>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:23:16 CDT
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>From: Susan Herring <susan who-is-at UTAFLL.UTA.EDU>
>Subject: Computer-Mediated Conversation Analysis
>To: Multiple recipients of list LANG-USE <LANG-USE who-is-at VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
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> Call for Manuscripts:
>
> COMPUTER-MEDIATED CONVERSATION
>
>
>High-quality manuscripts are solicited for an edited
>collection on the topic of COMPUTER-MEDIATED CONVERSATION,
>to be published by a major publisher. This will be the first
>book devoted entirely to linguistic and conversation analytic
>approaches to computer-mediated communication.
>
>
>Contents:
>
>Contributions may analyze any genre of verbal exchange that
>takes place via computer networks, including private e-mail,
>Listserv discussion groups, bulletin board systems, computer
>conferencing systems, chat, MUDs and MOOs, and multi-media
>systems. Contributions should report empirical, data-driven
>research carried out using conversation analysis or other
>discourse analysis methods. Possible areas of focus include
>topic development, floor management, turn taking, speech
>acts and act sequences, use of discourse markers, politeness
>strategies, framing, etc. In addition, all contributions
>should address in some way the question: to what extent are
>the observed properties of the discourse conditioned by the
>computer medium, and to what extent do they reflect social
>or other factors that may also be present in face-to-face
>communication?
>
>
>Submission information:
>
>Manuscripts should be 15-25 single-spaced pages in length,
>including references and appendices, and should follow the
>formatting style of Oxford University Press's Sociolinguistics
>series (for example, Deborah Tannen's _Framing in Discourse_,
>published in 1993). Submissions should be in the form of
>a hard copy plus a 3 1/2" Macintosh-readable diskette
>containing the file saved in its original format, as well
>as in MS Word for Macintosh (version 4 or 5). The hard
>copy and the diskette should be mailed to the volume editor,
>Susan Herring, at the following address:
>
> Susan Herring
> Program in Linguistics
> University of Texas
> Arlington, TX 76019 USA
>
>
>Deadlines:
>
>Oxford University Press has expressed interest in the
>project, and is requesting a preliminary version of the
>book manuscript for purposes of evaluation. In the
>interest of assembling a preliminary manuscript so as to
>secure a publisher as early as possible, authors are
>requested to submit their manuscripts to the volume
>editor by September 15, 1996.
>
>Interested potential authors who are undertaking relevant
>research, but who do not yet have a written mansucript,
>have the option of first submitting a 500-word abstract
>describing the problem, the data, the methods of analysis
>used, and the findings of their proposed article. On the
>basis of an evaluation of the abstracts, authors may be
>invited to submit a complete manuscript for inclusion in
>the volume. In such cases, the successful abstracts will
>be included in the preliminary manuscript that is sent to
>the publishers, and those authors will have until
>November 1, 1996 to submit a complete version of their
>chapter to the volume editor. Abstracts should be
>e-mailed to the editor as soon as possible, but in any
>event no later than September 15.
>
>Early submissions of both manuscripts and abstracts are
>welcomed.
>
>
>About the editor:
>
>Susan Herring is an Associate Professor of Linguistics
>at the Unviersity of Texas at Arlington who has published
>numerous articles on computer-mediated communication
>since she first began presenting her research in this area
>in 1992. She is also the editor of an interdisciplinary
>collection entitled _Computer-Mediated Communication:
>Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives_
>(John Benjamins, 1996) and guest editor of a forthcoming
>special issue of the _Electronic Journal of Communication_
>on the topic of "Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis".
>
>
>For further information:
>
>Inquiries regarding this project may be e-mailed to the
>editor at susan who-is-at utafll.uta.edu.
>
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Judy Diamondstone diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Graduate School of Education Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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