34.2209, Calls: Discourse Analysis, History of Linguistics, Language Documentation, Lexicography, Ling & Literature / Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.2209, Calls: Discourse Analysis, History of Linguistics, Language Documentation, Lexicography, Ling & Literature / Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (Jrnl)

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Date: 13-Jul-2023
From: Stephen Turton [smt75 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Discourse Analysis, History of Linguistics, Language Documentation, Lexicography, Ling & Literature / Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
invites submissions for a special issue on the reception of
dictionaries by their users.

It is commonplace to speak of “using” a dictionary rather than
“reading” it. This issue asks after the uses to which users have put
their dictionaries beyond simply reading them. A user who looks up a
word might accept what they find, or they might object to it, reject
it, or rewrite it. Their use of the dictionary might be confined to a
private act, such as annotating the pages of a single copy (e.g.,
Adams 2018) or wrestling with definitions in a personal diary (e.g.,
Turton 2022), or it might be publicly broadcast through writing for
newspapers and scholarly journals (e.g., Bailey 2000), penning letters
to dictionary houses (e.g., Stamper 2017), organizing boycotts against
them (e.g., Russell 2021), or airing opinions on social media (e.g.,
Martin 2021).

Expanding on the conversation begun in Dictionaries’ special forum on
‘Dictionaries in the public eye’ (Issue 42.1), this special issue
approaches lexicography not as a linear transfer of information from
dictionary-makers to users but as a multidirectional practice in which
reception is as worthy of study as production. The issue invites
articles that critically examine any aspect of users’ engagement with
dictionaries, for any language and at any point in history, including
but not limited to:

    Letters to dictionary editors and publishers from members of the
public who offer advice, contributions, or criticism.
    Book reviews, news items, and opinion pieces about dictionaries.
    Petitions, boycotts, and other mass campaigns directed at
dictionary houses, online and offline.
    Court cases brought against dictionaries and court cases bringing
in dictionaries as authorities.
    The citation of real dictionaries, or the invention of fictitious
ones, in literature.
    Private comments on dictionaries recorded in letters or diaries.
    Dictionaries written in response (commercial, political) to other
dictionaries.
    The repurposing of dictionaries for non-textual uses (artistic
projects, doorstops, table braces, kindling).

If you are interested in contributing to the issue, please submit a
300-word abstract of your proposed paper to the issue’s guest editor,
Stephen Turton (smt75 at cam.ac.uk), who also welcomes any questions or
informal expressions of interest.

Abstract deadline: November 1, 2023
Full paper deadline: March 1, 2024
Planned publication date: Autumn 2024 (Issue 45.2)

For more information about the purpose and scope of Dictionaries:
Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, please visit
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/540.

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