28.4646, FYI: Joshua A. Fishman Early Career Award

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Subject: 28.4646, FYI: Joshua A. Fishman Early Career Award

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:41:39
From: Francis Hult [Francis.Hult at englund.lu.se]
Subject: Joshua A. Fishman Early Career Award

 
[Note: Send questions to fishmanaward at degruyter.com]

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijsl

Joshua A. Fishman Award 2018  

De Gruyter Mouton is happy to announce the establishment of the Joshua A.
Fishman Award for the best recently unpublished dissertation on a topic
pertaining to the sociology of language. The award, which carries a cash prize
of €3,000, is intended to support scholars at the early stages of their
careers working on sociology of language. This award is meant to honor the
outstanding scholar Joshua A. Fishman and his lifetime achievements and to
foster innovative, high-quality research in sociology of language, the field
that he so prominently shaped for many decades. The Joshua A. Fishman Award
will be presented every two years, and winning manuscripts will be recommended
for publication in the Mouton book series Contributions to the Sociology of
Language (CSL). 

Deadline for submissions for the 2018 Fishman Award is December 31, 2017.

Rules and Regulations 
1.
The Joshua A. Fishman award is open to scholars from any country at the early
stages of their careers. 

2.
To be eligible, a dissertation must have been completed, successfully
defended, and accepted after June 2015. The dissertation must have been
accepted as part of the requirement for a Ph.D. or comparable doctoral degree.

3.
Submissions are accepted in English language only.

4.
Submissions must be delivered electronically in PDF format (with embedded
fonts where necessary) to the award committee at fishmanaward at degruyter.com no
later than December 31, 2017. Submissions should include the following
attachments: 

1.
Cover letter

2.
Curriculum vitae

3.
Title of dissertation

4.
300-500 word abstract of dissertation

5.
Table of contents of dissertation

6.
A single chapter of the dissertation that best lays out the conceptual
contribution of the dissertation to sociology of language. The full manuscript
will be requested of finalists.  

7.
Names, affiliations, and email of dissertation chair and committee members

8.
A brief narrative explaining what the work contributes to the sociology of
language (maximum 1000 words)

The award-winning manuscript will be recommended for publication in the CSL
series of De Gruyter Mouton. Publication will be at the sole discretion of De
Gruyter Mouton.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics





 



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