<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for Papers - </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><b>Language, Culture and Society</b><br><br><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Special Double Issue 9:1 (July 2027) & 9:2 (December 2027)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Fifty Years of <i>The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges</i>: Pierre <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> and the Critical Study of Language, Power, and Inequality</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Pierre <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s <i>The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges </i>published in <i>Social Science Information</i> (16:6), this special double issue of <i>Language, Culture and Society</i> invites short papers that revisit the place of <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s work in the critical study of language, power, and social inequality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We take <i>The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges</i> as a starting point to open up reflection on <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s larger legacy for sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic anthropology, as well as for the broader study of language in society. This includes engagement not only with his writings on language, symbolic power, practice, habitus, field, reproduction, and distinction, but also with the ways his work has been taken up, adapted, contested, or rejected across different intellectual traditions and geopolitical locations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s influence on the critical study of language has been substantial. His work has helped scholars examine the relations between language and symbolic domination, linguistic markets, educational inequality, state legitimation, class stratification, and the reproduction of social hierarchies through discourse and communicative practice. At the same time, his reception has been multiple and often controversial. Across sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic anthropology, researchers have questioned the limits of Bourdieusian frameworks: their treatment of agency and creativity, their adequacy for multilingual and postcolonial settings, their relative silence on race and coloniality, and the kinds of critique they have enabled as well as foreclosed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">This double issue is therefore not intended simply as a celebration of <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>. It is an invitation to engage his work critically, historically, and reflexively. We seek contributions that examine what <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s scholarship has made possible for the critique of language in society, but also what it may have constrained, obscured, or prevented. We are especially interested in papers that consider the uneven, productive, and contentious receptions of <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> in the study of language and social inequality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We invite <b>short papers of 5,000–6,000 words</b> that engage with <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s work in <b>conceptual, empirical, or autoethnographic/reflexive</b> ways.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Topics may include, but are not limited to:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">the reception of <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic anthropology</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">linguistic capital, symbolic power, symbolic violence, habitus, field, and their afterlives</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> and the study of language and social class</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>, language, and the reproduction of inequality</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">critical reassessments of linguistic markets and legitimate language</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> in relation to multilingualism, mobility, and late modernity</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">postcolonial, decolonial, feminist, and racial critiques of Bourdieusian approaches</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> and language policy, education, and institutional power</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">the uses and limits of <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> for contemporary research on language and society</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">reflexive or autoethnographic accounts of how <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span> has shaped, enabled, or constrained scholars’ own research trajectories</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We welcome papers that work with <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>, against <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>, or beyond <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Timeline</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Abstract deadline:</b> 30 April 2026</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> mid-May 2026</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Full paper (first draft) deadline:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 1 November 2026</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Review Process: </b>December 2026 – June 2027<b></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Publication of Issue 9:1:</b> July 2027</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Publication of Issue 9:2:</b> December 2027</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Submission details</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please submit an abstract of <b>300–400 words</b>, along with your name, affiliation, and contact details. Abstracts should clearly indicate the paper’s main argument, approach, and relevance to the theme of the special issue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Word limit for full papers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 5,000–6,000 words<br><br><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission address:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Noto Sans","Noto Sans SC",sans-serif;font-size:14.7px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">lcs.journal.jb1@</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Noto Sans","Noto Sans SC",sans-serif;font-size:14.7px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span><br><br><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Review process:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> All papers will be subject to double-blind peer review.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We look forward to submissions that revisit, interrogate, and reframe Pierre <span class="gmail-il">Bourdieu</span>’s legacy for the critical study of language, culture, and society.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">LCS – Editors in Chief</span></b></p></div>