[Linganth] CFP: Heritage Language Revitalization and Music

[Begona Echeverria]

*Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development**: Call for Papers*



*JMMD* <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/current> solicits articles
for publication in a special issue on *Heritage Language Revitalization and
Music*, guest edited by Dr. Begoña Echeverria (University of California,
Riverside) and Dr. Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University).



A response to the incredibly complex challenge of language decline demands
not only the perspectives of speakers and learners of a range of languages,
but the perspectives offered by diverse disciplines. Approaches to
reversing processes of linguistic morbidity have assumed that solutions
should focus on the language itself (e.g., offering language classes,
availability of services in a given language), often with minimal
consideration given to other forms of cultural expression.



This volume offers an innovative perspective in its emphasis on *music as
the primary point of encounter with language* and, as such, it offers a
previously unrecognized and undervalued means of supporting heritage
languages – minority languages to which learners typically have exposure
through community and family. We welcome papers that foreground music in
all aspects of heritage language revitalization, including status,
acquisition, and corpus planning.



*Key questions*

In what ways can/does music:

   - elevate the status of a language among non-speakers, learners, and
   fluent speakers?
   - encourage the use of a language in a greater variety of domains?


   - create a gateway to language acquisition?
   - offer opportunities to acquire language?
   - open up avenues to use language?
   - provide a tool with which to document a language?


   - offer possibilities to study linguistic change?
   - get used to implement linguistic change or policies?



*JMMD* is a peer-reviewed cross-disciplinary journal for researchers from
diverse scholarly and geographical backgrounds. It is concerned with
macro-level coverage of topics in the sociology and social psychology of
language, and in language and cultural politics, policy, planning and
practice.



Articles should be about 7000 words. *The deadline for complete manuscripts
is September 15, 2021.*



Please visit the journal website for complete submission details:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmmm20/



Please contact the guest editors with any questions:

Dr. Begoña Echeverria (b.echeverria at ucr.edu) or Dr. Heather Sparling (
heather_sparling at cbu.ca)
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