New Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies announced
Cardiff University Press has announced the forthcoming publication of the Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies (JCaDS), a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the computer-assisted study of language in use as a vehicle of communication. Edited by an international team of scholars led by Professor Alan Partington of the University of Bologna (Italy), JCaDS breaks new ground as the first linguistics journal to fully embrace the principles of open science, offering not only open access to the journal's articles but also open data that can be reanalysed and reused. In addition to original empirical research, JCaDS will publish reviews of books, software tools and corpora.
Call for contributions
JCaDS would like to invite contributions for its first issue, due to appear in summer 2018
The journal will consider original research articles using corpus techniques for the systematic examination of naturally-occurring language in specific settings and contexts.
Aspects and areas of interest include but are not limited to applied linguistics; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; semantics; sociolinguistics; stylistics; translation; cohesion; conversation; evaluation; lexical priming; lexicogrammar; politeness; (cross-)cultural studies; discourse approaches to the study of business and organisations, education, healthcare, history, law, the media, politics, the professions, and sexuality and gender; and the digital humanities and social sciences. We welcome work from any disciplinary standpoint.
The language of publication is English, but we welcome submissions working on any language. Original manuscripts should be no longer than 9,000 words. For further guidance please visit https://publications.cardiffuniversitypress.org/index.php/JCaDS/about/submissions. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting their manuscript online.
JCaDS also invites reviews of books, corpus software tools and corpora. Please contact the book review editor, Sylvia Jaworska, with details of your proposed review.
To discuss potential special issues in 2019 and beyond, please contact the editorial team .
About JCaDS
The Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal publishing corpus-assisted research into discourse, defined as language in use as a vehicle of communication. JCaDS is pluridisciplinary: we welcome studies from all areas of the humanities and social sciences that incorporate corpus techniques in investigating how spoken and written language is used and how meanings are created and explored.
JCaDS is published by Cardiff University Press in collaboration with leading open-access publisher Ubiquity Press.
