[HERITAGE-LIST] CFP: Special issue of LANGUAGE POLICY - DEADLINE 1 MAY

[Scott G. McGinnis]

Hello Heritage Listserv Members-


> A reminder that abstracts for a special issue on religious language
> policy, for the journal *Language Policy*, are due Wednesday, 5/1/13
> (more information below).


Thank you,
Netta Avineri & Sharon Avni, Special Issue Co-Editors


>


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> From: Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com>
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> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:23:07 -0800
> Subject: CFP for special issue of Language Policy
> Hello Heritage Listserv members-
>
> Attached and below please find the CFP for an upcoming special issue of
> the journal *Language Policy*, on language policy, religion, &
> institutions.
>
> Thank you,
> Netta Avineri & Sharon Avni, Special Issue Co-Editors
>
> *Call for Papers*
>
> * Language Policy and the Reconceptualization of*
>
> *Religions as and in Institutions*
>
>
>
> The journal *Language Policy* invites papers for a thematic issue
> highlighting innovative research on the role of language policy in
> reconceptualizing religions both *as*and *in* institutions. In recent
> years, religious language policy research (cf. Liddicoat, 2012; Omoniyi,
> 2010; Spolsky, 2009) has focused on the ways that religion is a central
> element that shapes language forms, literacy practices, language
> ideologies, and language management in a range of global, national, state,
> family, and other interactional environments. Building upon this
> significant research, this thematic issue considers the complex ways that
> language policies shape and are shaped by communities’ ideologies about the
> role (or lack thereof) religion in their lives and institutions. This
> special issue therefore provides a forum for analyses of how language
> practices, beliefs, and management intersect with religious beliefs,
> convictions, and ideologies at the local and global levels.
>
>
>
> As traditional religious practices are interpreted in novel modes and
> contexts in the globalizing world, it becomes necessary to reconsider the
> role that religion may or may not play in how communities define
> themselves, and the ways in which boundaries between categories of
> religiosity, secularism, and spirituality are negotiated through language
> policies. One primary interest is in exploring how these processes of
> religious interpretation and negotiation embodied in language use may take
> place in traditional institutions (e.g., houses of worship, religious
> schools) as well as in settings in which groups of people use and/or think
> about religion (or lack thereof) as an organizing principle for their
> everyday lives. An additional area of interest is how individuals and
> groups negotiate, define, appropriate, and creatively employ language in
> ways that may counter the policies of religious institutions or nations.
> Lastly, we are interested in how individuals and groups create their own
> religious language policies in schools, homes and communities that
> structure how they interact with others in both religious and nonreligious
> environments.
>
>
>
> Submissions are invited from anthropological, sociological, linguistic,
> and/or historical perspectives, across methodological frameworks, and focus
> on both historical and contemporary sites. The issue assumes language
> policy as practice, ideology and management. Potential topics include but
> are not limited to:
>
>
>
> ·      The boundaries/differences between and within religious groups and
> how these are negotiated through language policies
>
> ·      The ways that language practices may complement and/or replace
> other religious practices
>
> ·      How and why particular languages (e.g., endangered languages) get
> sacralized and the roles this may play in language maintenance and
> revitalization efforts
>
> ·      The role of religious language management in
> missionization/evangelical Christianity, the spread of Islam, the Arab
> Spring, and post-communist nations* *
>
> Those interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to
> 300 words) to the guest editors of the thematic issue, Netta Avineri and
> Sharon Avni at email: langpolicyreligion at gmail.com by May 1, 2013. After
> an initial abstract selection process, authors will be invited to submit
> full papers by November 1, 2013. All papers will undergo double-blind
> peer review. Though part of a thematic issue, each paper will get reviewed
> individually. For information about the journal and author guidelines,
> see:
> http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993
>
> --
> Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and
> abilities were used in a way that served others.
> -Marianne Williamson
>