Language in Society

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
LSY volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter46
Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy, & Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), Sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition across the lifespan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. vi, 315. Hb. €105.16
LSY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter16
Karen Stollznow, On the offensive: Prejudice in language past and present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. Pb. $15.16
LSY volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter14
Chris Heffer, All bullshit and lies? Insincerity, irresponsibility, and the judgment of untruthfulness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Pb. $30.14
Joseph Sung-Yul Park, In pursuit of English: Language and subjectivity in neoliberal South Korea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £26.12
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. £67.11
LSY volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
Massimiliano Demata, Discourses of borders and the nation in the USA: A discourse-historical analysis. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 86. Hb. £35.99.9
Nicholas Q. Emlen, Language, coffee, and migration on an Andean-Amazonian frontier. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. $60.9
Joan O'Sullivan, Corpus linguistics and the analysis of sociolinguistic change: Language variety and ideology in advertising. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 250. Hb. £92.9
Sylvia Shaw, Women, language and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 334. Hb. £85.9
Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese, Volleyball: An ethnographic drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 80. Pb. $21.95.9
Zannie Bock & Christopher Stroud (eds.), Language and decoloniality in higher education: Reclaiming voices from the South. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 221. Pb. £26.09.8
Natalie Braber, Lexical variation of an East Midlands mining community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. Hb. £75.8
LSY volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
Villy Tsakona, Recontextualizing humor: Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xvi, 229. Hb. €100.7
Zane Goebel (ed.), Reimagining rapport. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £28.7
Nishaant Choksi, Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £26.7
Lenore A. Grenoble & Jessica Kantarovich, Reconstructing non-standard languages: A socially-anchored approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xv, 354. Hb. €100.6
Editors' Note6
Kate Vieira, Writing for love and money: How migration drives literacy learning in transnational families. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. Pb. £20.6
LSY volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
Sinfree Makoni, Magda Madany-Saa, Bassey E. Antia, & Rafael Lomeu Gomes (eds.), Decolonial voices, language and race. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 136. Pb. £15.6
Hurdles and horizons of linguistics for social justice5
Salvatore Attardo, The linguistics of humor: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. Pb. £29.99.5
Colin Williams, Language policy and the new speaker challenge: Hiding in plain sight. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 402. Hb. $135.5
Of punitive translation, legal meaning, and the interpreter's empathy5
English as a Southern language5
Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs4
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. P4
Emilia Di Martino, Indexing ‘chav’ on social media: Transmodal performances of working-class subcultures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 370. Hb. €100.4
LSY volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Natalia Knoblock (ed.), Language of conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian crisis. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 296. Pb. £29.4
Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater3
Carmen Fought & Karen Eisenhauer, Language and gender in children's animated films: Exploring Disney and Pixar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. Pb. $30.3
Preference organization and possible -isms in institutional interaction: The case of adult second language classrooms3
Paul Kockelman, The anthropology of intensity: Language, culture, and environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 402. Pb. £233
The anatomy of a conspiracy theory in Covid-19 political commentary3
LSY volume 53 issue 5 Cover and Back matter3
Lisa Jansen, English rock and pop performances. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 188. Hb. €95.3
Ana Deumert & Sinfree Makoni (eds.), From southern theory to decolonizing sociolinguistics: Voices, questions and alternatives Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. 296. Pb. £40.3
“I repeatedly tell you, the future is yours—the righteous, not the liars”: Hope in Saleh Diab's political speeches in East Jerusalem3
Pop Song English as a supralocal norm3
David Evans, Rationality and interpretation: On the identities of language. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 181. Hb. £85.50.3
LSY volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Plotting hope: Inverse stories and scalar reversals of a health crisis3
Kathleen C. Riley, Bernard C. Perley & Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez (eds.), Language and social justice: Global perspectives London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 508. Pb. £40.3
Generics in society2
Looking back – Looking ahead2
Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio (eds.), Language and neoliberal governmentality. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 242. Pb. £38.99.2
Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence2
Dariush Izadi, The spatial and temporal dimensions of interactions: A case study of an ethnic grocery shop. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xv, 261. Pb. £55.2
Morphology in action: Diminutives in Brazilian obstetric and gynecological consultations2
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts2
HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object2
John C. Mayer (ed.), Language communities in Japan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 176. Hb. £81.2
Camilla Vásquez (ed.), Research methods for digital discourse analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 352. Pb. £26.2
Elisabeth Piirainen, Natalia Filatkina, Sören Stumpf, & Christian Pfeiffer (eds.), Formulaic language and new data: Theoretical and methodological implications. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Pp2
The liminal (vowel) space of womanhood: Fundamental frequency, formants, and the intersex body in Brazil2
Anne Storch & R. M. W. Dixon, The art of language Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xvi, 488. Hb. €149.2
Plays with words: Fungible(ly) fugitive Black sound in ethnographies of communication2
Radical-right populism in Spain and the strategy of chronopolitics2
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. $160.2
Joel Kuortti & Sirkku Ruokkeinen (eds.) (2020), Movement and change in literature, language, and society. Baden: Academia. Pp. 313. Pb. €83.1
Cline and punishment: A comment on Angermeyer1
Alla Tovares & Cynthia Gordon (eds.), Identity and ideology in digital food discourse: Social media interactions across cultural contexts. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 270. Hb. $130.1
Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Language and body in place and space: Discourse of Japanese rock climbing. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 256. Hb. £85.50.1
Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade (2019). Describing prescriptivism: Usage guides and usage problems in British and American English. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 274. Hb. £92.1
Peter Siemund, Multilingual development: English in a global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. Pb. £27.1
LSY volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Lindsay Rose Russell, Women and dictionary making: Gender, genre and English language lexicography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 252. Hb £85.1
Hans J. Ladegaard, Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 156. Hb. £104.1
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency1
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. 1
Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish1
LSY volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Jan Blommaert & Dong Jie, Ethnographic fieldwork: A beginner's guide. 2nd edn. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2020. Pp. 145. Pb. £15.1
John Douthwaite & Ulrike Tabbert (eds.), The linguistics of crime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. Hb. £118.1
Jeffrey L. Kallen, Linguistic landscapes: A sociolinguistic approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 378. Hb. £95.1
Tracey L. Weldon, Middle-class African American English. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 300. Hb. $100.1
Pierre Wilbert Orelus, All English accents matter: In pursuit of accent equity, diversity, and inclusion. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 128. Hb. £45.1
Lyn Wright, Critical perspectives on language and kinship in multilingual families. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 184. Hb. £85.50.1
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
Irene Theodoropoulou & Johanna Tovar, Research companion to language and country branding. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 411. Pb. £43.0
Marie Maegaard, Malene Monka, Kristine Køhler Mortensen, & Andreas Candefors Stæhr (eds.), Standardization as sociolinguistic change: A transversal study of three traditional dialect areas. Abingd0
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Digital grooming: Discourses of manipulation and cyber-crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. Hb. £64.0
The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings0
Chrystie Myketiak, Online sex talk and the social world: Mediated desire. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi, 238. Hb. €100.0
LSY volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market0
LSY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Individual language policy: Bilingual youth in Vietnam. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 144. £90.0
Raymond Hickey & Carolina P. Amador-Moreno (eds.), Irish identities: Sociolinguistic perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. Pp. viii, 306. Hb. €100.0
Hope as a local practice0
Ian Cushing, Standards, stigma, surveillance: Raciolinguistic ideologies and England's schools. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 251. Hb. £109.99.0
Varying orientations to sharing life stories: A diachronic study of Japanese women's discourse0
Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique0
Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong0
Martha Komter, The suspect's statement: Talk and text in the criminal process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 207. Hb. £80.0
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
Guy Merchant, Why writing still matters: Written communication in changing times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 280. Hb. £80.0
Practicing ground rules in police interviews with child witnesses0
Durk Gorter & Jasone Cenoz, A panorama of linguistic landscape studies. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. 472. Pb. £39.95.0
Coda0
Constituting institutional identity in political discourse: The use of the first-person plural pronoun in China's press conferences0
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, 0
János Imre Heltai & Eszter Tarsoly (eds.), Translanguaging for equal opportunities: Speaking Romani at school. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. Pp. 321. eBook Open Access, Hb. €115.0
Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style0
Mie Femø Nielsen & Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen, Revisiting trustworthiness in social interaction. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 202. Hb. £130.0
Janus Mortensen & Kamilla Kraft (eds.), Norms and the study of language in social life. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. 237. Hb. £94.0
How categorization impacts the design of requests: Asking for email addresses in call-centre interactions0
Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects: Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy0
The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows0
“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent0
David Bradley & Maya Bradley, Language endangerment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 285. Hb. £70.0
Wei Wang (ed.), Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. xiii, 233. Hb. €100.0
The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’0
Peter Muntigl, Interaction in psychotherapy: Managing relationships in emotion-focused treatments of depression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 348. Hb. £107.0
Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity0
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
Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian0
Quentin Williams & Jaspal Naveel Singh (eds.) Global hiphopography. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xxvi, 466. Hb. €150.0
Kim Potowski & Lourdes Torres, Spanish in Chicago. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. Pb. £26.0
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
Emily Shaw, Gesture in multiparty interaction. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2019. Pp. 256. Hb. $48.0
Richard J. Watts & Franz Andres Morrissey, Language, the singer and the song: The sociolinguistics of folk performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 372. Hb. £95.0
(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation0
The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists’ incitement to violence0
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. €124.95.0
Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission0
Positioning of applicants in asylum interviews: Case officers as recontextualising agents0
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Orality in written texts: Using historical corpora to investigate Irish English 1700–1900. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 232. Hb. £120.0
LSY volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Carolyn McKinney, Pinky Makoe, & Virginia Zavala (eds.), The Routledge handbook of multilingualism 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 528. Hb. £172.0
Tong King Lee, Kongish: Translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 75. Pb. £15.0
Grammaticalization and language contact in a discourse-pragmatic change in progress: The spread ofinnitin London English0
Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media0
Michael Hornsby & Wilson McLeod (eds.), Transmitting minority languages: Complementary reversing language shift strategies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. XIII, 376. Hb. €140.0
The social (and cultural, and syntactic, and semantic) life of generics0
Jennifer Eagleton, Discursive change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical dynamics, metaphor, and one country, two systems. New York: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 404. Hb. $120.0
Constructing ‘corrupted village wives and urban men’ through multilingual performances0
Sonja Lanehart, Language in African American communities. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 260. Pb. $24.0
Sonia Ryang, Language and truth in North Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021. Pp. 238. Hb. $80.0
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Maida Kosatica, The burden of traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 183. Hb. £85.50.0
Neoliberalism, English, and spoiled identity: The case of a high-achieving university graduate in Hong Kong0
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
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
Yonatan Mendel & Abeer AlNajjar (eds.), Language politics and society in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Yasir Suleiman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp.0
Kayo Kondo, Patient-centred communication: Discourse of in-home medical consultations for older adults. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp.240. Hb. £109.95.0
LSY volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
‘One is allowed to show the reality’: The creation of panoptic structures in social media communication0
LSY volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Simo K. Määttä & Marika K. Hall (eds.), Mapping ideology in discourse studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 289. Pb. € 20.0
Sambulo Ndlovu (ed.), Personal names and naming from an anthropological-linguistic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter-Mouton, 2023. Pp. 375. Hb. $130.0
Lydia H. Liu & Anupama Rao, with Charlotte A. Silverman (eds.), Global language justice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. Pb. $35.0
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Peter Trudgill, The long journey of English: A geographical history of the language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp ix, 177. Pb. £19.0
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. €115.0
Zane Goebel (ed.), Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork encounters. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. Pp. ix, 194. Hb. €87.0
Objects in embodied sociolinguistics: Mind the door in research group meetings0
Giolo Fele, Emergency communication: The organization of calls to emergency dispatch centers Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. 213. Hb. £40.0
Anousha Sedighi (ed.), Iranian and minority languages at home and in diaspora. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. Pp. 409. Hb. €145.0
LSY volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy0
MARK A. SICOLI, Saying and Doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. £85. – ERRATUM0
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
Jan Blommaert and the use of sociolinguistics: Critical, political, personal0
Sign networks: Nucleated network sign languages and rural homesign in Papua New Guinea0
Michael Wroblewski, Remaking Kichwa: Language and indigenous pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 204. Pb. £26.0
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Semiotic timescapes0
Olga Timofeeva, Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities and people. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 204. Hb. €100.0
‘I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony’: The emergence, formation, and circulation of chronotopes in mass-mediated communication0
Yuming Li & Li Wei (eds.), The language situation in China: Volume 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2019. Pp. 392. Hb. €130.0
The moral call for hopeful action: Language renewal in the Village of Tewa and generative hope0
Jai Mackenzie, Connected parenting: Digital discourses and diverse family practices. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 248. Hb. £96.0
Bassey E. Antia & Sinfree Makoni (eds.), Southernizing sociolinguistics: Colonialism, racism, and patriarchy in language in the Global South. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 326. Hb. $144.0
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
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Paulina Bounds, Jennifer Cramer, & Susan Tamasi, Linguistic planets of belief: Mapping language attitudes in the American South. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 180. Pb. £35.0
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
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
Valerie Hobbs, An introduction to religious language: Exploring theolinguistics in contemporary contexts. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. xix, 215. Hb. £72.0
David Block, Innovations and challenges in identity research. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 146. Hb. £34.88.0
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect0
Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston, & Xiaoshi Li (eds.), Variation in second and heritage languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 365. Hb. £88.0
Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 246. Hb. $25.0
Roberta Piazza, The discursive construction of identity and space among mobile people. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 250. Hb. £85.50.0
Fang Xu, Silencing Shanghai: Language and identity in urban China. New York: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 261. Hb. $105.0
Grassroots scaling up: Navigating algorithmic scales in a technopolitical landscape0
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
Kathleen Heugh, Christopher Stroud, Kerry Taylor-Leech, & Peter I. De Costa (eds.), A sociolinguistics of the South. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 280. Hb. £120.0
Abhimanyu Sharma, Reconceptualising power in language policy: Evidence from comparative cases. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 285. Hb. €120.0
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features0
Intelligibility as a sociolinguistic variable:The entanglement of the social and the semantic in multilingual practice0
Greg Niedt & Corinne Seals (eds.), Linguistic landscapes beyond the language classroom. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp xviii, 239. Hb. £28.99.0
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. £26.0
Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger, The language of pick-up artists: Online discourses of the seduction industry. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 226. Hb. $136.0
Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans0
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Continuity and hybridity in language revival: The case of Manx0
Silvina Montrul, Native speakers, interrupted: Differential object marking and language change in heritage languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 324. Hb. £85.0
Ruth Wodak, The politics of fear: The shameless normalization of far-right discourse. 2nd edn. London: SAGE, 2021. Pp. 337. Pb. £27.0
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
Word of mouth: Mouthing patterns in a bimodal multilingual deaf community0
Sabina M. Perrino & Sonya E. Pritzker (eds.), Research methods in linguistic anthropology. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 394. Pb. £35.95.0
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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
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Aino Koivisto, Heidi Vepsäläinen & Mikko T. Virtanen, Conversation analytic perspectives to digital interaction: Practices, resources, and affordances. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2023. 0
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
‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics0
John Russell Rickford, Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and creole studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 388. Pb. £30.0
Joseph Errington, Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an unnative language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 168. Hb. £20.0
Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities0
Katie Chenoweth, The prosthetic tongue: Printing technology and the rise of the French language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 564. Hb. $69.95.0
Betsy Rymes, How we talk about language: Exploring citizen sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 201. Pb. £19.99.0
Rodney H. Jones & Christiana Themistocleous, Introducing language and society Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 239. Pb. $34.99.0
‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising0
Understanding the role of transcription in evidential consistency of police interview records in England and Wales0
Mary Kohn, Walt Wolfram, Charlie Farrington, Jennifer Renn, & Janneke Van Hofwegen, African American language: Language development from infancy to adulthood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press0
Alastair Pennycook, Language assemblages Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 202. Pb. £26.0
Tong King Lee, Choreographies of multilingualism: Writing and language ideology in Singapore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 248. Hb. £25.99.0
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
Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of Englishthat/zero variation0
LSY volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Investment and the inaudible mother tongue: Carving out a space for Kurdish in the soundscape of an Istanbul kebab restaurant0
Janet McIntosh & Norma Mendoza-Denton, Language in the Trump era: Scandals and emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. Pb. £20.0
Nathalie Dajko, French on shifting ground: Cultural and coastal erosion in South Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Pp. 200. Pb. $20.0
“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data0
When things fall apart: On the dialectics of hope and anger0
Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language0
Peter J. Adams, Monster metaphors: When rhetoric runs amok. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 258. Hb. $144. Pb. $40.45.0
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Trajectories of spirituality: Producing and assessing cultural evidence at the International Criminal Court0
Ruth Singer, Indigenous multilingualism at Warruwi: Cultivating linguistic diversity in an Australian community. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 198. Pb. £28.0
Recursive recalibration and the social meaning of codeswitching0
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
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity0
Sarah Hopkyns & Wafa Zoghbor (eds.), Linguistic identities in the Arab Gulf states: Waves of change. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 256. Pb. £28.0
LSY volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter0
The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo)0
Embedding in Shawi narrations: A quantitative analysis of embedding in a post-colonial Amazonian indigenous society0
Jim O'Driscoll, Offensive language: Taboo, offence and social control. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. 205. Hb. £85.50.0
‘You son of a perverse rebellious woman’: Mobilizing the storytelling event for self-empowerment0
Claire Maree, queerqueen: Linguistic excess in Japanese media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. Pb. £26.0
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