33.1266, Calls: Sociolinguistics / Journal of Jewish Languages (Jrnl)

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Subject: 33.1266, Calls:  Sociolinguistics / Journal of Jewish Languages (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:04:03
From: Lea Schäfer [lea.schaefer at staff.uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Sociolinguistics / Journal of Jewish Languages (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal of Jewish Languages 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2022 

Call for Papers: 

Thematic issue: Imitating Jewish Speech

Throughout history, the everyday speech of Jews has typically differed from
the speech of non-Jews in their shared locales. The differences may be seen in
terms of a spectrum - ranging from entirely distinct Jewish languages (e.g.,
Yiddish spoken in Lithuanian surroundings; Judezmo spoken in Turkish
surroundings) to natively spoken Jewish ethnolects of the dominant language of
the general population (e.g., Vienna Jewish German of the 1920s - 1930s;
Jewish Dutch of the early 20th century); these Jewish ethnolects, in turn, can
range from being significantly different to almost identical to the dominant
general speech of the surroundings. Over the years, significant fields of
linguistic scholarship have developed that focus on individual distinct Jewish
languages; Jewish interlinguistics; Jewish internal and external
bi-/multilingualism; Jewish ethnolects, etc. There has been sporadic
scholarship on non-Jewish imitation of Jewish speech across a span of time,
culture areas, and languages, including some regarding 20th-21st-century
Europe and America (e.g., Jewish Polish, Jewish Czech, Jewish German, Jewish
English; see Balík 2022, Benor 2022, Brzezina 1986, Gilman 1986, Jacobs 2008,
Schäfer 2017). However, many instances of non-Jewish imitation of Jewish
speech have not yet been analyzed by scholars. These instances appear in
literature and stage plays, film, and popular culture; some are antisemitic in
nature, while others are more ethnographic or neutral. This thematic issue of
the Journal of Jewish Languages will address this gap in the scholarship by
analyzing such materials. Articles will explore various linguistic and
sociolinguistic aspects of imitations of Jewish speech by non-Jews, with the
goal of gaining a fuller picture of the phenomenon of linguistic imitation in
general. This scholarship can lead to additional insights on varieties of
Jewish speech, as well as relations between Jews and non-Jews. Articles can
focus on individual Jewish communities, languages, or ethnolects, or they can
offer comparative or theoretical analysis. 

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for this issue, please send a
title and short abstract (50-100 words) to Lea Schäfer
(lea.schaefer at staff.uni-marburg.de) and Neil Jacobs (jaczz at hotmail.com) by May
15, 2022. Article manuscripts will be due December 1 and will be sent out for
double-blind peer review.

References:
Balík, Štěpán. 2022. 'Why Should We Be Brayge?' Elements of the Jewish
Ethnolect in Czech Jewish Literature in the twentieth and at the Beginning of
the twenty-first Century. In: Zukunft der Sprache, Carmen Reichert et al.
(eds.), De Gruyter, 83-102. 
 
Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2022. Pastrami, Verklempt, and Tshootspa: Non-Jews' Use of
Jewish Language in the US. American Jewish Year Book 2020. Arnold Dashefsky
and Ira M. Sheskin (eds.), Springer. 3-69.
 
Brzezina, Maria. 1986. Polszczyzna Żydów [The Polish of the Jews]. Warszawa.
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
Gilman, Sander. 1986. Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden
Language of the Jews. John Hopkins University Press.
 
Jacobs, Neil. 2008. A code of many colors: Deciphering the language of  Jewish
cabaret. In Herzog, Marvin et al. (eds.), EYDES: Evidence of Yiddish
documented in European Societies. 119-168. Niemeyer.
Schäfer, Lea. 2017. Sprachliche Imitation. In Jiddisch in der
deutschsprachigen Literatur (18-20. Jahrhundert). Language Science Press.




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