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Use when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics. Language prizes analysis legible across frameworks and subfields; jargon and single-formalism prose lose readers. Polishes and conforms; it does not build the argument.

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# Writing Style & House Style (lang-writing-style)

*Language* is read across the whole discipline, so its prose bar is **legibility across subfields and
frameworks**: a syntactician should follow a phonology paper's argument, and vice versa. The journal
also has a specific citation and formatting house style — the **Language Style Sheet**, closely tied to
the **Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals** — that differs from APA, Chicago, or a subfield's
local habits. This skill polishes the writing and conforms the mechanics; it does not build the argument
(that is `lang-theory-building`).

## When to trigger

- Polishing a draft before submission
- A reader said the paper is "only readable by [framework] people" or "buried the claim"
- Converting citations/references to *Language* house style
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