1 Submission of manuscripts Four copies of the manuscript (typewritten), illustrations and tables should be submitted by post to: Geoff Hall, Swansea University, School of Arts, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK.
Queries can be addressed to the editor at: g.m.hall@swansea.ac.uk. All manuscripts will be refereed.
2 Preparation of manuscripts Manuscripts should not normally exceed 6,000 words and should be typed double-spaced on one side only of A4 paper with a 3 cm margin all round. Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout. A cover sheet should include author(s) name(s), affiliation, full postal address and email address, telephone and fax numbers where possible. The principal author responsible for correspondence concerning the manuscript should date and sign the top copy of the manuscript. A brief (max. 250 words) abstract should be provided plus up to 10 keywords. No more than three levels of subheading should be used; the first two levels should be numbered 1, 1.1,1.2, 2, 2.1, etc. Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text. Spelling should follow that of the Oxford English Dictionary. Endnotes, not footnotes, should be used. Quoted words or sections in running text should be in single quotes with double quotes within. Passages of more than 50 words should be indented. Please avoid 'generic' he and 'authorial' we (for I).
3 References Use the Harvard system, which in the text cites authors and year of publication, e.g. (Rose, 1995: 43) or Rose (1995: 43); use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors and a, b, c, etc. to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year. All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the notes, using the following style:
Articles in journals: Pilkington, A. (1990) 'A Relevance Theoretic View of Metaphor', Parlance 2(2): 102-17.
Books: Doughty, P., Pearce, J. and Thornton, G. (1972) Exploring Language. London: Edward Arnold.
Articles in books: Cooper, W.E. and Ross, J.R. (1975) 'World Order', in R.E. Grossman, L.J. San and T.J. Vance (eds) Papers from the Parasession on Functionalism, pp. 63-111. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistics Society.
Unpublished works: Cook, G. (1990) 'A Theory of Discourse Deviation', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
4 Tables Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text.
5 Illustrations All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing by the Publisher), each on a separate A4 sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed width of 104mm and a max. depth of 192mm. Half-tones are acceptable only if they are essential to the understanding of the text. Please supply clear, glossy, unmounted prints of black and white photos, with a good range of contrast. All captions should be provided as separate copy.
6 Submission and acceptance of articles Authors submitting manuscripts do so on the understanding that the work has not been published previously or is under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should obtain permission to use material already protected by copyright and are responsible for payment of any copyright fee. Copyright of previously unpublished material will be transferred to SAGE Ltd. On acceptance of their manuscript, authors are asked to supply a disk of the final version of their article.
7 Proofs and offprints Authors will be expected to check the page proofs and return them to the Editor within two weeks of receipt or as advised. Authors will receive a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author. And an electronic link to reproduce 25 offprints of their article.
8 Books for Review and Manuscripts of Reviews should be sent to Joanna Gavins, Dept of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
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