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=<br>Call for Papers: Language Policy Beyond the State<br><br><br><br>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Call for journal submissions for a special issue</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">LANGUAGE POLICY BEYOND THE STATE?</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Editors:</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Maarja Siiner, Lund University & University of Tartu</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Kadri Koreinik, University of Tartu & Võro Institute</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Kara Brown, University of South Carolina</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify" align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Language policy analysis in the 21</font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="1">-</font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">century offers dynamic potential for understanding</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">society and social developments. As Jernudd and Nekvapil (2012) argue, language</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">policy–in its creation and effect–is in the deepest sense a social policy; planning language</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">is planning societies. But, what is meant by language, policy, and, collectively, language</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">policy? The state remains a major source of legitimate power, and language policy</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">continues to be understood as interventions of a state. Yet, increasingly open borders, the</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">internationalization of education, and transnational labor mobility raise questions about</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">the form and shape language policy beyond and across state borders and the relevance of</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">the state in these moments of lived language-policy. Regional geopolitical developments</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">and movements and different levels of power practices have also called into question the</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">reach and influence of the state. This collection strives to contribute to the current,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">vibrant efforts to reconsider and reexamine the direction and approach of language policy</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">analysis within and across the borders of one state—Estonia. The organizers of the</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">special issue view Estonia-related language policy as situated within a geographic,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">political, socio-historical and cultural constellation. The policy constellation of Estonia is</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">highlighted and informed by connections with Baltic, Nordic, E.U. and other post-Soviet</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">states. Insights from the social sciences and humanities, using a range of methods, are</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">crucial for this endeavour to examine language policy beyond the state. New</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">methodological and conceptual approaches to language policy (e.g., ethnography,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, language governance, ecology of language) offer</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">fresh paths to probe the multilayered nature of language policy and to take research in</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">promising directions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify" align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">The organizers of this volume invite potential contributors to (re)consider language</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">policy specifically in within and beyond the Baltic States with particular (but not</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">exclusive) attention to Estonia. Beyond a simple geographic focus, Estonia serves as a</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">vibrant space to analyze language policy at the crossroads of overlapping institutional,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">national and regional frameworks (e.g., post-imperial and post-Soviet legacies, and other</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">path dependencies, newly adopted EU policies and practices) and historical moments.</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Moreover, language policy in and across state borders offers a rich context for examining</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">language policy as it concerns dominance, recognized and invisible minorities, migration</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">and mobility shifts, and new group identities.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify" align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Single or multi-authored papers touching on any of the above points are welcome for</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">submission. Additional manuscripts might focus on the following themes and</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">perspectives:</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Challenges to disciplinary perspectives on language policy</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Family language policies especially in transnational or interethnic families</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Language policy in institutional settings (e.g. basic and secondary schools, higher</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">education, multinational companies)</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">New methodologies in researching language policy</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Language policy in cross-border settings (e.g. Russian diaspora in Estonia in</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">comparison with Lithuania and Latvia; Estonian diasporas in Finland and Sweden;</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">policies and practices across Finno-Ugric peoples)</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Language policy analysis as nested in political frameworks (e.g. democratic</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">orientations, Soviet occupation, political “transition,” etc.)</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Language policy as an economic and/or social policy of (re)distribution,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">(re)production and incentivizing of resources, values, etc.</font></div>
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<font face="Symbol">• </font><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Understandings of language policy through the state and/or region (e.g. Europe,</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Scandianvia, Baltic States, FSU)</font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify" align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT"> </font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify" align="left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">All papers will undergo full peer review. Those interested in contributing should submit</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">an abstract (300-500 words) to the guest editors of the thematic issue Maarja Siiner</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">(</font><a href="mailto:maarja.siiner@ut.ee" target="_blank"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">maarja.siiner@ut.ee</font></a><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">), Kadri Koreinik (</font><a href="mailto:kadri.koreinik@ut.ee" target="_blank"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">kadri.koreinik@ut.ee</font></a><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">),
and Kara D.</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Brown </font><a href="mailto:brownk25@mailbox.sc.edu" target="_blank"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">brownk25@mailbox.sc.edu</font></a><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">) by 15 June 2014. After an initial abstract selection</font></div>
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<font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">process, authors will be invited to submit full papers for double-blind peer review by 1</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">October 2014.</font></div>
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