LINGUIST List 22.607 Fri Feb 04 2011 Calls: General Linguistics/ RMN Newsletter (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <d-hornbyhotmail.com> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Mister Frog , RMN Newsletter Message 1: RMN Newsletter Date: 30-Jan-2011 From: Mister Frog <editor.rmnnewslettergmail.com> Subject: RMN Newsletter E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: RMN Newsletter Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2011 RMN Newsletter (ISSN 1799-4497) is an open access bi-annual publication of Folklore Studies / Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki. Issues appear in May and December of each year: http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/index.htm The newsletter is oriented to constructing an informational resource and discourse space for researchers of diverse, intersecting disciplines who share common interests in the problems, strategies, values and limitations of comparative and diachronic research related to: * investigations into the history underlying the diverse and variegated evidence of a tradition or other cultural phenomenon (e.g. a lexical item, conceptual schema, narrative, belief, etc.); * relationships between evidence of a tradition or other cultural phenomenon manifested in different historical periods; * relationships and historical processes underlying manifestations of a tradition or other cultural phenomenon encountered across multiple cultures; * and the potentials and limitations of analogical comparisons between living/recent traditions or cultural phenomena and those of earlier historical periods for which evidence is extremely limited. These interests are not bound to any one discipline, and the increasing movement toward interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study and research projects makes it important to have a multidisciplinary informational resource. The orientation of the newsletter is not the publication of research articles. It is instead oriented toward information about events, people, activities, technologies, and research which is ongoing or has been recently completed. We invite you to participate in this process by submitting abstracts of your own relevant presentations and publications as reports and announcements so that other scholars with similar interests can be made aware and remain up to date on what you are doing. It also constructs a venue in which scholars can engage in discussion rather than constraining contributions to the conclusions of research (present in your summaries for rapid survey, directing the reader to the full publication). RMN Newsletter is formatted to be searchable, so that you will be able to find other scholars doing work in the areas of your interests by using the relevant key words. RMN Newsletter welcomes and promotes its readership to engage in the discourse space which it offers. We also promote an awareness that your contribution to and engagement with the voices presented will support, maintain and also shape this emergent discourse space. Please visit us at http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/index.htm Guidelines for submissions are available at: http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/contributors.htm The emerging generation of scholars is extremely important across our diverse disciplines. It is important for us to both be aware of that generation and open contact with it. RMN Newsletter therefore has sections devoted to summaries of ongoing or recently completed doctoral dissertation and master thesis research. We would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this information to your relevant students: every publication is significant on a young researcher's CV, and we welcome the opportunity to be a place of first publication. With warm regards and welcome, Frog, Helen F. Leslie and Mathias Nordvig. ---- Frog, PhD Research Fellow Folklore Studies / Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies PL 4 (Vuorikatu 3) 00014 University of Helsinki +358 (0)9-191 24628 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.