34.3296, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Languages (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.3296, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Languages (Jrnl)

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Date: 27-Oct-2023
From: Marina Frank [marina.frank at uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Languages (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

Alfred Lameli, Simonetta Montemagni and John Nerbonne invite proposals
for contributions to the journal Languages for a special issue on
"Dialectal Dynamics", focusing on dialectological theory and expanding
the linguistic scope of dialectology to less studied languages. Please
consider submitting some of your work to this!

The submission must be through the journal web site for the special
issue, which is at
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/GZUP691XE0

Call for Papers:
The quantitative work in dialectology in the last quarter century
enables us to document, analyze and map the distribution of dialectal
language variation in unprecedented detail. However, usually we do not
know why distributions of variation have taken the form they have. We
suspect that progress in this aspect of dialectology is likely to
arise in reflection about social and geographical factors together and
indeed there is work that points in this direction. The Languages
special issue we propose to edit would like to extend and build on
this work in two ways.
First, we wish to stimulate dialectological theory based on the
progress attained in quantitative work. A special focus will therefore
be on work that deals with the combination of linguistic and, for
example, social, cultural or economic influences in examining the
distribution of linguistic variation. Second, we are also excited
about the methodologically solid work being done on lesser studied
languages and varieties, often in conjunction with language
documentation. By encouraging and including research on a broader
range of languages and varieties, we hope to avoid the myopia lurking
when research is focused too narrowly on well-studied languages and
areas.
We are open to work that addresses these topics even while presenting
novel approaches to data collection and analysis, but all papers ought
to address theoretical issues or should broaden the linguistic
database by reporting on research on less studied languages.
We invite papers on unpublished work addressing the topics above as
well as survey articles covering research lines where several studies
exist that deserve consolidation and/or criticism. Survey articles
should aim to draw out the main results of specific research lines and
try to suggest promising directions for the future. We aim for this
volume to go beyond collections such as Nerbonne & Kretzschmar (2013)
and complement existing collections such as the Frontiers issue on
computational sociolinguistics (Grieve et al 2019–2022) and survey
articles such as Nguyen et al. (2020).  The Languages special issue
will focus more on linguistic issues, dialectological theory, and the
analyses of less studied dialect landscapes.

We request that interested authors submit a proposed title and
abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution and
that they do this by 1 February 2024 and prior to submitting a
manuscript.  Please send this to the guest editors and to the journal
office at languages at mdpi.com. Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest
editors for the purpose of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the
special issue, but please note that abstract acceptance does not
constitute acceptance of the manuscript to be submitted later.  Full
manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

Tentative Completion Schedule

Abstract Submission: 1 February 2024

Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 1 March 2024

Full Submission Deadline: 1 July 2024

Prof. Dr. Alfred Lameli

Dr. Simonetta Montemagni

Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne

Guest Editors



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