35.1528, FYI: Call for contributions to special issue: Bordering in translingual space, languaging in bordered space: re-framing ‘languages’ in the post-Yugoslav space

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Date: 15-May-2024
From: Kristof Savski [kristof.s at psu.ac.th]
Subject: Call for contributions to special issue: Bordering in translingual space, languaging in bordered space: re-framing ‘languages’ in the post-Yugoslav space


Calling for interested contributors for a special issue on:
Bordering in translingual space, languaging in bordered space:
re-framing ‘languages’ in the post-Yugoslav space
Edited by: Kristof Savski (Prince of Songkla University), Ana
Tankosić, Eldin Milak (Curtin University)

In this special issue, we propose to collect examples of scholarship
on the post-Yugoslav space, a geographic area in which the study of
translingual practice (Canagarajah, 2012) demands an approach
sensitive to events in the recent past. By ‘post-Yugoslav space’, we
refer to the territories formerly part of Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(1918-1941) and to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(1945-1991), as well as cross-border areas in which the languages
associated with this region are spoken – among others, these include
Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian,
Montenegrin, Romani, Serbian and Slovene. A key challenge to the study
of translingualism in this space is that it must account for the
existence of numerous linguistic continua, including the
well-documented Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian-Montenegrin continuum as well
as those found in minoritized regions (e.g., Slovene-Croatian-Italian
in Istria). In these continua, borders imposed by historic political
processes exist in continuous tension with different forms and levels
of mutual intelligibility, facilitated by linguistic similarity and
ongoing cultural contact, but often obstructed by antagonistic
narratives of belonging.
We propose that the complexity of the post-Yugoslav space necessitates
a parallel focus on those processes through which ‘languages’ as
invented social categories (Makoni & Pennycook, 2009) are reproduced
and enforced, and on those through which the notion of distinct
‘languages’ is continuously relativized and backgrounded. In parallel
to a focus on ‘languaging’ (Becker, 1991) “without regard for watchful
adherence to the socially and politically defined boundaries of named
(and usually national and state) languages” (Otheguy et al., 2015, p.
283; see Lee, 2017 on the terminological inclusivity in
trans-perspectives), we thus argue for attention to processes of
‘bordering’ through which “indexical meanings are strategically
employed to draw boundaries” (Savski, 2023, p. 2).
We invite submissions engaging with ‘languages’ in the post-Yugoslav
space, including but not limited to
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian-Montenegrin, from perspectives such as:
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in language policy;
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in the semiotic landscape;
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in migration;
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in minoritized communities;
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in educational settings;
•       ‘languaging’ and ‘bordering’ in professional communication;
•       and other relevant areas.
Scholars interested in contributing to a special issue in this area
are encouraged to submit a preliminary title and 250-word abstract for
their contribution by 30 June 2024 to kristof.s at psu.ac.th. Informal
inquiries are welcome.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Albanian, Gheg (aln)
                     Bosnian (bos)
                     Croatian (hrv)
                     Serbian (srp)
                     Slovenian (slv)




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