28.3944, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:41:40
From: Uma Maheshwari Chimirala Chimirala [chimiralaumamaheshwari at gmail.com]
Subject: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2017 

Call for Contributions:

The Linguistic Landscape of Multilingual India

The Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics proposes to publish a special issue
titled 'The Linguistic Landscape of Multilingual India'. The issue will be
published in 2018 with Prof Shailendra Kumar Singh and Dr. Uma Maheshwari
Chimirala as editors. Interested researchers and scholars are invited to
contribute to the issue. 

Concept note:
Languages have always been spoken and written in an environment. Attention to
the 'visible' display and representation of languages in the living
environment i.e. the public and private space through signs, billboards,
advertisements, public notice signs, letters and images has been the cynosure
of research for some time now and has been referred to as Linguistic Landscape
(LL). LL research has focused on the written representations because they not
only represent the sociocultural contexts of the spaces, but also the
intentional constructions of power and struggle for visibility by actors
either as negotiating the language policy of the country or as identity
marking or identity annihilation. What do such LLs means? What is the reality
of the context as shown by the LL? and beyond? So the study of LL is clearly
more than just the visibility of languages. There is a need to study and
unearth the 'deeper' and 'hidden' meanings, intentions and messages conveyed
through languages and the spaces in which the languages are represented in
both written and oral forms. 

Itagi and Singh (2002) call for understanding the actions of players in the
act of Linguistic landscaping. Linguistic landscaping (present participle
verb) as they argue is an intentional activity undertaken by actors in a
specific sociocultural context for specific purposes to reorient the
Linguistic Landscape. The specificity of the actions may or may not adhere to
the language policy of the country. In multilingual India, where languages are
a way of life and multilingual signs are a norm rather than exception, we
argue that the linguistic landscape and the processes of linguistic
landscaping are part of manipulating the public and the private space where
neither of them are neutral nor are the spaces rigid and bounded. As Shohamy
and Waksman (2009) argue spaces are negotiated and contested by the players.
In which case we need to ask: Who are the actors in the LL? Which languages
are visible and which are masked? Why? What political power play is in action
in manipulating the LL? Why and how do discursive practices manipulate the
space of the LL i.e. landscape the linguistic landscape? Consequently,
linguistic landscaping is the process, the product and the place of political
(and sociocultural) activism, intervention and invasion of a specific space
with specific intentions.

We are specifically interested in studies that have investigated the following
or a combination of the following. 
- Theoretical and methodological aspects of Linguistic landscape 
- Spaces, Language policy and Linguistic Landscape 
- Linguistic landscape and negotiating 'locality' 
- Language diversity, Language awareness and Linguistic Landscape 
- Schoolscape and Language Acquisition 
- Linguistic Landscape, Cultural awareness and Language awareness 
- Linguistic Landscape, Technology and Globalisation
- Linguistic Landscape and Identity(ies) 
- Linguistic Landscape and Gender Representation 

Interested researchers can submit their proposal to tosksinghnehu at gmail.com




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