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March 16, 2009
CfP Journal: Plotki
DEADLINE: March 20, 2009
Call for contributions: ***LANGUAGE***
PLOTKI - the Central and Eastern European magazine is looking for rumors about LANGUAGE to be published in the upcoming edition of its on-line magazine www.plotki.net - we welcome your original text, visual and multimedia contributions.
LANGUAGE ISSUE CALL-OUT
"Language may be for communication, but it's also for revelry"
Contribute to the online rumors of PLOTKI April issue ~ Language
Seeking text as well as graphic and other media-based submissions revolving around the theme of language.
NYELV*ЕЗИК*LIMBĂ*SPRACHE*GJUHË*JĘZYK
Are Eastern European languages more difficult to learn than Western European languages or is it just a matter of perspective?
Are Eastern European languages sexier? Is there a common thread? (Pan-slavs might wish to show some restraint) If English is less widely spoken in Eastern Europe, how does it affect the experience of travel throughout the region? How does communication through language differ in Eastern Europe from that of other cultures? Is more expressed or less expressed through the same number of words used in, say, Belorussian, than in Dutch?
Language and cultural preeminence: Am I the only one who is bothered that Polish, Czech, etc are usually listed only after German and French on consumer packaging? Or that Austrian trains travelling to Hungary list notices in English, French and Spanish, but not Magyar?
Any other articles focusing on the history, culture, philosophy, psychology or literature of languages around the block (minority languages too! Think Yiddish, Esperanto, etc.) will be very welcome for this issue. A special award will go to anyone who can use 10 Eastern European languages in one single poem or prose submission!
Articles and abstracts are possibly very welcome in your own language as well. Please get in touch.
please write to: language_issue@plotki.net
Justin Hyatt and Katarzyna Pabijanek
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PLOTKI is a project from around the bloc
PLOTKI encourages rumor hunting across Central and Eastern Europe
PLOTKI is interested in original reports, interviews, stories, research, that cannot be found in other media
And PLOTKI brings together writers, photographers and graphic artists from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Posted by agripley at March 16, 2009 04:27 PM