<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Apologies for the cross-post. I wasn't sure how many people in SW-L are also on SLLING-L and thought there might be interest here in submitting an abstract to Dr. Kusters. This sounds like a fascinating volume. I hope it goes forward as part of the SLDC series!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Rebecca</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Annelies Kusters" <<a href="mailto:annelieskusters@gmail.com">annelieskusters@GMAIL.COM</a>><br><b>Date:</b> August 25, 2016 at 12:54:27 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:SLLING-L@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Call for abstracts for edited volume on sign language ideologies and local theories of sign languages and multiple modalities (Deadline: 15 October 2016)</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> "linguists interested in signed languages" <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Call for abstracts for edited volume on sign language ideologies and local theories of sign languages and multiple modalities (Deadline: 15 October 2016)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">While much research has taken place on language attitudes and ideologies regarding spoken languages, research on sign language ideologies is only just emerging. This book will explore how signers, and others, understand sign languages and their relationships to other languages (signed or spoken) and modalities (including speech and writing). Like speakers, signers often make use of multilingual language repertoires. The concept of “modality” is central here, since sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">This book therefore contributes to current theoretical trends that focus on how on-the-ground language practices frequently draw on multilingual multimodal repertoires, often conceptualised in neologisms such as translanguaging and polylanguaging. In this research there is a strong emphasis on connecting the study of language practice with the investigation of language ideologies. Yet within this research, based on speakers rather than signers, there is a virtual absence of scholarship on ideologies on the visuo-gestural and tactile modalities. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">This book will go </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">beyond bounded notions of spoken language, signed language and even written language to interrogate how ideologies are part and parcel of how people think about and experience </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">communication and understanding.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">To this end, the book will assemble a number of chapters from a range of empirically grounded perspectives on the relationship between ideology and sign language use, planning, and teaching.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Themes include but are not limited to the following:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign languages as bounded systems; <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign languages in relation to other sign languages;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign languages in relation to spoken languages; <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign languages in relation to written languages;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">the continuum(s) of sign language and gesture; <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">the use of multimodal and multilingual repertoires;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">status and use of sign languages and of particular varieties (such as urban and/or rural varieties, older versus newer generations of signers, elite versus non-elite varieties); <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign language maintenance; <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign language standardization;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign language and the discourse of rights; <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">ownership of sign languages;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">sign language monolingualism versus multilingualism;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">linguistic purism and prescriptivism; and<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">methodologies for investigating sign language ideologies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We are mainly interested in studies of language ideologies on the ground, whether or not they interact with ideologies at the institutional level. Indeed, language ideologies are often situation-dependent and often seemingly contradictory since they are connected to particular contexts and differ across contexts, and implicitly or explicitly, everyday language practices also involve ideas about those practices. We especially welcome ethnographically-based contributions, but contributions could also be based on historical research, for example. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Authors do not have to use the term “language ideologies”; other analytic traditions that focus on “discourses about language,” “metalanguage”, “metalinguistic reflection”, or “local theories,” for example, are welcome. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">While the book as a whole focuses on language ideologies related to the use of different modalities and languages, particular chapters could focus on single modalities or languages. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Editors:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Annelies Kusters (Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity)
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Mara Green (</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University)</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Erin Moriarty Harrelson (Department of Anthropology, American University)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Kristin Snoddon (School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Press:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We aim at publishing the book at the SLDC series by Mouton De Gruyter/Ishara Press</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/179901" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/179901</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">)</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">, subject to the final approval of the book proposal that will be submitted after having selected the abstracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">In your abstract (max 300 words) please include: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Name, affiliation (if any) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Theme / rationale<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Methodology
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Spell out how you think your
chapter will contribute to the book<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- A biography and/or qualifications statement about yourself (max 100 words)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Please, send your abstract to: <a href="mailto:annelieskusters@gmail.com" class="">annelieskusters@gmail.com</a> <b class="">by 15 October 2016.</b> You will be notified of acceptance by 30 October 2016. The deadline for the first draft of the chapters is <b class="">1 May 2017</b></span></p></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">--------------------------------<br class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(23, 54, 93);">Dr. Annelies Kusters</span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></p></div><div class="" style="line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span lang="DE" class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-variant: small-caps; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity <br class="">Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="line-height: normal;"></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></body></html>________________________________________________
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