<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" id="gmail-m_1895358875379033236gmail-docs-internal-guid-06fd626a-7fff-bca6-4430-b1cbf61ac74f"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to invite submissions for a forthcoming edited volume provisionally titled “Reconceptualizing Language Affiliation, Use, and Proficiency Across Communities”. Linguistic anthropologists and applied linguists have long been interested in the complex relationships among language uses/practices, beliefs/ideologies, and communities/cultures (cf. Bloomfield, 1933; Del Valle, 2008; Friedman, 2009; Grenoble & Whaley, 2006; Gumperz, 1968; Jaffe, 2007; Labov, 1972; Duranti, 1997; Morgan, 2006, 2014; Silverstein, 1998; Watts, 1999). In heritage, minority, and endangered language contexts, there can be a range of approaches to language practices and ideologies that do not necessarily involve proficient use of the language (cf. Jaffe, 2007; Kroskrity, 2009; Kushner-Bishop, 2001; Leonard, 2008; McEwans-Fujita, 2010; Nevins, 2004). Instead, language may be used primarily as a symbol or emblem (cf. Ahlers, 2006), to build community (cf. Avineri, 2018), to forge ethnic or religious identities, and/or to achieve political and social recognition. This volume will therefore present a range of case studies that explore the multitude of relationships among individuals, communities, and languages within heritage, minority, and endangered language contexts.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guiding questions include:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the range of ways that language is mobilized as object?  How do these uses intersect, conflict and/or synergize with symbolic and other uses of language?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is the relationship between the individual and the community in heritage, lesser used, and endangered language contexts? How are distancing and closeness to a language constructed?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can we acknowledge diversity and complexity within communities?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can both macro- and micro-level processes be acknowledged in our considerations of what is a community?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How do community members themselves conceptualize their relationships to a heritage, minority, or endangered language?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are requesting a title and 250-word abstract by April 1st.  Submissions and inquiries can be sent to: </span><a href="mailto:joharasta@cazenovia.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">joharasta@cazenovia.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="mailto:navineri@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">navineri@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Thank you for your interest.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jesse Harasta, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">                     </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Netta Avineri, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Assistant Professor of Social Science</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transpa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