Language Mediation in Context

Editors

• Gary Massey (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
• Patrizia Giampieri (University of Perugia)
• Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)

In addition to the general LangSci guidelines, please take note of the specific LMIC series guidelines.

Aims and Scope

This LangSci book series focuses on scientific explorations of human-mediated practices using languages within and between modalities to enable communication in local, national, and international contexts. Cross-linguistic language mediation within modalities includes specialised and literary translation, simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, community translation and interpreting, and localisation. Language mediation between modalities may or may not be cross-linguistic and includes subtitling, audio description, and sign interpreting. A unique feature of the series is its focus on research into language mediation practices, processes and resulting products considered within their socio-cultural, historical, organisational, educational and/or geopolitical contexts rather than in isolation.

The series covers both theoretical aspects and practical approaches to language mediation in context, including but not limited to the following subdisciplines:

• translation and interpreting studies
• localisation studies
• accessibility studies
• applied linguistics

We invite book proposals addressing core topics such as:

• Specialised forms of language mediation
• Situated practice and/or practices in language mediation
• Sociotechnical systems involved in language mediation
• applied linguistics
• Quality assurance in language mediation
• Social, cultural and historical values in language mediation
• Ethical issues in language mediation
• (Emerging) professional profiles in language mediation
• Modalities involved in language mediation
• Language mediation workflows and sustainable working conditions
• Educational models to prepare students for language mediation

Proposals

We invite proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and research-based textbooks comprising: the proposed title, a description of the overall content and aims of the book, an overview of the book’s organisation (i.e., chapter titles and authors’ names), and details of the expected timeline. Proposals for monographs should also include a short description of each chapter (100–200 words per chapter). For edited volumes, proposals should provide short abstracts of each contribution (100-200 words per contribution) and the author affiliations.

Please use the LMIC book proposal template available here.

Authors and volume editors are expected to commit to a realistic schedule, to follow the LangSci and LMIC series guidelines, to use the available manuscript templates to provide clean, editable manuscripts, and to meet deadlines that allow a lead time of 12-24 months from proposal approval to manuscript acceptance and publication.

Your proposal will first be discussed by the series editors. If approved, the proposal proceeds to the submission of a full manuscript and evaluation in accordance with the appropriate peer review process. Monographs are assessed by at least two reviewers. Edited volumes are checked after their review process according to the LangSci proofreading guidelines.

Open Science

We strongly encourage authors to make their research data available to editors, reviewers, and readers without restrictions wherever possible. Authors are also encouraged to consider the FAIR Data Principles when depositing data, or to share their data via public data repositories, e.g. the CORE repository of Humanities Common, Zenodo, or GitHub.

AI policy

AI can be used only for assistance, but not for content creation. Any use of AI tools must be disclosed in the acknowledgment section. Authors and editors must include a brief description of how it was used and cite the AI tool and version used. Please refer to the LangSci Press editorial policies available here for more details about the acceptable use of AI tools in producing manuscripts.

Contact

lmic@langsci-press.org