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Call for Submissions<br>
<font size="4"><b>Autumn special issue of ELOPE: English Language
Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries</b></font><br>
<font size="5" color="#b00000"><b>English in Central Europe</b></font><br>
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With its international prominence in today’s world, English is in
contact (to greater or lesser degrees) with most languages and
societies around the globe, with the results of that contact varying
from location to location, depending on both the linguistic and the
socio-cultural factors of the particular local context. This special
issue of ELOPE to be published in December 2022 focuses on the
presence of English specifically in Central Europe and its
interaction with the languages and societies of the region.<br>
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Central Europe may be a concept that is difficult to pin down
geographically and politically, since it is in some cases defined by
historical roots (despite differences in 20th-century social and
political developments), while other conceptualisations build
specifically on more recent commonalities of experience (in the last
50-100 years). At the same time the concept remains in use precisely
because it is a useful one, in that it captures an area with some
common socio-cultural traditions that in many ways create a
recognizable milieu and a feeling of familiarity. This can extend to
the manner in which English is received and welcomed, as a means not
only of communication but also of participation in the global
culture.<br>
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For this special issue of ELOPE on English in Central Europe, we
invite research that examines all aspects of English language use in
Central European contexts across all fields of linguistic
investigation (historical, sociolinguistic, structural,
acquisitional, etc.) including, but not limited to, the following
areas:<br>
<ul>
<li>variation and change in linguistic structures of local
language(s) induced by contact with English;</li>
<li>contact varieties of English developed through contact with
local language(s);</li>
<li>history of English language use in local context(s);</li>
<li>English in competition with local language(s) across societal
domains of use;</li>
<li>societal reception of the use of English in local context(s);</li>
<li>English as a lingua franca in Central European context(s);</li>
<li>acquisition of English and acquired societal bilingualism;</li>
<li>and many more areas…</li>
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Manuscript submission deadline: 15 May 2022.<br>
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General submission guidelines:<br>
<ul>
<li>The language of contributions is English.</li>
<li>Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length,
with a short abstract of no more than 150 words.</li>
<li>All submitted papers must follow the ELOPE Author Guidelines:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/about/submissions">https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/about/submissions</a></li>
<li>Manuscripts should be submitted for blind review in digital
form using the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) OJS
platform: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/information/authors">https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/information/authors</a></li>
</ul>
Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors of this special
issue:<br>
<ul>
<li>Monika Kavalir (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:monika.kavalir@ff.uni-lj.si">monika.kavalir@ff.uni-lj.si</a>)</li>
<li>Mark Richard Lauersdorf (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lauersdorf@uky.edu">lauersdorf@uky.edu</a>)</li>
</ul>
Articles published in ELOPE are indexed/reviewed in: <br>
Scopus; ERIH PLUS; MLA International Bibliography; OCLC WorldCat;
CNKI; DOAJ; Google Scholar; COBISS.si; dLib.si.<br>
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