new book series at Oxford University Press

[Laura M. Ahearn]

[apologies for cross-posting]

Dear All,

Do you have a book manuscript, or an idea for a book manuscript? Oxford 
University Press has a new book series, Oxford Studies in the 
Anthropology of Language, that might provide a home for it.  This new 
series will publish scholarly work on language and the personal, 
institutional, and sociohistorical experiences and contexts that give 
meaning to utterances and other semiotic acts across time, space, media, 
and speakers.

The editorial board especially welcomes expressions of interest from 
authors or editors of volumes that are innovative in form or content.  
Examples might include the following sorts of projects, though we are 
open to other possibilities:

.    Dialogic formats such as interviews or exchanges between pairs of 
scholars, between scholars and research subjects, or among research 
subjects;
.    Short volumes, possibly co-authored, on key theoretical or 
methodological issues;
.    Edited volumes consisting of thematically organized chapters that 
speak to multiple audiences with different levels of interest and 
expertise;
.    Monographs with rich ethnographic and linguistic data analyzed in 
innovative theoretical or methodological ways.

If you have a manuscript, or an idea for a manuscript, that you would 
like the editorial board to consider, please fill out the "Expression of 
Interest" form copied in below and return it electronically to the 
Series Editor, Alessandro Duranti, at aduranti at anthro.ucla.edu.  Thank you.

Editorial Board
Alessandro Duranti, Series Editor
Laura M. Ahearn
Paul Garrett
Justin Richland

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*Expression of Interest Form*

*Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language*

*Oxford University Press*

Alessandro Duranti, Series Editor

Lead Author or Editor's Name 
_________________________E-mail_______________ Phone ______

Title ___________________________________ Affiliation 
_____________________________

Tentative title of book: 
_________________________________________________________________

Are there co-authors?If so, who are they?

This is a (circle one):Single-Authored MonographEdited Volume Other 
(please explain below)

In a paragraph or two (no longer than the space remaining on a single 
page of paper if this were printed out), please describe your book and 
explain why you think it might fit well into our series.Also indicate 
how much of it is already written.Thanks very much for your interest in 
our new series!


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Laura M. Ahearn, Program Director
Cultural Anthropology Program
Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences
Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Directorate
The National Science Foundation, Room 959
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 292-7783 (voice), (703) 292-9068 (fax)

Associate Professor (on leave)
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University