[lg policy] cfp: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

[Harold Schiffman]

Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)


Full Title: Language Policy


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2013

Call for papers: Language policies on social network sites

The journal Language Policy announces a call for papers for a thematic
issue on language policies on social network sites.

Note: This is a summary of the call for papers to accommodate the
LINGUIST List word limit. For a copy of the full call please email
julia.debresuni.lu

This issue aims to bring together trends at the forefront of research
on computer mediated communication (CMC) and language policy. Research
on language in the new media has been growing quickly in recent years,
spanning a great range of online environments, including gaming, chat
systems, discussion forums, media sharing sites and blogs. Some of
this research focuses on social network sites, but this has tended to
concentrate mostly on language practices and discourses (e.g.
code-switching, language play, identity construction) and not on the
language policies that guide them. Meanwhile, the discipline of
language policy in the past decade has developed research beyond
official language policies of national governments to language
policies occurring within less official contexts such as workplaces
and homes, and formal and less formal models of language policy, also
including 'language policing' initiated by individuals. Yet the media
domain receives little attention in language policy research,
especially with regards to recent developments in the new media,
particularly social network sites. Thus, this thematic issue aims to
extend this research and to bring together studies on CMC and language
policies that are relevant to both areas.

The issue seeks to draw together research on a range of topics
relating to language policies on social network sites, including:

•-Language policies in different parts of social network systems, e.g.
applications, group pages, individual pages;

-•Language policy activity at different levels, from the macro level
of the language policies of social network sites as corporations, to
the meso level of language policies of groups, to the micro level of
individuals' language policing of others, along with interactions
between these levels;

•-Language ideologies in relation to language policies on social
network sites and how individuals try to influence language practices
on these sites to serve their own interests;

•-Dynamic processes of mutual influence between language policies on
social network sites and the language practices of social network site
users;

•-Constraints on the development and implementation of language
policies on social network sites due to the technical features of the
social network interface;

•-The use of social network sites as a means of achieving language
policy goals in off-line contexts, such as the promotion of minority
languages or opposition to national language policies.

The thematic issue seeks to cover social network sites of diverse
national origins, for example those originating from the US (e.g.
Facebook, Twitter), China (e.g. Sina Weibo, Renren) and a number of
countries in Europe (e.g. Hyves, Tuenti), and to include a range of
national and linguistic contexts in which these sites are now used.

All papers will undergo full peer review. Those interested in
contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 300 words) to
the guest editor of the thematic issue, Julia de Bres
(julia.debresuni.lu), by 1 April 2013. After an initial abstract
selection process, authors will be invited to submit full papers for
double-blind peer review by 1 October 2013. The issue is envisaged for
publication in late 2014.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-5249.html

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