Call for Chapters: Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages
Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages
Editors: Covadonga Lamar Prieto and Álvaro González Alba
University of California, Riverside
The concept of linguistic justice, when applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their lives in less-than-optimal environments. Because of that, the framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge, creating a situation in which “language” is just one of these elements. This collection of essays (already under contract) proposes to recover the centrality of language, understood as bilingualism, biculturalism and bidialectalism both historical and contemporary. We aim to expand the knowledge about the sociolinguistic, educational, political and social realities that occur in minoritized languages. Our focus is the Luso-Hispanic world: the languages and linguistic interactions between Romance and/or non-Romance languages, original and colonizing languages, old and new dialects of different languages and varieties in contact, to name a few. The languages of the volume are English, Spanish and Asturian. We welcome theoretical papers, qualitative and quantitative work, case studies and combined scholarly approaches to the following topics, among others:
- Use and presence of minoritized languages in the public sphere
- Institutional use of minoritized languages: schools, public administration, healthcare…
- Access to education in minoritized languages
- Minoritized languages in multilingual states
- Maintenance and attrition, bilingualism and bidialectalism
- Minoritized languages and mainstream media
- Social media and minoritized languages
Submission guidiles:
All chapters must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another book, journal or conference.
Chapter length: 7,000 to 10,000 words each, including bibliography and figures.
Chapters should be formatted following MLA citation guidelines
Important dates:
February 15, 2022: Proposal Chapter Submission deadline (1 page max plus references)
March 1, 2022: Notification of Acceptance
June 15, 2022: Full Chapter Submission for peer review
Please, send your questions, proposals and full chapters to both editors, Covadonga Lamar Prieto (covadonga.lamar-prieto@ucr.edu) and Álvaro González Alba (agonz473@ucr.edu)