27.3076, Calls: Discourse Analysis; Linguistics and Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistcs; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Studies in Communication Sciences (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.3076, Calls: Discourse Analysis; Linguistics and Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistcs; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Studies in Communication Sciences (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:10:19
From: Marta Zampa [marta.zamp at zhaw.ch]
Subject: Discourse Analysis; Linguistics and Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistcs; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Studies in Communication Sciences (Jrnl)

Full Title: Studies in Communication Sciences 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 

"Reports of new events are stories - no more, but no less". This assertion by
Gaye Tuchman (1976, 93) opened a window onto a central issue in journalism
studies, i.e., the conceptualization of events in the news as stories. Since
then, journalism research and education have further developed the concept of
narrative journalism, which has resulted in a plethora of approaches to
journalism as storytelling. In our special issue, we examine this ''mantra to
think story'' (Cotter & Perrin 2016) as relevant but falling short and partly
dysfunctional (Flath 2014). We theorize and empirically investigate why news
is much more - and at the same time less - than stories and why this matters
for both journalism research and practice. This special issue offers space for
considering issues such as:

- the reasons (e.g., historical, political, pragmatic) behind the
conceptualisation of journalism as storytelling
- the relationship between storytelling and narration in journalism and other
domains, such as literature, organizational communication, and everyday
conversation
- the interplay of narration with other text-linguistic practices, such as
description, explanation, and argumentation
- the role of this interplay in public discourse and in its constitutive
processes, such as gatekeeping and framing
- the theoretical and methodological instruments for investigating this
complex
interplay in the dynamics of journalism in both the mass media and social
media.
In brief, we invite contributions that deal with the storytelling mantra in
journalism research by investigating and contextualizing the narrative effort
of journalists from disciplinary as well as inter- and transdisciplinary
perspectives.

Article format:

The length of papers in this special issue should be between 6,000 and 9,000
words (including abstract, footnotes and references). Papers can be written in
English, French, German or Italian, but the abstract must be in English.

Please consult the journal's guide for authors here:
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/studiesin-
communication-sciences/1424-4896/guide-for-authors.

Papers will be submitted to a double-blind peer-review process.

Key dates:

1st submission: 31 August 2016
1st review: 15 October 2016
2nd submission: 15 November 2016
2nd review: 15 December 2016
Final submission: 31 January 2017
Publication: March 2017

Contact information:

To submit your paper, please use the following link:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-communication-sciences/ and click
on ''Submit Your Paper''. You will be asked to create a personal account.

For any questions concerning this special issue, please contact:

Daniel Perrin (daniel.perrin at zhaw.ch)
Marta Zampa (marta.zampa at zhaw.ch)

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) is an international journal of
communication research that is jointly edited by the Swiss Association of
Communication and Media Studies (SGKM) and the Faculty of Communication
Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano). SComS aims to
build bridges between different research cultures, and publishes high-quality
original articles in English, German, French, and Italian. Its contents
encompass the broad range of communication-related disciplines, in particular
the analysis of public communication, based on social scientific methods. As a
general forum for communication scholarship, the journal is especially
interested in research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. The Journal's
website can be found at: http://ees.elsevier.com/scoms/

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