Language in Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Language in Society is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Chris Heffer, All bullshit and lies? Insincerity, irresponsibility, and the judgment of untruthfulness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Pb. $30.50
John C. Mayer (ed.), Language communities in Japan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 176. Hb. £81.19
Laura Rupp & David Britain, Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: Let's talk about -s. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 370. Pb. €36.18
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Heather Burnett, Meaning, identity, and interaction: Sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 250. Hb. £95.16
Tracey L. Weldon, Middle-class African American English. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 300. Hb. $100.16
Jeff MacSwan (ed.), Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 368. Hb. £39.95.14
Russell H. Kaschula & H. Ekkehard Wolff (eds.), The transformative power of language: From postcolonial to knowledge societies in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. Hb. 12
Peter Siemund, Multilingual development: English in a global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. Pb. £27.11
Pierre Wilbert Orelus, All English accents matter: In pursuit of accent equity, diversity, and inclusion. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 128. Hb. £45.11
Mechanisms of meaning making in the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses11
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency10
Tactile engagement of prospective next speakers in Indonesian multiparty conversations10
‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market9
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Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet9
Robert McColl Millar, A history of the Scots language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. Pb. £30.9
Becky L. Schulthies, Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the media of sociality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. Pb. $32.9
Enregistering mask-wearing in the time of a public health crisis8
‘Gangpu is too funny!’: The mediatization of Hong Kong Mandarin as a jocular register8
Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk8
Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times: Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation7
‘Whitefellas got miserable language skills’: Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses7
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Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung, Cantonese: Since the 19th century. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023. Pp. 361. Hb. $55.7
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John Russell Rickford, Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and creole studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 388. Pb. £30.6
Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique6
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, & Pema Wangdi (eds.), Celebrating indigenous voice: Legends and narratives in languages of the tropics and beyond. Berlin: De Gruyter Mout6
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Kim Potowski & Lourdes Torres, Spanish in Chicago. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. Pb. £26.6
Manuel Díaz-Campos & Sandro Sessarego (eds.), Aspects of Latin American Spanish dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. 292. Hb. $158.6
Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong6
Chrystie Myketiak, Online sex talk and the social world: Mediated desire. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi, 238. Hb. €100.6
(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation6
David Block, Interviews in applied linguistics: Autobiographical reflections on research processes Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 212. Pb. £406
David Block, Innovations and challenges in identity research. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 146. Hb. £34.88.6
The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo)5
Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language5
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect5
Grassroots scaling up: Navigating algorithmic scales in a technopolitical landscape4
Ruth Breeze, Sarali Gintsburg, & Mike Baynham (eds.), Narrating migrations from Africa and the Middle East: A spatio-temporal approach. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 220. Pb. £26.4
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer, & Angelo Costanzo, The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the politics of identity. Leiden: Brill, 4
‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising4
Carolyn McKinney, Pinky Makoe, & Virginia Zavala (eds.), The Routledge handbook of multilingualism 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 528. Hb. £172.4
Tyler Everett Kibbey (ed.), Linguistics out of the closet: The interdisciplinarity of gender and sexuality in language science. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 279. Hb. €124.95.3
Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities3
Neriko Musha Doerr & Jennifer M. Mcguire (eds.), Performative linguistic space: Ethnographies of spatial politics and dynamic linguistic practices. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 184. Hb. €115.3
‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse3
Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy, & Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), Sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition across the lifespan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. vi, 315. Hb. €105.3
Greg Niedt & Corinne Seals (eds.), Linguistic landscapes beyond the language classroom. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp xviii, 239. Hb. £28.99.3
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity3
Dissecting the dominant framings of multilingualism in education in Pakistan: A southern perspective3
Maida Kosatica, The burden of traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 183. Hb. £85.50.3
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Natalia Knoblock (ed.), Language of conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian crisis. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 296. Pb. £29.3
Guy Merchant, Why writing still matters: Written communication in changing times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 280. Hb. £80.3
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Grafting in interaction: A sequential analysis of interdiscursive ‘moments’ in American public school board meetings3
The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists’ incitement to violence3
Sylvia Shaw, Women, language and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 334. Hb. £85.3
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Kathleen C. Riley, Bernard C. Perley & Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez (eds.), Language and social justice: Global perspectives London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 508. Pb. £40.2
Sinfree Makoni, Magda Madany-Saa, Bassey E. Antia, & Rafael Lomeu Gomes (eds.), Decolonial voices, language and race. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 136. Pb. £15.2
Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs2
HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object2
Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio (eds.), Language and neoliberal governmentality. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 242. Pb. £38.99.2
Zane Goebel (ed.), Reimagining rapport. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £28.2
Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater2
Philip Seargeant with Korina Giaxoglou & Frank Monaghan, Political activism in the linguistic landscape: Or, how to use public space as a medium for protest. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. P2
Natalie Braber, Lexical variation of an East Midlands mining community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. Hb. £75.2
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Looking back – Looking ahead2
Generics in society2
“I repeatedly tell you, the future is yours—the righteous, not the liars”: Hope in Saleh Diab's political speeches in East Jerusalem2
Kieran File, How language shapes relationships in professional sports teams: Power and solidarity dynamics in a New Zealand rugby team. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 239. Hb. £67.2
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Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of Englishthat/zero variation1
Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, & Li Wei (eds.), Translingual practices: Playfulness and precariousness Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. Hb. $135.1
Jeffrey L. Kallen, Linguistic landscapes: A sociolinguistic approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 378. Hb. £95.1
Chronotopes of ‘Chinese’ privilege: Class-inflected racialisation in condominium hoardings1
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‘Wasp porn’: The discursive construction of ridicule and the right to joke about science1
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing1
Digital face-work, politics, and small scandals1
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Generic reference and social ontology in Vietnamese conversation1
The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate1
The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings1
Labour mobility across the Baltic Sea: Language brokering at a blue-collar workplace in Sweden1
Daniel N. Silva & Jerry Won Lee, Language as hope Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 185. Hb. £95. Open Access on Cambridge Core.1
Affect in sociolinguistic style1
Avineri Nette & Jesse Harasta (eds.), Metalinguistic communities: Case studies of agency, ideology, and symbolic uses of language. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xvii, 264. Pb. €100.1
On the unity of types: Lao gambling, ethno-metapragmatics, and generic and specific modes of typification1
Alastair Pennycook, Critical applied linguistics: A critical (re-)introduction. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 220. Pb. £28.1
Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans1
Emma Moore, Socio-syntax: Exploring the social life of grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. Hb. £95.1
Jan Blommaert & Dong Jie, Ethnographic fieldwork: A beginner's guide. 2nd edn. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2020. Pp. 145. Pb. £15.0
Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner, & Sharon Avni, Hebrew infusion: Language and community at American Jewish summer camps. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Hb $27.95.0
Yuming Li & Li Wei (eds.), The language situation in China: Volume 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2019. Pp. 392. Hb. €130.0
Villy Tsakona, Recontextualizing humor: Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xvi, 229. Hb. €100.0
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Homescapes of im~mobility: Migratory transpatial repertoires during the pandemic0
David Evans, Rationality and interpretation: On the identities of language. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 181. Hb. £85.50.0
Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media0
Wei Wang (ed.), Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. xiii, 233. Hb. €100.0
“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru0
Radical-right populism in Spain and the strategy of chronopolitics0
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts0
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Embedding in Shawi narrations: A quantitative analysis of embedding in a post-colonial Amazonian indigenous society0
Salvatore Attardo, The linguistics of humor: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. Pb. £29.99.0
The social (and cultural, and syntactic, and semantic) life of generics0
‘We get that’: Narrative indexicality and the construction of frustration in police stories about domestic violence victim/survivors0
Isabelle Buchstaller, Małgorzata Fabiszak, & Melody Ann Ross (eds.), Space-time (dis)continuities in the linguistic landscape: Studies in the symbolic (re-)appropriation of public space Abingdon: 0
Joseph Errington, Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an unnative language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 168. Hb. £20.0
Marion Schulte, The sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2023. Pp. xii, 173. Hb. €105.0
The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’0
Negotiating social meanings in a plural society: Social perceptions of variants of /l/ in Singapore English0
Karen V. Beaman & Gregory R. Guy (eds.), The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 346. Hb. $170.0
Leketi Makalela & Goodith White (eds.), Rethinking language use in digital Africa: Technology and communication in sub-Saharan Africa. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 216. Pb. £30.0
The discursive construction of new citizen identities in Singapore0
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, Upper Sorbian language policy in education: Bringing the language back, or bringing it forward? Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. 304. Hb. €125.0
Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum0
Marie Maegaard, Malene Monka, Kristine Køhler Mortensen, & Andreas Candefors Stæhr (eds.), Standardization as sociolinguistic change: A transversal study of three traditional dialect areas. Abingd0
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Sonia Ryang, Language and truth in North Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021. Pp. 238. Hb. $80.0
Aspirational identities and desire through discourses of productivity in marginal individuals: A case study of three women0
Sylvia Sierra, Millennials talking media: Creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 198. Pb. $40.0
Gwynne Mapes, Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Hb. £26.0
Valerie Hobbs, An introduction to religious language: Exploring theolinguistics in contemporary contexts. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. xix, 215. Hb. £72.0
Sreedhevi Iyer, Authenticity, social media discourse and the public literary self: Will the ‘real’ author please stand up Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 200. Hb. £104.0
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Individual language policy: Bilingual youth in Vietnam. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 144. £90.0
Cline and punishment: A comment on Angermeyer0
“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent0
Lily Robert-Foley, Experimental translation: The work of translation in the age of algorithmic production. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024. Pp. 254. Pb. $37.95.0
Michael Wroblewski, Remaking Kichwa: Language and indigenous pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 204. Pb. £26.0
Lydia H. Liu & Anupama Rao, with Charlotte A. Silverman (eds.), Global language justice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. Pb. $35.0
Massimiliano Demata, Discourses of borders and the nation in the USA: A discourse-historical analysis. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 86. Hb. £35.99.0
Camilla Vásquez (ed.), Research methods for digital discourse analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 352. Pb. £26.0
When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy0
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A cline of enregisterment and its erasure: Intersections of ideology and technology in minority-language news0
Context, precision, and social perception: A sociopragmatic study0
The recontextualisation of Multicultural London English: Stylising the ‘roadman’0
Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission0
David Bradley & Maya Bradley, Language endangerment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 285. Hb. £70.0
Lorenza Mondada & Anssi Peräkylä (eds.), New perspectives on Goffman in language and interaction: Body, participation and the self Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 342. Hb. £135.0
Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand Von Mengden, & Britta Schneider (eds.), The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: Cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,0
Olga Timofeeva, Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities and people. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 204. Hb. €100.0
Nelson Flores, Amelia Tseng & Nicholas Subtirelu (eds.), Bilingualism for all? Raciolinguistic perspectives on dual language education in the United States. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2020. Pp0
Elisabeth Barakos, Language policy in business: Discourse, ideology and practice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. xv, 195. Hb. €95.0
Henning Klöter & Mårten Söderblom Saarela (eds.), Language diversity in the Sinophone world: Historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 0
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Emily McEwan-Fujita, Gaelic language revitalization concepts and challenges: Collected essays. Halifax: Bradan Press, 2020. Pp. 378. Pb. $46 CAD.0
Patricia L. Dunmire, The great nation of futurity: The discourse and temporality of American national identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 216. Hb. £54.0
Rachel Heinrichsmeier, Ageing identities and women's everyday talk in a hair salon. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 262. Hb. £120.0
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‘Living memories of the changing same’: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race0
Carmen Fought & Karen Eisenhauer, Language and gender in children's animated films: Exploring Disney and Pixar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. Pb. $30.0
Janet M. Fuller & Jennifer Leeman, Speaking Spanish in the US: The sociopolitics of language. 2nd edn. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2020. Pp. 327. Pb. £30.0
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Shuang Gao & Xuan Wang (eds.), Unpacking discourses on Chineseness: The cultural politics of language and identity in globalizing China. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 205. Hb. £100.0
Plays with words: Fungible(ly) fugitive Black sound in ethnographies of communication0
Paul Kerswill & Heike Wiese (eds.), Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and South. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xviii, 350. Hb. £130.0
Presenting a united front at the dinner table: The case of merged speakership and merged recipiency0
Alex Georgakopoulou, Stefan Iversen, & Carsten Stage, Quantified storytelling: A narrative analysis of metrics on social media. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xiii, 149. Hb. €50.0
Karen Stollznow, On the offensive: Prejudice in language past and present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. Pb. $15.0
Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects: Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy0
Betsy Rymes, How we talk about language: Exploring citizen sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 201. Pb. £19.99.0
How categorization impacts the design of requests: Asking for email addresses in call-centre interactions0
Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.), Conspiracy theory discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 509. Hb. €105.0
Janus Mortensen & Kamilla Kraft (eds.), Norms and the study of language in social life. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. 237. Hb. £94.0
MARK A. SICOLI, Saying and Doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. £85. – ERRATUM0
Tong King Lee, Kongish: Translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 75. Pb. £15.0
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The language of suppression: Muslims, migrant workers, and India's response to COVID-190
Roberta Piazza, The discursive construction of identity and space among mobile people. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 250. Hb. £85.50.0
Hope as a local practice0
Tyler Barrett, A sociolinguistic view of a Japanese ethnic church community. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 127. Pb. £39.0
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features0
Preference organization and possible -isms in institutional interaction: The case of adult second language classrooms0
Arnulf Deppermann & Michael Haugh (eds.), Action ascription in interaction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 335. Pb. £25.0
Robert M. McKenzie & Andrew McNeill, Implicit and explicit language attitudes: Mapping linguistic prejudice and attitude change in England. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 206. Hb. £96.0
Sarah Hopkyns & Wafa Zoghbor (eds.), Linguistic identities in the Arab Gulf states: Waves of change. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 256. Pb. £28.0
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#HoldTight: Neoliberal affects, embodied hopes, and anticipatory chronotopes in corporate LGBTQ diversity discourse0
Word of mouth: Mouthing patterns in a bimodal multilingual deaf community0
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Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese, Volleyball: An ethnographic drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 80. Pb. $21.95.0
Helene Seltzer Krauthamer, The great pronoun shift: The big impact of little parts of speech. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 152. Pb. £28.0
Jonathan Rosa, Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 286. Pb. $42.0
Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore0
Rajend Mesthrie, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, & Heather Brookes (eds.), Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. Hb. £85.0
Introduction to the Generic Special Issue0
Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object0
Eve A. Kheir. Codeswitching as an index and construct of sociopolitical identity: The case of the Druze and Arabs in Israel. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xx, 244. Hb. € 115.0
Rodney H. Jones & Christiana Themistocleous, Introducing language and society Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 239. Pb. $34.99.0
Racism is not just hate speech: Ethnonationalist victimhood in YouTube comments about the Roma during Covid-190
Li Yuming & Li Wei (eds.), The language situation in China: Volume 6. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton and Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2021. Pp. 462. Hb. €130.0
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Alla Tovares & Cynthia Gordon (eds.), Identity and ideology in digital food discourse: Social media interactions across cultural contexts. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 270. Hb. $130.0
John E. Petrovic & Bedrettin Yazan (eds.), The commodification of language: Conceptual concerns and empirical manifestations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp.216. Pb.£15.0
‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics0
Plotting hope: Inverse stories and scalar reversals of a health crisis0
‘One is allowed to show the reality’: The creation of panoptic structures in social media communication0
Lisa Jansen, English rock and pop performances. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 188. Hb. €95.0
English as a Southern language0
Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science communication in times of crisis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. vi, 222. Hb. €100.0
‘I've got a daughter now man it's clean man’: Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men0
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Paul Kockelman, The anthropology of intensity: Language, culture, and environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 402. Pb. £230
Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes, & Minna Suni (eds.), Language, migration and in/exclusion in the workplace Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. 232. Pb. £300
Mark Nartey, Political myth-making, nationalist resistance, and populist performance: Examining Nkrumah's construction and promotion of the African dream. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 200. Hb. $160.0
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Anne Storch & R. M. W. Dixon, The art of language Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xvi, 488. Hb. €149.0
Lauren Hall-Lew, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.), Social meaning and linguistic variation: Theorizing the third wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 406. Hb. £95.0
“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data0
Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea0
Kayo Kondo, Patient-centred communication: Discourse of in-home medical consultations for older adults. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp.240. Hb. £109.95.0
Jim O'Driscoll, Offensive language: Taboo, offence and social control. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 205. Hb. £85.50.0
John Hajek, Catrin Norrby, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, & Doris Schüpbach (eds.), Multilingualism and pluricentricity: A tale of many cities Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Pp. 348. Hb. €129.0
Giolo Fele, Emergency communication: The organization of calls to emergency dispatch centers Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. 213. Hb. £40.0
Quentin Williams & Jaspal Naveel Singh (eds.) Global hiphopography. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xxvi, 466. Hb. €150.0
Ian Cushing, Standards, stigma, surveillance: Raciolinguistic ideologies and England's schools. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 251. Hb. £109.99.0
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English at the center of the periphery: ‘Chicken nuggets’, chronotopes, and scaling English in Bahraini youth0
Mark A. Sicoli, Saying and doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, resonance, and the language of joint actions. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. £85.0
Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia0
Mary Kohn, Walt Wolfram, Charlie Farrington, Jennifer Renn, & Janneke Van Hofwegen, African American language: Language development from infancy to adulthood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press0
Jan Engberg (ed.), Between text, meaning and legal languages: Linguistic approaches to legal interpretation Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Pp. 212. Hb. €110.0
Laurence R. Horn (ed.), From lying to perjury: Linguistic and legal perspectives on lies and other falsehoods. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 411. Hb. €114.95.0
Zannie Bock & Christopher Stroud (eds.), Language and decoloniality in higher education: Reclaiming voices from the South. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 221. Pb. £26.09.0
Hans J. Ladegaard, Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 156. Hb. £104.0
Brendan H. O'Connor, Multilingual baseball: Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in the transnational game. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 240. Hb. £85.50.0
Christopher Hart & Darren Kelsey (eds.), Discourses of disorder: Riots, strikes and protests in the media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. Pb. £20.0
Pop Song English as a supralocal norm0
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Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence0
Positioning of applicants in asylum interviews: Case officers as recontextualising agents0
E. J. White, You talkin’ to me? The unruly history of New York English. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 213. Hb. $20.0
LSY volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy0
LSY volume 53 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
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Continuity and hybridity in language revival: The case of Manx0
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