Dear All,

We're pleased to announce an extension for the special issue of Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito on "Language, Law and Rights: Balancing AI Driven Technology and Equity." Due to demand, the new deadline for submissions is November 15th, 2024.

For this special issue, we particularly welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions that challenge prominent understandings, from a language, law and rights perspective, on:

* relationships and tensions between language, law, rights, and technology; * linguistic imperialism via technology; * emerging digital divides and other social issues; * co-designing technology with diverse communities; * assistive technology for language access; * accessibility considerations for language rights; * best practice to balance innovation and equity by maintaining a dialogue with technology developers, communities, researchers and policymakers; * best practice for promoting linguistic equality and equity through regulations and policy.

Keywords: Language, technology, human-machine interaction, minorities, human-centricity, law, rights, justice, equity

Themes:

* Co-creation between humans; co-creation with AI-driven technology (co-AI) * Non-converging goals (e. g. efficiency vs. customization, bias vs. fairness, short-term gains vs. long-term sustainability, commercial Interests vs. social good, power dynamics and control vs. individual choices) * Quality of life, law, regulation and ethics * Linguistic justice * Cultural issues * Sociological issues of language rights in relation to technology, its development, and deployment * Accessibility - access to services (public services and otherwise) * Language rights and language policy and planning * Glottopolitics and computer-assisted communication * Language rights and multilingual administrations * Minoritised languages and human geography * Technology-mediated communication in multilingual democracies * Participation of linguistic minority groups through remote interpreting * Minoritised/indigenous language media and social media * AI and data mining in under-resourced languages * Agency issues in human-machine interaction and language rights Language rights and international law (normative frameworks) * Linguistic Human Rights as individual and collective rights to choose the language/s for communication * Language Rights of vulnerable witnesses * Psychosocial factors in using linguistic varieties in public services * Human-Centred augmented translation * Machine translation, post-editing tools and minority languages

Length: ≃ 7000-8000 words [Guidelines available herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9rd9r4XmgSY2twXSVab-ZQWFDjmevy8/view?usp=share_link]

Book reviews: Suggest books published recently to be reviewed for the special issue.

Important Dates for Vol. 12(1), 2025 (June, 2025):

Full article submission: November 15, 2024

For more information please follow the link: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/announcement/view/158

For further information please contact: Angela Soltan <angelamailto:angela@soltan.md@soltan.mdmailto:angela@soltan.md>. Or one of the other guest editors: Rebekah Rousi <rebekah.rousi@uwasa.fimailto:rebekah.rousi@uwasa.fi>, Lucia Ruiz Rosendo <Lucia.Ruiz@unige.chmailto:Lucia.Ruiz@unige.ch>

On behalf of the editorial team, Angela Soltan

Rui Sousa Silva

Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto

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