32.540, FYI: CFP for Edited Volume Entitled: Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

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Subject: 32.540, FYI: CFP for Edited Volume Entitled: Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:24:37
From: Kris Knisely [krisknisely at gmail.com]
Subject: CFP for Edited Volume Entitled: Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities

 
Call for Submissions: Edited Volume

Redoing linguistic worlds:Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender
pluralities

Co-editors: Kris Aric Knisely (University of Arizona: krisknisely at gmail.com) &
Eric Louis Russell (University of California, Davis: erussell at ucdavis.edu)

Contemporary attention to gender diversity can be situated in a long
historical arc. Recent decades have seen increased interest in how language
users are challenging gender boundaries and binarities, including their
realization in and through linguistic and sociolinguistic praxes. Speakers are
calling into question grammatical, semantic, and lexical normativities; they
are defying forces that have and continue to construct, reflect, and reify
feminine-masculine dualities; and they are interrogating appeals to
cis-readability that fuel the recreation of gender oppositions. All of this is
taking place within –and even beyond– communities of practice labeled as
trans, non-binary, and/or gender non-conforming, in a variety of culturally
specific manners. 

The aim of Redoing linguistic worlds is to assemble emerging voices and
innovative investigations into the linguistic, sociolinguistic, and
pedagogical realities of speech communities that surpass and call into
question gender binarity. The volume aims to fill an important gap in
contemporary scholarship by giving particular focus on Romance and Germanic
languages and speech communities, i.e. those that have traditionally projected
female/male binarity in the lexicon and grammar.

We invite chapter proposals that open conversations about how forms and
structures in these languages are used to reflect and communicate experiences
of the world. We are particularly interested in scholarship that subverts and
calls into question gendered normativities as these are manifested in
language, writ large. All proposed contributions should include pertinent
descriptions of linguistic, sociolinguistic, pedagogical, and/or discursive
data (broadly conceived), indicate how these will be interpreted (theory,
method, approach), and clearly articulate a thesis pertinent to the framework
of this volume. Submissions from scholars whose lived experiences resonate
with the focus of this volume are particularly welcomed, as are those from
graduate students and early-career professionals. While we do not have
guarantees from any publisher, Multilingual Matters has expressed interest in
the volume. 

Organization and Structure of the Volume
The volume is organized around four major themes, although it is feasible that
some contributions might span one or more of these. 
 
I. Unmaking gender binaries and remaking gender pluralities in the classroom:
focus on first and second language instructional settings
    
II. Unmaking gender binaries and remaking gender pluralities online: focus on
virtual sociolinguistic and discursive spaces
  
III. Unmaking gender binaries and remaking gender pluralities offline: focus
on physical sociolinguistic and discursive spaces

IV. Unmaking gender binaries and remaking gender pluralities as activism:
focus on language use and performativity as perlocutionary resistance and
social change
Instructions for Proposals

Title, 500-word abstract, & short author bio due by March 15, 2021. Please see
the following link for the full CFP and instructions for proposal submission:
https://www.krisknisely.com/cfp

Thank you.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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