31.1193, FYI: Call for Chapters: Springer ''Perspectives on Academic Persian''

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Subject: 31.1193, FYI:  Call for Chapters: Springer ''Perspectives on Academic Persian''

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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:33:07
From: Abbas Aghdassi [aghdassi at um.ac.ir]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Springer ''Perspectives on Academic Persian''

 
Perspectives on Academic Persian
Springer Language Policy (LAPO) Series
Call for Chapters - extended

There is a growing competition among many Middle Eastern languages to produce
their academic discourse. Similar to academic English, most non-Western
languages, including Persian, are developing new styles and genres to produce
academic texts. Some follow conventional patterns of academic writings.
Although the available literature discusses the literary aspects of Persian
exhaustively (an example could be the scholarship on poetry and prose), not
much has been written on styles and forms of academic Persian. Non-literary
aspects of Persian, particularly its academic potential, remain unnoticed. In
this volume, the primary question is, “what is academic Persian?” Could one
revisit academic aspects to a language that has long been known for poetry and
prose?

Perspectives on Academic Persian is a modest proposal to discover new areas of
an old language. The volume would be published by Springer in the Language
Policy (LAPO) series (https://www.springer.com/series/6209).
 
Potential themes in the volume include (but are not limited to) the following,

- The concept of Academic Persian
Academic Persian: the basics and the context
Grammatical and Structural Considerations
Historical Grounds for Academic Persian
Academic Persian as a lingua franca?
Academic Persian vs. Scientific Persian

- Persian Academic Skills
Reading
Writing
Listening
Speaking

- Genres of Academic Persian
Genre Analysis in Academic Persian
Historical case studies
Academic Persian in Different Disciplines
Lexical Analysis of Academic Persian

- Challenges of Academic Persian
Academizing an Eastern Language
Weighing Literary Backgrounds
Linguistic Policies of Modern Persian
Academic Persian vs. Academic Persians
Technical Concerns (e.g., machine reading, crawling, indexing, plagiarism
detection, etc.)

- Pedagogical Perspectives
Teaching Academic Persian to non-Persian Speakers
Issues of Material Development in Academic Persian
Issues of Syllabus and Curriculum Designing
Methods and Techniques of Teaching Academic Persian
Teacher Training Courses: various case studies

- Possible Research Areas
Syntax in Academic Persian
Discourse Analysis
Corpus Development in Academic Persian
Influences of English on Academic Persian
Influences of Arabic on Academic Persian
A.I. and Gamification of Academic Persian
Role of the Persian Academy in Academic Persian
Ethnographic Accounts of Academic Persian  

- Evaluation and Assessment in Academic Persian

Scholars, researchers, and teachers are invited to send an abstract (max. 250
words) of their proposed chapters and a short bio-note to Abbas Aghdassi
(aghdassi at um.ac.ir) before April 20, 2020. Chapters may be sumbmitted in
English or Persian.

Notification of acceptance would be communicated by April 30, 2020. Upon the
acceptance of your chapter, you would be invited to submit the full chapter by
August 30, 2020. Chapters would undergo a single review, and you would be
notified if any probable revisions are requested.
 
Accepted chapters would be published in an edited volume by Springer Language
Policy (LAPO) series (https://www.springer.com/series/6209). Kindly circulate
the call.

Contact: Abbas Aghdassi, ed., (aghdassi at um.ac.ir)
Abstract submission: April 20, 2020
Acceptance note: April 30, 2020
Chapter submission: August 30, 2020
Initial reviews: September 30, 2020
 
Contact Info: Abbas Aghdassi, PhD
Contact Email: aghdassi at um.ac.ir
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Persian, Iranian (pes)





 



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