The post-proceedings will appear in the Mouton-de Gruyter series 'Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs' [TiLSM]. As a title for the intended volume we have proposed "Salience. Multidisciplinary
perspectives on its function in discourse", see here for general information about the postproceedings.
Specific information:
Dear contributors to the MAD'05 post-proceedings, dear MAD '05 organizers
after a regrettable pause, to be explained shortly, I can communicate to
you a progress in the post-proceedings issue, discussed with you last
year. The time since then has been spent to generally negotiate a
promising and rewarding way to publish the talks given at Chorin, in a
way that can preserve the overall multidimensional attitude of the workshop.
The idea we discussed at Chorin, i.e. to choose a more specific title
under which the papers could be subsumed, certainly had facilitated
publication in a corresponding likewise more specific journal. But then,
part of the talks would have to be excluded, and the overall purpose of
the conference had to be given up. So we looked instead for a place of
publication that would respect the different existing perspectives. In
fact we found one in the Mouton-de Gruyter series 'Trends in
Linguistics. Studies and Monographs' [TiLSM]. As a title for the
intended volume we have proposed "Salience. Multidisciplinary
perspectives on its function in discourse".
The publisher have consented willingly to a publication of such a title,
provided the contributions in the proceedings volume would be worked out
to longer papers, cf. below.
A publication in that series has these three advantages:
Ideally, a volume in the TiLSM series has 300-350 pages. With 15
contributions to be expected, each can have about 20 pages.
If this seems a reasonable option to you, I would like to combine it
with a second procedure, that has been carried through, e.g., by the
'Constraints in Discourse' conference (CID) in Dortmund, 2005 . For their post-proceedings, an
internal 'reviewing' was carried out, before papers were ventilated
further. It seems to me that this is an excellent way, also for us, to
strengthen the thematic coherence within the volume, and also to link
contributions a bit to the proposed definitions of 'Salience'.
Some more specificities: As for the thematic subgrouping, we think that
the discussion we had last year is still valuable. We will take up the
issue at the end of April, when the new versions of the papers are
available and new coalitions of interest may become apparent. Also,
Berry Claus has consented to contribute an additional paper that is to
support the cognitive psychology perspective.
So we hope that you still are ready to contribute, and look forward for
the results of a second look.
With best regards,
for the editors,
Michael
We propose the following time schedule:
We have installed a database for the contributions on the server of the
Institute of Linguistics at Potsdam University, where only contributors
have access. As for the scripts, we'd like to thank Peter Kühnlein for making
his implementation available.
Your comments will be sent to the respective authors. For them, there will be time until July 22nd to modify their
papers if they feel like it. If you should enter a correspondence with an author, there is thus some time for
'letting grow' a paper. Also, we encourage reviewers to look at a second paper if they are interested and can afford
it, and perhaps send a further comment to another author. The deadline for such further comments is July 10.
Having pre-final versions of the contributions at their disposal, editors will finish their Introduction and make
that chapter accessible to the contributors (August 5). These have the opportunity to comment on the chapter (until
August 12), and even make some small changes in their own contributions. Editors will prepare a final version of the
volume until August 20 and send it to the publisher.
In case of problems, please do not hesitate to contact Christian.