37.845, FYI: Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia

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Subject: 37.845, FYI: Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia

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Date: 02-Mar-2026
From: Thomas R. Wier [trwier at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia


We are still looking for a few contributors to this project
specifically for the following chapter headings:
- Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan
- Premodern Language Policy
- Statecraft-diplomacy and Law
I have copied the original call for contributions below.
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Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus
and Central Asia
We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming De Gruyter-Brill
Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This
volume will offer a comprehensive, comparative overview of how
language policies shape identity, education, and multilingualism
across this pivotal region.
The handbook will be structured in four sections:
- Sections I & II: Country-focused chapters on contemporary Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
and Uzbekistan. Each chapter will follow a rough template examining
(a) the formation and promotion of state languages; (b)
multilingualism and regional/global lingua francas (e.g. Russian,
English); (c) the impact of language policies on ethnolinguistic
diversity; (d) educational systems; and (e) the role of language in
shaping national and cultural identity.
- Section III: Thematic and macroregional analyses, including
premodern language ideologies, imperial and Soviet policy legacies,
script choices, educational systems and literacy, and the role of
language in statecraft and diplomacy.
- Section IV: Case studies on topics such as the rise and fall of
Caucasian Albanian, Jadidist movements, linguistic landscapes across
centuries, and signed languages of the region, or others at the
discretion of the Editor(s).
We welcome contributions from scholars of linguistics, anthropology,
history, education, and related fields. Proposals (250–300 words)
should specify the chapter topic and how it fits within the handbook’s
framework.
Please send expressions of interest or chapter proposals to Thomas
Wier <trwier AT gmail.com> for further inquiries.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics




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