IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
 

The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication will publish a
special issue in September 2006 devoted to research in corpus
linguistics for professional communication. See details below.

Insights from Corpus Linguistics for Professional Communication

Corpus linguistics, broadly defined, is the systematic study of human
language via high or low-tech analyses of corpora that consist of
authentic examples of language in use. As a powerful research
methodology, corpus linguistics can offer professionals in the
workplace, as well as educators in academe, new insights into features
and phenomena of professional communicative practice among members of
various professions.

This special issue will feature successful examples of corpus
linguistic research that reveal significant things about language use
in professional communities which will be helpful to professionals who
use professional language as well as helpful to educators who teach
it.

Papers of particular interest for this special issue will be those
which reveal significant linguistic insights in any of the following
domains. Other areas of investigation, however, are also welcome.

- spoken or written professional genres
- language use by seasoned professionals
- language use by novices
- native or nonnative speaker discourse
- hierarchical discourse between superiors and subordinates
- consultant-client discourse
- doctor-patient discourse
- engineer-technical communicator discourse
- author-editor discourse
- author-referee discourse
- project team discourse
- conference presentation/proceedings practices
- discourse for professionals vs. discourse for the public
- discourse in similar genres across different professions
- word choice, word frequencies, or word collocations
- rhetorical moves or patterns
- style or linguistic register
- gender-specific features
- etc.

Papers should describe research methods and procedures for corpus
selection, construction, and analysis; research results; and realized
or potential applications of the findings.

Submission deadline: July 1, 2005

Send submissions via email attachments to the guest editor.

Guest editor: t-orr@u-aizu.ac.jp

Thomas Orr
Center for Language Research
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Aizu
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580 Japan

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