24.1452, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Subject: 24.1452, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:40:02
From: Chantelle Warner [warnerc at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation/ Critical Multilingualism Studies (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Critical Multilingualism Studies 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2013 

Over the past fifteen years, political and academic uptake around the concept
of multilingualism has been ambitious, swift, and yet profoundly uneven around
the world. Governmental endeavors around language plurality that have become
standard, and even hegemonic, in Europe are still hardly imaginable in the
United States. Meanwhile, the very concept of "languageness" in modern Africa
corresponds only awkwardly with the presumed characteristics of West Europe's
vigorously nationalized languages. Simultaneously, various disciplines are
honing their own new visions of language plurality— whether in comparative
literature, applied linguistics, translation studies, or AI, and these
disciplinary divisions often dovetail with distinct geopolitical landscapes
and their educational / institutional priorities. This combined (i.e.
disciplinary as well as geopolitical) unevenness seems to result in a 'state
of the discourse' in which, for example, Europeans are increasingly pondering
ex post facto the "dangers" of state implementation schemes around
trilingualism, while US scholars continue to struggle to secure even an
affirmative social image for bilingualism on the public stage.

All in all, the ways scholars and policy-makers dialogue about multilingualism
along transpacific, transatlantic, and global axes are increasingly
centrifugal in trajectory and prone to misunderstanding creating new,
revealing disparities in how policy implementation, scholarly focus, and
institutional anchoring are managed and pursued.

Critical Multilingualism Studies is currently seeking submissions for a volume
on Comparative Multilingualisms: Paradigms, Disciplines, Landscapes.
Prospective contributions to this special issue of CMS will place regional,
hemispheric, disciplinary and local multilingualisms in an explicitly
comparative dialogue with one another, in order to provide a more adequate
composite picture of how, and how well, ideas about multilingual practice are
circulating from place to place, from language to language, and from scholarly
field to scholarly field.

Contributions might include:

-essays considering how pairs of fields —such as comparative literature and
applied linguistics, or translation studies and geography —can improve the way
they interpret and respond to each other’s enduring questions about
multilingualism
•
-historical, theoretical, or ethnographic studies on how multilingualism is
perceived and practiced in one context/locality, as contrasted with another

-critical interventions on how models of language plurality are exported,
circulated, or trafficked globally, and whether these are implicitly based on
a set of regional and or disciplinary premises
•
-accounts of how and why scholars, policy-makers, SLA methodologists, or
software developers may misapprehend the multilingualism of another
geopolitical context
•
-studies of how "multilingualism" is treated as a concept or phenomenon in
various languages, dialects, or cultural traditions —and what these
differences reveal about the emerging axia of "multilingualism studies"

Contributions of 5000-8000 words are welcome. Chicago citation style
recommended, multimedia components encouraged. Please inquire or submit
manuscripts at: http://cms.arizona.edu

The deadline for this call is December 31, 2013.

Questions? 

Contact the editors, David Gramling and Chantelle Warner at
cms-journal at email.arizona.edu







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