<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>CALL FOR PAPERS: </B><B><I>LANGUAGE POLICY</I></B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B> SPECIAL ISSUE</B></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Call centers: Language policy and language ideology in action</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The journal <I>Language Policy</I></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> (edited by Elana Shohamy and Kendall King) welcomes original research papers for an upcoming special issue of the journal on language policy, ideology, and interaction in call centers around the world. As international business, out-sourcing, and globalization have intensified in recent years, call centers have emerged as major and dynamic sites of regulated talk. This special issue of <I>Language Policy</I></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> will explore how such talk is restricted, invented, and negotiated in the work place and the wider implications for language policy, education and society. We welcome papers that document and analyze language policies in call centers and/or consider the wider implications of these phenomena for language policy, ideology, and use.</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Deadlines and dates:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">September 1, 2007: Submission of 250-word paper abstract (send to </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:akk25@georgetown.edu"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">akk25@georgetown.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">January 1, 2008: Submission of full paper for blind external peer review (submit online through website).</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Early 2009: Expected publication.</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Please contact the editors directly with any questions. </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Please see the journal website for more details about <I>Language Policy</I></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">.</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><A href="http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-70-35756061-0">http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-70-35756061-0</A></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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