{"id":586,"date":"2025-09-12T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lpp\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:56:04","slug":"lpp-2026-call-for-paper-appel-a-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lpp\/lpp-2026-call-for-paper-appel-a-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"LPP 2026 – Call for papers \/ Appel \u00e0 communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LPP 2026 Call for papers is now closed! \u00a0\/ L’appel \u00e0 communication pour LPP 2026 est maintenant ferm\u00e9!<\/h4>\n

Call for Papers<\/h3>\n

Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u201cLanguage policy and planning: From talk to action\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Carleton University and University of Ottawa<\/h3>\n

June 17-19, 2026<\/h3>\n

The rapid expansion of language policy and planning over the course of the last decades has led to a breadth of concepts, phenomena, and processes vying for attention in the field. Attempts at integrating and balancing all of these priorities have led some researchers to ask, \u201cwhat isn\u2019t<\/em> language policy?\u201d (Johnson, 2012, p. 9). While the work of early scholars was \u201ctechnical, oriented toward problem-solving, and pragmatic in its goals\u201d (Ricento, 2000, p. 198), this was critiqued by later scholars, who pointed out how planning efforts of the 1960s and 1970s often failed to achieve stated goals (Tollefson and P\u00e9rez-Milans, 2018, p. 6). In some cases, the political solutions for LPP also failed to include minority and Indigenous-language speakers and to adequately address community advocacy. What seems clear is that LPP research should be useful to language users, citizens, elected officials, civil servants, media people, as well as scholars \u2013 in both theory and practice (Gazzola, Grin, Cardinal and Heugh, 2024, p. 15). The question becomes \u2013 what is the best way to proceed? Some scholars have proposed that \u201cthe way forward lies perhaps not in a new turn<\/em> so much as a re<\/em>turn; or more specifically, a rediscovery of the field\u2019s more pragmatic and outward-looking origins\u201d (Oakes, 2024, p. 76). However, others remind us of the importance of critical approaches, since the origins of the field included problematic language policy and planning designs as well as practices that served colonial, imperial, and monolithic\/nationalist interests wherein minoritized languages were marginalized, banned, and endangered (P\u00e9rez-Milans and Tollefson 2018, p.729).<\/p>\n

In this installment of the conference series Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning<\/em>, we invite authors to address ways forward in the field, and especially practical applications of language policy theory and method or reflections on how to integrate critical perspectives into language policy work.<\/p>\n

We welcome abstracts on any theme related to language policy and planning, such as (but not limited to):<\/p>\n