24.2816, FYI: Call for book chapters

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Subject: 24.2816, FYI: Call for book chapters

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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:05:10
From: Marian Sloboda [marian.sloboda at ff.cuni.cz]
Subject: Call for book chapters

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Call for book chapters

Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Soviet and Eastern Bloc Countries

Edited by
Petteri Laihonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Marián Sloboda, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Tallinn University, Estonia

The volume will be submitted for publication to the Peter Lang’s series Prague
Papers on Language, Society and Interaction / Prager Arbeiten zur Sprache,
Gesellschaft und Interaktion, edited by Jiří Nekvapil, Tamah Sherman and Petr
Kaderka
(http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&
seitentyp=series&pk=1425&concordeid=PPL)

Aim and description

The aim of the proposed interdisciplinary book is to investigate various
features of the former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries’ sociolinguistic
situations which have started to come to the fore after the fall of the
communist regime at the turn of the 1990s. The book will examine new
sociolinguistic phenomena which have been a result of, or accompaniment to,
the processes of transition. This process itself has been multifaceted and has
run in various directions in different countries: from communist socialism to
neoliberal democracy or authoritarianism; from centrally-planned to
free-market economy or a mixture of both; from communal life to competitive
individualism in some of the countries; from the policy of closed borders to
international openness or a leaking closure in the context of increasing
mobility, transnational interaction and globalization. Needless to say, the
recent monetary and economic crisis has also affected these societies, which
have had an impact on their sociolinguistic situation as well.

The book will cover a vast geographical area, including East Central Europe
(Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, eastern Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and
Slovakia) and post-Soviet countries in the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania), the European republics of the former USSR (Belarus, Moldova and
Ukraine), the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), Central Asian
countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) as
well as the Russian Federation. The book will thus provide a starting point
for comparisons of sociolinguistic developments over such a large area.

The post-communist transition has had a profound and complex impact on the
lives of individuals and societies. While a number of political, economic and
social aspects of the transition have received a great deal of scholarly as
well as popular attention, sociolinguistic aspects of these complex dynamic
and sometimes dramatic processes do not seem to have been dedicated a
book-length volume in English so far. This book will therefore present a
collection of studies focusing on these, sociolinguistic, aspects of the
transition.

>From the distance of the two decades after the fall of the communist regime,
the outcomes of the initial language policies set by the political and social
actors within and outside the countries at the beginning of the transition are
now easier to identify. The chapters in this volume will investigate these
developments and their recent outcomes.

The chapters vary in terms of particular topics as well as theoretical and
methodological approach.

Abstracts

The editors invite abstracts of contributions. The abstracts should be 300–500
words in length (excluding bibliography). They should be simultaneously
submitted to Petteri Laihonen, Marián Sloboda and Anastassia Zabrodskaja
(petteri.laihonen[at]jyu.fi, marian.sloboda[at]ff.cuni.cz,
anastassia.zabrodskaja[at]gmail.com) by 31 August 2013. The editors will then
make a selection of abstracts in order to ensure coherence of the whole
volume. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts
by 30 September 2013.

Chapters

The authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to contribute a chapter of
maximum 9,000 words in length (including notes and bibliography) and to peer
review two other chapters. A first draft of the individual papers will be due
by 31 January 2014, after which the draft papers will be submitted to internal
and external peer review.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





 






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