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April 28, 2008
CfP Journal: "Language Culture in Contemporary Russia"
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@actr.org.
Posted by danimia at April 28, 2008 09:55 AM