Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Comparative Law and Language Journal (Italy)

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Call for Papers for Comparative Law and Language Journal. Deadline: 4 November 2023, abstract only.

Online peer-reviewed academic journal Comparative Law and Language (CLL) is dedicated to giving scholars a forum to increase interest in and scientific debate on the relationship between law and language in and within various national and supranational legal systems from a comparative perspective. Due to the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature of the journal, contributions from linguists and academics in any other relevant subject of the social sciences are also invited.

The fields of comparative law and language are intricately intertwined, and numerous studies have already concentrated on this vast area of study. In this regard, they encourage papers on micro and macro comparison studies, viewed via the prism of language, also considering the linguistic nature of the legal occurrences, as well as how language influences and shapes the society legal framework.

The current call for papers welcomes essays from both experienced academics in the field of the journal’s general theme as well as from younger researchers.

They are particularly interested in the following topics:

  • Comparative law; History and legal language; Language and legal rhetoric; Language and philosophy of law.
  • Legal language; Legal translation; Legal linguistics; Law and non-linguistic signs; Legal special vocabulary; Regulation of language use.
  • Language rights; Minority languages and the law; Regulation of linguistic diversity and linguistic minorities.
  • Bilingual and multilingual legal systems; Language and legal interpretation; Vagueness in language and in law; Language legislative drafting; Language and drafting of contracts; Multilingual legal drafting; Multilingualism practices in the courtroom.
  • Environmental law and the transition to sustainability in comparative and linguistic perspective.
  • AI, language, and legal comparison; Natural language and artificial language.

The languages accepted are English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, and those accessible to Editorial Board members.

 

CFP Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis (2023)

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Call for Papers for the 11th issue of Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis. Deadline: 30 September 2023 for abstract; 15 December 2023 for full paper. 

The Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis is now accepting submissions for the Eleventh Issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) and welcomes R&R content, book reviews, and articles related to peace and human flourishing. Articles and reflective pieces that clearly embrace transdisciplinary methodology and embrace under-addressed concepts and neglected world regions will be privileged by the editorial team.

CFP Diversifying the Space of Podcasting

“PublicationCFP Diversifying the Space of Podcasting. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2023.

Book Editors: Tegan Bratcher and Alexis Romero Walker.

The editors invite submissions of abstracts for chapters to be included in an edited volume of Diversifying the Space of Podcasting. The book proposal, currently under review (with enthusiasm), is tentatively scheduled for a Fall 2024 publication.

Podcast studies is a growing field both within academia and in practice. As the media platform continues to gain momentum and popularity every year, scholars have been road mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. As research on the medium continues to be published, it is necessary to illuminate the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create.

A survey of the scholarly attention on podcasts nearly a decade ago exclaimed that the medium received little to no attention within media and communication studies (Bottomley, 2015); and while that has certainly changed in the last 8 years, the racial, cultural and identity-based perspectives from which we understand podcasts remain limited. Like many other concepts that tend to be studied, podcast studies have been entrenched in whiteness and heteronormativity utilizing case studies from mainstream media like The New York Times or NPR to express the significance of the space and estranging projects that center Blackness, queerness, feminist, LatinX and countless other identities to be considered subfields of the discipline.

The editors believe that a wide range of diverse voices is essential to amplify the diversity within podcasting, and it is essential to ensuring that many voices are being heard. Thus, they want to hear from people with a variety of backgrounds and interests: academics, researchers, activists, and/or creators. The goal is for the volume to be intersectional, and to discuss the ways in which podcasting has had an impact both on a variety of identities and within various fields. They are aiming for a total of 8-12 short chapters (5,000-8,000 words), each focusing on diverse topics within the field. This approach allows for a greater array of intersectional representation.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1st, 2023. Authors of selected chapters will be notified by November 1st, 2023. If selected, a complete 5,000 – 8,000 word draft of the chapter will be due April 1st, 2024.

Potential contributors are welcome to contact the editors for more information or questions at: Tegan Bratcher, or Alexis Romero Walker.

 

CFP Dialogue and Medicine

“PublicationCFP Dialogue and Medicine. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023.

Book Editor: Mariaelena Bartesaghi, University of South Florida, USA.

The notion of dialogue in medicine is institutionalized as an ideal, effective, and skillful interaction between provider and patient. Dialogue is in vogue in health professions education (e.g., medical humanities, narrative medicine, communication skills training, etc.) and incorporated into medical licensing, as well. The institutionalization of dialogue in medicine reflects commitments to industrialization and capitalism with the construction of the need for medical services being entangled with social and financial gain. This anthology is born out of empirical work in clinical settings, personal illness experiences, and the pursuit of a livable philosophy of dialogue.

Is dialogue a state to be achieved or a goal to be obtained? Can dialogue be planned for? Are there certain positionalities one might foster to encourage an organic unfolding of dialogue? Or must dialogue be entirely spontaneous? What does it mean to know it is happening?

As the editor sees it, dialogue in everyday communicative practice extends beyond oral exchanges to encompass multimodal and multigeneric practices. The medicalization of society extends dialogue to contexts beyond the conventional clinic, including technology, therapy, education, and more. We hope to include work that examines medical encounters, discourses of medicalization, philosophical inquiries of dialogue, and medicine more broadly conceived, including allopathic and alternative medicine, veterinary medicine, mental health counseling, speech language pathology, etc.

Asked whether the volume is open to those examining specifically intercultural dialogue and medicine, the editor’s response was: “Of course intercultural dialogue is dialogue!”

CFP Communicating Scotland Through Food

“PublicationCFP Communicating Scotland Through Food: From Devolution to Possible Futures. Deadline for abstract and bio: 15 October 2023.

Editors: Ashli Q. Stokes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA; and Ana Tominc, Queen Margaret University, Scotland

In this call, the editors are looking for abstracts for chapters that address the question of Scottish representation through and around food from devolution (1999) to contemporary and current visions of the future. As Scotland increasingly differentiates itself politically and economically, we ask what foods define Scotland as a UK “sub-nation,” and how this communicative work helps distinguish it from England, the rest of the UK, and Europe. This volume specifically focus on the role of media, language, and communication broadly in shaping Scotland’s vision about itself and others, addressing a notable gap in discussions around Scotland’s relationship to food. The discussion is designed to contribute to the growing understanding of the role food plays in Scotland’s past, present, and future. The book offers a perspective that may help shape future discussions around the important connection between food and the question of “national” identity in health, political, economic, and other communication.

Submission Deadlines:
Abstract and Bio: October 15, 2023
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: November 1, 2023
Papers Due to Book Editors: April 2024
Final Version Due to Editors: June 2024

Those unfamiliar with the topic of food as related to intercultural matters might want to read the prior post on Urban Foodways and Communication.

CFP Journal of Family Communication

“PublicationCall for manuscripts for the Journal of Family Communication. Deadline: ongoing.

Volumes 24-26 (2024-2026)
Editor: Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, University of Iowa

The Journal of Family Communication (JFC) publishes original, theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous scholarship that advances the understanding of the communication processes within or about families as well as research that addresses issues related to the intersection between family communication and social systems, such as mass media, education, health care, and law and policy. Scholarship centering diversity within families (e.g., racial-ethnic, family form) are especially encouraged. JFC is methodologically inclusive and welcomes quantitative, qualitative, rhetorical, and critical research as well as multidisciplinary scholarship from related fields, such as family studies, social psychology, and sociology.

CFP Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism

“PublicationCall for papers: Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism. Deadline: 15 December 2023 for first issue; ongoing after that.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. By placing creative expressions at the center of a wide range of contemporary and historical intercultural relationships, the journal explores forms of belonging and spaces of difference and dissidence that challenge both universalist and exclusionary paradigms.

The Inaugural Issue is scheduled to appear in Fall 2023. Submissions invited for the first regular issue, Vol. 1 (1), Spring 2024. The journal welcomes original and theoretically insightful contributions to cultural cosmopolitanism in connection with the following disciplinary domains and methodological approaches (but not exclusively): Anthropology; Border studies; Cultural historiography; Cultural sociology; Ecology, ecocriticism, environmental studies; Exile, migration, and diaspora studies; Feminism, gender, sexuality, queer and transgender studies; Film and media studies; General linguistics, sociolinguistics; Global South studies; Mediterranean studies; Nativism and indigeneity; Oceanic and island studies; Performance studies; Philosophy; Poetics and aesthetics; Politics and cosmopolitics; Postcolonial studies; Psychology and psychoanalysis; Race and ethnic studies; Transatlantic studies; Translation studies, history and theories of translation; Transnational and globalization studies; Visual arts; World literature.

CFP Thinking Critically about Critical Communication

“PublicationCall for Papers: Special Issue on Thinking Critically about Critical Communication, Review of Communication, to be edited by Uttaran Dutta (Arizona State University). Deadline: 15 September 2023.

Critical theories and approaches to human communication are conceptualized, studied, and applied in a variety of ways by the scholars and practitioners. Conventionally speaking, critical perspectives examine and analyze the relationships of power, forms of domination, and the underlying social structures that constrain human freedom, with an intention of overcoming oppressions and transcending contemporary social realities. However, some contemporary scholars, challenge critical theories and their self-reflexive and emancipatory potentials; they question the credibility and rigor of critical studies and label them as ‘grievance studies’ (i.e., according to them, critical theories are less interested in finding truth, and more invested to make complaints), and thereby, they argued that such approaches corrupting the academic research. On the other hand, ongoing debates on critical communication domain oftentimes focus on engaging praxis and applied aspects, specifically on how to bring about meaningful and mindful transformations and societal justice, particularly in the underserved contexts. For example, how can we (re)envision about advocacy, action, creativity (i.e., creative imagination and expression), relationships (between academia and wider societal stakeholders) and transformative practices in practically addressing emerging glocal challenges.

Thus, this themed issue asks us as a discipline to critically rethink and revisit the concepts, scopes and applications of critical communication. The following topics are of particular interest when considering the interdisciplinary nature of critical communication:

  • (Re)-envisioning/-conceptualizing critical communication
  • Review of critical communication literature
  • New paradigmatic thinking on critical communication
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to critical communication
  • Rethinking on engaged and applied critical communication
  • Newer ways of doing advocacy, and action research
  • Reflection on creativity and creative-turn on critical communication
  • Engaging critical research and role of academia in transforming society

CFP Journal of Communication Special Issues

“PublicationCall for proposals for special issues of the Journal of Communication. Deadline: 15 September 2023.

The new editors-in chief of the Journal of Communication (David R. Ewoldsen, Michigan State University; Natascha Just, University of Zurich; Chul-joo “CJ” Lee, Seoul National University; and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) are inviting proposals for special issues that are in line with the editorial vision of attracting and showcasing the best cutting-edge research of our discipline regardless of theoretical or methodological approach.

This call seeks proposals for special issues that can appeal to readers across many subfields of communication and are likely to attract submissions from a variety of authors from around the world. The JoC is particularly interested in proposals for special issues that will stimulate a cross-subfield dialogue on newly emerging and pressing topics in communication research, and that will theoretically advance the areas of research in question.

As special-issue editors, you will oversee the entire selection and review process in strict accordance with the JoC’s review and publishing practices and in cooperation with its editors-in-chief. Special-issue editors will also be responsible for the editorial that highlights the importance and contributions of the special issue.

CFP Media & Intercultural Communication

“PublicationCall for papers: Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Deadline: rolling.

Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal aims to serve as a peer-reviewed, open-access platform for dissemination of latest research findings on various issues in media studies, intercultural communication, or the intersection of the two key areas in social sciences. As a multidisciplinary forum, the journal publishes empirical research articles, theoretical articles, book reviews, review articles, and case reports, and favors submissions with a technological, linguistic, sociological, or psychological dimension. The first issue has just been published; the second issue is currently open to non-thematic submissions. The journal does not charge any fees for review or publication of submissions.

Some of the central themes that are of special interest and priority include:
* Audiovisual translation and localization
* Media accessibility and inclusion
* Communication across cultures and social groups
* Reception of multimedia content and cultural services
* Agency and activism in social media
* Technology, history, and effects of various media
* Cross-cultural business management
* Minorities, languages of limited diffusion and glocalization
* Cross-cultural new media studies
* Data science and digital humanities in media and communication

To apply to guest edit a special issue, send your bio, proposal for the issue and a list of potential authors and contributors to editor-in-chief, Masood Khoshsaligheh.