27.4097, FYI: Call for Chapters: Unlocking an Untapped Potential

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:35:21
From: Department of Foreign languages & Literature University of Zimbabwe [foreignlanguagesuz at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Unlocking an Untapped Potential

 Proposed title of book: 

Unlocking an Untapped Potential:  Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language
and Development in Zimbabwe

The humanities have in the past few decades been looked down upon (Lewin 2013;
London 2014). This has mainly been due to the inordinate focus placed on other
domains such as the commercials and the sciences. In Zimbabwe, the last five
or so years has witnessed a focus on the sciences at the expense of the
humanities. The recently launched Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
(STEM) programme has seen emphasis being placed on the teaching and learning
of science subjects, with high school science students receiving numerous
incentives such as the payment of school fees. 

This book project seeks to highlight the continued importance of the
humanities. Of particular interest is the central role that languages play in
development. The book attempts to bring together multidisciplinary
perspectives that underscore how languages, indigenous and foreign, are
important elements in the development of diverse facets of human existence
such as commerce, education, science and politics. Cognisant of such a central
role, we acknowledge as did Pierre Bourdieu, that languages are embedded with
power as “linguistic exchanges are also relations of symbolic power in which
the power relations between speakers or their respective groups are actualised
(1991: 37).

For that reason, there is a definitive need to rethink, unpack and debunk the
untapped potential that languages have in the development of societies, in
Zimbabwe and beyond. This will certainly involve foregrounding the central
role that they play. Although current focus in Zimbabwe has been on STEM and
the sciences, the fact is such specialist areas cannot be effectively taught
or learnt without acknowledging or drawing on diverse languages and linguistic
productions. 

This book project is therefore not merely a celebration of the importance of
languages but seeks to invigorate scholarship on the vast potentialities that
they have vis a vis the development not only of the economy, but also of the
moral fibre of societies themselves and other facets of national development. 

We are therefore calling for abstracts from scholars who would be interested
in engaging with the following areas:

- Translation
- Pedagogy (language teaching and learning)
- Language(s) and/in commerce
- Language(s) and/in migration
- Language(s) and/in politics
- Language(s) and/in the internationalisation of education
- Language issues in curriculum development 
- Foreign languages and culture 
- Literature(s) and /in development 
- Trends in language(s) and ICTs

NB. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to the above. Contributors can
write on any aspect not mentioned above for as long as it falls within the
purview of the book concept.
NB. Final book chapters can be written in Chinese, English, French, German or
Portuguese. However, abstract are currently required in English. 

Abstracts of not more than 300 words can be submitted to the corresponding
editors through the email addresses provided below. This should include the
description of the research, the proposed methodology as well as the
usefulness of the results towards the book theme.

Timelines:

Call for abstracts: 10 October 2016
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 November 2016
Response on accepted abstracts: 15 December 2016
Submission of complete chapters: 31 March 2017
Expected date of publication: October 2017
Length: 6000 maximum
Prospective Publisher: University of Zimbabwe Publishers
Number of pages: 300-350

Email addresses: 

Dr.Mukaro (laston.mukaro at gmail.com) 
Dr. Ncube (ncubegibson at yahoo.fr)
bookprojectFLL at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics



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