[ecrea] The Space Between: Languages, Translations and Cultures.

>Call for papers
>PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
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>Special Issue: The Space Between: Languages, Translations and Cultures.
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>We seek expressions of interest for a special 
>journal issue focusing on the Spaces Between 
>Languages. We seek articles that explore how the 
>space between languages is experienced through 
>translation and interpretation, language 
>learning and teaching, contact situations, 
>code-switching, bilingualism, and in literary 
>and cultural production. We are also interested 
>in addressing these issues from the Spaces 
>Between Disciplines, which might include the 
>spaces between linguistics, language and 
>translation studies, language pedagogy, cultural 
>studies and postcolonial studies. Possible 
>approaches might refer to Homi Bhabhas notion 
>of the third space, or Mary Louise Pratts notion of transculturation.
>
>If you are interested in contributing to this 
>special issue on The Space Between: Languages, 
>Translations and Cultures, please send an 
>abstract (500 words) and a brief (one page) 
>curriculum vitae to Emi Otsuji 
><(emi.otsuji /at/ uts.edu.au)> by 31 March 2008. 
>Contributors who have been notified of 
>acceptance of abstracts will be asked to submit 
>complete papers by 31 July 2008. Papers should 
>be up to 6,000 words in length (including notes, 
>references, tables or additional material) and 
>should follow the PORTAL style guide 
><http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal>http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal 
>and be submitted directly into PORTAL via 
><http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions>http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
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>All submissions will be subjected to double-blind peer review.
>
>Special Issue Editors:
>Vera Mackie, University of Melbourne <(vmackie /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>
>Ikuko Nakane, University of Melbourne <(inakane /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>
>Emi Otsuji, University of Technology: Sydney <(emi.otsuji /at/ uts.edu.au)>
>
>About PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
>Portal has built into its editorial protocols a 
>commitment to facilitating dialogue between 
>international studies practitioners working 
>anywhere in the world, and not simply or 
>exclusively in the North, the West or the 
>First World. The journals commitment to 
>fashioning a genuinely international' studies 
>rubric is also reflected in our willingness to 
>publish critical and creative work in English as 
>well as in a number of other languages: Bahasa 
>Indonesia, Chinese, Croatian, French, German, 
>Italian, Japanese, Serbian, and Spanish.
>
>Portal provides open access to all of it content 
>on the principle that making research freely 
>available to the public supports a greater 
>global exchange of knowledge. If you are 
>interested in submitting a paper please read the 
>Authors guidelines and information about the 
>submission process at Portals homepage, 
><http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal.>http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal.
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