<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Thematic issue of <i>Language Policy</i> on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">August 15, 2011 Submission Date<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Language Policy </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; ">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; <span> </span>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.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">We invite research-based and empirical contributions that enhance our understanding of how family language policy is established, negotiated and implemented.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">The journal welcomes cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational perspectives, and especially those from less-covered (or non-traditional) family types, contexts and communities. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Submissions are invited across different levels of contextual and linguistic analysis, including but not limited to analyses of:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">policy interaction between home domains and institutional contexts, and in particular between parental language policy and educational policy;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">tension between formal and informal, overt and covert, and bottom-up and top-down language policies;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">conflicts between minority/mother tongue/heritage language discourses and mainstream language practices and policies;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">relationships between language ideology and language practice;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">care-taker ideologies and the language acquisition mechanisms provided by parents, including home literacy practices;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">language use among family members, including examinations of child agency and resistance as well as diverse family types and alternative configurations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">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</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> issues of power, linguistic and cultural diversity, and socio-economic differences.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-style: none; 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"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Editor: Kendall KING, </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">University of Minnesota, </span></span><a href="mailto:kendall@umn.edu"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">kendall@umn.edu</span></a><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">For full consideration, all papers must be received via the journal website by</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> August 15<sup>th</sup>, 2011.<span> </span>Papers will undergo full blind peer review, with an expected publication date of 2012/2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">For more information about the journal, and for submission guidelines and procedures, please see: <a href="http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993">http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-style: none; 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