CALL FOR AUTHORS: The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia

[Lisbeth Rogers]

Greetings,

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to participate in
The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, a new 3-volume reference to be
published by SAGE Reference in 2015.

*This list of linguistic and sign language-related topics currently
available for
assignment follows below.*

The final deadline for submissions is June 15, 2014.

The encyclopedia will marketed to academic and public libraries as a
print and digital product available to students via the library’s
electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each
submission to the project are Dr. Genie Gertz and Dr. Patrick
Boudreault, Gallaudet University.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference,
it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden
your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium
ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set
of the printed product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or
more. Your name and affiliation will also appear in the byline of your
entry(ies) in the final publication.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding
reference with The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, please contact me by the
email information below. Please provide me with your selections from the list
of topics below. I will confirm availability of your selections and
provide you with
Submission Guidelines and a sample article for your review.

Thanks very much.
Lisbeth Rogers
Director of Author Management
deafstudies at golsonmedia.com

Available topics including word count/length of entry:


1.     Interpreting: Agencies (traditional and VRI)
                                              2,200

2.     Interpreting: Grants / Projects
                                                    1,900

3.     Interpreting: Outcome Circle (e.g., NCEIC)
                                            1,200

4.     Linguistic and Human Rights: Convention of the Rights of the
Child                                1,200

5.     Linguistic and Human Rights: UN Convention on Genocide (E793,
1948) (e.g., Article II€, Article II(b), Linguistic Genocide by TSK)
       1,900

6.     Linguistic and Human Rights: UNESCO Education Paper Position
                              1,900

7.     Linguistic and Human Rights: Universal Declaration on Cultural
Diversity (e.g., UNESCO) 1,900

8.     Linguistics: Creativity and Creative Use (e.g., Valli’s Thesis)
                                        1,200

9.     Linguistics: Structuralism
                                                    1,900

10.   Psycholinguistics: Pre-Post Lingual
                                              900

11.   Psycholinguistics: Signed Language Disorders
                                         1,900

12.   Sign Language: Africa
                                                   1,500

13.   Sign Language: Central Asia (e.g., “Stans”)
                                           1,000

14.   Sign Language: Cyrillic Fingerspelling (e.g., RSL)
                                         1,000

15.   Sign Language: Northern America (e.g., Canada, U.S.)
                                      2,500

16.   Sign Language: Northern Europe (e.g., Estonia, Finland, etc.)
                                      2,000

17.   Sign Language: Oceania (e.g., Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia,
etc)                              1,000

18.   Sign Language: Western Europe (e.g., Austria, Germany, France)
                                  2,500

19.   Sign Systems: Manually Coded (Spoken) Languages (e.g., MCE,
SEEI, SEE II)                1,900

20.   Social Patterns: Signing Communities (e.g., Commonwealth,
Laurent Clerc Town, Martha's Vineyard)     1,900

21.   Sociolinguistics: Dialects/Regionalisms/Ethnic Varieties
                                        2,000

22.   Sociolinguistics: Language attitude
                                               1,900

23.   Sociolinguistics: Language Contact of Spoken and Signed
Languages                                1,900

24.   Sociolinguistics: Latin Fingerspelling (e.g., LSF, ASL, DGS)
                                    1,200

25.   Sociolinguistics: Registers
                                                   1,200

26.   Sociolinguistics: Sign Language Migration & Geography
                                    2,000