Cfp: Special issue of IJLL dedicated to literary translation

In 2015, International Journal of Literary Linguistics (IJLL) will publish a special issue on the linguistic study of literary translation. The aim of this special issue is to offer state-of-the-art contributions on current linguistic research on literary translation. We invite submissions which represent novel insights in the linguistic study of literary translation and which may focus on diverse aspects of literary translation and current developments in the field.

We invite submissions of complete, unpublished, original, and full-length articles (written in English) that are not under review elsewhere. Please send your abstract (in English; max. 500 words, excluding references) by 1 July, 2014 by e-mail to all guest editors (see contact information below). The proposals that will be developed into full-length articles will be selected by the guest editors on the basis of the submitted abstracts.

Call for papers

Novel insights in the linguistic study of literary translation

Special issue of International Journal of Literary Linguistics to be published in 2015

Guest-edited by: Leena Kolehmainen (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu), Esa Penttilä (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu) and Piet Van Poucke (Ghent University).

In 2015, International Journal of Literary Linguistics (IJLL) will publish a special issue on the linguistic study of literary translation. The aim of this special issue is to offer state-of-the-art contributions on current linguistic research on literary translation. We invite submissions which represent novel insights in the linguistic study of literary translation and which may focus on diverse aspects of literary translation and current developments in the field. Themes that may be addressed by contributors include but are not restricted to the following:

*        Current issues in the study of differences between translated and non-translated    discourse
*        New insights in the study of linguistic features of literary retranslation (e.g. ageing         

          features of first translations, stylistic adaptation)
*        The study of foreignization and domestication in relationship to linguistic structures

*        Current developments in the linguistic study of literary translation in the new media

          (e.g. audio visual translation, subtitling, translation and localization of computer games)

*        Linguistic analysis of intertextuality of literary translation

*        The linguistic study of indirect literary translations (i.e. translations based on sources      

          which themselves are translations)

*        Interfaces between translation studies and linguistics: literary texts and their           translations as data in the cross-linguistic study of languages

*        Current issues in the study of changing norms of literary translation

*        New approaches in the study of multilingualism in literary translations

We invite submissions of complete, unpublished, original, and full-length articles (written in English) that are not under review elsewhere. Please send your abstract (in English; max. 500 words, excluding references) by 1 July, 2014 by e-mail to all guest editors (see contact information below). The proposals that will be developed into full-length articles will be selected by the guest editors on the basis of the submitted abstracts. The final decision about publication will be made on the basis of double-blind peer-review reports of the full-length articles. The maximum number of articles that can be included in the special issue is eight.

Schedule:

1 July 2014                   Deadline for submission of abstracts to the guest editors
1 September 2014         Selection of abstracts and notification of acceptance
1 January 2015              Deadline for submission of papers to the guest editors

February 2015               Feedback from the guest editors; possible revision of the papers

March 2015                   Submission of the final paper to the guest editors

April-June 2015            Double-blind peer-review

July 2015                       Notification of acceptance and feedback from the reviewers

July-August 2015         Finalization of the articles by the authors
1 September 2015         Submission of the print-ready articles to the guest editors
October 2015                Publication in IJLL

IJLL is available online at http://www.ijll.uni-mainz.de/index.php/ijll/index. It is an open-access, peer-review journal published by Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) dedicated to the publication of original research at the interface of literary studies and linguistics.

Guest editors and their contact addresses:

Assoc. prof. Leena Kolehmainen, German Language and Culture, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland, PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu. E-mail: leena.kolehmainen@uef.fi.

Dr. Esa Penttilä, English Language and Translation, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland, PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu. E-mail: esa.penttila@uef.fi.

Assist. prof. Piet Van Poucke, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45, BE-9000 Gent. E-mail: Piet.VanPoucke@UGent.be.