27.325, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.325, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:38:58
From: Chantelle Warner [warnerc at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

Full Title: Critical Multilingualism Studies 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2016 

Languages under Pressure and Pain

The most frequent opening prelude to discussions of multilingualism is a
specification of the current age of globalization--and the traffics of
resources, financial and human capital, and even meanings that define it. Less
emphasized are the human bodies who move, relocate, or even stay put amid the
particular pressures they experience as they navigate the emerging linguistic,
symbolic, and affective landscapes that social phenomena of mass global
migration and dissemination leave in their wake. Within the lives of people
who move physically and virtually through these spaces, languages and acts of
languaging play a variety of sometimes intersecting, sometimes clashing
roles-- as modes of therapy and negotiation, as gateways to citizenship and
employment, as familial gifts and acts of friendship, as response cries and as
silent absences in the throes of pain, as symbols of hegemony and hope.

This special issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies considers languages and
multilingual subjects in contexts in which they are put under pressure and
pain. Possible questions include but are not limited to the following:

- How can we describe and analyze the multilingual flow of mass migration on
various social levels? How do people move between and through languages in the
complex encounters of globalism today or in other historical moments?
- What frameworks are available for articulating the lived languaging
experiences of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers as the resettle and in
what ways do contemporary circumstances push pack on existing frameworks?
- In what ways do institutional, national and international language policies
address or obscure experiences of pressure and pain?
- Can we posit an ethics of multilingualism or monolingualism in various
contexts? What role does ethics play in decisions around language use and
learning?
- What are the affective dimensions of doing multilingual research? How can we
engage critically with linguistic shame in scholarly work?
- What alternate metaphors does scholarly work on multilingualism attuned to
pressure and pain offer to fields such as second language and teaching, which
have historically been dominated by resource metaphors including lack and
acquisition?

The Journal of Critical Multilingualism Studies (CMS) is a peer-reviewed,
transdisciplinary journal of scholarship on multilingualism, monolingualism,
and their related social, cultural, historical, and literary/medial phenomena.

Contributions of 5000-8000 in any language and from any discipline or
combination of disciplines welcome. To be considered for this volume,
submissions should be received by May 1, 2015, through the CMS website
cms.arizona.edu. Chicago citation style recommended, multimedia components
encouraged.

For questions, please contact CMS Editors, Prof. Chantelle Warner or Prof.
David Gramling at cms-journal at email.arizona.edu

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