32.321, Calls: Sociolinguistics / Asia-Pacific Language Variation (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.321, Calls:  Sociolinguistics / Asia-Pacific Language Variation (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:15:57
From: Miriam Meyerhoff [Miriam.Meyerhoff at all-souls.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Sociolinguistics / Asia-Pacific Language Variation (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Asia-Pacific Language Variation 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2021 

Call for Papers:

The journal Asia-Pacific Language Variation
(https://benjamins.com/catalog/aplv) solicits papers on the topic of:

Urbanization and language change

The editors of APLV see a need to foreground the role of urbanization in
language change, with a particular (but not exclusive) focus on the
Asia-Pacific region, a region that includes both the most and least densely
populated areas of the world. 

There are countervailing expectations of the effect of urbanization on
language change. On the one hand, high population density among heterogeneous
populations may lead to dialect levelling, koineization, and/or language shift
toward common lingue franche. Conversely – and paradoxically – dense urban
areas may also for economic and social reasons be made up of multiple
non-overlapping social networks. In moving to urban areas people may become
more attuned to their regional and ethnolinguistic identity and maintain
linguistic separation as an iconic and indexical marker of ethnic or other
aspects of identity. Linguistic studies of the outcomes of urbanization in
Sub-Saharan Africa suggest that many of the axioms of variation and change are
suspended as new identities become more salient and that urbanization
highlights the unexpected intersection of some identities.

We invite papers that consider language variation and change in the context of
urban areas, or urbanization as a social factor in language change. In keeping
with the mission of the journal, we particularly encourage papers that are
empirically grounded and advance our understanding of language variation and
change, grammaticalization and historical linguistics, and the social factors
that are reflected and constructed through language.

Papers should ideally be 4,000-5,000 words in length. An abstract of no more
than 500 words (or a paper draft) should be submitted through the Asia-Pacific
Language Variation journal portal by 1 April 2021:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/aplv/default.aspx 

Timeline:
Abstracts (or paper drafts) submitted: 1 April 2021
Acceptances: 15 April 2021
Full papers submitted for review: 1 July 2021
Revised papers submitted: November 2021
Publication:  2022, volume 8




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