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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Call for papers</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Language Policy and Planning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Special issue for
<i>Current Issues in Language Planning </i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#467886"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rclp20"><span style="color:#467886">https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rclp20</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the ways in which language is produced, mediated, governed, and valued across societies.
Systems based on large-scale machine learning now play a growing role in translation, content moderation, speech recognition, language learning, and administrative communication. As AI technologies become embedded in language practices in educational and governmental
institutions, workplaces, and individuals, they are increasingly shaping linguistic practices and hierarchies, raising urgent questions for the field of Language Policy and Planning (LPP). This special issue seeks to examine the complex and evolving relationship
between AI and LPP from two complementary perspectives: the governance of AI itself and the consequences of AI systems for language policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">First, AI technologies have become a new object of policy and planning. Governments, international organisations, and technology companies
are actively developing frameworks to regulate AI development, deployment, and accountability. Within these debates, language plays a crucial yet often overlooked role. Decisions about which languages are supported by AI systems, how linguistic data are collected
and governed, and how multilingualism is represented in AI models all have significant implications for linguistic rights, language maintenance, and digital inclusion. Policies concerning data governance, algorithmic transparency, and technological standards
may therefore function implicitly or explicitly as forms of language policy. Understanding how language considerations are incorporated into AI governance is thus an important emerging area of LPP research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Second, AI technologies themselves are becoming powerful actors in the language policy landscape. Automated translation systems, generative
language models, and speech technologies increasingly mediate communication. These tools can expand access to information across languages, but they may also reproduce or intensify existing linguistic inequalities if they privilege high-resource languages
or encode biases present in training data. The integration of AI into institutional and everyday communication may therefore reshape language practices, influence language learning priorities, and alter the perceived value of different languages and varieties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">This special issue invites contributions that critically examine how AI is reshaping LPP across global, national, and local contexts. By
exploring both the policy frameworks governing AI and the LPP consequences of AI technologies, this issue aims to advance understanding of how emerging technological infrastructures are transforming the governance, distribution, and future of language in the
digital age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">AI governance and regulation as forms of LPP, including linguistic dimensions of frameworks such as the European Union AI Act.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">How LPP decisions in the design and implementation of AI systems developed within Natural Language Processing have consequences for representation, bias, and inequality of languages.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">LPP relating to the use of AI-mediated communication tools (e.g., automated translation, chatbots, and generative systems) in public institutions and their implications for language access and linguistic rights.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">LPP as evidenced in linguistic data governance, including questions of data ownership, consent, and the extraction or stewardship of language resources used to train AI systems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">How AI is redefining policies for digital literacy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The influence of generative AI on language norms, standardization, writing practices, and perceptions of linguistic authority.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">LPP responses to AI in educational institutions, workplaces, and other organizational contexts, including implications for multilingualism and language learning.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">AI as a non-human LPP agent<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">If you wish to contribute to this special issue, please send an abstract to Tony Liddicoat (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#467886"><a href="mailto:A.Liddicoat@warwick.ac.uk"><span style="color:#467886">A.Liddicoat@warwick.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">)
and Catherine Chua (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#467886"><a href="mailto:catherine_chua@np.edu.sg"><span style="color:#467886">catherine_chua@np.edu.sg</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">) by 31 May. Selected papers
will be due for submission on October 31 October.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Professor Tony Liddicoat (he,him, his)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Applied Linguistics</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Executive editor,
<i>Current Issues in Language Planning, <u><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rclp20/current"><span style="color:blue">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rclp20/current</span></a></span></u></i></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Series Editor,
<i>Language and Intercultural Communication in Education, <u><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/series-results/languages-for-intercultural-communication-and-education/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/series-results/languages-for-intercultural-communication-and-education/</span></a></span></u></i></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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