The aim of this issue it to show the wide variety of research carried out in the field of Corpus Linguistics throughout Latin America. This issue would like to include research based upon corpus analysis of both indigenous and majority languages. Moreover, we would like to showcase different approaches to the design and construction of corpora, as well as innovative use and analysis of corpora.
The deadline for the reception of papers November 15th 2018. Contributions should be address to the editor of the special issue, Dr Ignacio Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México) via email: i.rodriguez@uaq.edu.mx
Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO, is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published annually, aiming at the publication of original research based on corpus data from different languages and language families and from different theoretical perspectives and frameworks, with the goal of improving our knowledge about the linguistic theoretical background of a language, a language family or any type of cross-linguistic phenomena/constructions/assumptions.
RiCL invites previously unpublished research articles and book reviews in the field of corpus linguistics. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. The journal also publishes special issues on specific topics, with leading specialists in the field of corpus linguistics as guest editors.
Links:
– journal website: http://www.aelinco.es/ojs/index.php/ricl/index
– instructions for authors: http://www.aelinco.es/ojs/index.php/ricl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions