call for contributors: NSM in Romance (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 1:07:04 EAST
From: peeters at POSTOFFICE.UTAS.EDU.AU
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Anna Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) is being used by an
increasing number of researchers across the world for the purpose of
gaining new insights in a variety of culture-specific concepts, discourse
markers, cultural values, keywords, communicative norms etc. To date, the
amount of relevant work in the area of Romance is rather modest. A volume
bringing together work aimed at testing the claim to universality of the
NSM, with specific reference to Romance, on the one hand, and a number of
data-driven studies using NSM, on the other hand, is currently in its
planning stages. John Benjamins has been identified as a potential publisher.

At this point in time, publication is envisaged by the end of 2003. An
earlier call for papers has identified a number of likely contributors,
but more are welcome. It is envisaged that the typical contributor will
already have some familiarity with NSM - although newcomers to the
approach are by no means excluded. For a crash-course, see Cliff
Goddard's overview on the University of New England website:

http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/disciplines/linguistics/nsmpage.htm

Would potential contributors, who have not expressed their interest after
the first call of papers, please identify themselves and provide me with
some information on the amount of exposure they have had to NSM, and in
what way(s) they would be willing to take part in this venture? Those who
have replied before do not need to respond to this message; they will be
contacted individually.

All contributions will be peer-reviewed before being prepared for publication.

I shall be happy to answer questions or to redirect queries to NSM
specialists more knowledgeable than me.

Bert Peeters


Dr Bert Peeters
School of English, Journalism and European Languages
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252-82
Hobart TAS 7001
Australia

E-mail: Bert.Peeters at utas.edu.au
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