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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN">CfP: Yearbook of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">We
invite paper submissions for the <b><a
href="https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/gcla/html">Yearbook
of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association</a>
(DGKL/GCLA) 2026</b>. The Yearbook aims to enable the dynamic
exchance of ideas relating to all aspects of Cognitive
Linguistics both within the association and in the global
Cognitive Linguistics community. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The
spectrum of topics covered by the Yearbook is as broad as
Cognitive Linguistics itself. As such, the Yearbook of the
DGKL/GCLA does not impose specific topical requirements on
contributions, as it aims to document the full range of topics
investigated by members of the Cognitive Linguistics community.
This includes work not just in Cognitive Linguistics in a narrow
sense, but also in closely related fields such as
psycholinguistics, gesture research, and Cognitive Poetics. It
also includes work by researchers in related frameworks that do
not (yet?) consider themselves part of the Cognitive Linguistics
research program, as long as there is a clear connection to the
perspective adopted by the latter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The
yearbook also does not impose specific methodological
requirements, as it aims to document the full range of methods
employed by researchers in the community. However, recent
decades have seen a clear shift away from introspective
approaches and towards a range of empirical methods, including
standard experimental paradigms from psychology and
psycholinguistics as well as a wealth of usage-based methods,
ranging from the analysis of individual texts and conversations
to quantitative corpus-linguistic methods applied to very large
corpora. This is a highly desirable trend and we hope to see it
represented strongly in the Yearbook of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN">Formatting</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Manuscripts
should follow the standard conventions of the field (outlined in
more detail in the <a
href="https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/GenericStyleRules.pdf"><span
style="color:#1155CC">Generic Style Rules for Linguistics</span></a>):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">The manuscript starts with a title, followed by an
abstract of ca. 100-300 words, followed by up to five keywords</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">The sections are numbered, starting with 1 (1, 1.1,
1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, ...).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">References are given as in-text citations, e.g.
(Lakoff 1987). The full bibliographical references are listed
alphabetically at the end of the paper, following the <a
href="https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/style-sheet_0.pdf"><span
style="color:#1155CC">Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Apart
from that, there are no specific formatting requirements; we
recommend to use minimal formatting. Initial submissions can be
in PDF format; once accepted, we need the submission in an
editable format (.docx, .odt, LaTeX source files) with
high-resolution versions of all figures in the paper as separate
files. Apart from the manuscript, please add a separate title
page with the names and email addresses of all authors. Please
also fill in the "Template for legal and ethical declarations";
you will find the template in the ScholarOne submission system
(see link in the next section) as a Microsoft Word file (if you
don't have Word, the template can also be edited in e.g.
LibreOffice, GoogleDocs, or other word processing software).<br>
</span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN">Submission instructions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Please
submit your papers (ca. 7,000–10,000 words without references) <b>via
ScholarOne:</b> <a
href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcla"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcla</a>.
Feel free to approach the editors </span><span lang="EN">(<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:hartmast@hhu.de">hartmast@hhu.de</a> and <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:antje.quick@uni-leipzig.de">antje.quick@uni-leipzig.de</a>).</span><span
lang="EN"> with expressions of interest ahead of time, to see if
your envisaged paper is a good fit for the Yearbook.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Initial
submissions should be in PDF format (with no restrictions on
printing, copying, commenting etc.). Upon acceptance, the final
version should be submitted in an editable format (.docx or
LaTeX source file).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN">Tentative
timeline:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">From
2025 onwards, the Yearbook is published continuously, i.e.
accepted papers appear ahead of print as soon as they are
typeset (usually a few weeks after acceptance). The tentative
deadlines below apply if you want to make sure that your paper
is published in the 2026 volume.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN">December 15:</span></b><span
lang="EN"> Deadline for the submission of first drafts</span></p>
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style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN">February</span></b><span
lang="EN">: Notifications of acceptance / rejection</span></p>
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style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN">April 15</span></b><span
lang="EN">: Deadline for the submission of revised versions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN">Peer review</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The
Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA operates a double-anonymous review
process. The referees are asked to assess the following aspects:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">Are the research questions and hypotheses convincing?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">Are the methods used appropriate for addressing the
research question?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">Is the paper well-structured?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">Is the paper written in a clear and accessible style?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Reviewers
will then make one of the following recommendations to the
editors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">accept as-is</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">accept with minor revisions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">revise and resubmit for review</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
lang="EN">reject</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The
final decision is made by the editors. In the initial round of
reviewing, each paper is assessed by at least two independent
experts from the field. If there is a second round of reviewing,
the editors will usually consult one of the two original
reviewers.</span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann (he/him)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Germanistik, Abt. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Gebäude: 24.53
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Tel.: +49 211 81-13684
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://stefanhartmann.eu/">https://stefanhartmann.eu/</a>
Personal webex room: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://hhu.webex.com/meet/shartmann">https://hhu.webex.com/meet/shartmann</a>
Sekretariat / Secretary's office:
Claudia Franken-Stemmler
Geb. 24.52, Raum U1.23
Tel. +49 211 81-11393
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:claudia.franken-stemmler@hhu.de">claudia.franken-stemmler@hhu.de</a></pre>
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