FLS Special Issue: Austronesian Languages

Special Issue for Foreign Language Studies

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Austronesian Languages

Guest Editors:

Siaw-Fong Chung (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

Michael Tanangkingsing (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)

Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 January 2024

The Austronesian language family is a vast and diverse group of languages spoken by peoples in the Asia-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Madagascar. In Taiwan, Formosan languages are spoken by a diverse range of indigenous ethnic groups, each having its own language specialties. The comparison of these languages to other related Austronesian languages and/or foreign languages will be invited in this special issue.

This special issue of Foreign Language Studies, slated for release in June 2025, will be dedicated to exploring issues, challenges, and practices associated with research on Austronesian languages. Submissions addressing the following topics, with specific reference to research in Austronesian languages, cross-linguistic and/or typological studies on Formosan languages (which may include comparative studies with other Austronesian/foreign languages), are invited:

·         Documentation and Description

·         Conservation and Revitalization

·         Language Policy

·         Lexicography

·         Sociolinguistics

·         Dialectology

·         Corpus Linguistics

·         Discourse Analysis and Stylistics

·         Linguistic Landscapes

Contributors are welcome to address issues or topics not listed above. We seek full-length articles that offer a fresh perspective, grounded in theory and methodology, on issues related to Austronesian languages.

Full-length articles, written in English, should range from 6,000 to 10,000 words. If manuscripts are to be written in Chinese or other languages, authors have to provide an English abstract, with a maximum of one page A4 in length, for initial review. Full-length Chinese articles should span 12,000 to 20,000 words, adhering to the same academic rigor on issues relating to Austronesian languages. The special issue also accepts book reviews and research notes of around 2,000 to 3,000 words on a related topic.

Timeline

Abstracts due                                                                             31 January 2024

Notification of full submission invitation           6 March 2024

Papers due for peer review                                      5 July 2024

Review decision                                                                         9 October 2024

Final papers due                                                              11 December 2024

Publication date                                                                          June 2025

Foreign Language Studies, founded in 2004, is an open-access peer-reviewed journal of foreign literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, and one of the most well-established academic journals in Taiwan. As a multi-lingual journal, it is dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of literature, language, teaching, and culture. It focuses on the emergence of global vision and dialogue by addressing theoretical and practical issues arising from the encounter of various literatures, languages, teachings, and cultures around the world. It is currently indexed in Taiwan Citation Index - Humanities and Social Sciences, NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature, Airiti Library, HyRead Journal, Taiwan Academic Citation Index, Taiwan Journals Search, and LawData.

We welcome inquiries and proposals for co-authored contributions. Please contact the guest editors: Siaw-Fong Chung (sfchung@nccu.edu.tw) and Michael Tanangkingsing (miguel@mail.ntut.edu.tw).

Siaw-Fong Chung (PhD) holds the position of Professor in the Department of English at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Since February 2022, she has had the privilege of serving as the Chairperson of the department, and in 2023 she was elected to become the 13th president of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan. Her professional focus lies within the domains of corpus linguistics, lexical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. Throughout her career, she has conducted research and published extensively on a variety of subjects, including Malay corpus linguistics, near-synonym analysis, and most recently, an investigation into language use on social media using a corpus-based approach. She has served as editors in several journals in the past.

Michael Tanangkingsing (PhD) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at National Taipei University of Technology. He served as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2019-2023), Chair of the Department of English (2016-2019), and Head of the International Cooperation Section in the Office of International Affairs (2012-2016). He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Philippine Journal of Linguistics since 2017 and was the chair holder for The Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education in 2023. His research interests include syntax and pragmatics in Philippine languages.

《外國語文研究》專刊徵稿啟事

主題：南島語言研究

客座主編：鍾曉芳教授（國立政治大學英國語文學系）

洪媽益副教授（國立台北科技大學應用英文系）

摘要截稿日期： 2024  年 1月 31 日

南島語系是一個多樣的語言族群，其使用者來自亞太地區，包含東南亞、太平洋島嶼、馬達加斯加的部分地區等。在臺灣，原住民族群使用臺灣南島語，不同族群有獨特的語言特徵。本專刊歡迎有關南島語與其他語言或外國語言比較的研究。

本專刊預定於2025年6月發行，本期將致力於探討與南島語言、或臺灣南島語的跨語言或類型學研究（可與其他南島語或外國語言進行比較）的稿件、其挑戰與實踐相關的議題。歡迎針對下列相關議題投稿，但不受限於以下主題：

• 語言資料之保存

• 語言保育與振興

• 語言政策

• 詞典學

• 社會語言學

• 方言學

• 語料庫語言學

• 語篇分析和文體分析

• 語言景觀

歡迎投稿以上未列出的主題。我們也鼓勵英語以外的語言的投稿。我們徵求提供南島語言發展新觀點、以理論及研究方法創新相關議題的全文稿。英文稿件字數限定為6,000至10,000字。如果使用中文或其他語言撰寫稿件，作者必須提供英文摘要（一頁A4之長度）供初步審查，中文稿件字數限定為12,000至20,000字。本專刊也接受相關主題的書評和研究紀要，英文字數約為2,000至3,000字。

投稿日期須知：

摘要截止日期：        2024年1月31日

全文邀稿通知：        2024年3月6日

審稿截稿：                2024年7月5日

審稿決定：                2024年10月9日

最終截稿：                2024年12月11日

出版日期：                2025年 6月

《外國語文研究》成立於2004年，是一個經過嚴謹同儕審查，提供全文開放取用的專業學術期刊。本期刊立足外國語文本位，以文學、語言、教學與文化為中心，著眼於全球視野及對話的學術期刊。本期刊期望融會文學、語言、教學、文化，進而探討各該文學、語言、教學、文化的變遷、轉型及碰撞與交融中所產生的重大理論與實踐問題。《外國語文研究》目前收錄於臺灣人文及社會科學引文索引資料庫、國家圖書館臺灣期刊論文索引系統、華藝線上圖書館、凌網科技臺灣全文資料庫、碩亞臺灣引文資料庫、聯合百科臺灣人社百刊、元照月旦知識庫。

如有任何與專刊相關問題，歡迎聯繫客座主編：鍾曉芳（sfchung@nccu.edu.tw）洪媽益（miguel@mail.ntut.edu.tw）。

鍾曉芳教授目前服務於國立政治大學英國語文學系，亦於2022.2 至2024.2期間擔任系主任一職。 過去兩年曾擔任本期刊《外國語文研究》總編輯之職務，曾擔任多個期刊的編輯或客座主編。於2023年鍾教授當選為台灣語言學會的第13理事長。鍾教授的專業聚焦於語料庫語言學、詞彙語義學和認知語言學。其研究涵蓋馬來語語料庫語言學、近義詞分析，以及近期探討社交媒體上的語言使用。

洪媽益副教授服務於臺灣國立臺北科技大學應用英文系，曾擔任人文社會科學學院副院長（2019-2023）、系主任（2016-2019）以及國際事務處國際合作組組長（2012-2016）。自2017年以來，洪教授一直擔任《菲律賓語言學期刊》的主編，並於2023年獲頒Br. Andrew Gonzales, FSC, Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education之榮譽。洪教授的研究興趣包括菲律賓語言中的句法和語用學。