CALL FOR PAPERS: PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI) (ISSN: 0214-4808) is an international peer-reviewed journal on English Studies published annually since 1988 by the University of Alicante (Spain). The journal is indexed in: Linguistic Bibliography (BL), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Periodical Index Online (PIO), Linguistics Abstracts Online (LAO) and   Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (ISOC).

RAEI is currently preparing a special issue on Persuasive Discourse due out in late 2009, which will be edited by Dr. Eliecer Crespo, from the University of Alicante. Dr. Crespo would like to invite researchers to submit original, unpublished articles on any aspect of this topic.  

Persuasion-relevant research is not unified within any single conceptual framework. Indeed, persuasion arises in a wide range of discourse types (advertising, media interviews, political propaganda, legal communication, religious sermons, academese, etc.) and can be approached from nearly all the social sciences, including psychology, communication, sociology or political science, among others. Given its all-embracing nature, contributions will be solicited addressing a wide variety of areas in which discourse has somehow the capacity to move hearts and minds, shape belief, achieve consensus, defend the personal self-image or one's values, etc. Papers dealing with any type of persuasive discourse will be welcome, whether they approach the issue from a theoretical of practical perspective.

Preferably, the contributions should deal with persuasion in English. Nevertheless, as rhetorical practices are often culture-bound and they can help our understanding of the nature of this type of discourse, papers dealing with other languages will also be welcome, provided that they are written in English.

Contributions, which should not be longer than 12.000 words, should be submitted by April 30th 2009, complying with the general RAEI guidelines for the submission of manuscripts which are accessible at the following Internet address:

http://www.ua.es/dpto/dfing/publicaciones/instructions.html

All papers submitted to RAEI should be original, not published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts (2 hard copies) for peer-review should be sent no later than 30 th April to the following address:

Eliecer Crespo Fernández

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses.
University of Alicante
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Edificio B)
Apartado de Correos 99
E-03080 Alicante (Spain)
E-mail: eliecer.crespo@ua.es

An electronic copy of the article should also be submitted as email attachment saved as a Microsoft Word document to this address: eliecer.crespo@ua.es

The editor will contact the authors regarding the acceptance, rejection or request for modifications once the reports are received from the reviewers.

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