Journal of Language and Politics

1. AUTHORS are invited to initially submit an abstract of their contribution preferably via email to both editors.
   
2. MANUSCRIPT submissions should be accompanied by a biographical note (50-75 words), an abstract (100-150 words) including key words, and the author(s)' full name, address and email address.
   
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11. REFERENCES in the text should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example: (Brinton 1996: 37). All references in the text should appear in the list of References.
    
12. The REFERENCES should follow the Notes. References should be listed (1) alphabetically and (2) chronologically. Names of journals should be given in full with page references. Please pay special attention to the use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks given in the following examples:
    
    Books
    Brinton, Laurel J. 1996. Pragmatic Markers in English. Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
    Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.). 1995. Historical Pragmatics. Pragmatic Developments in the History of English (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 35). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    
    Article in book/journal
    Taavitsainen, Irma. 1997. Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English. In: Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, and Kirsi Heikkonen (eds). English in Transition. Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 185-266.
    Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 1989. On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change. Language 65(1), 31-55.
    
    
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14. Authors of main articles will receive a complimentary copy of the issue.
    
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Ruth Wodak	Paul Chilton
Department of Linguistics and English Language	Department of Linguistics and English Language
County College South	County College South
LANCASTER LA1 4YL	LANCASTER LA1 4YL
U.K.	U.K.
r.wodaklancaster.ac.uk	p.chiltonlancaster.ac.uk