The GLOCAL CCESALIA Journal Call for Papers

The newly formed Journal of Caribbean and Central and South American Linguistic Anthropology (the CCESALIA), published by the GLOCAL, the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, is welcoming submissions that push and transgress the boundaries of scholarship on the Linguistic Cultural Anthropology, the Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

The Editor in Chief, Professor Savrina Chinien (University of the West Indies) is releasing the Journal Call for Contributions, which we present both below and attached as a PDF.

Call for Papers

The GLOCAL Journal of Caribbean, and Central and South American Linguistic Anthropology, the CCESALIA

Links

https://glocal-journals.link/ (all GLOCAL journals)

https://ccesalia-j.glocal-journals.link/ (journal site and submissions)

https://glocal.soas.ac.uk (GLOCAL main site)

Editor in Chief

Professor Savrina Chinien

Email: Savrina.Chinien@uwi.edu

Editorial Communications

Email: communications@glocal-consortium.link, glocal@soas.ac.uk

WhatsApp: +44 7902 968005

The GLOCAL, the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics

Introduction

The junctures among language, social and cultural psychologies, ethnography, political stance, technology, and resistance, are abundant, particularly in postcolonial societies such as in the Caribbean, and Central and South America (CCESA). Despite extensive scholarship on CCESA over the past century, the Linguistic and Cultural Anthropologies, the Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society of these regions are still at their infancy, and hence, much scholarly work is required. In addition, this scholarship has been dominated by the Global North, thus intensifying the need for such work.

To satisfy such a need, the GLOCAL Journal of Caribbean and Central and South American Linguistic Anthropology, the CCESALIA-J, provides scholarly space for work on the Linguistic Cultural Anthropology, the Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society (broadly conceived) of CCESA regions. Here, language ethnographies and geographies, interlinked with their cultural, social, political, and ideological practices, are copious, which scholars of Linguistic Cultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Linguistics, and other pertinent domains, can access through their ethnographic and theoretical work.

Central Call

The CCESALIA Journal invites manuscripts and other contributions on the Linguistic Cultural Anthropology, the Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society of the CCESA regions. Empirical and theoretical contributions, as well as Book Reviews, Editorials, and Commentaries, will be considered for publication on an ongoing basis. While the GLOCAL is a fully indexed body (in SCOPUS and Clarivate / ISI / WoS), the journal will very soon be integrated into these systems of indexing, that is SCOPS and ISI / WoS, to become a high impact publication. Note that the papers will also be considered for inclusion into the GLOCAL upcoming conference proceedings at Cambridge University which will fund the attendance to the conference of scholars of merit.

The journal welcomes empirical, theoretical, methodological, critical, and descriptive contributions that focus on CCESA languages and their cultures and societies. The journal also welcomes experimental methodological work, which may combine two or more methodological directions. The CCESALIA Journal purports to significantly decolonize the scholarship on, and to expand and deepen knowledge on CCESA Linguistic Cultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society.

Potential areas of transdisciplinary and critical scholarship include but are not limited to the following, with respect to the CCESA regions:

· Agency and the equilibrium between the individual and the social

· Critical approaches and reflexivity

· Critical perspectives of language and identity

· Cultural determinism and relativism

· Cultural psychology

· Descriptions of un- or under-documented languages

· Ethics in research

· Ethnographic methods

· Ethnomusicology and language

· General, applied, or theoretical sociolinguistics

· Historical aspects of language

· Indigenous art and language

· Indigenous rituals and language

· Indigenous performance and language

· Junctures between language and cultural models

· Junctures between languages and fields such as the cognitive, psychological, historical, economic, and so forth

· Language and spatiotemporal frames

· Language contact and change

· Language ideologies

· Language in real and virtual spaces

· Language minorities and majorities

· Language planning and policy

· Language, gender, and sexuality

· Language, globalization, and transnational flows

· Linguistic relativity

· Language socialization

· Language and technology

· Language variation within and across communities and societies

· Media and language

· Methodologies and theories of language documentation

· Multifunctionality

· (Multi)methodology

· Narrative and metanarrative

· Nonverbal semiotics

· Patterns and junctures across language, dialect, sociolect, genre

· Pedagogical anthropology

· Performance and practices in religion and other institutionalized practices

· Poetics and performativity

· Political strategy through language

· Revitalization of endangered languages

· Ritual and language

· Semiotics and semiology

· Social psychology of language

· Sociolinguistics (applied and theoretical)

· Spatial and temporal frames

· Speech (and sociocultural) communities practice

· Structuralism and post-structuralism through language

· Symbolism, iconicity, and indexicality

· Text, context, entextualization

· The ethnography of communication

· The influence of language on the establishment, maintenance, or denigration of society, community, or ethnicity

· The linguistic anthropologies of translation

· Universality vs. particularity

Proposal Format and Submission

While we welcome full submissions at the onset, authors may wish to first submit a short synopsis of the indented full manuscript, and to discuss this with the EIC (Professor Savrina Chinien), should there be any uncertainty, and in order to increase the efficiency of the submission and review process.

Papers are provided with editing assistance, and hence, strong methodological work will supersede any limitations in language competence. Here, the language of the journal, at present, is English, but documented data can and is invited to be in any of the majority or minority languages throughout the CCESA regions.

The journal does not accept contributions that focus on ESL and other language learning and language pedagogies, with the exception of work on language socialization and the implementation of minority languages in education, that is, formal language socialization processes. The journal also does not accept and will immediately reject any AI assisted manuscripts. All manuscripts are scrutinized extensively by both software and human agents, and extensive attention is given to the quality of the text. Here, all submissions must be unique in their discourse, and while the paper should continue on from current conversations in linguistic cultural anthropology and pertinent fields, reversion to conventional texts produced by software (AI, ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) will be noticed, and will be rejected immediately, as will authors be listed as users of such software. Originally written texts are highly appreciated and the development of which will be afforded assistance.

Format of Scientific and Theoretical Contributions

Submissions for the Scientific and Theoretical contribution section must follow the following categorized format, though some variation is permitted, such as innovative titles and subtitles.

· Abstract

· Introduction

· Literature review

· Methodological framework

· Discussion

· Analysis

· Conclusion

· Acknowledgements

· Bibliography / references

· Appendix (optional)

The word count for each of these submissions would ideally be between a minimum of 7,000 words and a maximum of 12,000 words, including all text, references, tables, footnotes, but excluding the 200 word abstract. For further guidelines, see https://ccesalia-j.glocal-journals.link. Any images and tables can at times offset this word count. However, the EIC has final jurisdiction over all such matters and may at times suggest extensions or reductions in word count, and which may be predicated on the comments of the reviewers.

Format of Book Reviews and Commentaries

Submissions for the Book Review and Commentary section should not exceed 3,000 words, and should be akin to critical essay format.

Peer Review Processes

All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review, as per the journal’s standard process. While the reviewers have agency over the acceptance of the paper, the EIC has final say in the revision and in the acceptance or rejection of the paper. The reviewers and editors make every effort to expedite the review, editing and publication process.

All Other Information

See the Journal website at https://ccesalia-j.glocal-journals.link/ (journal site and submissions), or contact the Editor in Chief or the Communications Section.

GLOCAL CCESALIA_Call for Contributions.pdf

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