27.326, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.326, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:39:27
From: David Gramling [warnerc at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

Full Title: Critical Multilingualism Studies 

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

Call Deadline: 01-May-2016 

Working drafts, Mar. 1, 2016

The Critical Translation of Disciplines

Disciplinary boundaries allow counterevidence to belong to someone else's
story. --Susan Buck-Morss, ''Hegel and Haiti'' (822)

Multilingual practice and interdisciplinary inquiry share a complex difficulty
in common. Since the 18th century, disciplines and (mono)languages have been
structured in such a way as to control, police, and controversialize the
actual crossing of their borders, while romanticizing the image of the
frontier adventurer. Both languages and disciplines institute this dynamic
through discourses of rectitude, expertise, and competence on the one hand,
and through ascriptions of dilettantism, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance
on the other. To cite Paul Kei Matsuda (2014), the recent ''lure'' of
translingual writing--as well as the lure of transdisciplinary
work--celebrates border-crossing in a way that tends to minimize or
invisibilize the constraints that languages and disciplines demand from their
practitioners as the entry tariff for participation. These disciplinary as
well as monolingual constraints marshal access and resources through social,
cultural, institutional, epistemic, and procedural means. Ignoring them yields
acute and immediate disadvantage, until such time as a given practitioner
achieves consecrated membership in a certain polyglot elite.

This special issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies explores the promising
yet adverse practical territory called interdisciplinarity, and its potential
value in understanding linguistic border-crossing, translanguaging,
code-meshing, and other manifestations of multilingualism. Our goal is to take
disciplines' constitutive demands on their practitioners seriously, while
understanding--through case studies in particular acts of critical
interdisciplinary translation-- how border-crossings in language, critical
vocabulary, method, category of analysis, and means of inquiry can be
conceived, planned, and undertaken. In parallel, we ask: to what extent can
critique, advocacy, analysis, and justice be pursued multilingually, rather
than solely by way of discrete monolingualisms?

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. 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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