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Rising Impact Factors
Elsevier publishes more than 30 high quality journals covering the entire spectrum of language and linguistics. The latest impact factors* for linguistics have just been released and highlights include...
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English for Specific Purposes
2006 Impact Factor
WAS
0.317
2007 Impact Factor
NOW
0.756
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Language & Communication
2006 Impact Factor
WAS
0.382
2007 Impact Factor
NOW
0.488
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Journal of Pragmatics
2006 Impact Factor
WAS
0.465
2007 Impact Factor
NOW
0.484
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Language Sciences
2006 Impact Factor
WAS
0.250
2007 Impact Factor
NOW
0.373
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| *© Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Reuters, 2008 |
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2008 Computers and Composition Award Winners
Awarded at the Computers and Writing Conference, University of Georgia, USA
We are very pleased to join with the Editors of Computers and Composition to congratulate the winners of the five journal sponsored awards, including that of the Ellen Nold Best Article Award, won by Joyce R. Walker of Western Michigan University for her article:  Narratives in the Database: Memorializing September 11th Online. You can find full details of the other awards and winners here.
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New Co-Editor for the Journal of Second Language Writing
We are very pleased to join with Professor Leki in welcoming Professor Rosa Manchón (University of Murcia, Spain) to her role as co-editor of the Journal of Second Language Writing. We also wish Professor Tony Silva well and thank him sincerely for his (ongoing) contributions to the journal.
Journal of Second Language Writing Best Paper Award for 2007
Congratulations to Professor Diane Belcher of Georgia State University on winning the JSLW Best Paper Award for her article
Seeking acceptance in an English-only research world.
Find out more about the Journal of Second Language Writing on the journal homepage.
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ESP Horowitz Prize Winner 2007
We are pleased to announce the winner of the English for Specific Purposes 2007 Horowitz Prize as An Cheng for "
Transferring generic features and recontextualizing genre awareness: Understanding writing performance in the ESP genre-based literacy framework. Congratulations!
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LinguistList Fund Drive 2008
Elsevier is a supporter of the
LinguistList and continued this support in early 2008 by providing 5 prizes awarded for fundraising efforts for the LinguistList. The five winners were chosen in April and we are therefore pleased to congratulate them. Each winner receives a personal, one-year subscription to the Elsevier linguistics journal of their choice.
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New Associate Editors for the Journal of Fluency Disorders
We are pleased to welcome Dr Frances Freeman of Research in Speech Communication and Dr Michael Blomgren of the University of Utah to their new positions as Associate Editors for the Journal of Fluency Disorders. We wish them well.
You can find out more about the journal here.
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New Associate Editor for Journal of Phonetics
Professor Jennifer Hay of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand is a newly appointed Associate Editor for the Journal of Phonetics. We welcome her into her new role and wish her well.
Visit the journal homepage to find out more about the journal: www.elsevier.com/locate/phonetics
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| ESP Special Issue in Honour of John Swales
We are pleased to announce the publication of an English for Specific Purposes special issue honouring and highlighting the life and work of John Swales. The issue is edited by Ann M. Johns and is available online via
ScienceDirect.
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Discounted Society Personal Subscription Rates
Reduced personal journal subscriptions are available for various journals to members of:
- Alliance for Computers and Writing
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- British Association for Applied Linguistics
- International Association for Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- International Communication Association
- International Phonetic Association
- International Pragmatics Association
- International Speech Communication Association
- Japan Association of Language Teachers
- Linguistic Society of America
- Teachers of English as a Second or other Language
Contact your regional sales offices for more information.
Personal subscription prices for 2008 and access to full-text sample copies for all our language and linguistics journals are included on each journal homepage.
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Hinari Project
Elsevier is pleased to inform you that its entire range of language and linguistics journals are now accessible to professionals in developing countries through
HINARI, the World Health Organization's HealthInterNetwork. With over 900 journals in HINARI, Elsevier represents 30% of HINARI's annual 3.3 million downloads and is proud to be one of the founding publishers of this initiative.
Find out more about the Hinari project on the Elsevier Information Philanthropy
website.
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