LINGUIST List 23.507 Wed Feb 01 2012 Calls: General Linguistics/ Journal of French Language Studies (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> 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.     Florence Myles , Journal of French Language Studies Message 1: Journal of French Language Studies Date: 01-Feb-2012 From: Florence Myles <fmylesessex.ac.uk> Subject: Journal of French Language Studies E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Journal of French Language Studies Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2012 Journal of French Language Studies The Journal of French Language Studies (Cambridge University Press) invites colleagues to submit proposals for a special thematic issue of the Journal, to be published in February 2014. Submissions will be expected to represent state-of-the-art research in a particular area and to this end should demonstrate that contributions are representative of current activity in the domain proposed. Proposals must include the following information: - Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the proposing/co-ordinating editor(s) - Theme of the special issue - A description, in no more than 200 words, of the research context of the topics to be covered, and the rationale for a thematic issue in this subject area that clearly delineates the theoretical framework and research significance of the topic. - Names of contributing authors, their affiliations, the titles of their articles and brief abstracts (around 150 words) Please note that we are unlikely to consider proposals too closely related to areas covered in recent or forthcoming thematic issues, as follows: - The dynamics of levelling and diversity in French - Le français à la lumière des corpus - Knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language - Relations de cohérence et fonctionnement des anaphores - French in a cross-cultural pragmatics context - Regards croisés sur la prosodie du français - First language acquisition of French grammar (from 0 to 4) - L'hypothèse d'une diglossie en France Proposals should be sent by email, to arrive by 1st April 2012 to: Professor Florence Myles Co-ordinating Editor of JFLS E-Mail: jflsnewcastle.ac.uk Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Feb-2012       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.