37.3051, Calls: Polonia Journal - "Special Issue: Various Aspects of Style and Stylistics in Language, Literature and Culture" (Jrnl)

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Date: 23-Sep-2026
From: Teresa Maria Wlosowicz [twlosowicz at wseh.pl]
Subject: Polonia Journal - "Special Issue: Various Aspects of Style and Stylistics in Language, Literature and Culture" (Jrnl)

Journal: Polonia Journal
Issue: Various aspects of style and stylistics in language, literature
and culture
Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2027

By and large, style plays an important role in various domains of
linguistic and non-linguistic communication. Even though it might be
most readily associated with literature and literary translation, it
has a much wider range of applications. Certainly, as Boase-Beier
(2004: 280) has observed, in literary translation style is
particularly important, as it carries the burden of truth, defined as
the author’s intention and attitude towards the content, which, for
its part, is fictional. However, style is also important in different
kinds of intercultural communication, including business
correspondence. As one of Zhang’s (2013: 152) respondents remarked,
the differences between American and Chinese business writing are
largely cultural and, in comparison to to American style, the Chinese
one is both more formal and more polite. Therefore, research on the
style of business correspondence can have practical implications for
intercultural business communication. Yet, stylistic differences are
not limited to business correspondence, as style plays a role in
political speeches, advertising and the media in a more general sense
(Stockwell and Whiteley (eds.) 2014). Moreover, given the differences
between styles in various languages and cultures, teaching and
learning the stylistics of a foreign language can pose a challenge,
the results of stylistic analysis can thus be applied to SLA research.
Last but not least, at the time of dynamic development of artificial
intelligence, the stylistic analysis of texts generated by AI can also
be a valid research topic, for example, Meier-Vieracker (2026) has
compared the styles of texts generated by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
References:
Boase-Beier, J. (2004). Saying what someone else meant: style,
relevance and translation. International Journal of Applied
Linguistics, 14 (2), pp. 276-287.
Meier-Vieracker, S. (2026). No choice: On the stylistics of
AI-generated texts. Journal for Media Linguistics 8(2), pp. 73-101.
Stockwell, P., Whiteley, S. (eds.) (2014). The Cambridge Handbook of
Stylistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zhang, Z. (2013). Business English students learning to write for
international business: What do international business practitioners
have to say about their texts? English for Specific Purposes, 32(3),
pp.144-156.
Examples of article topics (the list is not exhaustive):
1. The styles of different kinds of speeches and written texts.
Different features of style, such as the use of nouns, verbs,
adjectives, idioms and collocations, sentence length, the choice of
grammar structures, etc.
2. Literary genres and styles.
3. Teaching stylistics in the native language and in foreign
languages. Stylistic errors.
4. Rendering the author’s style in literary translation.
5. Style in non-literary translation.
6. The relationship between the use of rhetorical strategies and
style. Style in advertising, political speeches, sermons, etc.
7. Style in business communication, in Business English as a Lingua
Franca, in business writing, in business negotiations, etc.
8. Stylistic research methodology.
9. Style in non-verbal communication, for example, the style of visual
elements in film, in the visual arts, in the performing arts, etc. The
role of style in the reception of art.
10. Cultural differences in stylistics and their influence on
intercultural communication, including translation and localisation.
11. Style in texts created by humans and ones generated by AI.
12. The linguistic image of the world and its reflection in the styles
of literary and non-literary texts.
13. Different approaches to style in linguistics.
14. New trends in stylistic research.
15. Interdisciplinary approaches to style, for example, the
relationship between the underlying concepts and specialist
terminology on the one hand and the style of scientific, legal,
technical, etc. texts on the other.
16. Historical approaches to stylistics: the history of stylistics as
a discipline, research on the styles of texts from different periods,
etc.
17. Different aspects and uses of figurative language.
18. The role of style in forensic linguistics.
19. Other senses of ‘style’ (learning styles, cognitive styles, etc.).
Moreover, you are invited to submit articles on other topics in the
field of the humanities and social sciences for publication in the
Miscellaneous section.
Important Dates:
31st July 2027: submission of complete articles
30th September 2027: article reviews
30th November 2027: submission of corrected articles
31st December 2027: publication of the volume.
The editorial requirements and the declaration forms are available at
the journal’s website: https://poloniajournal.wseh.pl/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Translation

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