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Date: 13-Mar-2024
From: Jiří Nekvapil [jiri.nekvapil at ff.cuni.cz]
Subject: English; Sociolinguistics / Current Issues in Language Planning (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Special issue: The place of Language Surveys and Censuses in Language
Planning and Policy
Guest editors: He Shanhua (Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China) and
Jiří Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Rationale
As linguists, and sociolinguists in particular, we often need to know
about a country or region how many people live there, and how many of
them speak one language or another. We also often wonder which
nationalities (ethnic groups) live in a particular country or region,
how numerous they are, how many members of one nationality or another
speak one language or another, and how these numbers change in the
course of time. These pieces of information are of utmost importance
for policy-makers too as they use them as arguments for substantial
decisions on language policy and planning.

Numbers of this nature tend (in part) to be found in population
censuses, which many states organize once every decade. The undisputed
advantage of population censuses is that their results were not based
on sophisticated selections (samples) from the whole population, as is
the case in public opinion polls or routine quantitative sociological
surveys, but were gained by interviewing basically all members of the
population. So it only makes sense that linguists and policy-makers
appreciate and use population censuses which in some form also ask
about the language of the population. But to what extent can we rely
on census data? Are there any factors and circumstances that make the
"objectivity" of the census results problematic? How to explain that
some countries  include a question on the language of the population
in the census, some do not, and the approach of some countries is
quite variable in this respect?

This special issue aims to address various technical, social and
political features of the organization of language surveys and
censuses that are used as useful management tools at macro levels.
Taking examples from various regions and countries, the special issue
aims at demonstrating that language surveys and censuses are embedded
in the complex network of social relationships and interests, and used
for the the pursuit of broader and larger policy goals.

The special issue is open to the use of all relevant theories and
approaches established in the broad area of Language Policy and
Planning. Each paper should make a specific link to LPP ideas and
theory and, for that matter, contribute to their development. Issues
addressed may include but not be limited to the following: language
surveys and censuses as part of organized language management at
national level; formulation and re-formulation of the language
questions as a reflection of the socio-cultural management (including
management of ethnic identity); how the language question is managed
in the responses of the participants; the role of interests in
language surveys and censuses both at the level of organized and
simple language management, and the like.

Select references
Duchêne, A. and Humbert, P. N. (2018): Surveying languages: The art of
governing speakers with numbers. International Journal of the
Sociology of Language, 252, pp. 1–20.

Duchêne, A., Humbert, P. N. and Coray, R. (2018): How to ask questions
on language? Ideological struggles in the making of a state survey.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 252, pp. 45–72.

Humbert, P. N. (2022): (Dé)chiffrer les locuteurs: La quantification
des langues à l’épreuve des idéologies langagières. Neuchatel:
Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses.

Zhou, M. (2015). Using census data and demography in policy analysis.
In F. M. Hult and C. Johnson (eds.), Research methods in language
policy and planning: A practical guide. Malden, Oxford, Chichester:
Wiley Blackwell, pp. 205-216.

Submission Instructions

Abstract submissions (max. 500 words, including references, indicating
the research question(s)/hypotheses, theoretical framework, and
methodology) are to be sent to: He Shanhua (email:
heshanhua at yzu.edu.cn )

Full papers are expected to be around 8,000 words long, including
references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.

Abstract submission deadline:  April 30, 2024
Notification on submitted abstracts: May 15, 2024
Article submission deadline: September 30, 2024
Anticipated date for publication of the Special Issue:  2025 (May)

Selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper through the
editorial system, which will undergo full peer review and determine
acceptance of papers for publication.

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