37.930, Calls: Text & Talk - "Special Issue Celebrating the Work of John Swales" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 37.930, Calls: Text & Talk - "Special Issue Celebrating the Work of John Swales" (Jrnl)

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Date: 05-Mar-2026
From: David Oakey [David.Oakey at Liverpool.ac.uk]
Subject: Text & Talk - "Special Issue Celebrating the Work of John Swales" (Jrnl)


Journal: Text & Talk
Issue: Special Issue Celebrating the Work of John Swales
Call Deadline: 01-May-2026

The renowned linguist and rhetorician John Swales died in 2025 and in
his honour we would like to propose a special issue of the journal
Text and Talk. We invite abstracts of 400-500 words on any aspect of
Linguistics related to Swales’ work, with topics including but not
limited to:
 - Genre (move) analysis, including developments in the model since
its inception, and using moves to investigate novel genres.
 - The Michigan corpora.
 - The relationship between Swales and other approaches to language.
 - Swales and the analysis of university language / discourse
communities.
 - Swales and English for Academic Purposes.
Your abstract should make explicit the link to John Swales’ legacy.
Key Dates:
 - Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: June 2026
 - Deadline for papers: 5 January 2027
 - Deadline for revised papers after review: 1 June 2027
 - Publication: September 2027
Please send your abstract to both Susan Hunston
(s.e.hunston at bham.ac.uk) and David Oakey (david.oakey at liverpool.ac.uk)
by the deadline of 1 May 2026.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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