27.3191, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics / Language Policy (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:55:42
From: Kellie Goncalves [goncalves at ens.unibe.ch]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics / Language Policy (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Language Policy 


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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Managing people with language: language policy, planning and practice in
multilingual blue-collar workplaces: a global perspective
Special Issue Editor: Kellie Gonçalves

This special issue of Language Policy centers on the latest conditions of
language policy, planning and practices taking place in diverse 'blue-collar'
workplaces around the world as a result of the new globalized economy (Heller
2013). Adopting a transformationalist approach to globalization acknowledges
that transnational interdependencies are not new, and continue to affect the
rise of a 'new', international division of labor, which, effects how languages
are being utilized, conceptualized and managed in innovative and different
ways (Pietikäinen et al. 2016) by employers and employees in various workplace
contexts (Duchêne & Heller 2012). As a result, language as a resource -
whether symbolic, interactional, material or ideological - flows, changes and
is often used by very powerful agents (Menken & García 2010) to manage
individuals in their everyday lives and workplaces.

This special issue of Language Policy is committed to bringing together
empirical work by a diverse group of international scholars from various
settings around the world to address various questions, while taking into
consideration how different political structures and transnational relations
between institutions including labor markets affect the movement of
blue-collar (and often migrant) workers globally. 

This special issue will add to existing literature on LPP studies by
addressing diverse topics that cover the methodological challenges (Ricento
2000; Hult & Johnson 2015; Gonçalves & Schluter 2016) of carrying out such
work and expand our theoretical understanding of LPP in domains that are
currently underrepresented (García & Kelly-Holmes 2016: 2). Topics include: 

- Examination of the ways in which language is being managed at different
levels (ranging from the local to the national) and how such policies and
ensuing practices perpetuate social inequality within blue-collar workplace
settings across various transnational, majority-language and minority-speaking
contexts.
- Analysis of language practices within blue-collar workplace settings and
diverse linguistic marketplaces (both private & public) on the micro-level,
and how both overt and covert language policies affect and are shaped by
individuals' positions of class, race, ethnicity and gender within the
political economy. 
- Consideration of the crucial role of language ideologies, multilingual
practices and power dynamics with regard to labor markets and the specific
economic arrangements of blue-collar workers vis-à-vis their employers.
- Addressing and problematizing the methodological challenges of researching
LPP within blue-collar workplace contexts and gaining access to informants,
many of whom are also minority language speakers. 

Interested authors should submit a title and abstract (up to 500 words) to the
guest editor of the special thematic issue, Kellie Gonçalves
(goncalves at ens.unibe.ch) by November 1, 2016. Subsequent to an initial
abstract selection process, authors will be informed and invited to submit
full papers for full double blind peer review to Language Policy by May 1st
2017. Publication of this special issue is anticipated for early 2018. For
more information about the journal and author guidelines, see:
http://www.springer.com/linguistics/journal/10993?detailsPage=pltci_2952070




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