New
Journal: "Language and
Cognition"
I would like to bring to everyone's attention the existence
of a relatively new journal called "Language and Cognition":
http://www.languageandcognition.net/Language_and_Cognition/Language_and_Cognition.html
As stated on the website, this is the journal of the UK Cognitive Linguistics
Association. It is a venue for the
publication of high-quality peer-reviewed research of a theoretical and/or
empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and
cognition. It is open to research from
the full range of subject disciplines, theoretical backgrounds, and analytical
frameworks that populate the language and cognitive sciences, on a wide range
of topics. Research published in the
journal adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological approach
to the study of language and cognition and their intersection.
To
fulfill this mission, the journal is managed by a team of five general editors
with expertise in different aspects of the language-cognition interface:
•
Daniel Casasanto, The New School for Social Research
•
Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego
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Vyvyan Evans, Bangor University
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David Kemmerer, Purdue University
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Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder
•
Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth
Now, the
main reason I'm posting this announcement on "Talking Brains" is
because the editors would like to solicit more papers that address
neurobiological aspects of the language-cognition interface. We have already published a few papers by
well-known cognitive neuroscientists, including Anjan Chatterjee, Uta Noppeney,
and Gabriella Vigliocco. But we would
very much like to expand our coverage of brain-related topics, especially in
ways that connect with current thinking in cognitively, functionally, and
typologically oriented linguistic theories.
As an added incentive, the journal now publishes full color figures both
in print and online. So if you have any
projects in the works that seem to fit the bill, please consider submitting a
paper to "Language and Cognition"!
2 comments:
What is "cognitively, functionally, and typologically oriented linguistic theories" intended to exclude. My hunch is that it is meant to exclude generative approaches to grammar and linguistic competence. To paraphrase Brad DeLong: why of why can't we have better journals?
Well, there's a whole field called "cognitive linguistics," another one called "linguistic typology," and a third that emphasizes the functional aspects of grammar. Research on the neurobiology of language has tended to ignore these perspectives in favor of generative approaches, and the editors of the journal "Language and Cognition" would like promote the former.
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