23.5249, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Subject: 23.5249, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:12:38
From: Julia de Bres [julia.debres at uni.lu]
Subject: Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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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.debres at uni.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.debres at uni.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.







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