Candlin & Mynard ePublishing: Facilitating Links Between Research, Practice, and Publication.
Concepts, Themes and Thinkers Series
Overview
For many of us we define our disciplines or our professional areas of work by highlighting key concepts and focal themes that seem to characterise them. Often, we link these with key writers, thinkers, agents that we know about, and whose work we admire. Taken together, these concepts, themes and thinkers become part of how we see our world of work.
If we want to explore these labels in more detail, however, that’s where things get a bit more difficult. Where would we go to look? Where would we get the information we need for practical action? How are the concepts, themes and thinkers linked together? How do they come together to map the fields of applied linguistics?
Candlin & Mynard’s Concepts, Themes and Thinkers series is designed to address these issues. It does so by linking key authors (the thinkers) with their own work (the concepts and themes) and that of others related to theirs, so as to explore and chart the field of applied linguistics. Like applied linguistics, the series is planned to be open, dynamic, always reinventing itself in the light of the need to respond to new challenges, new concepts and new themes.
Target audiences:
Key features:
Each ebook will
What are the main questions the books will address?
1. Surveying the concepts and themes
All of the e-books in this imaginative series provide concise, yet expert overviews of a particular area of the field. Like all the Candlin & Mynard ebooks they are there to help readers explore, encourage and enable their thinking and practice
Titles currently under consideration include:
Titles we are interested in publishing:
Structure of the ebooks in the series
The books all follow a similar structure and including five distinct sections.
1. What is the map of _________?
This section provides readers with the definitions of key concepts and themes and pen portraits of the prominent thinkers in this area. Its objective is to map and explore the area in a user friendly and accessible way.
2. Where is _________ placed in the field of applied linguistics?
This section gives an overview of how the area relates to applied linguistics in general, showing its connections to other disciplines and areas of professional practice
3. How does research in _________ relate to practice and how does practice impact on research??
This key section shows how the concepts and themes of _________ impact on practice and vic versa. Example case studies and practical applications will help identify and locate the concepts and themes in action, showing how readers can undertake their own inquiries
4. What are the emerging futures in _________?
This section identifies future and developing themes in the area, seen from the author’s perspective. New practices, new research, new connections are all the focus of this section, encouraging and enabling readers to make their own contributions to these developments.
5. How can we find out more about _________?
This section provides a selective and annotated set of resources to enable the reader to learn more about the area. Bibliography, resource links such as video content or associations and society websites will all fit in here, enabling readers and users of the books to become more involved and make their own contributions to exploration.
Prospective authors should contact the series editors giving a brief overview of their focus area. Depending on the scope, we will then provide a proposal form and solicit further details and sample material.
For many of us we define our disciplines or our professional areas of work by highlighting key concepts and focal themes that seem to characterise them. Often, we link these with key writers, thinkers, agents that we know about, and whose work we admire. Taken together, these concepts, themes and thinkers become part of how we see our world of work.
If we want to explore these labels in more detail, however, that’s where things get a bit more difficult. Where would we go to look? Where would we get the information we need for practical action? How are the concepts, themes and thinkers linked together? How do they come together to map the fields of applied linguistics?
Candlin & Mynard’s Concepts, Themes and Thinkers series is designed to address these issues. It does so by linking key authors (the thinkers) with their own work (the concepts and themes) and that of others related to theirs, so as to explore and chart the field of applied linguistics. Like applied linguistics, the series is planned to be open, dynamic, always reinventing itself in the light of the need to respond to new challenges, new concepts and new themes.
Target audiences:
- Language educators, communication specialists, early career researchers who are looking to get a grasp of the area in question
- Students who need a starting point for exploration
- Experienced researchers wanting an authoritative yet accessible update on less familiar areas
- Language teachers, communication trainers and course developers seeking authoritative resource materials
Key features:
Each ebook will
- be written by an expert in the field
- link theory to practice and back again
- will contain links to further resources
- will point the reader towards potential areas for research and practice
- contain between 40,000 and 60,000 words (around 120 – 160 pages)
What are the main questions the books will address?
1. Surveying the concepts and themes
- What are the concepts and what are the themes?
- Who are the key thinkers and doers?
- How does it fit in?
- What are the key issues?
- How does research relate to practice and how does practice feed back into research?
- Example Case studies of research and practice
- Where is the field going? What areas need more research?
- What are key people doing? What areas need more practice?
- Where to go to find out more?
- Checking out the resources available
All of the e-books in this imaginative series provide concise, yet expert overviews of a particular area of the field. Like all the Candlin & Mynard ebooks they are there to help readers explore, encourage and enable their thinking and practice
Titles currently under consideration include:
- Exploring and explaining affect
- Exploring and explaining interaction
- Exploring and explaining attribution theory
Titles we are interested in publishing:
- Exploring and explaining metacognition
- Exploring and explaining multimodality
- Exploring and explaining digital literacies
- Exploring and explaining writing across professions
- Exploring and explaining sociocultural learning
- Exploring and explaining professional communication
- Exploring and explaining learner autonomy
Structure of the ebooks in the series
The books all follow a similar structure and including five distinct sections.
1. What is the map of _________?
This section provides readers with the definitions of key concepts and themes and pen portraits of the prominent thinkers in this area. Its objective is to map and explore the area in a user friendly and accessible way.
2. Where is _________ placed in the field of applied linguistics?
This section gives an overview of how the area relates to applied linguistics in general, showing its connections to other disciplines and areas of professional practice
3. How does research in _________ relate to practice and how does practice impact on research??
This key section shows how the concepts and themes of _________ impact on practice and vic versa. Example case studies and practical applications will help identify and locate the concepts and themes in action, showing how readers can undertake their own inquiries
4. What are the emerging futures in _________?
This section identifies future and developing themes in the area, seen from the author’s perspective. New practices, new research, new connections are all the focus of this section, encouraging and enabling readers to make their own contributions to these developments.
5. How can we find out more about _________?
This section provides a selective and annotated set of resources to enable the reader to learn more about the area. Bibliography, resource links such as video content or associations and society websites will all fit in here, enabling readers and users of the books to become more involved and make their own contributions to exploration.
Prospective authors should contact the series editors giving a brief overview of their focus area. Depending on the scope, we will then provide a proposal form and solicit further details and sample material.