31.3340, FYI: Call for Chapters: Imagining their worlds: Exploring multilingualism in children’s play

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Subject: 31.3340, FYI:  Call for Chapters: Imagining their worlds: Exploring multilingualism in children’s play

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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:56:23
From: Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi [s.h.mirvahedi at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Imagining their worlds: Exploring multilingualism in children’s play

 
We are currently seeking submissions for a proposed edited volume on
bi/multilingual children’s  linguistic practices in imaginative play, which
seeks to provide new perspectives on how the  imaginative space provides a
lens to children’s own views on language in society as well as elucidate the
concomitant implications, outcomes and consequences for different communities
of  speakers. Writing on children’s imagination and play over half a century
ago, Vygotsky (1967) (1967 p. 11) argues that children do not simply reproduce
in their play what they have previously  heard and seen, but they combine
their experiences and use them “to construct a new reality, one  that conforms
to [their] own needs and desires.” Research has shown the strategic ways in
which  children laminate personal experience onto the play frame (Buchbinder,
2008) and the multifaceted  roles that use of different linguistic resources
may play in the enactment and negotiation of  children’s imaginary worlds
(Bergroth & Palviainen, 2017; Kyratzis, 2010; Long, Volk, &  Gregory, 2007;
Paugh, 2005). Recently, sociolinguistic studies have focused on the interface 
between imaginative play and Family Language Policy (‘FLP’) and have argued
that imaginative  may be serve as a potential site for language maintenance
and shift in the family (Mirvahedi &  Cavallaro, 2019; Smith-Christmas, 2020).
 

Against this backdrop, we invite contributions to shed light on children’s
interactions during  various activities involving bi/multilingual children’s
creative and imaginative worlds. Although  we expect many of the chapters will
use peer play as the main foci, we especially welcome chapters  that explore
the relationship between multilingual practices and imaginative play in child 
caregiver interactions, as well as the interface between children’s media
worlds and their  imaginative play, and which may for example bring into scope
the role of technology in how  linguistic practices unfold in the imaginative
space.  

Submission information:
At this stage, we call for submissions of 300-word abstracts and a short
(50-100 words) bio  statement. Submissions should be directed to the editors
(Dr. Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi and Dr.  Cassandra Smith-Christmas) by March 1,
2021: shmirvahedi at iln.uio.no; cassandra.smith christmas at nuigalway.ie

Call for book chapters:
Once we have decided which chapters best fit the scope of this volume, we will
submit a proposal  to De Gruyter’s Language Play and Creativity series.  
If the proposal is successful, we envisage a due date chapters of no more than
of 8,000 words,  (excluding references) for October 1, 2021.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition





 



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