<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">: Call for Papers</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/current" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline"><i><span style="font-size:11pt">JMMD</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> solicits articles for publication in a special issue on <b>Heritage Language Revitalization and Music</b>, guest edited by Dr. Begoña Echeverria (University of California, Riverside) and Dr. Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University). </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">A response to the incredibly complex challenge of language decline demands not only the perspectives of speakers and learners of a range of languages, but the perspectives offered by diverse disciplines. Approaches to reversing processes of linguistic morbidity have assumed that solutions should focus on the language itself (e.g., offering language classes, availability of services in a given language), often with minimal consideration given to other forms of cultural expression. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">This volume offers an innovative perspective in its emphasis on <b>music as the primary point of encounter with language</b> and, as such, it offers a previously unrecognized and undervalued means of supporting heritage languages – minority languages to which learners typically have exposure through community and family. We welcome papers that foreground music in all aspects of heritage language revitalization, including status, acquisition, and corpus planning.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Key questions</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">In what ways can/does music:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">elevate the status of a language among non-speakers, learners, and fluent speakers?</span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">encourage the use of a language in a greater variety of domains? </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">create a gateway to language acquisition?</span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">offer opportunities to acquire language? </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">open up avenues to use language? </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">provide a tool with which to document a language?</span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">offer possibilities to study linguistic change? </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">get used to implement linguistic change or policies? </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">JMMD</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> is a peer-reviewed cross-disciplinary journal for researchers from diverse scholarly and geographical backgrounds. It is concerned with macro-level coverage of topics in the sociology and social psychology of language, and in language and cultural politics, policy, planning and practice.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Articles should be about 7000 words. <b>The deadline for complete manuscripts is September 15, 2021.</b></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Please visit the journal website for complete submission details:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Please contact the guest editors with any questions: <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">Dr. Begoña Echeverria (</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:b.echeverria@ucr.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;text-decoration:none">b.echeverria@ucr.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt">) or Dr. Heather Sparling (<a href="mailto:heather_sparling@cbu.ca">heather_sparling@cbu.ca</a>)</span><span lang="EN-CA"><span></span></span></p></div></div></div>