meaning entail differences in form. Conversely, it is a sensible working assumption that where forms are different, there will be some difference in meaning' (Fairclough 1995: 57-58). Naming is a powerful ideological tool. In contrast to the traditional prescriptive approach to term formation and use, it has been demonstrated in descriptive terminology studies that many specialized concepts are named by more than one term as a result of different cognitive, discursive or linguistic motivations (Cabré 2008). 'This poses a challenge for language professionals such as translators, and terminologists, who need to decide which form of a term to use in a given context' (Bowker and Hawkins 2006: 79). Textual archives of disciplines hold information on the history of naming. Naming can be studied and described in intercultural communicative contexts and in unilingual or multilingual settings. Specific attention might go to the translation and interpretation problems related to the cultural aspects of naming in a source language (culture-bound metaphors, eponyms, acronyms, etc.) References: Bowker, L. and Hawkins, S. (2006). 'Variation in the organization of medical terms: Exploring some motivations for term choice', Terminology 12 (1): 79-110. Cabré, M.T. (2008). 'El principio de poliedricidad: la articulación de lo discursivo, lo cognitivo y lo lingüístico en Terminología', Ibérica (16): 9-36. Fairclough, N. (1995). Media Discourse. London: Edward Arnold. Geeraerts, D., Grondelaers, S. & Bakema, P. (1994). The structure of lexical variation. Meaning, naming, and context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 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