[Dgkl] CfP: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2026

Thu Aug 7 13:00:46 UTC 2025

*CfP: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association*

We invite paper submissions for the *Yearbook of the German Cognitive 
Linguistics Association 
<https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/gcla/html> (DGKL/GCLA) 2026*. The 
Yearbook aims to enable the dynamic exchance of ideas relating to all 
aspects of Cognitive Linguistics both within the association and in the 
global Cognitive Linguistics community.

The spectrum of topics covered by the Yearbook is as broad as Cognitive 
Linguistics itself. As such, the Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA does not 
impose specific topical requirements on contributions, as it aims to 
document the full range of topics investigated by members of the 
Cognitive Linguistics community. This includes work not just in 
Cognitive Linguistics in a narrow sense, but also in closely related 
fields such as psycholinguistics, gesture research, and Cognitive 
Poetics. It also includes work by researchers in related frameworks that 
do not (yet?) consider themselves part of the Cognitive Linguistics 
research program, as long as there is a clear connection to the 
perspective adopted by the latter.

The yearbook also does not impose specific methodological requirements, 
as it aims to document the full range of methods employed by researchers 
in the community. However, recent decades have seen a clear shift away 
from introspective approaches and towards a range of empirical methods, 
including standard experimental paradigms from psychology and 
psycholinguistics as well as a wealth of usage-based methods, ranging 
from the analysis of individual texts and conversations to quantitative 
corpus-linguistic methods applied to very large corpora. This is a 
highly desirable trend and we hope to see it represented strongly in the 
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association.

*Formatting*

Manuscripts should follow the standard conventions of the field 
(outlined in more detail in the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics 
<https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/GenericStyleRules.pdf>):

●The manuscript starts with a title, followed by an abstract of ca. 
100-300 words, followed by up to five keywords

●The sections are numbered, starting with 1 (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 
...).

●References are given as in-text citations, e.g. (Lakoff 1987). The full 
bibliographical references are listed alphabetically at the end of the 
paper, following the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics 
<https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/style-sheet_0.pdf>.

Apart from that, there are no specific formatting requirements; we 
recommend to use minimal formatting. Initial submissions can be in PDF 
format; once accepted, we need the submission in an editable format 
(.docx, .odt, LaTeX source files) with high-resolution versions of all 
figures in the paper as separate files. Apart from the manuscript, 
please add a separate title page with the names and email addresses of 
all authors. Please also fill in the "Template for legal and ethical 
declarations"; you will find the template in the ScholarOne submission 
system (see link in the next section) as a Microsoft Word file (if you 
don't have Word, the template can also be edited in e.g. LibreOffice, 
GoogleDocs, or other word processing software).

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*Submission instructions*

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Please submit your papers (ca. 7,000–10,000 words without references) 
*via ScholarOne:* https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcla. Feel free to 
approach the editors (hartmast at hhu.de and 
antje.quick at uni-leipzig.de).with expressions of interest ahead of time, 
to see if your envisaged paper is a good fit for the Yearbook.

Initial submissions should be in PDF format (with no restrictions on 
printing, copying, commenting etc.). Upon acceptance, the final version 
should be submitted in an editable format (.docx or LaTeX source file).

*Tentative timeline:*

>From 2025 onwards, the Yearbook is published continuously, i.e. accepted 
papers appear ahead of print as soon as they are typeset (usually a few 
weeks after acceptance). The tentative deadlines below apply if you want 
to make sure that your paper is published in the 2026 volume.

●*December 15:*Deadline for the submission of first drafts

●*February*: Notifications of acceptance / rejection

●*April 15*: Deadline for the submission of revised versions

*Peer review*

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The Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA operates a double-anonymous review 
process. The referees are asked to assess the following aspects:

●Are the research questions and hypotheses convincing?

●Are the methods used appropriate for addressing the research question?

●Is the paper well-structured?

●Is the paper written in a clear and accessible style?

Reviewers will then make one of the following recommendations to the 
editors:

●accept as-is

●accept with minor revisions

●revise and resubmit for review

●reject

The final decision is made by the editors. In the initial round of 
reviewing, each paper is assessed by at least two independent experts 
from the field. If there is a second round of reviewing, the editors 
will usually consult one of the two original reviewers.

-- 
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann (he/him)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Germanistik, Abt. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Gebäude: 24.53
Etage/Raum: U1.94
Tel.: +49 211 81-13684
Website:https://stefanhartmann.eu/
Personal webex room:https://hhu.webex.com/meet/shartmann

Sekretariat / Secretary's office:
Claudia Franken-Stemmler
Geb. 24.52, Raum U1.23
Tel. +49 211 81-11393
claudia.franken-stemmler at hhu.de
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