19.2626, Calls: Socioling/Text/Corpus Ling/Journal of Writing Research (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Journal of Writing Research 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2008 

Journal of Writing Research 
(JoWR, http://jowr.org/)

Special Issue: 

Exploring a Corpus-Informed Approach to Writing Research

Call for Proposals: 

Since the development of the Brown Corpus in the 1960s, leveraging language
corpora and corpus-based methods to analyze and to describe spoken and
written language has become an established tradition within the broad field
of linguistics. 

Writing researchers as well have begun extending corpus methods to L1 and
L2 writing research. Research teams in the U.K. and the U.S., for example,
have begun designing large reference corpora of student writing. The
developers of the British Academic Written English Corpus suggest that the
corpus 'has the potential to chart growth patterns such as whether
students' arguments became more complex as their education advanced,
whether students learned to integrate material from different sources in
formulating conclusions, and whether students' vocabulary became more
specialized and precise' (Nesi et al. 446). And the forthcoming Michigan
Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers aims to provide a corpus of 1.6
million words written by students and to offer researchers the opportunity
to quantitatively and qualitatively examine student writing in areas as
diverse as writing development, genre variation, and disciplinary
differences ('MICUSP').
 
The trend toward a corpus-informed approach to writing research also
continues on a smaller scale. Given the ease with which individual teachers
and researchers can create and mine corpora using text analysis software
such as TextSTAT or WordSmith Tools, the development of small corpora by
writing teachers who adopt the role of compiler-analyst is providing
another avenue for corpus-informed writing research. 

Yet, because corpus methods are relatively new to the field of writing
research, there have been very few comprehensive discussions of the work in
this area. The aim of this special JoWR issue, therefore, is to bring
together teachers and researchers from a myriad of perspectives in an
effort to explore the emerging field of corpus-informed writing research.

We invite papers covering a range of related topics, including discussions
of the development of large, small, and parallel writing corpora; papers
exploring the kinds of questions examined via corpus research (e.g. diction
and style, citation practices, usage, stylistic variation and its
relationship to author gender, etc.); papers examining corpus methods (e.g.
frequency lists, concordancing, examination of sociolinguistic variables,
etc.) in the context of writing research; explanations of current and
ongoing research; as well as discussions of the critiques surrounding a
corpus-informed approach to writing research and the corpus-inclined
researcher's response to them. Authors are asked to write papers for a
broad audience including readers with little or no corpus study familiarity.   

Deadline for proposals (500-750 words in abstract form) is October 15,
2008. Proposers will receive initial notification by November 15, 2008.
Final papers will be due by February 15, 2009. 

Prior to acceptance, all final papers will undergo peer review as defined
by JoWR's peer review policy. 

Proposals should be sent by email to:  

Dr. Stephanie A. Schlitz
Assistant Professor, English and Linguistics
Bloomsburg University
sschlitz at bloomu.edu

 
References

'MICUSP.' University of Michigan English Language Institute. 12 Nov.
2007. http://www.micusp.org/.


Nesi, Hilary, Gerard Sharpling, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams. 'Student papers
across the curriculum: Designing and developing a corpus of British student
writing.' Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 439-450.

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2008






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