Call for papers for special issue: Neurocognitive Linguistics
Call for papers for special issue: Neurocognitive Linguistics
The journal Annals of Linguistics announces the call for papers for the special issue “Neurocognitive Linguistics”.
The aim of this issue is to bring together research from the fields of linguistics and cognitive sciences that have as their theoretical framework of reference the neurocognitive model of language created by Sydney M. Lamb, also known as Relational Network Theory (RNT).
We invite original research papers that explore aspects of language from a neurocognitive perspective or that examine details of the theory through experimental studies. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and comparative studies (in English and Spanish) that address topics such as the following:
- Relational treatment of typical and atypical linguistic phenomena.
- Analysis of atypical cases, often discarded by most linguistic theories: speech errors, lapsi linguae, unintended puns, “unintended” meanings.
- Experimental studies that evaluate the hypotheses of RNT.
- Relationship of RNT with other linguistic theories.
- Critical comments on aspects of RNT or extensions of the theory.
- Mother tongue or foreign language learning in terms of RNT.
- Epistemological analysis of RNT (empirical adequacy, developmental plausibility, operational plausibility, neurological plausibility, etc.).
- Analysis of linguistic structures in relational terms.
- Study of communication in relational terms.
Contributions should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words and adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author´s guidelines.
Important dates:
- Deadline for submission of full papers: September 30, 2025.
- Publication date: December 2025.
All contributions will be subject to double-blind peer review.
Submissions should be sent through the journal's website: http://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/analeslinguistica
Additionally, they can be sent to the e-mail paul.buzila@lls.unibuc.ro
Guidelines for submissions can be found on the website.
For any queries, please contact the issue editor, Paul Buzila, University of Bucharest (paul.buzila@lls.unibuc.ro), and Soledad González, director of Annals of Linguistics, National University of Cuyo (analesdelinguistica@ffyl.uncu.edu.ar).
