Language, Society and the State in a Changing World

Dr. Stanley Brunn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. He has edited many books on world urbanization, social geography, political geography, terrorism and post 9-11, e-commerce, Wal-Mart, geography and time/space issues, law and justice, human/environmental issues, disciplinary history, image and representation, and several atlases (Michigan, US elections and Central Asia). In addition to these he has published many articles and chapters in the past half-century and made more than 100 presentations at national and international conferences. In addition to writing, he has edited two of geography’s flagship journals (Annals of the American Association of Geographers and The Professional Geographer), taught classes in almost twenty different countries and reviewed dozens of research proposals, articles, books and manuscripts. Dr. Roland Kehrein is a scholar of German Linguisticsat Marburg University, Germany, specializing in variation and change of regional languages. He has written and edited several books on this and related topics in the last decade. Among these are two international handbooks: Regionale Variation des Deutschen. Projekte und Perspektiven (2015) and Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Vol. 2: Language Mapping (2010) (two volumes) published in the well-known series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Since 2016 he is chief editor of the academic journal/book series Germanistische Linguistik. Besides these publications he has written numerous articles in the field and he is continuously presenting his research at relevant international conferences. Finally, he is regularly involved in review processes for conference contributions, articles and research proposals.

• Mapping Language Landscapes: 1. Adam Stone, Erik Anonby: A Typology for Evaluating Language Maps.- 2.Tekabe Legesse Feleke: Issues in Classifying and Mapping the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia.- 3. Christoph Purschke: Exploring the Linguistic Landscape of Cities Through Crowdsourced Data.- 4. Shangyi Zhou: Changing Attitudes of Beijingness to Westernized Place Names in Beijing: From the Semi-Colonial Period to Postmodern Twenty-First Century.- 5. Lisa M. Butler Harrington: Thematic Categories for Place Names: Topology Typology.- Language, Culture and Politics: 6. Seif Da’Na, Laura Khoury: Palestine’s Land Centrality and the Instrumentality of Historical Language.- 7. Cecil Seethal: The State of Languages in South Africa.- 8. John Elliott, Raina Heaton: Languages and Language Politics in the Paraguayan Chaco.- 9. Teresa Wai See Ong: Reimaging the Art Scene in George Town, Penang.-  10. Laurie Brinklow, Rilla Marshall, Brenda Whiteway: Exploring Climate Change Through the Language of Art.- The Functions of Language on a Local and a Global Scale: 11. Ram Nandan Prasad Sinha: Preservation of Magahi Language in India: Contemporary Developments.- 12. Lauren E. Deal: Learning Indigenous Languages in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- 13. Michael M. Kretzer, Teresa Wai See Ong: Reclaiming Transformation for Inclusive and Multilingual Education through Linguistic Landscape (LL) in South Africa and Malaysia.- 14.Unn Røyneland, Elizabeth Lanza: Dialect Diversity and Migration: Disturbances and Dilemmas, Perspectives from Norway.- 15. Maganat Shegebayev: Rise of English as Business Lingua Franca at the Turn of the Century: An Overview.- 16. Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson: English and Bivalent Class Indexicality in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- 17. Jennifer C. Langill: The Nature of Gender Relations: The Changing Language of Gender amid Anthropogenic Climate Change in Amazonian Peru.