[Corpora-List] Call for papers

[John F. Sowa]

The New York Times has an editorial policy that every acronym must
be written in full at first use.  That is a good practice to follow
with sentences like the following:

 > We welcome papers that examine LSP in written and oral discourse
 > and genres from a wide variety of methodologies and theoretical
 > frameworks, including interdisciplinary research.

The pointer at the end goes to a file that has the full phrase,
Language for Specific Purposes, and cites a reference in 2006
as the source.  Perhaps the in-crowd might know that, but if they
want to attract people from different "theoretical frameworks,"
they might consider the NYT style.

Furthermore, the full announcement doesn't mention the older
term 'sublanguage', which has many more hits on Google,
including a Wikipedia article.  An even older term is
Wittgenstein's 'language games'.

By the way, the first hit on Google Scholar that relates
the acronym LSP to language is to a paper that talks about
Line Spectrum Pairs for speech analysis-synthesis.

John Sowa

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