24.742, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Subject: 24.742, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:30:51
From: Netta Avineri [langpolicyreligion at gmail.com]
Subject: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Language Policy 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2013 

Language Policy and the Reconceptualization of Religions as and in
Institutions

Language Policy invites papers for a thematic issue highlighting innovative
research on the role of language policy in reconceptualizing religions both as
and in institutions. In recent years, religious language policy research (cf.
Liddicoat,2012;Omoniyi,2010;Spolsky,2009) has focused on the ways that
religion is a central element that shapes language forms, literacy practices,
language ideologies, and language management in a range of global, national,
state, family, and other interactional environments. Building upon this
significant research, this thematic issue considers the complex ways that
language policies shape and are shaped by communities' ideologies about the
role (or lack thereof) religion in their lives and institutions. This special
issue therefore provides a forum for analyses of how language practices,
beliefs, and management intersect with religious beliefs, convictions, and
ideologies at the local and global levels.

As traditional religious practices are interpreted in novel modes and contexts
in the globalizing world, it becomes necessary to reconsider the role that
religion may or may not play in how communities define themselves, and the
ways in which boundaries between categories of religiosity, secularism, and
spirituality are negotiated through language policies. One primary interest is
in exploring how these processes of religious interpretation and negotiation
embodied in language use may take place in traditional institutions (e.g.,
houses of worship, religious schools) as well as in settings in which groups
of people use and/or think about religion (or lack thereof) as an organizing
principle for their everyday lives. An additional area of interest is how
individuals and groups negotiate, define, appropriate, and creatively employ
language in ways that may counter the policies of religious institutions or
nations. Lastly, we are interested in how individuals and groups create their
own religious language policies in schools, homes and communities that
structure how they interact with others in both religious and nonreligious
environments.

Submissions are invited from anthropological, sociological, linguistic, and/or
historical perspectives, across methodological frameworks, and focus on both
historical and contemporary sites. The issue assumes language policy as
practice, ideology and management. Potential topics include but are not
limited to:

-The boundaries/differences between and within religious groups and how these
are negotiated through language policies

-The ways that language practices may complement and/or replace other
religious practices
How and why particular languages (e.g., endangered languages) get sacralized
and the roles this may play in language maintenance and revitalization efforts

-The role of religious language management in missionization/evangelical
Christianity, the spread of Islam, the Arab Spring, and post-communist nations

Those interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 300
words) to the guest editors of the thematic issue, Netta Avineri & Sharon Avni
at email: langpolicyreligion at gmail.com by May 1, 2013. After an initial
abstract selection process, authors will be invited to submit full papers by
November 1, 2013. All papers will undergo double-blind peer review. Though
part of a thematic issue, each paper will get reviewed individually. For
information about the journal & author guidelines, see:

http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993







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