call for papers: JSL Sociolinguistics

[Mark R. Lauersdorf]

Dear Colleagues:

We are preparing a special issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics that
will be devoted to the rapidly-growing field of Slavic sociolinguistics.
Our intent is to provide a sampling of the range of sociolinguistic research
currently being carried out by North American Slavists, with the hope of
bringing this research to a broader audience and promoting dialogue and
discussion on sociolinguistic topics among Slavic linguists of various
theoretical orientations.

We are currently soliciting materials for this special issue of JSL, and we
would like to invite all North America-based scholars to participate in the
project. We are focusing the issue around seven subfields of
sociolinguistics and invite you to submit a proposal for a 15-20 page
article that discusses one of the following:

1) social and situational variation in contemporary Slavic standard and
non-standard varieties
2) standard-dialect relations and dialect contact; social mechanisms of
dialect convergence and divergence
3) sociolinguistic aspects of contact-induced linguistic innovation
4) historical sociolinguistics; social mechanisms of language change
5) gender identities and linguistic variation in Slavic
6) corpus planning
7) sociolinguistic pragmatics

The format of the journal will allow for publication of approximately 7-8
articles.  We will observe the following criteria in the selection of
potential contributions to the issue: 1) relevance to issue topics; 2)
originality with respect to theoretical framework and/or methodology; 3)
range of  languages discussed -- comparative studies and studies on
traditionally underrepresented Slavic languages are particularly welcome. In
addition, for synchronic topics we will give priority to studies based on
recent field research.

Please note that articles submitted to a regular issue of the Journal of
Slavic Linguistics undergo a double-blind review process to be accepted for
publication and we will be following similar procedures in assembling this
special issue of JSL.  Thus, this invitation to submit an article for the
Slavic sociolinguistics issue should not be perceived as a guarantee that
your submission will automatically be published.

If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration, please
contact us as soon as possible (preferably no later than 01 October 2001)
with the proposed title and a brief abstract of your submission.  In the
interest of timely publication of this special issue, we ask that you only
submit a proposal if you feel that you will be able to complete the article
within a reasonable amount of time.

Please direct all correspondence, questions and submissions to both of us at
the addresses listed below. We look forward to hearing from you and to
receiving your proposal.

Mark Lauersdorf
Curt Woolhiser

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Mark R. Lauersdorf
Dept. of Modern Languages
Luther College
700 College Drive
Decorah, IA 52101-1045, USA
Fax: 563-387-2158
E-mail: lauersma at luther.edu

Curt F. Woolhiser
Dept. of Slavic Langs. and Lits.
Calhoun 415
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713-7217, USA
Tel. 512-471-3607
Fax: 512-471-6710
E-mail: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu

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