Sargasso cfp: Lang. & Gender

[Don Walicek]

Dear Colleagues,Below I''m pasting a cfp that may be of interest to members of this group.Best,Don WalicekDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio PiedrasSARGASSO– CALL FOR PAPERS –LANGUAGE AND GENDERsubmission deadline January 10, 2009SARGASSO, a Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture is accepting submissions for an upcoming issue with the preliminary title "Language and Gender." Research on Caribbean languages (especially Creoles) in fields of inquiry such as sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, linguistic ethnography, and historical linguistics is welcome, as is work that is interdisciplinary in nature. While recent work on Caribbean languages explores a variety of integrative and sophisticated sociolinguistic themes, researchers working within the field of Creole Studies have given minimal attention to language and gender. In contrast, a vibrant stream of publications on language and gender that is generally focused on non-Caribbean settings (e.g., Freed 2005, Holmes and Meyerhoff 2005, Cameron and Kulick 2006, Maybin et al. 2008) reflects renewed and notably widespread interest in social categories, identities, and their links to sociolinguistic, grammatical, and ideological phenomena. This issue of Sargasso seeks to encourage conversation between these two areas of inquiry. It aims to explore the insights that the analysis of gender has for deepening understandings of phenomena such as language change, linguistic variation, meaning-making, and shifting interpretations of “Creole” and “Caribbean culture.” Work that questions or otherwise avoids male-female difference as a starting point and / or explanation for understanding linguistic behavior is strongly encourged.Themes that might be addressed include, but are not limited to:– “Third-wave” approaches to meaning-making– Language, discourse, & power– Language ideologies– Language, gender, & socialization practices– Language, race, and symbolic violence – Sociohistorical ethnography– Demographics & language change– Sexism, feminism, & “the interaction factor”– Performances of masculinity – Transgenderism & sexual identities– Women in linguistics– “Acts of Identity”– “Applied creolistics” / “Postcolonial Creolistics”Essays should be 10-20 pages and double-spaced. Abstracts of 120 words or less should accompany essays. B & W photos, illustrations, and other graphics can be included. Book reviews and review essays of recent scholarship on the Caribbean are also welcome. They should be approximately 1,000 and 2,000 words in length, respectively. Essays and reviews for this particular issue should conform to the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics (located at http://www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf). Electronic submissions, inquiries, and any questions can be mailed to: sargasso at uprrp.edu. Electronic submissions should be sent as attachments in Word. Please indicate “Sargasso Submission” in the subject line. Papers sent through the postal system should include a SASE and a file in RTF format on diskette.Sargasso has been edited at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras for more than 20 years. The journal features work on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Caribbean and its multiple diasporas. For more information visit: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm 
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