26.4744, FYI: New Benjamins Journal: Language Ecology

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:56:12
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: New Benjamins Journal: Language Ecology

 
John Benjamins Publishing is pleased to announce that as of 2017 it will begin the publication of Language Ecology.

General Editors:
Umberto Ansaldo | University of Hong Kong | uansaldo at gmail.com
Lisa Lim | University of Hong Kong

The ecology of language is a framework for the study of language as conceptualised primarily in Einar Haugen’s 1971/72 work, where he defines language ecology as “the study of interactions between any given language and its environment”. It was a reaction to the abstract notion of language – as a monolithic, decontextualised, static entity – propagated by Chomsky, and it was conceived as a broad and interdisciplinary framework. In his use of ‘ecology’ as a metaphor from biology in linguistics, Haugen formulated ten questions which together comprehensively address factors pertaining to the positioning of languages in their environment. Each of these relates to a traditional sub-field of the study of language – encompassing historical linguistics, linguistic demography, sociolinguistics, contact, variation, philology, planning and policy, politics of language, ethnolinguistics, and typology – and each of them intersects with one or more of the other sub-fields. Taken 
 together, answering some or all of these questions is part of the enterprise of the ecology of language. Since then the notion of ecology in linguistics has evolved to address matters of social, educational, historical and developmental nature. With the development of ecology as a special branch of biology, and issues of the 20th and 21st centuries such as migration, hybridity and marginalisation coming to the fore, the notion of language ecology plays an important part in addressing broad issues of language and societal change, endangerment, human rights, as well as more theoretical questions of classification and perceptions of languages, as envisaged in Haugen’s work.

Editorial Board 
Michel DeGraff | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ana Deumert | University of Cape Town
Stig Eliasson | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Durk Gorter | University of the Basque Country
Huamei Han | Simon Fraser University
Mie Hiramoto | National University of Singapore
Ernst Håkon Jahr | University of Agder
Ryuko Kubota | University of British Columbia
Don Kulick | Uppsala University
Stephen May | University of Auckland
Felicity Meakins | University of Queensland
Miriam Meyerhoff | Victoria University of Wellington
Salikoko S. Mufwene | University of Chicago
Tope Omoniyi | University of Roehampton
Julia Sallabank | SOAS, University of London
Eeva Sippola | University of Bremen
Christopher Stroud | University of the Western Cape
Peter Trudgill | University of Agder
Kees Versteegh | Radboud University Nijmegen
Honoré Watanabe | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/journals/le/main
ISSN 2452-1949 | E-ISSN 2452-2147
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics





 



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