[EDLING:1089] New Journal - Corpora

[Francis M Hult]

> A New Journal: Corpora
> Tony McEnery (General Editor)
> 
> Paul Baker (Commissioning Editor)
> Mark Davies (Reviews Editor)
> Paul Rayson (Production Editor)
> 
> Corpora is a new journal focusing on the many and varied uses of 
> corpora both in linguistics and beyond. The journal accepts articles 
> presenting research findings based on the exploitation of corpora as 
> well as accounts of corpus building, corpus tool construction and 
> corpus annotation schemes. The journal has three key features:
> 
> Theoretical inclusiveness: the journal will not be wed to one 
> theoretical position. It will welcome and accommodate the work of a 
> wide range of theorists using corpus data.
> 
> Interdisciplinarity: the journal will actively seek to promote a 
> cross fertilization of ideas and techniques across a range of areas 
> (applied linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, 
> theoretical linguistics) and disciplines (e.g. language and 
> gender/sexuality, cultural studies, historical studies, literary 
> studies) in the belief that these areas have something to offer to 
> each other through their common focus on corpus data.
> 
> Multilinguality: the journal will engage with the full range of human 
> languages, not just the English language or major European languages.
> 
> The journal accepts long and short articles as well as 
> book/software/corpus reviews:
> 
> Long papers: research papers reporting on completed research based 
> upon corpora. These papers will be 5,000-10,000 words in length;
> 
> Short papers: research papers reporting on corpus construction. This 
> may take the form of a report on the construction of a corpus, the 
> development and application of an annotation scheme, the development 
> of automated annotation systems etc. These papers will be 2,500-4,000 
> words in length.
> 
> Reviews: typically of no more than 1,500 words. May review books, 
> corpora or corpus tools.
> 
> The first edition of the journal will be published in May 2006. For 
> submission and subscription details see:
> http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12505