34.2690, Calls: Morphology / Languages (Jrnl)

Wed Sep 13 17:05:02 UTC 2023

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2690. Wed Sep 13 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2690, Calls: Morphology / Languages (Jrnl)

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Date: 13-Sep-2023
From: Aron Wang [aron.wang at mdpi.com]
Subject: Morphology / Languages (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Languages is planning to build the Special Issue "Linguistics of
Social Media" which will be edited by Dr. Andreea S. Calude.

This Special Issue brings together current research grounded within a
linguistics perspective (theoretical or variationist) and analysing
language data from a variety of social media platforms with the goal
of increasing understanding of how communication takes place in online
social spaces.

Although some argue that social media has roots which date as far back
as the 1970s (Hines, 2022), it is really over the past decade or two
that social media has become deeply embedded in our day-to-day lives,
increasingly turning into an indispensable channel of communication.
With this shift, the language we use on various platforms has also
begun to capture the attention of linguists and language scholars.
Applied linguistics topics, such as social media as an extension of
the language classroom, particularly the English-language classroom,
have seen ample attention. However, more recently, work grounded in
theoretical aspects of language analysis (Calude, 2023) have begun to
emerge. Topics include, for example, word formation (Caleffi 2015),
dialectology (Zsombok 2022), grammar (Burnette & Calude, 2022),
analyses of vernacular forms (Ilbury 2019) and non-standard grammar
(Calude et. al, to appear), loanwords (Trye et. al, 2020), and
narrative and stylistic analyses (Clarke & Grieve 2019, Page 2018).

This Special Issue welcomes empirical contributions which draw on
social media language data, both qualitative and quantitative,
analysing these data by drawing specifically on linguistics
approaches. The contributions may include but are not limited to the
following research topics:

Morphological processes and lexical innovation operating in social
media;
Grammatical or syntactic analyses of social media language;
Semantic analyses of social media language;
Investigations of how social media users leverage phonetic qualities
for meaning making;
Application of pragmatics methods or theories to online posts;
Analysis of sociolinguistic variation on social media;
Dialectology studies of social media language;
Language contact, loanword use, or codeswitching research on social
media.
The contributions included in this Special Issue will be primarily
research papers, but a small number of position papers and review
articles may also be considered (for instance, related to ethical
considerations, e.g., Tagg & Spillioti 2022).

It is hoped that the collection of papers in this Special Issue will
popularise the field of social media communication and bring together
scholars who work on similar data but perhaps from different
linguistics perspectives and use different methodologies. The insights
gained from this body of work will showcase how concepts and theories
from linguistics can be used to fruitfully increase our knowledge of
this dynamic and ever-changing communication environment, while also
challenging some of the prescriptive assumptions circulating in
relation to it.

Tentative Completion Schedule:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 November 2023
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 1 December 2023
Full Manuscript Deadline: 1 May 2024

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words
summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest
editor (Andreea.calude at waikato.ac.nz) or to Languages editorial office
(languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors
for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the
special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

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