32.3934, Calls: General Linguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.3934, Calls:  General Linguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:10:21
From: Sofia Rüdiger [sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: General Linguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Linguistics Vanguard 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2022 

Call for Papers:

Special Issue ''The Language of Science Fiction'' (Linguistics Vanguard)

Guest editors: Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) & Claudia Lange (TU
Dresden) 

Engaging with possible futures is an essential human endeavor and the
popularity of the Science Fiction (SF) genre in general, but also particularly
among linguists, thus does not come as a surprise. SF has the power to
continually shape, stimulate, and challenge contemporary thought and societal
norms, and serves much deeper undertakings than being mere speculative
fiction. While being notoriously difficult to define, most writers on SF take
Darko Suvin's by now classic definition of the genre as a reference point
(e.g. Shippey 2007: 15, Adams 2017: 331): ''SF is, then, a literary genre
whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of
estrangement and cognition, and whose main formal device is an imaginative
framework alternative to the author's empirical environment'' (Suvin
2016[1979]: 20).

SF texts - which we take to include stories, novels, fan fiction, video games,
TV series, and movies - rely on linguistic ''means of estrangement'' (Adams
2017: 333ff.) to different degrees. SF's alternative 'imaginative framework'
comes to life via the creative use of language and may range from occasional
'alien' referring expressions to the development of fully-fledged artificial
languages(Adams 2011, Okrent 2009). 

Whereas previous research on SF has rested mainly on literary and qualitative
approaches, this special issue is devoted to exploring the language in/of SF
using corpus linguistic and related methodologies. We welcome contributions
which explore the following questions or further related issues:
- How can we characterize the language of SF, concerning individual authors as
well as individual subgenres and text types?
- How has the language of SF changed over time? Which linguistic levels
contribute most to such change?
- Which (corpus) linguistic methods lend themselves to an analysis of the
language of SF (e.g., corpus stylistics, corpus-based approaches to metaphor)?
- Is it possible to quantify the notion of 'estrangement' characterizing SF
texts?
- In how far has the language of SF entered popular culture?
- How are linguistic aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) represented in SF
(e.g., by sentient androids, talking machines, etc., cf. Epstein et al.
(2008))? How does this relate to present day AI developments, such as
chatbots, Alexa, etc.?
- What do (corpus) linguistic methods contribute to analyzing world building
in SF?
- How can multimodal material be productively included in the corpus-based
analysis of SF texts? 

We encourage the inclusion of multimodal content, as the journal is designed
to integrate interactive content (including, but not limited to audio and
video, images, maps, software code, raw data, hyperlinks to external
databases, etc.). Linguistics Vanguard is an online, multimodal journal
published by De Gruyter Mouton (www.degruyter.com/lingvan). Linguistics
Vanguard strives for a very quick turn-around time from submission to
publication.

Please submit your abstract of 300 words (excl. references) via e-mail to
claudia.lange at tu-dresden.de and sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de by January 31,
2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in February.

The target length of each article is 3,000-4,000 words, according to the
journal's general publication policy. Submission deadline for the full
manuscript is July 1, 2022. Each manuscript will be subject to a double-blind
peer-review process.




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