35.1643, FYI: Call for Papers - Special Issue: International Journal of Play - "Many Roles, Many Languages. Emergent Multilingualism in Children’s Role Play"
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Subject: 35.1643, FYI: Call for Papers - Special Issue: International Journal of Play - "Many Roles, Many Languages. Emergent Multilingualism in Children’s Role Play"
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Date: 04-Jun-2024
From: Melissa Schuring [melissa.schuring at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Call for Papers - Special Issue: International Journal of Play - "Many Roles, Many Languages. Emergent Multilingualism in Children’s Role Play"
Special Issue: “Many Roles, Many Languages - Emergent Multilingualism
in Children’s Role Play”
Outlet: International Journal of Play
Editors: Melissa Schuring (KU Leuven) & Kelly Shoecraft (Griffith
University)
Full call: https://tinyurl.com/ManyRolesManyLanguages
**Call for papers**
Role play is a natural joint interaction in which children perform a
variety of social roles (Katerbow, 2013). Although definitions and
labels (e.g. imaginative/pretend/dramatic/game play) differ, scholars
agree upon the potential of studying role play in bi- and multilingual
contexts (Dunn, 2003; Schwarz, 2021). Indeed, present day’s globalized
society has boosted diverse forms of bi- and multilingualism, leaving
children with linguistic resources from two, three or more languages
to draw upon in their role play interactions (Shoecraft, 2018). Being
child-led, these interactions thus provide a window on young learners’
emerging links between language(s) (varieties) and particular roles
(e.g. English for teachers vs. Patwa for farmers; Paugh, 2019; see
also Schuring et al., 2024).
Building on the foundational theories of Piaget (1962) and Vygotsky
(1966), the special issue aims to advance our understanding of
multilingualism in role play in three ways, focusing on:
1. The comparison of roles. How do children use their
multilingual repertoires in their enactment of roles, contrasting the
self with the impersonated role (cf. self vs. doctor, self vs. a
dragon), roles within the play frame (e.g. doctors vs. nurses, sellers
vs. buyers) and roles surrounding the play frame (director vs. actor,
expert vs. apprentice)?
2. The construction of roles. How do children use their
multilingual repertoires to (socially) construct their roles, varying
from negotiations of props, decors and storylines or scripts (Nourot,
2015), to the creation of new first names (e.g. Now, I am Betty!, see
Calvert, 2004) and the development of (new) socio-demographic role
characteristics (e.g. age, profession, gender)?
3. The cognitive reality of roles. To what extent do children’s
multilingual performances of the roles align with their perception and
awareness of the language(s) (varieties) used by these particular
roles in the real world? Can multilingual role play interactions be
understood as ‘imitations’ of role-specific language use? To what
extent are they caricatures (Preston, 1992)?
We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines
(developmental/cognitive sociolinguistics, second language learning,
linguistic anthropology, …) that touch on one of these themes and
study role play in one of several possible contexts (the classroom,
the home, more controlled settings), from quantitative and/or
qualitative perspectives. Studies that contrast role play interactions
with another type of data (e.g. rating tasks, interviews) or research
taking a comparative perspective to children’s role play dialogues
(e.g. comparing it to role play in teenagers or adults) are also
welcome.
**Submission information**
Abstracts
We call for submissions of 400-word abstracts (excluding references,
language: English) and a short bio (max. 100 words) per author.
Submissions can be sent to the guest editors Melissa Schuring
(melissa.schuring at kuleuven.be) and Kelly Shoecraft
(k.shoecraft at griffith.edu.au) no later than October 20th 2024.
Manuscripts
We invite papers of no more than 7000 words (including references,
appendices, etc.) that follow the guidelines of the International
Journal of Play.
Confirmed timeline:
• Abstract submission:
October 20th , 2024
• Decision on abstracts:
November 8th, 2024
• Submission of manuscripts for review:
February 14th, 2025
• Reviewer feedback to contributors:
March 31st , 2025
• Submission of revised manuscripts:
June 1st, 2025
• Final approvals
June 30th, 2025
• Expected publication date:
August/September 2025
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
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