English Text Construction
English Text Construction is an internationally refereed journal of English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies focusing on the communicating subject and the text constructing this intersubjective communication. The journal offers a forum for currently converging tendencies that place the text-constructing subject in centre stage. This general common denominator subsumes fundamental movements in the three disciplines of English studies, viz. literary studies, linguistics and applied linguistics. In literary studies narratological perspectives remain of abiding interest, as well as study of the psychologically and ideologically fragmented subject as it reveals itself in literary texts. The study of literature is currently also witnessing renewed interest in the gendered and sociopolitically situated subject and its moral responsibilities. In linguistics, the communicating subject is central to functional, cognitive and pragmatic approaches. Functional linguistics investigates how language is used to communicate about the world and to negotiate the social and discourse roles. Cognitive linguistics studies language usage as it constructs the perspectivized meanings of the conceptualizing subject. Pragmatic approaches focus on the whole message, both the linguistically predicated and the contextually implied one, exchanged between the interlocutors. In Applied linguistics, the subject also plays a central role. Applied linguistic interest in text and the construal of subjectivity is reflected, among others, in genre-oriented approaches to text, and in discourse-oriented and corpus-based analyses as the basis for various ELT applications. For instance, considerable attention has been devoted to issues such as stance in (research) writing and presentations, and to subjectivity in translation studies. Similarly, in language teaching methodology increased attention is given to individual learners and learning styles.
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), MLA, Scopus, Translation Studies Abstracts Online
Sample issue: ETC 1:1
Board
Editors
Gaëtanelle Gilquin, University of Louvain
Lieven Vandelanotte, University of Namur
Managing Editor
Keith Carlon, University of Louvain
Editorial Board
Karin Aijmer, University of Göteborg
Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
Claire Connolly, University of Cardiff
Amy Cook, Indiana University
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia
Kristin Davidse, University of Leuven
Catherine Emmott, University of Glasgow
Roberta Facchinetti, University of Verona
Lynne Flowerdew, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
David Glover, University of Southampton
David Hayman, University of Wisconsin
Ton Hoenselaars, University of Utrecht
Ken Hyland, University of Hong Kong
Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield
Hilary Nesi, Coventry University
Caryl Phillips, Yale University
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Ute Römer, Georgia State University
Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin
Tony Veale, University College Dublin
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
Linguistics
Literature & Literary Studies
Issues
| Volume | Issues | ||||||||||
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| Volume 5 (2012) | 5:1 | ||||||||||
| Volume 4 (2011) | 4:1 | 4:2 | |||||||||
| Volume 3 (2010) | 3:1 | 3:2 | |||||||||
| Volume 2 (2009) | 2:1 | 2:2 | |||||||||
| Volume 1 (2008) | 1:1 | 1:2 | |||||||||
Special Issues
| 3:2. |
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
2010. v, 192 pp.
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| 5:1. |
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
2012. v, 152 pp.
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Guidelines
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