Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society

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Presentation

Given the importance attributed to linguistic duality in the definition of Canadian identity and to the challenges encountered by linguistic minorities in Canada and elsewhere, the the objective of the scientific journal Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society is to disseminate research results and analyses on Official Language Minority Communities in Canada, as well as on other linguistic minorities in Canada and elsewhere, from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach in language sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. With its focus on comparative and international studies, this journal seeks to shed more light on linguistic minorities.

Language of Publication

Authors can publish in either English or French. Generally, articles will not be translated into the other official language. Article abstracts, however, will be in both languages.

Peer Review Policy

Linguistic Minorities and Society submits all manuscripts it receives to a minimum of two double-blind peer reviews.

Those responsible for the evaluations are encouraged to formulate their comments in a constructive manner, with a view to improving the text. Thus, the quality standards for a scientific text are not lowered, but help is offered to reach them.

Dissemination

The journal is available online on Erudit’s Website www.erudit.org. It is accessible wherever the Internet is available.

Target Audience

While presenting articles that meet scientific requirements and are intended for specialists, the journal asks authors to also make their articles accessible to a broad, well-informed readership, such as those responsible for decision-making or for measures with respect to linguistic minorities.

Types of Articles

The journal publishes various kinds of original work exploring questions relative to linguistic minorities:
1. Scientific research papers, qualitative and quantitative, presenting:
a) Unpublished research results.
b) The state of a research question based on published empirical data (e.g., a systematic review of published empirical research on a given subject).
2. Theoretical research papers.
3. Research notes and critical essays.
4. Reviews of works on linguistic minorities or of interest to them.

Editorial Policy and Ethics

In accordance with the good practices of Open Access and Plan S., the journal:

Is released under a CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons License
Is offered as a continuous publication, with articles being uploaded up to three times for each issue
All issues are thematic and include a varia section to publish non-thematic articles.
The issues are fully processed on Érudit and the function to automatically generate PDFs from XML are available. The articles are therefore available in pdf and html formats.

Continuous publication as well as the varia section in each issue allow the LMS journal to considerably reduce its release time.

Governance

The mandate of the journal Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society (MLS/LMS) is defined by the leadership of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM). Editorial management of the review is determined by and reports to the Institute’s leadership.

Editorial management is supported by an editorial board from which it may solicit journal orientations and theme suggestions. The members of the editorial board are called upon to vote on proposals for thematic issues, including themes, calls and directions. Members may also optionally participate in blind peer review. Editorial management may also invite their input at various other times.

Journal Mandate

Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society is a bilingual (French and English) scientific journal of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities. It seeks to promote awareness— from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective in the language sciences, social sciences and humanities fields—of the research findings and reflections on official language minority communities in Canada and on other linguistic minorities in Canada. Through its openness to comparative and international studies, it also seeks to shed a broader light on the situation of linguistic minorities in other parts of the world.

The journal’s mandate is directly related to the mission of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities, which is to produce and publish knowledge on the situation of Canada’s official language minorities and the priority issues affecting them.

The journal welcomes contributions that focus on official language minorities and public language policymakers. Calls for papers for thematic issues focus on research to support the various official language minority stakeholders and public policymakers on language issues, as well as research that can contribute to a better understanding of official language minority communities (OLMCs). Each issue has a Varia section that brings together texts of a non-thematic nature. These articles must contribute to the production of new knowledge on OLMC issues or allow for comparison with other minority language groups in Canada (First Nations, Métis, Inuit and non-official languages) or elsewhere in the world.

The journal is particularly interested in receiving proposals on minority populations, community development; policy, influence and governance; language rights, recognition and legitimacy; as well as on memory, identity and diversity.

Whereas interdisciplinarity is valued, the research subjects must be directly related to linguistic minorities. For instance, immigration and diversity are relevant themes if they are considered from the perspective of linguistic minorities. The media may be a suitable subject if the situation of media in minority language communities or discourses about language or language rights in the media are examined.

Manuscript Preparation

The journal Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society is a bilingual open access scientific journal. The journal welcomes articles for publication in thematic issues (see calls for papers) and for publication outside the theme (section outside the theme of a thematic issue). The articles are double-blind peer-reviewed. It also welcomes reviews that are evaluated by the reviewer and by the journal’s Editorial Board. All texts are professionally edited for language.

Four Types of Published Texts

The journal Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society (MLS/LMS) publishes peer-reviewed scientific articles in thematic issues approved by the journal’s editorial board and management. A Varia section is used to publish off-topic articles in each issue.

A third section, entitled Perspectives, allows researchers and professionals to publish research notes, critical literature reviews or reflective texts that are not a scientific article, but which propose a quality of argumentation and reasoning that make them interesting texts for an academic journal. For example, this section may include research problems, critical literature reviews, research in progress, policy work, or interviews with important figures in the field. The articles in the Perspectives section are not peer-reviewed, but rather evaluated by the journal’s editorial management, which may call upon members of the editorial board as required.

The fourth section contains book reviews that are evaluated by the person in charge of reviews and by the journal’s editorial management. All texts are subject to professional linguistic revision.

Additional ressources:

Call for Papers
Call for Papers on English-speaking Communities in Quebec
To consult the call for papers: The Digital Landscape and Minority Language Communities: Roles, Impacts and Issues, please click here.
To consult the call for papers: International Decade of the World's Indigenous Languages 2022-2032: Reflecting on Ways to Preserve, Revitalize and Promote Indigenous Languages, please click here.
To consult the call for papers: Perspectives on Morphosyntactic and Pragmatic Variation in Francophone Minority Communities, please click here.