CFP: Special Issue: “Sport, Language, and Culture”

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Special Issue: “Sport, Language, and Culture”

Guest Editors: Kelby K. Halone, West Virginia University Lindsey J. Meân, Arizona State University

Journal: Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Overview:

The domain of sport is a linguistically rich locale for understanding processes and practices of everyday life. An overview of the interdisciplinary sport research intimates how processes of language play a central and critical role in understanding a host of personal, relational, health, group, intergroup, organizational, political, mediated, and public settings. These settings give rise to an array of language-based considerations at micro, meso, and macro levels.

Research on sport has historically endorsed disciplinary assumptions that privilege an understanding of sport from psychological and sociological paradigms, but with a limited focus on the language-based processes that literally constitute and regulate the enactment, organization, (re)production, and consumption of sport.

What remains absent from this interdisciplinary body of scholarship is a focused consideration of the centrality of language in/about sport. Thus the special issue aims to provide a scholarly outlet to collectively articulate and illustrate language-based research (in all of its respective manifestations) to advance and promote: (a) the interdisciplinary literature on sport; (b) theory and research at the intersection of the language and sport disciplines; (c) the intellectual legitimacy of language-based disciplines; (d) opportunities to facilitate a coherent, diversified—yet unified—language-based research agenda on sport.

Scholarly manuscripts that empirically examine the centrality of language to processes, dynamics, and outcomes of sport in/and culture will be considered. All methodological approaches to the study of language, sport, and culture are welcomed. It is hoped that the special issue will provide a pluralistic representation of the diversity of research (e.g., language; discourse; communication; sport) that contribute to the intellectual intersections among the burgeoning domain of scholarship. To that end, the author(s) must clearly articulate the theoretical framework(s) and methodological position(s) that ground their empirical analyses, and how their respective approach contributes to the developing understandings of sport, language, and culture.

Manuscripts should be advanced electronically by May 1, 2009 to both
editors: Kelby K. Halone (kelby.halone@mail.wvu.edu) and Lindsey J. Meân (lmean@asu.edu). Submission should include two separate attachments: (a) a cover sheet with the title, author(s), affiliation(s), full contact information, brief biographical information, and acknowledgements; (b) the manuscript proper. No identifying reference to the author(s) should be in the manuscript text or notes. All manuscripts should follow the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) and should be prepared in accordance with the "Manuscript Submission Guidelines" found in published editions of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Manuscripts should typically not exceed 25 typewritten pages (excluding notes, references, tables, and figures; located on separate pages). An abstract of no more than 200 words and a maximum of eight keywords should accompany the manuscript. A statement acknowledging that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere for consideration should be included in the cover materials.

If electronic submission poses a hardship, please contact either editor by e-mail or by phone (Halone: 304.293.3905; Meân: 602.543.6682) to arrange an alternative submission format. Advanced queries about the suitability or appropriateness of a submission and/or the special issue are both appreciated and welcomed.


Kelby K. Halone, Ph108 Armstrong Hall
Morgantown, WV 26506-6293
kelby.halone@mail.wvu.edu
304.293.3905 ext. 2112