36.2727, Calls: Sociolinguistics - "Special Issue: Languages of Africa in the Sociolinguistic Aspect" (Jrnl)

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Date: 13-Sep-2025
From: Stanislav Beletskiy [socioling.articles at mail.ru]
Subject: Sociolinguistics - "Special Issue: Languages of Africa in the Sociolinguistic Aspect" (Jrnl)


Journal: Sociolinguistics
Issue: Special Issue: Languages of Africa in the Sociolinguistic
Aspect
Call Deadline: 12-Jan-2026

We invite you to take part in a special issue of the journal
"Sociolinguistics" No. 3 (27), 2026. The theme of the issue:
"Languages of Africa in the sociolinguistic aspect".
Editors:
 - Nadezhda Makeeva, PhD in Linguistics, Senior Researcher, Institute
of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
 - Stanislav Beletsky, PhD in Linguistics, Research Fellow, Institute
of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
The African continent is a zone of high linguistic diversity, it is
home to a third of the world's languages: about two thousand idioms
belonging to more than 30 language families are spoken in Africa. From
the point of view of the ecology of language, the sociolinguistic
situation in African countries varies from relatively simple
monolingualism (Somalia – Somali, Egypt – Arabic, Lesotho – Sesotho,
etc.) to linguo-cultural (super)diversity (Nigeria – 520 languages,
Kenya – 61 languages, Mali – 63 languages), which is largely explained
by the artificiality of the borders inherited by the countries from
the colonial past. Being united into a single communicative
environment by state borders, autochthonous languages enter into
complex relationships both with each other and with imported
languages, including the languages of former metropolises. The
objectives of this special issue include both a comprehensive and
component-by-component analysis of the communicative environments of
African countries and regions in synchrony and diachrony, as well as
modeling the paths of their linguistic development.
Papers focusing on the following and related themes are accepted for
publication:
 - language situation in African countries in diachronic and
synchronic aspects;
 - vertical and horizontal language contacts in African countries
(scenarios, effects, patterns);
 - effects of multilingualism in language and society;
 - language policy and practice for the preservation/maintenance of
linguistic diversity in Africa;
 - sociolinguistic typology of communicative environments of African
countries;
 - African studies and new methods of sociolinguistic research.
Not only linguists, but also specialists from related fields of
science are invited to participate in the discussion: sociologists,
psychologists, historians, cultural scientists, etc.
Applications and manuscripts formatted according to the journal rules
(see
https://sociolinguistics.ru/index.php/sociolinguistics/send-sheets)
are accepted until January 12, 2026 via e-mail:
socioling.articles at mail.ru.
The article may not exceed 40,000 characters including blank spaces,
in Russian or English. Illustrations in JPG format may be attached to
the texts. The use of other authors’ materials must be agreed upon
with the authors and copyright holders.
For more detailed information on the rules of publication and
formatting of articles visit our website
https://sociolinguistics.ru/index.php/sociolinguistics/index. For any
questions regarding publication in No. 3 (27) please contact us by
e-mail socioling.articles at mail.ru.
If we receive a large number of applications in No. 3 (27), the
editorial board may consider other options for publishing
peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic
                      Khoisan
                      Niger-Congo
                      Nilo-Saharan



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