37.328, Calls: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Jrnl)

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Subject: 37.328, Calls: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Jrnl)

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Date: 22-Jan-2026
From: Antje Quick [antje.quick at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Jrnl)


Journal: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association

We invite paper submissions for the Yearbook of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/gcla/html (DGKL/GCLA) 2026. The
Yearbook aims to enable the dynamic exchange of ideas relating to all
aspects of Cognitive Linguistics both within the association and in
the global Cognitive Linguistics community.
The spectrum of topics covered by the Yearbook is as broad as
Cognitive Linguistics itself. As such, the Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA
does not impose specific topical requirements on contributions, as it
aims to document the full range of topics investigated by members of
the Cognitive Linguistics community. This includes work not just in
Cognitive Linguistics in a narrow sense, but also in closely related
fields such as psycholinguistics, gesture research, and Cognitive
Poetics. It also includes work by researchers in related frameworks
that do not (yet?) consider themselves part of the Cognitive
Linguistics research program, as long as there is a clear connection
to the perspective adopted by the latter.
The yearbook also does not impose specific methodological
requirements, as it aims to document the full range of methods
employed by researchers in the community. However, recent decades have
seen a clear shift away from introspective approaches and towards a
range of empirical methods, including standard experimental paradigms
from psychology and psycholinguistics as well as a wealth of
usage-based methods, ranging from the analysis of individual texts and
conversations to quantitative corpus-linguistic methods applied to
very large corpora. This is a highly desirable trend, and we hope to
see it represented strongly in the Yearbook of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association.
Formatting:
Manuscripts should follow the standard conventions of the field
(outlined in more detail in the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics
https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/GenericStyleRules.pdf):
 - The manuscript starts with a title, followed by an abstract of ca.
100-300 words, followed by up to five keywords
 - The sections are numbered, starting with 1 (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1,
1.2.2, ...).
 - References are given as in-text citations, e.g., (Lakoff 1987).
The full bibliographical references are listed alphabetically at the
end of the paper, following the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/style-sheet_0.pdf.
Apart from that, there are no specific formatting requirements; we
recommend using minimal formatting. Initial submissions can be in PDF
format; once accepted, we need the submission in an editable format
(.docx, .odt, or LaTeX source files) with high-resolution versions of
all figures in the paper as separate files. Apart from the manuscript,
please add a separate title page with the names and email addresses of
all authors. Please also fill in the "Template for legal and ethical
declarations"; you will find the template in the ScholarOne submission
system (see link in the next section) as a Microsoft Word file (if you
don't have Word, the template can also be edited in e.g., LibreOffice,
GoogleDocs, or other word processing software).
Submission Instructions:
Please submit your papers (ca. 7,000–10,000 words without references)
via ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcla. Feel free to
approach the editors (Stefan Hartmann, hartmast at hhu.de, and Antje
Quick, antje.quick at uni-leipzig.de) with expressions of interest ahead
of time, to see if your envisaged paper is a good fit for the
Yearbook.
Initial submissions should be in PDF format (with no restrictions on
printing, copying, commenting, etc.). Upon acceptance, the final
version should be submitted in an editable format (.docx or LaTeX
source file).
Tentative timeline (with extended deadlines):
>From 2025 onwards, the Yearbook is published continuously, i.e.,
accepted papers appear ahead of print as soon as they are typeset
(usually a few weeks after acceptance). The tentative deadlines below
apply if you want to make sure that your paper is published in the
2026 volume.
 - April 15: Deadline for the submission of first drafts
 - End of May: Notifications of acceptance / rejection
 - August 1: Deadline for the submission of revised versions
Peer Review:
The Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA operates a double-anonymous review
process. The referees are asked to assess the following aspects:
 - Are the research questions and hypotheses convincing?
 - Are the methods used appropriate for addressing the research
question?
 - Is the paper well-structured?
 - Is the paper written in a clear and accessible style?
Reviewers will then make one of the following recommendations to the
editors:
 - accept as-is
 - accept with minor revisions
 - revise and resubmit for review
 - reject
The final decision is made by the editors. In the initial round of
reviewing, each paper is assessed by at least two independent experts
from the field. If there is a second round of reviewing, the editors
will usually consult one of the two original reviewers.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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