Date: 01-Jul-2010
From: Kelechukwu Ihemere <k-u-ihemerehotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Language Change, Loss
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Call for researchers concerned with aspects of language contact phenomenato submit papers for inclusion in a book project to be published in 2011.Papers must be in English.
Rationale:Advances in modern transportation systems, communication technology andincrease in migration has meant that speakers of different languagesinteract closely, hence it is typical for their languages to influence eachother.
The influence could be as common as the exchange of words or what is termedvocabulary borrowing in the literature. It can also go deeper, extending tothe exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as morphologyand grammar. Nepal Bhasa, for example, spoken in Nepal, is a Sino-Tibetanlanguage distantly related to Chinese, but has had so many centuries ofcontact with neighboring Indo-Iranian languages that it has even developednoun inflection, a trait typical of the Indo-European family but rare inSino-Tibetan. It has absorbed features of grammar as well, such as verbtenses. In some cases, the result of the contact of two languages can bethe replacement of one by the other. This is most common in asymmetricrelationship between languages, and sometimes leads to languageendangerment or extinction. It must also be added that language contact canalso lead to the development of new languages when people without a commonlanguage interact closely, developing a pidgin, which may eventually becomea full-fledged creole language through the process of creolization. A primeexample of this is Saramaccan, spoken in Suriname, which has vocabularymainly from Portuguese, English and Dutch, but phonology and even toneswhich are closer to African languages.
Over the years various researchers have studied such phenomena, adoptingvaried perspectives and approaches ranging from the sociological togrammatical paradigms or a fusion of both ends of the paradigmatic spectrum.
Author Guidelines:Supply one copy of the paper and keep an identical copy for reference.Manuscripts will not be returned. Submissions must be sent electronicallyto: k-u-ihemerehotmail.co.uk.
Submission of a paper is assumed to mean that it is original work which hasnot been previously published and is not simultaneously in press or beingconsidered for publication elsewhere (in either electronic or hard copy).Related articles being published or considered elsewhere should beacknowledged.
Submissions should normally be limited to a maximum of 40 manuscript pages(single-spaced, 12-point type), including all references, tables, figures,appendices, etc. Exceptions might be where additional space is essential,for example, in reviewing extensive literatures or in representing largecorpora.
Format:The front page of the manuscript should carry the title of the paper,name/s and affiliation/s of author/s, and full contact addresses forcorrespondence - postal, email, fax and telephone. Correspondence will besent to the first-named author unless otherwise indicated.
The 2nd page of the manuscript should carry the title (but no authoridentification), a single- paragraph abstract of up to 200 words, a list ofup to six key words, a short running title for use as a page header, andthe word count for the main text only of the paper (excluding abstract,notes and references).
The main text of the article begins on the 3rd page. Tables and Figuresshould be inserted where they should appear in the pages. After the end ofthe main text, there follow in order: Notes, References, and Appendices(number all pages).
Manuscripts should be typed on single sided A4 or 8½ x 11-inch paper. Theyshould be single spaced throughout (including abstract, quotations,transcripts, notes, references, tables, etc.). Do not justify the rightmargin or hyphenate within words.
Avoid more than two levels of subheadings. Use all upper case letters forthe first level of heading, lower and upper case for the second level.After a heading, start text on the line next below. Begin paragraphs withan indent except after headings. Leave an extra space between paragraphs.
Lists or numbered examples should use Arabic numbers on the margin,followed by a stop but without parentheses, with the text indentedthroughout. Long quotations, whether citations or data, should be separatedfrom the text and indented, and in full size type.
Spelling and punctuation:Use single quote marks for quotations, double quote marks for ''quotationswithin quotations''. Give page number of reference for direct quotations.Translations or glosses should appear in single quotes.
Ensure that phonetic or other non-orthographic symbols are clear,especially diacritic marks. For excerpts of transcribed spoken data, keepconventions to the minimum necessary for the points to be made. Explainconventions in the text above the first excerpt or in a note or appendix,depending on length.
Either British or American spelling and punctuation conventions may beused, but they should be applied consistently throughout the paper.
Notes:Avoid the use of notes where possible - authors will be asked to reduceexcessive numbers of notes.
Notes will appear as endnotes. Use superscript numbers (not too small) inthe text. Number notes consecutively and gather them immediately after theend of the main text. Start them on a new page, and use the heading NOTES.Place note numbers on the left margin, with the text indented throughout.Leave an extra space between each note.
Use Note 1 for acknowledgements, etc., and attach it to the title on thecover page.
References:References should use the author/date system, e.g.: (Hymes 1974). When theauthors name appears in the text, use: "Gumperz (1983) argues that ...." -type format. Page numbers appear after a colon (plus space) following thedate, such as: Labov (1972: 269-270). Do not use additional parenthesesfor the date of a reference contained in text that is already enclosed inparentheses. Use semicolons between a sequence of references by differentauthors. For works with three or more authors, either use all authors namesat each citation: Fishman, Ferguson and Das Gupta (1968); or use et al.after first mention: Fishman et al. (1968).
All works cited must appear under the title References following any notes.Start the references on a new page. Check thoroughly that all works citedin text and notes appear in the list of references, and that authors anddates match between citation and references.
The references appear in alphabetical order. Use authors names as theyappear on the published sources, with full first name unless author usesonly initials. Reverse first and last names only for the head name of thereference.
Same-author references appear in date order. Same-date references by thesame author should be identified with letters: Labov 1972a, 1972b, 1972c,etc. Multiple-authored works follow all sole-authored works by the firstauthor, in alphabetical order of second (and subsequent) authors. Do notuse the convention of an underline before the date for subsequent works bythe same author.
Indent the second and subsequent lines of each reference. Capitalize mainwords in book and journal titles. Use minimal capitalization in articletitles, but capitalize the first letter after a colon within the title. Donot use quotation marks around article or chapter titles. Underline thetitles of books and journals.
Give volume number for journal references, and publisher plus place ofpublication for books. Spell out U.S. state names in full. Use the word'and', not '&' (ampersand). Give full page numbers for articles in journalsand books.
Use the following styles for citing monographs, edited volumes, articles inedited volumes, journal articles, conference or other oral presentations,and unpublished works such as dissertations:
Bartlett, Chris. 1990. Research in progress on the Southland variety ofNew Zealand English. Paper presented to the New Zealand Seminar onLanguage and Society, Victoria University, Wellington.
Tables and figuresTables and figures should be numbered consecutively. Supply a brief captionabove each table and below each figure, including a gloss on anyabbreviations used. Keep detail on tables and figures to the minimum neededto substantiate the points made in the text. Ensure all figures are ofsufficient quality to reproduce adequately. Use a type size large enough toallow for reduction at publication.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
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