36.3673, Calls: Heritage Language Journal - "Special Issue: Address Forms in Migrant, Colonial, and Indigenous Heritage Languages: Trajectories of Evolution and Their Trigger Mechanisms" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 36.3673, Calls: Heritage Language Journal - "Special Issue: Address Forms in Migrant, Colonial, and Indigenous Heritage Languages: Trajectories of Evolution and Their Trigger Mechanisms" (Jrnl)

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Vladislava Warditz [vwarditz at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Heritage Language Journal - "Special Issue: Address Forms in Migrant, Colonial, and Indigenous Heritage Languages: Trajectories of Evolution and Their Trigger Mechanisms" (Jrnl)

Journal: Heritage Language Journal
Issue: Address Forms in Migrant, Colonial, and Indigenous Heritage
Languages: Trajectories of Evolution and Their Trigger Mechanisms
Call Deadline: 01-May-2026

Forms of address—such as titles, honorifics, and pronominal
choices—are among the most sensitive linguistic indicators of social
relations, politeness norms, and identity. As societies undergo
social, political, economic, and ideological transformations,
corresponding shifts in politeness and address practices emerge.
Migrant, colonial, and Indigenous heritage languages, which interact
intensively with dominant societal languages, offer a particularly
rich terrain for examining these dynamics.
In multilingual contexts, heritage speakers often adopt formal address
titles from the dominant language, especially in institutional or
high-register settings. These borrowed forms may lack direct
equivalents in the heritage language but are embraced for pragmatic
reasons, social integration, or the prestige associated with the
societal language. Informal address forms likewise undergo
contact-induced change, developments that become especially salient
across successive generations of heritage speakers. Situated at the
intersection of grammar and pragmatics, address forms provide an ideal
lens for investigating mechanisms of linguistic innovation, language
change, and the pragmatic interface of languages.
Within the drawn framework, this special issue aims to examine and
compare trajectories of change in address systems across migrant,
colonial, and Indigenous heritage language settings and to identify
the mechanisms that trigger these developments. We seek contributions
that advance theory building by elucidating how address forms evolve
under conditions of language contact, transmission, and shifting
sociocultural norms.
We invite submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following
topics:
 - Address forms in heritage languages
 - Borrowing, calquing, and innovation in politeness and honorific
systems
 - Generational shifts in address norms among heritage speakers
 - Sociocultural factors shaping address practices in diasporic,
colonial, and Indigenous communities
 - Comparative studies of address systems across heritage language
communities
 - Theoretical contributions to models of language change, pragmatics,
or contact linguistics
We particularly welcome historical, typological, and
contact-linguistic contributions, including studies comparing heritage
languages with their baseline varieties and research examining
contact-affected politeness practices.
Important Dates:
 - Abstract submission deadline: 31 December 2025
 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 20 January 2026
 - Full manuscript submission: 1 May 2026
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts (300–500 words, excluding references) should clearly outline
research questions, data, methods, and expected contributions to the
study of address forms in contexts of language contact. Detailed
submission instructions will be provided upon acceptance of the
abstract.
Contact:
For inquiries about the special issue, please contact Vladislava
Warditz, vwarditz at uni-koeln.de

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

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