Call for Participation

The guiding topic of the Colloquium is “Critical Sociolinguistics in a Modern World”, focusing on Japan, Japanese, or any other context worldwide. The invitation is open to any approach within sociolinguistics as well as researchers outside of linguistics interested in language. We welcome submissions from all areas of sociolinguistics, including but not limited to:

• Language and Power

• Language Ideologies

• Multilingualism and Linguistic Inequality

• Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistics Discrimination

• Gender, Sexuality, and Language

• Migration, Mobility, and Language

• Digital Communication

• Ethnography of Communication

• Pragmatics

• Postcolonial Language Studies, Indigenous Language Studies, and Decolonial Linguistics