28.1102, Calls: General Linguistics / Language Sciences (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:52:38
From: Peter Jones [P.E.Jones at shu.ac.uk]
Subject: General Linguistics / Language Sciences (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Language Sciences 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Call for Abstracts

Special Issue on ''Karl Marx and the Language Sciences: critical encounters''
to be published in Language Sciences, May 2018

We announce an initial Call for Abstracts for a 2018 Special Issue of Language
Sciences on ''Karl Marx and the Language Sciences: critical encounters.''

Special Issue guest editor: Peter E Jones (Sheffield Hallam University). 

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is one of the most influential philosophers and
political thinkers of the past two centuries. His political writings have
decisively shaped the modern world, contributing to the development of working
class organization and inspiring and informing socialist, communist and
national liberation movements internationally. At the same time, Marx's
revolutionary philosophical and scientific work has had an incalculable impact
on intellectual culture and, for many, retains its relevance for the
understanding and progressive transformation of social life.

This Special Issue sets out to critically examine the inter-relations between
Marx's thinking and contemporary research in language (including the
philosophy of language) and communication. Individual papers may aim to survey
broad currents or trends of thought in the language sciences from this
perspective or to focus more narrowly on particular topics or the work of
particular scholars. However, all papers should set out to demonstrate how
such a critical engagement with Marx can be productive in contributing to both
our understanding of Marx and Marxist theory and to research in the language
sciences. 

Accordingly, we welcome papers which address the following topics:

- the relevance of Marx to the language sciences today;
- the historical influence of Marx's thinking on developments in the language
sciences and allied disciplines (e.g., psychology);
- Marx's own views on language and communication and the role of these views
in the development of his thinking and on subsequent Marxist theorising;
- the Influence on Marx's own thinking of contemporary perspectives on
language and communication;
- the relationship of Marx's work to one or more present day traditions and
approaches in language and communication research (e.g., Critical Discourse
Analysis, Dialogism, Ethnomethodology, etc.); 
- critical examination of the linguistic and communicational ideas of
particular scholars or collectives who self-identify as Marxist or are
commonly associated with Marxist tradition (e,g, Vygotsky, Voloshinov, the
Bakhtin circle, Gramsci, etc.); 
- critical re-examination of Marx's key theoretical concepts from a present
day language sciences perspective (e.g, value, commodity fetishism, class
struggle, alienation, etc.).

Word limit for abstracts: 150-200 words.

Please Note: At this initial stage we are inviting Abstracts Only. Abstracts
will be reviewed by Editor and Guest Editor. Selected contributors will then
be invited to submit a full article for review.

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 1st May 2017
Decision on invitation for full article submission: 1st June 2017
Deadline for first draft of articles: 1st December 2017
Deadline for final version of articles: 15th March 2018
Publication date: 5 May 2018

Article abstracts should be sent to Peter E Jones: P.E.Jones at shu.ac.uk




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