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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning:
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The place of Language Surveys and Censuses in Language Planning and Policy
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest editors: He Shanhua (Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China) and Jiří Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rationale
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As linguists, and sociolinguists in particular, we often need to know about a country or region how many people live there, and how many of them speak one language or another. We also often
wonder which nationalities (ethnic groups) live in a particular country or region, how numerous they are, how many members of one nationality or another speak one language or another, and how these numbers change in the course of time. These pieces of information
are of utmost importance for policy-makers too as they use them as arguments for substantial decisions on language policy and planning.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Numbers of this nature tend (in part) to be found in population censuses, which many states organize once every decade. The undisputed advantage of population censuses is that their results
were not based on sophisticated selections (samples) from the whole population, as is the case in public opinion polls or routine quantitative sociological surveys, but were gained by interviewing basically all members of the population. So it only makes sense
that linguists and policy-makers appreciate and use population censuses which in some form also ask about the language of the population. But to what extent can we rely on census data? Are there any factors and circumstances that make the "objectivity" of
the census results problematic? How to explain that some countries include a question on the language of the population in the census, some do not, and the approach of some countries is quite variable in this respect?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This special issue aims to address various technical, social and political features of the organization of language surveys and censuses that are used as useful management tools at macro
levels. Taking examples from various regions and countries, the special issue aims at demonstrating that language surveys and censuses are embedded in the complex network of social relationships and interests, and used for the the pursuit of
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">b</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">roader and
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">larger policy goals.</span><s><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The special issue is open to the use of all relevant theories and approaches established in the broad area of Language Policy and Planning. Each paper should make a specific link to LPP
ideas and theory and, for that matter, contribute to their development. Issues addressed may include but not be limited to the following: language surveys and censuses as part of organized language management at national level; formulation and re-formulation
of the language questions as a reflection of the socio-cultural management (including management of ethnic identity); how the language question is managed in the responses of the participants; the role of interests in language surveys and censuses both at
the level of organized and simple language management, and the like.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Select references<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Angosto-Ferrández, L. F. and Kradolfer, S. (eds.) (2012): Everlasting countdowns: race, ethnicity and national censuses in Latin American states.
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:CS">Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Duchêne, A. and Humbert, P. N. (2018): Surveying languages: The art of governing speakers with numbers.
<i>International Journal of the Sociology of Language</i>, 252, pp. 1–20.</span><span lang="CS" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Duchêne, A., Humbert, P. N. and Coray, R. (2018): How to ask questions on language? Ideological struggles in the making of a state survey<i>. International Journal of the Sociology
of Language</i>, 252, pp. 45–72</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><span lang="CS" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="CS" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="CS" style="color:black">Humbert, P. N. (2022):<em> (Dé)chiffrer les locuteurs: La quantification des langues à l’épreuve des idéologies langagières</em>. Neuchatel: Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="CS" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="FR" style="color:black">Kertzer, D. I. and Arel, D. (eds.)
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(2001): <i>Census and identity: The politics of race ethnicity and language in national censuses</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span><span lang="CS" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="CS" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="CS" style="color:black">Zhou, M. (2015). Using census data and demography in policy analysis. In F. M. Hult and C. Johnson (eds.),
<i>Research methods in language policy and planning: A practical guide</i>. </span>
<span lang="CS" style="color:#333333">Malden, Oxford, Chichester</span><span lang="CS" style="color:black">: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 205-216.</span><span lang="CS"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="CS">Abstract submissions (max. 500 words, including references, indicating the research question(s)/hypotheses, theoretical framework, and methodology) are to be sent to: He Shanhua (email:
<a href="mailto:heshanhua@yzu.edu.cn">heshanhua@yzu.edu.cn</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="CS">Full papers are expected to be around 8,000 words long, including references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2024<br>
Notification on submitted abstracts: May 15, 2024<br>
Article submission deadline: September 30, 2024 <br>
Anticipated date for publication of the Special Issue: 2025 (May)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="CS">Selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper through the editorial system, which will undergo full peer review and determine acceptance of papers for publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Warwick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Executive editor, <i>Current Issues in Language Planning,
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rclp20/current">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rclp20/current</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Series Editor, <i>Language and Intercultural Communication in Education,
<a href="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/series-results/languages-for-intercultural-communication-and-education/">
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/series-results/languages-for-intercultural-communication-and-education/</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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