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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers: Language policies on social network sites<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The journal <i>Language Policy</i> announces a call for papers for a thematic issue on language policies on social network sites.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This issue aims to bring together trends at the forefront of research on
<i>computer mediated communication</i> (CMC) and language policy. Research on language in the new media has been growing quickly in recent years, spanning a great range of online environments, including gaming, chat systems, discussion forums, media sharing
sites and blogs. Some of this research focuses on social network sites, but this has tended to concentrate mostly on language practices and discourses (e.g. code-switching, language play, identity construction) and not on the language policies that guide
them. Meanwhile<span style="color:black">, </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">the discipline of
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">language </span><span lang="EN-US">policy in the past decade has developed
</span><span lang="EN-US">research beyond </span><span lang="EN-US">official language policies of national governments to language policies occurring within less official contexts such as workplaces</span><span lang="EN-US"> and</span><span lang="EN-US"> home</span><span lang="EN-US">s</span><span lang="EN-US">,
and formal </span><span lang="EN-US">and </span><span lang="EN-US">less formal </span>
<span lang="EN-US">models </span><span lang="EN-US">of language polic</span><span lang="EN-US">y, also</span><span lang="EN-US"> including ‘language policing’
</span><span lang="EN-US">initiated </span><span lang="EN-US">by individuals (Blommaert et al 2009). Yet
</span><span lang="EN-US">the </span><span lang="EN-US">media </span><span lang="EN-US">domain receives little attention in</span><span lang="EN-US"> language policy research,
</span><span lang="EN-US">especially with regards to </span><span lang="EN-US">recent developments in the new media, particularly social network sites.
</span><span lang="EN-US">Thus, t</span><span lang="EN-US">his thematic issue aims to extend this research and to
</span><span lang="EN-US">bring together studies on </span><span lang="EN-US">CMC and language policies that are relevant to both areas.
</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Social network sites are a particularly promising focus of research on language
</span><span lang="EN-US">policy</span><span lang="EN-US"> as these platforms provide a new mechanism and context for organising social groups around the purpose of communication. They connect people across time and space, in configurations involving multiple
modes of communication,</span><span lang="EN-US"> such as </span><span lang="EN-US">wall posts, instant messaging, online games and personal messages. They provide new agents with new roles and powers in regulating the language practices of others, and offer
the possibility of drawing together individuals sharing interests that include </span>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"> issues particularly related to language. With this in mind, this thematic issue seeks to draw together research on a range of topics relating to language policies on social network sites, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">language policies in different parts of social network systems, e.g. applications, group pages, individual pages;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">language policy activity at different levels, from the macro level of the language policies of social network sites as corporations, to the meso level of language policies of groups, to the micro level of individuals’
language policing of others, along with interactions between these levels; <o:p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">language ideologies in relation to language policies on social network sites and how individuals try to influence language practices on these sites to serve their own interests;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">dynamic processes of mutual influence between language policies on social network sites and the language practices of social network site users;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">constraints on the development and implementation of language policies on social network sites due to the technical features of the social network interface;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">the use of social network sites as a means of achieving language policy goals in off-line contexts, such as the promotion of minority languages or opposition to national language policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The thematic issue seeks to cover social network sites of diverse national origins, for example those originating from the US (e.g. Facebook, Twitter),
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1A1A1A">China (e.g. Sina </span><span lang="EN-US">Weibo, Renren) and a number of countries in Europe (e.g. Hyves, Tuenti), and to include a range of national and linguistic contexts in which these sites are now used.
For the purpose of this issue, social networks are defined broadly to include both micro-blogging services (e.g. Twitter, Sina Weibo) and social network sites more strictly defined (e.g. Facebook, Hyves).</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All papers will undergo full peer review. Those interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 300 words) to the guest editor of the thematic issue, Julia de Bres (</span><a href="mailto:julia.debres@uni.lu"><span lang="EN-US">julia.debres@uni.lu</span></a><span lang="EN-US">),
by 1 April 2013. After an initial abstract selection process, authors will be invited to submit full papers for double-blind peer review by 1 October 2013. The issue is envisaged for publication in late 2014. For information about the journal and author
guidelines, see: </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">Blommaert, J., H. Kelly-Holmes, P. Lane, S. Leppänen, M. Moriarty, S. Pietikäinen and A. Piirainen-Marsh (2009). Media, multilingualism and language
policing: an introduction. <i>Language Policy</i> 8(3): 203-207.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Dr. Julia de Bres<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Research Fellow (sociolinguistics)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Laboratory of Luxembourgish Linguistics and Literatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">University of Luxembourg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Campus Walferdange<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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