24.1734, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Subject: 24.1734, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:18:28
From: Netta Avineri [langpolicyreligion at gmail.com]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/ Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Language Policy 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2013 

Language Policy & the Reconceptualization of Religions as and in Institutions

The journal Language Policy invites papers for a thematic issue highlighting
innovative research on the role of language policy in reconceptualizing
religions both as and in institutions. In recent years, religious language
policy research (cf. Liddicoat, 2012; Omoniyi, 2010; Spolsky, 2009) has
focused on the ways that religion is a central element that shapes language
forms, literacy practices, language ideologies, and language management in a
range of global, national, state, family, and other interactional
environments. Building upon this significant research, this thematic issue
considers the complex ways that language policies shape and are shaped by
communities' ideologies about the role (or lack thereof) religion in their
lives and institutions. This special issue therefore provides a forum for
analyses of how language practices, beliefs, and management intersect with
religious beliefs, convictions, and ideologies at the local and global levels.

As traditional religious practices are interpreted in novel modes and contexts
in the globalizing world, it becomes necessary to reconsider the role that
religion may or may not play in how communities define themselves, and the
ways in which boundaries between categories of religiosity, secularism, and
spirituality are negotiated through language policies. One primary interest is
in exploring how these processes of religious interpretation and negotiation
embodied in language use may take place in traditional institutions (e.g.,
houses of worship, religious schools) as well as in settings in which groups
of people use and/or think about religion (or lack thereof) as an organizing
principle for their everyday lives. An additional area of interest is how
individuals and groups negotiate, define, appropriate, and
creatively employ language in ways that may counter the policies of religious
institutions or nations. Lastly, we are interested in how individuals and
groups create their own religious language policies in schools, homes and
communities that structure how they interact with others in both religious and
nonreligious environments.

Submissions are invited from anthropological, sociological, linguistic, and/or
historical perspectives, across methodological frameworks, and focus on both
historical and contemporary sites. The issue assumes language policy as
practice, ideology and management. Potential topics include but are not
limited to:

-The boundaries/differences between and within religious groups and how these
are negotiated through language policies
-The ways that language practices may complement and/or replace other
religious practices
-How and why particular languages (e.g., endangered languages) get sacralized
and the roles this may play in language maintenance and revitalization efforts
-The role of religious language management in missionization/evangelical
Christianity, the spread of Islam, the Arab Spring, and post-communist nations

Those interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 300
words) to the thematic issue guest editors, Netta Avineri & Sharon Avni at
langpolicyreligion at gmail.com by 5/1/13. After an initial abstract selection
process, authors will be invited to submit full papers by 11/1/13. All papers
will undergo double-blind peer review. Though part of a thematic issue, each
paper will get reviewed individually. For information about the journal and
author guidelines, see:

http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993







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