29.146, FYI: Call for Chapters: Interests and Power in Language Management

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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:05:59
From: Halina Zawiszová [halina.zawiszova at upol.cz]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Interests and Power in Language Management

 
Call for Chapters for the Volume: Interests and Power in Language Management

Editors: Marek Nekula, Tamah Sherman, and Halina Zawiszová
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Company: Berlin et al.
Series: Prague Papers on Language, Society and Interaction, edited by Jiří
Nekvapil, Tamah Sherman, and Petr Kaderka

Interests and power mentioned in the volume’s title are acknowledged as
important factors in various approaches to Language Policy and Planning. Power
and its role in language policy, planning and interaction have repeatedly been
and continue to be investigated within and beyond sociolinguistics and
discourse analysis: for instance, Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser
investigated the mechanism of “cultural hegemony”, Michel Foucault the
“dispositive of power”, Pierre Bourdieu the power within a “social field”,
Norman Fairclough the power exercised in and performed through discourse, Paul
Kroskrity the power of a “language regime”. In contrast to power, interests
have not been discussed as intensively in connection with language. This
applies to all approaches in Language Policy and Planning as well as to
Language Management Theory (LMT). Though the seminal paper for LMT “Language
planning: for whom?”, published by B. H. Jernudd and J. V. Neustupný in 1987,
was indeed devoted to the issue of linguistic and non-linguistic interests, it
did not integrate the role of power. 

In contrast, the intended volume will focus on the interplay of interests and
power and explore their role and use in language management as well as in the
negotiation of linguistic and non-linguistic interests, and the utilization of
power in the resolution of conflicts between them. It is based on the
symposium “Interests and Power in Language Management” which was held in
Regensburg on September 12–14, 2017. However, the volume is also open to
submissions that were not previously presented during this symposium, as well
as to papers focused on other approaches in Language Policy and Planning. 

In this sense, we invite extended abstracts for papers that reflect both
interests and power and their interaction in language management. Questions
relevant for this volume include (but are not limited to):

- Types of personal or group interests involved in language policy and
planning
- Divergent/conflicting interests in language policy and planning and the ways
in which power is manifested in their resolution
- Masking, revealing and legitimizing one’s interests in language policy and
planning
- Power, powerlessness and empowerment in asserting various kinds of interests
- Power and interests in the interplay of linguistic, communication and
socio-cultural management
- Power and interests in management of speaking in particular interactions 
- Sources of power (culture, politics, economy etc.) that shape language
policy and planning
- The power to propose, formulate, defend, participate in or implement a
language policy 
- The formation of advocacy coalitions in language management 
- The use and management of power to change/maintain language or communication
- Ways of establishing or enforcing norms of language and communication 

Abstract Submission: Extended abstracts in English (500–1000 words) should be
e-mailed to: marek.nekula at ur.de by March 30, 2018. 

Decisions on the abstracts will be sent by April 30, 2018. Papers based on the
accepted abstracts are to be submitted by July 31, 2018. They will
subsequently undergo a standard peer-review process.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics





 



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