[lg policy] CALL FOR PAPERS Thematic issue of Language Policy on FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY

[Kendall King]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic issue of Language Policy on

FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY



August 15, 2011 Submission Date



Language Policy invites papers for a thematic issue highlighting new  
research on family language policy. Family language policy (FLP) can  
be defined as explicit and overt as well as implicit and covert  
planning in relation to language use and literacy practices within  
home domains and among family members (King, Fogle and Logan-Terry  
2008; Curdt-Christiansen 2009). This thematic issue takes as its  
starting point an understanding that family language policy is formed  
and implemented in interaction with wider political, social, and  
economic forces. The issue builds on past work illustrating how family  
language policy is multidimensional, incorporating parental attitudes  
and ideologies;  language and literacy practices at home (Curdt- 
Christiansen and Maguire 2007); deliberate language interventions  
parents employ (Li 2007), as well as the agentive role of children  
(Luykx 2005). While caretakers can provide rich environments and can  
set specific language ‘rules’ for their children, they also face  
challenges in putting particular family language policies into  
practice. This is particularly true with regard to heritage language  
maintenance, given the wide-spread tension between linguistic loyalty  
and cultural identity on the one hand, and societal and economic  
pressures and institutional impositions on the other. With a focus on  
multilingual societies, majority/minority/endangered language  
contexts, and official language/mother tongue political discourses,  
the study of FLP can enhance our understanding of the role of language  
in perpetuating social inequality as well as the role of formal  
educational language policy (medium of instruction) in minority/ 
endangered language maintenance.



We invite research-based and empirical contributions that enhance our  
understanding of how family language policy is established, negotiated  
and implemented. The journal welcomes cross-disciplinary, cross- 
cultural and transnational perspectives, and especially those from  
less-covered (or non-traditional) family types, contexts and  
communities. Submissions are invited across different levels of  
contextual and linguistic analysis, including but not limited to  
analyses of:

·       policy interaction between home domains and institutional  
contexts, and in particular between parental language policy and  
educational policy;

·       tension between formal and informal, overt and covert, and  
bottom-up and top-down language policies;

·       conflicts between minority/mother tongue/heritage language  
discourses and mainstream language practices and policies;

·       relationships between language ideology and language practice;

·       care-taker ideologies and the language acquisition mechanisms  
provided by parents, including home literacy practices;

·       language use among family members, including examinations of  
child agency and resistance as well as diverse family types and  
alternative configurations.



This special issue will build upon of previous work within the  
emerging field of family language policy and provide us with a deeper  
understanding of how language policies, whether institutional or  
private, relate to language behavior and affect the ways in which we  
respond to and engage ourselves in issues of power, linguistic and  
cultural diversity, and socio-economic differences.





For questions about the thematic issue, please contact:

Guest Editor: Xiao Lan CURDT-CHRISTIANSEN, Nanyang Technological  
University, xiaolan.christiansen at nie.edu.sg

Editor: Kendall KING, University of Minnesota, kendall at umn.edu



For full consideration, all papers must be received via the journal  
website by August 15th, 2011.  Papers will undergo full blind peer  
review, with an expected publication date of 2012/2013.



For more information about the journal, and for submission guidelines  
and procedures, please see: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993









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