where should I submit my LingComm paper?

[Sharon Unsworth]

Hi folks, 

I’m struggling to decide where to submit two manuscripts I have in the pipeline reporting on LingComm projects and I was wondering what suggestions you might have. 

The first manuscript is a partial replication of Laura (Wagner) et al’s study in Language about attitudes to language science in the Netherlands. We largely find the same, but with some interesting nuances relating to age, gender, science capital. Our data were also collected from a (smaller but) more diverse sample (not in a science centre), and we control for language-related careers and education. 

The second is about our escape-box game (De Taalsteen), its design and - most importantly - the two evaluations we have conducted, examining what families pick up in terms of linguistic content, modifying the game and evaluating again (with positive results). As well as illustrating a successful LingComm project, this paper also emphasises the importance of evaluation and its role in improving your project. 

I have a few ideas (Linguistics Vanguard, possibly Language and Linguistics Compass, but am not sure that they accept open submissions) but I'd be curious to hear what others would suggest. (I’m reluctant to send it to Language because I’ve heard such bad things about how long it takes and I was hoping to submit to a more international journal rather than a local, Dutch one.) 

Any thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome!

Best, Sharon

[Lauren Gawne]

These both sound very exciting!

Linguistics Vanguard does publish lingcomm stuff - I know this because they have a track record of doing so, but also because when I signed up as an Area Editor they let me put lingcomm as one of the areas that I manage. The advantage of LV is that papers are around 3000 words but are required to show some kind of advancement rather than just being descriptive. 

Putting together the LingComm bibliography made me see clearly how Language and Linguistics Compass has a long history of publishing excellent lingcomm work:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6884ZP0lw5gt7eRgNBosxCKEkH-lIKNA2lYPJ1_Zew/edit?usp=sharing

As you mentioned, they do operate on a slightly odd "invitation" model, but you can always pitch your idea to the lead editor for Education & Pedagogy (current Ashley Farris-Trimble) and see how things go. Really good for State of Things papers, like your attitudes to language sciences paper.

 

The new journal Innovations in Linguistics Education does not say explicitly, but they’re open to discussions of linguistics education in all contexts, including lingcomm contexts:  https://journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

Outside of linguistics, the journal that most aligns with our work is the Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) - also great because it's a diamond Open Access journal (no cost to publish or read)
https://jcom.sissa.it/

They run a whole series called "Practice insights” about specific projects and their success, which are under 5000 words. I know with some SciComm journals there can be a challenge in convincing them that linguistics is a topic of scicomm, so might require some careful framing. 

Looking forward to hearing other suggestions! If your local areal/national journals also publish lingcomm that can be useful for people to know! (and, of course, if you have other work to add to the lingcomm bibliography, please use the linked form to let us know!

Cheers, 

Lauren

[Mary Ann Walter]

Greetings all! 

The manuscript about your escape-box game sounds like it could be a good fit for the new LSA publication TRILL - "The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Linguistics (TRILL) is the first peer-reviewed venue for the sharing of high quality, evidence-based linguistics teaching resources."

https://www.lsadc.org/trill

The game sounds terrific, I hope there will be an English version (and others) available someday! 

Best wishes,

Mary Ann

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