32.3888, FYI: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

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Subject: 32.3888, FYI: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:53:56
From: Farah Ali [farahali at depauw.edu]
Subject: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

 
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Arabic and Spanish have a long history of linguistic contact, dating back to
the Muslim rule of Spain from 711-1492 in which North African languages and
cultures played a critical role in shaping life in the Iberian peninsula.
While much of this linguistic and cultural interaction took place in Spain and
is often situated as one of historical significance, Arabic-Spanish contact is
both global and current, often in diasporic contexts (Ali, 2021;
Benítez-Fernández, 2018; García-Sánchez, 2013; Ready, 2021) extending beyond
Spain to North Africa (Benyaya, 2007; Sayahi, 2004), Latin America (Bruckmayr,
2008; Hyland Jr., 2017), and the Caribbean (Mohamed, et al., 2020). However,
despite the perpetual contact between these two languages and being a
long-standing topic in both Spanish and Arabic linguistics, the interaction
between these two languages has been marginalized in linguistic research as an
inconsequential contact situation. As a result, there is a scarce amount of
research in this area that does not reflect the actual significance of this
topic. Moreover, there are few published monographs dedicated specifically to
Spanish-Arabic contact, and no collections of work to date. This edited volume
aims to bring together research that employs diverse methodological approaches
to examine Spanish-Arabic contact and address themes that include, but are not
limited to linguistic variation, multilingualism, identity, and language
ideologies, both in native and diasporic contexts. Ultimately, the goal of
this edited volume is to showcase current research that examines the
linguistic situation of Arabic and Spanish, as well as build on and challenge
some of our previous understandings of topics in sociolinguistics. 

We invite chapter proposals for this edited volume, tentatively titled
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact. This project
welcomes submissions with any sociolinguistic framework that looks at
synchronic or diachronic contact situations, and particularly encourages
research examining language and identity, language maintenance and loss,
socio-phonetics, religion and language use, among many others. We are
interested in having a diverse set of perspectives and methodologies
represented in this edited volume, including quantitative, qualitative and
mixed-method approaches. While we welcome any submissions that address
Arabic-Spanish contact from a sociolinguistic lens, we particularly seek
manuscripts that address one or more of the following broader themes:

Language contact phenomena (i.e. phonetic/ phonological, morphosyntactic,
lexical)
Socio(cultural) linguistic perspectives on language and society
Contact-induced variation and change
Language and identity 
Raciolinguistics 
Bi- and Multilingualism (both individual and societal) 
Methodological approaches to studying Spanish-Arabic contact
Historical linguistic contact
Arabic in Judeo-Spanish
Sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish-Arabic use in second and heritage
learner contexts
Translation and interpretation contexts
Language in education, both in historical and modern contexts
Language policy involving Arabic and Spanish 

Proposal guidelines

Length: Up to 1000 words (excluding references)
Content: Research question(s), theoretical and methodological frameworks,
findings, and implications
Language: English
Format: doc(x) file

Please submit all proposals and questions to farahali at depauw.edu (Farah Ali),
cready at okstate.edu (Carol Ready), and smohamed at mercyhurst.edu (Sherez Mohamed)
by Monday, February 7, 2022.

Tentative timeline

Contributors will be notified about the status of their submissions in early
March 2022. We are currently developing a book proposal, which will be
submitted after final decisions have been made about chapter contributions. At
that time, we will ask contributors for brief abstracts to include in the
volume proposal, which we aim to submit by April 2022. 
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Andalusian (xaa)
                     Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi (avl)
                     Arabic, Egyptian (arz)
                     Arabic, Gulf (afb)
                     Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi (yhd)
                     Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan (aju)
                     Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian (yud)
                     Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian (ajt)
                     Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni (jye)
                     Arabic, Libyan (ayl)
                     Arabic, Mesopotamian (acm)
                     Arabic, Moroccan (ary)
                     Arabic, North Levantine (apc)
                     Arabic, South Levantine (ajp)
                     Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Spanish, Old (osp)





 



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