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<b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Managing people with language: language policy, planning and practice in multilingual blue-collar workplaces: a global perspective</span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Language Policy</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Special Issue Editor: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif";">Kellie
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Against the backdrop of global mobilities – the unprecedented circulation of people and socio-cultural practices – this special issue of
<i>Language Policy</i> centers on the latest conditions of language policy, planning and practices taking place in diverse ‘blue-collar’ workplaces around the world as a result of the new globalized economy (Heller 2013). The perspective taken in this issue
is that while globalization and transnational interdependencies (Vertovec 2009) are not new, they have and continue to affect the rise of a ‘new’, international division of labor (Lutz 2011), which, among other corollaries, effects how socio-cultural practices
such as language are being utilized, conceptualized and managed in innovative and different ways (</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Pietikäinen et al.</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> 2016) by both employers and employees
in various workplace contexts (Duchêne & Heller 2012). </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">As a result, language as a resource - whether symbolic, interactional, material or ideological - flows, changes and is used by specific and often very
powerful agents (Menken & </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">García</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> 2010) to manage individuals in their everyday lives and workplaces.</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">In an era of capital expansion, we are witnessing new consumer markets that are being pursued for mass production as well as developing niche markets and symbolic forms of added value (Duchêne & Heller 2012; Heller
2013) accentuating how language has progressively turned into a commodity (</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> 2013) allowing privileged individuals access to specific
markets while denying access to “un-globalized” individuals (Blommaert 2010). This line of research identifies that such linguistic consequences may hold true within neoliberal markets that outsource peripheral zones of First World countries, but at the same
time, this knowledge requires us to re-evaluate the role of language within different economic spaces due to the rise of the service economy (Duchêne 2011), where the productivity of physical labor continues to be pervasive compelling us to acknowledge that
blue-collar employees are indeed legitimate language workers despite their underrepresentation in current language and workplace studies (</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Lønsmann & Kraft, forthcoming)</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">This special issue of <i>Language Policy</i> is committed to bringing together empirical work by a diverse group of international scholars from various settings around the world to address the following questions,
while </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">taking into consideration how different political structures and transnational relations between institutions including labor markets affect the movement of blue-collar (and often migrant) workers globally</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">:
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">How is communication managed<span style="color: red;">
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">How are communication and specific language policies and practices being shaped by broader socio-political and economic forces of states at the national, regional and local levels (Tollefson 1991)?
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</span>the present-day challenges and social inequality faced by blue-collar workers’ language resources and ensuing practices?
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">This special issue will add to existing literature on language policy and planning by addressing diverse topics within LPP studies that cover the methodological challenges (</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Ricento
2000; Hult & Johnson 2015; </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Gonçalves & Schluter 2016</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">)</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> of carrying out such work as well as expand our current
theoretical understanding of LPP in domains and sites that</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> are currently underrepresented</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> (</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">García</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">
& Kelly-Holmes 2016: 2). </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Topics include:
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Examination of the ways in which language is being managed at different levels (ranging from the local to the national) and how such policies and ensuing practices perpetuate social inequality
within blue-collar workplace settings across various transnational, majority-language and minority-speaking contexts.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Analysis of language practices within blue-collar workplace settings and diverse linguistic marketplaces (both private & public) on the micro-level, and how both overt and covert language policies
affect and are shaped by individuals’ positions of class, race, ethnicity and gender within the political economy.
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Consideration of the crucial role of language ideologies, multilingual practices and power dynamics with regard to labor markets and the specific economic arrangements of blue-collar workers vis-à-vis
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Addressing and problematizing the methodological challenges of researching LPP within blue-collar workplace contexts and gaining access to informants, many of whom are also minority language speakers.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif";">Authors interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 500 words) to the guest editor of the special thematic issue, Kellie
</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Gonçalves</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif";"> (</span><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:goncalves@ens.unibe.ch"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">goncalves@ens.unibe.ch</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif";">)
by November 1, 2016. Subsequent to an initial abstract selection process, authors will be informed and invited to submit full papers for full double blind peer review to
<i>Language Policy</i> by May 1<sup>st</sup> 2017. Publication of this special issue is anticipated for early 2018. For more information about the journal and author guidelines, see:</span></p>
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<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.springer.com/linguistics/journal/10993?detailsPage=pltci_2952070"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">http://www.springer.com/linguistics/journal/10993?detailsPage=pltci_2952070</span></a></p>
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