34.1911, FYI: Call for Abstracts - a Special Issue Journal

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Subject: 34.1911, FYI: Call for Abstracts - a Special Issue Journal

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Date: 15-Jun-2023
From: Tamilla Mammadova [tamillamamedova at mail.ru]
Subject: Call for Abstracts - a Special Issue Journal


TITLE: English in the Turkic-speaking countries of the former Soviet
Union: political, economic, and sociocultural perspectives

Call for Abstracts in a Special Issue Journal

Editors: Michael Byram (Durham University, United Kingdom), Anthony
Liddicoat (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), Azad Mammadov
(Azerbaijan University of Languages, Azerbaijan), and Tamilla
Mammadova (ADA University, Azerbaijan)

Rationale:
The Special Issue aims to explore the role and status of English in
the former Soviet Turkic speaking countries (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). All these countries (with
the exception of Kyrgyzstan) are energy-rich and have been largely
open to foreign investments, primarily western investments, led by the
UK and US oil companies. This western energy influence has given rise
to the rapid development of English in these countries. For example,
Mammadov & Mammadova (2021, p.92) write that “The integration of the
English language into the educational system of Azerbaijan has also
been greatly impacted by global socio-political changes, which, in
turn, have been reflected in the country’s educational policies.” At
the same time, Russia with its historically crucial role in these
countries still maintains a degree of influence, although “dominance
as a medium of internal and external communication was first
substituted by the local language of each country, which became a
single state language for each member of the union. English is turning
into the single language of external communication, i.e. communication
between the nations outside their local communities” (Mammadova, 2020,
p.xi).
The Special Issue will therefore explore the rise of English across
the region and its potential to become de facto the dominant foreign
language and lingua franca in these countries, and the implications
this has for language planning and policymaking.

We therefore propose the Special Issue will include articles which
analyse the role and development of English throughout the societies
of these countries, and the perceptions of English in their
populations. Articles will address the following:

− Analysis of language policy and planning in education, the world of
work and government;
− Perceptions of English, including comparisons with perceptions of
Russian, among people who speak languages which differ genealogically,
typologically and culturally from English;
− The role of HEIs in promoting English in Turkic-speaking countries
which are different genealogically, typologically and culturally from
English;
− Multilingualism in these countries and Plurilingualism in their
populations.

We anticipate a timeline as follows (subject to change):

Date of submission of abstracts: June 25, 2023

For any questions and abstract submission please contact:
tamillamamedova at mail.ru

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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