Corrected RLJ Call for Papers: "Language Culture in Contemporary Russia"

[Camelot Marshall]

Call for Papers

Russian Language Journal will dedicate its 2008 issue (Vol. 58) to the
subject of "Language Culture in Contemporary Russia," and would like to
invite all scholars with related research interests to submit articles
for consideration. 

The period from 1985 to the present day has brought about dramatic
changes in the shape, sound, and structure of Russian, in the role that
language plays in both reflecting and helping to shape public discourse,
and in the attitudes that speakers and writers have toward the Russian
national tongue and language change in general. In an effort to explore
the contours and ramifications of these changes, RLJ welcomes
submissions from colleagues across disciplines on any aspect of the
following issues, so long as they are addressed in the context of
Russian culture and society from 1985-2007: 

*	Descriptive analyses of language change in cultural, social,
and/or political context; 
*	Infusion of foreign loans into contemporary Russian; 
*	Roles of high (e.g., Church) and low (e.g., colloquial,
regional, dialectal, non-standard, vulgar) registers; 
*	The language of politics and/or politics of language; 
*	Attitudes (popular, intellectual, or official) toward language
change; 
*	Creative representations of language change; 
*	The state and fate of the literary language; 
*	Language and/of the mass media, as well as the new media. 

Authors interested in submitting articles for double-blind peer review
should send copies of their completed manuscripts, in English or
Russian, by July 1, 2008. Submission guidelines can be found on this
website (http://www.russnet.org/rlj/) in the Policies and Submissions
section. Please address any questions to rlj at actr.org.


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