28.3526, Calls: Sociolinguistics / International Journal of Multilingualism (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:30:41
From: Jerry Lee [jwl at uci.edu]
Subject: Sociolinguistics / International Journal of Multilingualism (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: International Journal of Multilingualism 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2017 

Call for Proposals:

Special Issue of IJM on the Ordinariness of Translinguistics
https://tinyurl.com/ycvxtra2

Special Issue of International Journal of Multilingualism
Topic: The ordinariness of translinguistics

Guest Editors: 
Sender Dovchin (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Jerry Lee (University of California, Irvine)
The guest editors of the International Journal of Multilingualism announce a
call for article proposals for a 2018 special issue on ''the ordinariness of
translinguistics.'' Recent debates in the sociolinguistics of globalization
(Blommaert, 2010) have problematized paradigms such as bilingualism,
multilingualism, and code-switching for reifying static language boundaries
and for their inability to account for communicative practices constructed out
of a diversity of linguistic and cultural repertoires. Instead, terms such as
translingualism (Canagarajah, 2013; Horner et al. 2011), translanguaging
(Creese & Blackledge, 2010; García, 2009; Li Wei & Zhu Hua, 2013), transidioma
(Jacquemet, 2005, 2013), polylingualism (Jørgensen, 2008; Jørgensen & Møller,
2014), metrolingualism (Otsuji & Pennycook, 2010; Pennycook, 2010),
transglossia (Sultana et al., 2015; Dovchin, Pennycook & Sultana, 2017), and
linguascape (Dovchin, 2017a,b), reflective of a translinguistic turn in
sociolinguistics, have been introduced in an attempt to capture the critical
complexity of language practices that are experiencing greater attention in
the context of late modernity. This emergent tradition in sociolinguistics
reflects the difficulty, if not futility, of demarcating linguistic features
according to specific languages, for the fluid movement between and across
languages requires different epistemologies and a new critical lexicon. 

Yet, this recent tradition still tends to celebrate and thus privilege the
presumed creativity or eccentricity of such language practices, in spite of
the fact that scholars have insisted that they are indeed ‘quite normal’
(Blommaert, 2015), ‘unremarkable’ (Pennycook and Otsuji, 2015), ‘ordinary’
(Dovchin, 2017a), ‘basic practice’ (Androutsopoulos, 2007), ‘everyday’
(Leppänen et al., 2009) and by no means a ‘new’ phenomenon (Canagarajah, 2013;
see also Khubchandani, 1997; Makoni, 2002; Sugiharto, 2015; May, 2014). In so
doing, scholarship inadvertently constructs and exoticizes a linguistic Other
whose language practices are expected to be made legible according to
normative epistemologies of ‘diversity’ (Lee, 2017). This special issue is
based on the premise that the analytic potential of the translinguistic
tradition, however, can be enhanced through a stronger focus on such practices
as reflective of everyday, quotidian, basic, mundane, unremarkable, banal, and
ordinary rather than as peculiar, exotic, eccentric, unconventional, or
strange. It is important to recognize that translinguistics is ‘neither to
celebrate nor to deplore, but something to observe and examine with interest
like anything else’ (Sarkar & Low, 2012, p. 12). But simultaneously, given the
exoticizing tendencies of translinguistic scholarship, it has become more
urgent to acknowledge that there is nothing exotic, odd, or perhaps even
‘exciting’ about linguistic creativity, as it is inevitable that peoples and
cultures have always been mixing and mingling.

This special issue will thus revisit the notions of ‘ordinariness’ and
‘unremarkability’ in the sociolinguistics of globalization.

Please see this link for full CFP: https://tinyurl.com/ycvxtra2

Please send proposals and inquiries to the guest editors at
dovchin at u-aizu.ac.jp and jwl at uci.edu. 

Timeline: 
Proposals due: October 31, 2017
Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 30, 2017
Manuscripts due: February 28, 2018 
Final revisions due: July 31, 2018
Publication date: November 2018




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