[Corpora-List] Call for papers: SMS Communication - A Linguistic Approach (Special Issue of Lingvistic=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E6_?=Investigationes)
Louise-Amélie Cougnon
louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.be
Tue Mar 27 10:14:16 UTC 2012
---------------CALL FOR PAPERS----------------
SMS Communication: A Linguistic Approach
(More info: http://www.uclouvain.be/409235.html)
We are soliciting unpublished papers in the field
of SMS writing for a Special Issue of Lingvisticæ
Investigationes (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/main).
Recently, communication properties have changed
and evolved in many ways. Communication today is
faster (the email is certainly much faster than
ordinary ‘snail’ mail), and more practical
(mobile phones compared to landlines); it blurs
certain limits (we can easily keep in touch with
friends who live on the other side of the world,
thanks to networking websites such as Facebook)
and enables multilingual mixing in discussions
(chat or role-playing games using automatic
translators). However, certain linguists
(Jalabert, 2006), and even the media, often point
an accusatory finger at new technologies,
claiming that communication is “deteriorating” as
a result of these innovations. They suggest that
there is always a loss of information or quality
in translated speech, or even that computer
mediated communication (CMC, which includes SMS
communication) is destroying language. Others
(Sapir, 1949) are firmly convinced that it is
better to consider language as an evolving and
changing entity. From this point of view,
language is a social tool that has to be studied
in-depth through the prism of objectivity, as a
process in motion which is influenced by new
social and technological stakes, rather than as a fading organism.
In order to rise beyond this debate, we propose
to study and describe the societal phenomenon of
SMS writing in all its complexity, through a
resolutely interdisciplinary publication. We
follow the impulse initiated by "The inside text"
(Harper and al., 2005), covering the social and
cultural aspects and applications linked to text
messages. We would like to encourage work into
the study of specific social sub-groups such as
teenagers or deaf people (Power & Power, 2004).
We would also appreciate specialized works
focusing on the linguistics of SMS writing:
spelling (Anis, 2003 & Panckhurst, 2008), lexicon
(Cougnon, 2010 & 2011), syntax (Stark, 2011),
discourse analysis (Tagg, in press), etc. Studies
that adopt an NLP approach (Beaufort and al.,
2010, Yvon, 2010) or an empirical approach based
on corpora (Fairon and al., 2006a, Fairon and
al., 2006b, Tagg, 2007, Dürscheid and Stark,
2011) will be given special attention.
Topics
The special issue of Lingvisticae Investigationes
aims to explore innovative developments in the
field of SMS writing. Papers in the following fields are particularly welcome:
– Lexicon
– Syntax
– Phonetics
– Psycholinguistics
– Corpus linguistics
– Sociolinguistics
– Natural language processing
– Language learning
– Statistics
Language of the special issue
English
Key dates
– Call for papers: March 2012
– Intent to Submit: before 22 May 2012
– Deadline for full paper submission: 31 July 2012
– Notification of acceptance / rejection: 30 September 2012
– Final submission of accepted papers: 1 November 2012
Paper Format Guidelines
Your paper must conform to the following requirements to be considered:
– Body of paper no longer than 20 pages,
including abstract, tables, figures and references
– Abstract no longer than 250 words on the first page
– Format guidelines applied from in the
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/guidelines
– Contrary to what is written in the LI
guideline, as the submission is blind-reviewed,
no identifiable author information and references
should appear in the paper, but on a separate sheet with the following:
• Author(s)
• Title of Paper
• Contact person's name
• Email address
The scientific committee selects for publication
the most significant articles containing new
results, ideas and approaches or articles using
original new data. All articles sent to editors
are double-blind peer reviewed. Manuscripts
should be written in proper English. Authors
should pay attention to the style, grammar, and
orthography of the paper. Papers should be
prepared strongly according to the pattern given
in the Guideline. Authors should pay special
attention to precise typographical and bibliographical details.
Editors
Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Centre de traitement
automatique du langage, Université catholique de
Louvain, Belgium. Email : louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.be
Cédrick Fairon, Centre de traitement automatique
du langage, Université catholique de Louvain,
Belgium. Email : cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be
Intent to Submit
You must send an email to
louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain using the Subject
Line "LI Intent to Submit " by May 22 2012 to
indicate that you intend to submit a paper for
consideration. Your intent to submit does not
bind you to submit an actual paper. However, a
note of withdrawal would be appreciated. In your
intent to submit email, please include the
author(s), tentative title, and brief description.
Submitting your paper
Via email: Submit your paper using the Subject
Line "LI First Submission SURNAME" as an
attachment via email to
louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain by July 31, 2012.
In your email, please include the following attachments:
- Main anonymised paper
- Personal information cover sheet
Filenames should follow this pattern: “MainAuthorSurname_LI”
After receipt by our office, you will receive an
email notification of receipt within 3 working
days. If you do not receive a notification of
receipt, please email us at louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.
Scientific committee
Antoniadis Georges (Laboratoire de linguistique
et didactique des langues étrangères et
maternelles, Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France)
Bernicot Josie (Centre de Recherches sur la
Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Université de Poitiers, France)
Cougnon Louise-Amélie (Centre de traitement
automatique du Langage, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Cortelazzo Michele (Dipartimento di Studi
linguistici e letterari, Università di Padova, Italy)
De Clercq Orphée (Language and translation
technology team, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium)
de Marneffe Marie-Catherine (Stanford Department
of Linguistics, Stanford University, United States)
De Smedt Thierry (École de communication,
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Dister Anne (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis
& Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Drouin Patrick (Oservatoire de Linguistique
Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal, Canada)
Fairon Cédrick (Centre de traitement automatique
du Langage, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
François Thomas (Institue for Research in
Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Kyriakopoulou Tita (School of French Language and
Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Klein Jean (CELEXROM, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Ledegen Gudrun (Département Communication, Université Rennes 2, France)
Marshman Elizabeth (School of Translation and
Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Meskill Carla (Department of Educational Theory
and Practice, University at Albany, United States)
Panckurst Rachel (Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS -
Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3, France)
Pekarek Doehler Simona (Institut des sciences du
langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel)
Renouf Antoinette (School of English, Birmingham
City University, Great-Britain)
Roche Mathieu (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de
Robotique et de Microélectronique, Université Montpellier 2, France)
Stark Elisabeth (Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Switzerland)
Tagg Caroline (Centre for English Language
Studies, University of Birmingham, Great-Britain)
Yvon François (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la
Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Université Paris Sud, France)
References
Jacques Anis (2003). "Communication électronique
scripturale et formes langagières". In Actes des
Quatrièmes Rencontres Réseaux Humains / Réseaux
Technologiques. Poitiers, 31 mai et 1er juin
2002, Documents, Actes et Rapports pour l'Education, CNDP, pp. 57-70.
Richard Beaufort, Sophie Roekhaut, Louise-Amélie
Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon (2010). "A hybrid
rule/model-based finite-state framework for
normalizing SMS messages". In Jan Hajic et al.
(eds.): Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010, pp. 770–779.
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (2011). "'Tu te prends pour
the king of the world?'. Language contact in text
messaging context". In Cornelius Hasselblatt,
Peter Houtzagers and Remco van Pareren (éds.).
Language Contact in Times of Globalization.
Studies in Slavic and General Linguistic. 38,
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 45-59.
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (2010). "La néologie dans
'l'écrit spontané'. Etude d'un corpus de SMS en
Belgique francophone". In Actes du Congrès
International de la néologie dans les langues
romanes. Barcelone. Sèrie Activitats, 22, pp. 1139-1154.
Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark (2011).
"SMS4science: An international corpus-based
texting project and the specific challenges for
multilingual Switzerland". In Crispin Thurlow and
Kristine Mroczek (éds.). Digital Discourse.
Language in The New Media. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 299-320.
Cédrick Fairon, Jean René Klein et Sébastien
Paumier (2006a). Le langage SMS.
Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Cahiers du Cental, 3.1.
Cédrick Fairon, Jean René Klein et Sébastien
Paumier (2006b). Le Corpus SMS pour la science.
Base de données de 30.000 SMS et logiciels de
consultation. CD-Rom, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses
universitaires de Louvain, Cahiers du Cental, 3.2.
Richard Harper, Leysia Ann Palen and Alex Taylor
(eds.) (2005). The inside text: Social, cultural
and design perspectives on SMS. Springer.
Romain Jalabert (2006). "MoliR, revi1 vit... il
son 2vnu foo ! ( Molière, reviens vite ... ils
sont devenus fous !) ". In Cahiers pédagogiques,
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(March 4th 2012).
Rachel Panckhurst (2008). "Short Message Service
(SMS) : typologie et problématiques future". In
Arnavielle T. (ed.), Polyphonies, Montpellier, Éditions LU.
Mary Power and Des Power (2004). "Everyone here
speaks txt : Deaf people using sms in Australia
and the rest of the world". In Journal of deaf
studies and deaf education, 9(3), pp. 333–343.
Edward Sapir (1949). Selected Writings in
Language, Culture and Personality. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Elisabeth Stark (2011). "La morphosyntaxe dans
les SMS suisse francophones : Le marquage de
l'accord sujet-verbe conjugué". In Adrian Stähli,
Christa Dürscheid and Marie-José Béguelin (eds.).
SMS-Kommunikation in der Schweiz: Sprach- und
Varietätengebrauch /
(= Linguistik online 48, 4/2011), pp. 35–48.
Caroline Tagg (in press) The Discourse of Text Messaging. London, Continuum.
Caroline Tagg (2007). "Corpus-based analysis of
SMS text messaging". In Teo, P. and Ho, C.
(eds). Discourse in the Modern World:
Perspectives and Challenges, Singapore, McGraw Hill, pp. 267-284.
François Yvon (2010). "Rewriting the orthography
of SMS messages". In Natural Language Engineering, 16(2), pp. 133-159.
Louise-Amélie Cougnon
Linguist & <http://www.sms4science.org/>sms4science project coordinator
Vice-president of the <http://www.bkl-cbl.be/>Linguistic Society of Belgium
Université catholique de Louvain
Centre de traitement automatique du langage (Cental) L3.03.12
1, Place Blaise Pascal
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
Tél.: 00 32 10 47 37 75
http://www.uclouvain.be/44001.html
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