36.1303, Calls: Cahiers de l'ILOB - "Langues en milieu de travail, langues au travail - Languages in the workplace, languages at work" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 36.1303, Calls: Cahiers de l'ILOB - "Langues en milieu de travail, langues au travail - Languages in the workplace, languages at work" (Jrnl)

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Date: 17-Apr-2025
From: Shayna-Eve Hébert [esh3146 at umoncton.ca]
Subject: Cahiers de l'ILOB - "Langues en milieu de travail, langues au travail - Languages in the workplace, languages at work" (Jrnl)

Journal: Cahiers de l'ILOB
Issue: Langues en milieu de travail, langues au travail - Languages in
the workplace, languages at work
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2025

Call for Papers:
Thematic issue:
The issues surrounding language management and plurilingualism concern
all human activities, and all age groups are likely to be affected by
plurilingual practices, policies, and norms that govern their use.
This is particularly true in the workplace where language issues are
intimately linked to identity as well as political, economic,
communicational, and social dynamics.
Language policies and practices in the workplace have been studied in
a wide variety of professional contexts, notably in Europe
(Dompmartin-Normand & Thamin, 2013; Harzing et al., 2011; Lønsmann,
2014), Asia (Fairbrother, 2018; Jenks & Lee, 2019; Lam & Yu, 2013),
and Australia (Cho, 2022 ; Harrison, 2013), as well as in Canada
(Premji et al., 2022; Roy, 2001) and around the world. Research has
focused, for example, on the role of English as a lingua franca
(Gunnarsson, 2013), or corporate language in the private sector
(Angouri, 2013; Barakos, 2020; Brannen & Mughan, 2017; Doehler et al.,
2017). This body of research studies the effects of such linguistic
and ideological hegemony on power relations within workplaces
(Kankaanranta et al., 2018), as well as on linguistic and cultural
diversity in general, particularly in minority (Barakos, 2018;
LeBlanc, 2014; Schedlitzki et al., 2017) and Indigenous linguistic
contexts (Kelly-Holmes & Pietikäinen, 2014; Møller, 2016).
Other studies focus on language policies and practices in public
domains such as healthcare (Brown et al., 2012), education
(Lancereau-Forster, & Martinez, 2018; Ramjattan, 2019), the civil
service (Commissariat aux langues officielles, 2021), and the legal
system (Nasager, 2020). These studies show, amongst other issues, how
policies become barriers to workplace accessibility and social
justice, and how they contribute to reproducing social and linguistic
inequalities (Shohamy, 2006).
Finally, while the issue of language in the workplace is often linked
to mobility (Itani et al., 2015; Kingsley, 2013), immigration (Béland,
2008), international relations (De Saint Robert, 2022) and
globalization (Aneesh, 2012; Lavric et al., 2017), it also makes
visible social, political and economic processes that take place on a
local scale (Dubois et al., 2006 ; Duchêne & Heller, 2012).
Studying languages in the workplace is often motivated by a concern
for the well-being of individual workers and linguistic communities.
An interest in languages at work also highlights the processes of
social exclusion and discrimination that often lie behind language
policies and practices in the workplace (Piller, 2016).
This volume aims to bring together scholarly work on languages at work
in a variety of contexts, in order to highlight recent research in
this field from an interdisciplinary perspective.
For this issue, we invite submissions that address, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
• Language policies and practices in the workplace, whether in the
private or public sector, at the national, international, or
supranational level
• Bilingualism, plurilingualism, multilingualism, and translanguaging
in the workplace
• Migration trajectories, international mobility, and transnationalism
• The role of Indigenous languages and cultures in the workplace
• Minority language communities
• Neoliberalism, the economy, and the commodification of languages
• Linguistic variation, norms, standardization, and language practices
• Teaching and learning language for specific purposes (e.g. English
for Specific Purposes; français sur objectifs spécifiques)
• Language assessment in the workplace
• Diglossic dynamics
• Linguistic discourses, attitudes, and ideologies
• Glottophobia; linguistic insecurity, and social and linguistic
discrimination
• Individual and collective identities

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

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