Introductions to Linguistics at Oxford University Press
Introduction by John Davey and Julia Steer
Linguistics Editors at OUP UK, Oxford
We aim to publish the best and most exciting work in linguistics for scholars and students at all levels. We ask our authors to do their best to make their work as accessible as possible to researchers in related fields. Working closely with OUP in New York we cover every aspect of the discipline. The main commissioning activity in Oxford falls into the following categories:
Theoretical approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces; cognitive science research in linguistics; historical and comparative linguistics; language typology; language evolution; computational linguistics; language acquisition.
Sociolinguistics is more commonly published from New York but there is no hard-and-fast division of subfields between the two branches. Most books published in linguistics connect in some way to work in fields such as psychology, human biology, philosophy, cognitive science, lexicography, and so on, and we promote and market them accordingly. Our linguistics publishing is independent of any single school or approach and includes the fruits of cooperation and synthesis among once or currently warring factions.
The following series are published out of Oxford. Should you require more information about a particular series or wish to submit a proposal, please contact John or Julia as indicated below, and/or the series editor(s).
We also welcome proposals which do not sit neatly alongside any of the series descriptions.
Note that if you would like to submit a proposal in applied linguistics, second language learning, English for professional use, or English language teaching you should address this to the Applied Linguistics Department in our ELT Division, and not to John Davey, Julia Steer, or Peter Ohlin.
The email address for Applied Linguistics is:
ELT.TeacherDevelopment@oup.com
Their postal address is:
Applied Linguistics
ELT Division
Oxford University Press
Oxford OX2 6DP
Any comments about The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary should be directed to the ELT dictionaries zen desk.
The ELT dictionaries zen desk email is:
support@oxfordeltdictionaries.zendesk.com
Context and Content
General editor: François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, and Arché, St Andrews
Published jointly with OUP philosophy
This series focuses on issues in philosophical and linguistic semantics and pragmatics, including context-sensitivity, semantic relativism, the relation between language and thought, mental content, and the role of perspective and context-dependence (or situatedness) in human cognition including subjectivity, consciousness, and the self. Its books will include those deriving from the distinguished Context and Content lecture series delivered annually in Paris by internationally-known scholars.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Peter Momtchiloff: (Philosophy editor):
peter.momtchiloff@oup.com
Explorations in Language and Space
General editor: Emile van der Zee, University of Lincoln
This series explores the domain of language and space, one of the most dynamic areas in cognitive science. Its volumes draw on and unite work in linguistics, psychology, computational approaches to cognition, and brain science.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
Emile van der Zee: evanderzee@lincoln.ac.uk
Explorations in Linguistic Typology
General editors: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, the Cairns Institute, James Cook University
This series focuses on aspects of language that are of current theoretical interest and for which there has not previously or recently been any full-scale cross-linguistic study. Its books are for typologists, fieldworkers, and theory developers, and designed for use in advanced seminars and courses. Each volume takes its inspiration from a workshop organised by either one or both of the series editors.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Oxford Core Linguistics
General editor: David Adger, Queen Mary University London
Oxford Core Linguistics is generative in its approach. It aims to cover every major subfield of the subject with a view to meeting the needs of undergraduates specializing in linguistics and of graduates taking short intensive courses either prior to switching to linguistics or as part of a qualification in fields such as computational and cognitive science. The authors assume little or no knowledge of the field and proceed at an invigorating pace to a sophisticated level.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
David Adger: d.j.adger@qmul.ac.uk
Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics is a subset of Oxford Handbooks and links to parallel series in philosophy and cognitive science. The books present authoritative, critical surveys of current research and knowledge. Each offers fresh perspectives on the state of the art in central aspects of research in linguistics throughout the world.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics
General editor: Cedric Boeckx, ICREA & Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, UAB, Barcelona
This new series offers a forum for original contributions in biolinguistics, an important new interdisciplinary field concerned with exploring the basic properties of the language faculty, how it matures in the individual, how it is put to use in thought and communication, what brain circuits implement it, and how it emerged in the human species. In asking these questions, biolinguists try to determine which components of the brain are unique to language, as opposed to shared with other cognitive domains such as music and mathematics, and especially those that also seem unique to humans. Contributions are likely to come from the following areas of research: linguistic computation, language development, language evolution, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics. In addition, the series welcomes contributions addressing philosophical and conceptual issues bearing on the nature of and methodologies in biolinguistics.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
Cedric Boeckx: cedric.boeckx@uab.cat
Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
General editors: Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts, both at University of Cambridge
This series provides a forum for
- work on change in grammar, sound, and meaning within and across languages;
- synchronic studies of languages in the past;
- descriptive histories of one or more languages.
It is open to work by scholars of all theoretical persuasions. It reflects the links between historical and diachronic linguistics and between them and fields such as first-language acquisition, learnability theory, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural history. Authors are urged to write in a manner accessible to the wide range of scholars and students interested in languages and their history.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Adam Ledgeway: anl21@cam.ac.uk
Ian Roberts: igr20@cam.ac.uk
Oxford Studies in Endangered Languages
General editor: Stephen Anderson, Yale University
This series supports the publication of theoretically informed work on endangered languages and addresses concerns associated with language loss and documentation. Within a scope of 250-300 printed pages, its authors focus on unusual linguistic phenomena and their theoretical significance. They typically combine partial descriptions of one or more languages with sophisticated linguistic analysis, the latter aiming to uncover and assess the significance of the former. The books contribute to the role endangered languages play in understanding the diversity of the human language faculty and act as correctives to unfounded generalization.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
Stephen Anderson: stephen.anderson@yale.edu
Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
General editors: Kathleen R. Gibson, University of Texas at Houston, and James R. Hurford, University of Edinburgh
This series provides a forum for rationally argued, solidly based work on the origins and evolution of language which combines scholarship with readability. It is open to work in all fields bearing on the subject, including linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, animal behaviour, biology, anthropology, psychology, computer science, and archaeology. Its books have a wide readership, frequently including the general public.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Kathleen Gibson: kathleen.r.gibson@uth.tmc.edu
James Hurford: jim@ling.ed.ac.uk
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
General editors: David Adger, Queen Mary College, and Hagit Borer, University of Southern California
This series focuses on the interactions between components of the human grammatical system. It covers interfaces between core components of grammar as well as how they are acquired and deployed, including language acquisition, language dysfunction, and language processing. It is open to work by linguists of all theoretical persuasions. Authors are urged to write so as to be understood by those in related subfields of linguistics and cognate disciplines.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
David Adger: d.j.adger@qmul.ac.uk
Hagit Borer: borer@almaak.usc.edu
Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
General editors: Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh, William Croft, University of New Mexico, Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Nicholas Evans, University of Melbourne, Anna Siewierska, University of Lancaster
This series offers a forum for original books on language typology. Each volume provides the reader with a wide range of cross-linguistic data encompassing several different language families. The books are theoretically informed and seek to link theory and empirical research in ways that are mutually productive. The series is open to typological work in semantics, pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, and discourse. The series is open only to books written by a single author (or two or more co-authors). Edited works in the field may be published in association with the series but not as part of it.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
General editors: Kasia M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge and Louis de Saussure, University of Neuchâtel
This new series identifies and promotes ground-breaking research on the human concept of time and its representation in language. It aims to advance the development of satisfactory theories to explain and account for such basic matters as: representing tenses; the interaction of the temporal information conveyed by tense, aspect, temporal adverbial and context; conceptualizations and the ontology of time; and relations between events, states, eventualities, facts, propositions, sentences, and utterances.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Kasia Jaszczolt: kmj21@cam.ac.uk
Louis de Saussure: louis.desaussure@unine.ch
Oxford Surveys in Phonology and Phonetics
General editors: William Idsardi, University of Maryland and Bert Vaux, University of Cambridge
This series of critical surveys is intended to be optimally useful for phonologists and phoneticians at graduate level and above. Each considers current and past approaches to a particular subject, providing reasoned accounts of the methods deployed to gather and analyse data, the theories proposed to explain them, and current objectives in the context of relevant developments in the field, and in linguistics and cognitive science more widely.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
William Idsardi: idsardi@umd.edu
Bert Vaux: bv230@cam.ac.uk
Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics
General editors: Chris Barker, New York University, and Christopher Kennedy, University of Chicago
Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics provides critical distillations of the central empirical questions in contemporary semantics and pragmatics and the most important lines of research on them. Its books give graduate students up-to-date sources of instruction and reference and provide an accessible source of reference for all scholars throughout the discipline and related fields, notably in philosophy and cognitive science.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Chris Barker: barker@ucsd.edu
Christopher Kennedy: ck@uchicago.edu
Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology
General editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr, Heinrich-Heine University and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Books in this series survey the major approaches to subjects and questions at the centre of linguistic research in morphosyntax. Its volumes are accessible, critical, and up-to-date. Individually and collectively they aim to reveal the value of the field’s intellectual history and theoretical diversity.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
Robert D. Van Valin: vanvalin@acsu.buffalo.edu
Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
The Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics series aims to meet the needs of students at every level of study by publishing readable and up-to-date introductions to the fields and subfields of the discipline.
Contact:
Julia Steer:
julia.steer@oup.com
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
The Phonology of the World’s Languages
General editor: Jacques Durand, University of Toulouse
Each volume in the series is devoted to the phonology of a single language. After a chapter on its history and linguistic context, every aspect of its phonology is explored, including prosody and stress, syllabification, word phonology and allomorphy, vowel and consonant systems, phonotactics, voicing, palatalization, etc. The emphasis is on data and explanation. The books may be written within any framework providing the presentation may be clearly understood by those with different theoretical perspectives.
Contact:
John Davey:
john.davey@oup.com
Jacques Durand: jdurand@univ-tlse2.fr
Submitting a proposal
Please send Julia or John, in the first instance, a short descriptive letter by post or email. Should you decide to send a proposal this should describe the aim, scope, argument, and readership of the book and its relation to existing literature. Could you also send a provisional outline of chapters with a paragraph about each of them, together with your estimate of its extent in words and when you plan to complete it? Please also include a short CV.
John Davey
Consultant Editor: Linguistics
Oxford University Press
Oxford OX2 6DP
44 [0]1865 556767 ext 4157;
john.davey@oup.com
jcadavey@btinternet.com
Julia Steer
Linguistics Editor
Oxford University Press
Oxford OX2 6DP
44 [0]1865 556767 ext 4157;
Julia Steer: julia.steer@oup.com
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Introduction by Peter Ohlin
Linguistics Editor at OUP USA, New York
OUP USA's linguistics publishing is co-ordinated closely with that of OUP in the UK, and the outside world will not necessarily know the difference. Nonetheless the program of OUP books that I publish out of the New York office has its own distinctive character. In general I am most interested in publishing for academic and general readers with an interest in the studies of language in its social context. More broadly, I am interested in publishing works of impeccable and up-to-date linguistic scholarship that are sensitive to the need for scholars to speak beyond the confines of their own specialties.
Series published out of New York:
Foundations of Human Interaction
N. J. Enfield, Editor
This interdisciplinary series welcomes proposals that establish, argue for, analyze and/or review various foundations for human interaction, especially when this concerns new insights through the study of relations between systems. This focus includes: research on talk in social interaction; research on dialogue as joint action in the psychology of human interaction; evolutionary approaches to communication that focus on social and cognitive functions; ethological research on human social interactional behavior and human relationships; linguistic analysis in the interactional linguistics! tradition; and research on language in the field of cognitive anthropology.
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Richard Kayne, Editor
Comparative syntax necessarily involves work on more than one language, but it is not simply that. On the one hand, comparative syntax characterizes and delineates the parameters that underlie cross-linguistic differences in syntax. On the other, comparative syntax exploits those differences as a new and exciting source of evidence bearing on the characterization and delineation of the general principles and properties common to all human languages.
Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Roger Shuy, Editor
Oxford Studies in Language and Law includes scholarly analyses and descriptions of language evidence in civil and criminal law cases as well as language issues arising in the areas of statutes, statutory interpretation, courtroom discourse, jury instructions, and historical changes in legal language. Prospective authors are welcome from a range of academic fields, such as linguistics, law, anthropology, sociology, and criminology.
Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski, EditorsOxford Studies in Sociolinguistics is an internationally leading book series edited since 2003 by Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. The series publishes excellent research in all areas of language, discourse and social life. Books in the series make a distinctive original contribution to sociolinguistics, broadly defined, providing new understandings of how language and social interaction constitute, reflect and inform social, political and cultural life, or the role and place of an individual in society. Books either introduce new sub-fields of sociolinguistics, or provide important new interpretations of existing sub-fields, or explore the overlap or interface between sociolinguistics and neighbouring disciplines. The series editors welcome books that combine empirical investigation with a committed and rich line of social theorising, applying sociolinguistic assumptions, methodologies and analyses to linguistic and multimodal data, including speech, writing, print and electronic/new media, images, typography, sound, and so on. The series aims to represent the best international and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language and society.
Studies in Language and Gender
Mary Bucholtz, Editor
Oxford’s series Studies in Language and Gender provides a broad-based interdisciplinary forum for the best new scholarship on language, gender, and sexuality. The mandate of the series is to encourage innovative work in the field, a goal that may be achieved through the revisitation of familiar topics from fresh vantage points, through the introduction of new avenues of research, or through new theoretical or methodological frameworks. The series is interdisciplinary in its scope: volumes may be authored by scholars in such disciplines as anthropology, communication, education, ethnic studies, gender studies, literary studies, psychology, and sociology, as well as linguistics.
Submitting a proposal
I welcome submission of proposals whether or not they fit into the above named series. A proposal should consist of an introductory description or overview (which includes the rationale for the project and its intended audience), a table of contents, several sample chapters, and a copy of your vita. You may send it to me over e-mail at
pho@oup-usa.org or by mail to:
Peter Ohlin
Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
USA
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Introduction to the Applied Linguistics List
By Professor Henry Widdowson
It is of the nature of linguistics as a disciplinary enquiry that it separates out different aspects of language as experienced by its users and reformulates them as abstractions. Whether the linguist is modelling phonological or syntactic systems, or identifying the essential cognitive or communicative constructs that inform language knowledge, or describing the patterns of actual language behaviour, the result is always at a remove from how people actually experience language in the real world. If this were not the case, if linguists simply recorded experienced reality and were not in T.S.Eliot's words 'expert beyond experience' there would be no point in doing linguistics at all.
But the theoretical and descriptive findings of linguistics can be referred back to the everyday reality from which they were derived and used to reformulate it in its turn in new and informative ways. This is what applied linguistics seeks to do: to refer linguistics back to problems that people have with language in the real world, and look for insights that might be relevant to their clarification and solution.
One obvious set of problems are those which people encounter in the learning of languages other than their own, and the most active area of applied linguistics has been that which seeks to put the teaching of such languages on a principled footing in reference to developments in linguistic theory and description. The titles that figure here are representative of such work. They range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy.
The email address for Applied Linguistics is:
ELT.TeacherDevelopment@oup.com
Their postal address is:
Applied Linguistics
ELT Division
Oxford University Press
Oxford OX2 6DP
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