The launch will be held on June 29^th, 2012 at 3 p.m. in
Room 136 of the Léopold-Taillon Building,
18 Antonine-Maillet Avenue, Moncton Campus, Université de Moncton

The Executive Committee and the Director of the Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society journal, Réal Allard, are extremely pleased to announce that the first issue of the journal has just been released.  It is a thematic issue entitled “Quelle autonomie et quelle reconnaissance pour les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire (CLOSM)? / What Autonomy and Recognition for Official Language Minorities?”

This issue is the product of a day of study organized by the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities and its partners, the Canadian Institute for Research on Public Policy and Public Administration and the Université de Moncton.  According to the editors of this thematic issue, Éric Forgues and Rodrigue Landry of the CIRLM, “the articles featured essentially provide an analysis of the normative, legal and political foundations of the autonomy of Francophone minority communities (FMC) and are aimed at exploring the form that this autonomy can take within the FMCs.  Few authors address the issue of autonomy within the minority Anglophone communities in Quebec which, historically, have not presented claims for autonomy or self-determination.”

The Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society journal was created at the initiative of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM), with the support of its partners, the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH), the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS), the Canadian Institute for Research on Public Policy and Public Administration (CIRPPPA), the Institut d’études acadiennes (IEA) and the Office of the Commissioner of Official languages (OCOL).

Its objective is to communicate, from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective in language sciences and social sciences and humanities, the research findings and reflections on official-language communities in Canada and linguistic minorities in Canada and around the world.  Through its openness to comparative and international studies, its aim is to shed broader light on the situation of linguistic minorities in Canada and abroad.

The journal is a biennial publication. It contains regular issues released under the responsibility of the journal’s Director, as well as thematic issues prepared under the responsibility of guest editors. It contains scientific articles and research notes, discussion papers and reviews of book on topics related to the journal’s editorial focus.  The journal is available online through the Érudit platform.

While presenting articles that meet scientific requirements and that are intended for specialists, the journal encourages authors to ensure the articles are also accessible to a broader informed public, including in particular the individuals responsible for decisions or interventions regarding linguistic minorities.

The journal is bilingual (English and French).  The authors can publish their articles in English or in French (without systematically translating the articles).  However, article summaries are published in French and in English.

We invite you to view the first issue by clicking on the following link: http://www.erudit.org/revue/minling/2012/v/n1/index.html?lang=en

We wish you good reading.

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