Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Neutralizing the political: Language ideology as censorship in Esperanto youth media during the Cold War14
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The revolution within: Islamic media and the struggle for a New Egypt by YasminMoll, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2025. p8
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Performing as ways of knowing: Projects of legibility and state simplification in postcolonial Hong Kong7
Asymmetrical listening practices and hegemonic aurality in a dual‐language kindergarten classroom7
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Living together across borders: Communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families By LynnetteArnold, New York: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. ix + 2206
Raciosemiotic disruptions: The discursive deconstruction of race among Africans in the United States5
Heteroglossic management in Instagram: Emerging ideological dynamics among Basque youth5
Multilingual global cities: Singapore, Hong Kong, DubaiPeterSiemund, Jakob R.E.Leimgruber, eds. London, Routledge2020. Pp. 346.5
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Toward a non‐binary semiotics of intersectionality: linguistic anthropology in the wake of coloniality5
Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for  ChatGPT4
Multilingual baseball: Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in the transnational game. Brendan H.O'Connor (Ed.), London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2023. pp. [xi + 223pp.]4
“We Explain”: Interaction and Becoming a Family in Migration4
First Nations women in an Australian boarding school: A sociolinguistic ethnography4
Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy. NishaantChoksi. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. xvi + 208.4
Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling among African American Children. Jennifer B.Delfino. New York: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxxviii +163.3
“Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics3
A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek 's Universal Translator3
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What do repatriation and reclamation sound like? Two examples from the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office2
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“You keep the y'alls”: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English2
What to make of a Sultan's tear: Phaticity, praise poetry, and social infrastructures in the Sultanate of Oman2
The life of a political speech(writer): Metadiscursive text trajectories in high‐end language work2
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Excavating the human in linguistic research2
The limits of thematization2
Dispensing with Europe: A comparative linguistic anthropology of honorific pronouns2
Queer correctives: Discursive neo‐homophobia, sexuality and Christianity in Singapore By VincentPak, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2025. pp. 1–1562
Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment2
Making science (in)communicable: Lingering secondary effects of COVID ‐19 discourse2
Ghost deixis and the public secret in Tijuana, Mexico2
Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models1
(Out)Caste language ideologies: Intersectional raciolinguistic stigma and assimilation from denotified tribal students' perspectives in rural India1
The struggle for a multilingual future: Youth and education in Sri LankaChristina P.Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii + 192.1
Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech1
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Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. MichaelWroblewski. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. xi +200.1
Co‐textual dopes: How LLMs produce contextually appropriate text in chat interactions with humans without access to context1
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary TurkeyMarleneSchäfers, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022, Pp. 240.1
Working the difference: Science, spirit, and the spread of motivational interviewing. E. SummersonCarr, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2023. pp. xiii + 2771
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. XochitlMarsilli‐Vargas (Ed.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. xii+2331
Funny words on the screen: Exploring linguistic authority through subtitling practices1
Anarchy and the art of listening: The politics and pragmatics of reception in Papua New Guinea By JamesSlotta, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2023. pp. xii + 2011
“You're Soviet trash!—You're a liberass!”: The political life of social slurs1
Home signs: An ethnography of life beyond and beside language By Joshua O.Reno, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. pp. 2641
Imperialism without prestige: The Russian language, chronotope, and the paradoxes of linguistic decolonization in Lithuania1
Texting, teens, and parental challenges in practices of family socialization1
Voicing singlish from the “middle”: Indexical hybridities of class, race, language, and Singaporeanness1
Language incompetence: Learning to communicate through cancer, disability, and anomalous embodimentSureshCanagarajah. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xv + 220.1
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How to speak to the masses, part I: Hồ Chí Minh's instructions to cadres and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam0
Onscreen/OffscreenBy Constantine V. Nakassis (Ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. xviii +3820
Neoliberalizing diversity in liberal arts college life, BonnieUrciuoli, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022, Pp. viii‐2980
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor0
Language as hope By Daniel N.Silva and Jerry WonLee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. pp. xiv‐1850
Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism0
Affect in cross‐chronotope alignments in narrations about Aristides de Sousa Mendes and their subsequent circulations0
“Mother tongue” or “broken Arabic”: Competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) in Amman0
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Linguistic ethnography of a multilingual call center: London callingBy JohannaWoydack, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. xv + 214 pp0
Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France0
The comedic performance of Mock Haitian in Dominican media: A raciosemiotic approach to enregisterment0
Signs of deference, signs of demeanour: Interlocutor reference and self‐other relations across Southeast Asian speech communities By Dwi NoveriniDjenar, JackSidnell (Eds.), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023.0
The Abu Dhabi adhan: An orienting soundmark through scaled configurations of space and time0
Vernacular infrastructuring: Rethinking linguistic agency of minority‐language speakers in multilingual digital environment0
Perception as racialization: Listening and psychic process in postcolonial contexts0
Excluding unlaughter: Humor as affective practice in a youth detention center for boys0
Just chronotopes: Embodiment, social justice, and “the somatopic imagination”0
Signs in conflict: Contrastive indexical meanings of the Star of David in a queer ban of the Jewish pride flag0
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Rethinking politeness with Henri BergsonDuranti, Alessandro, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. x + 176 pp.0
Transposition, not translation: Recuperating attentionality on Pantelleria, Sicily0
The Cultural Logic of the Ordinary: Interactional Semiosis and the (Re)‐Framing of Daily Life among Japanese Younger Adults0
Specters of excess: Passing and policing in the Malay‐speaking archipelago0
Going tactile: Life at the limits of language By TerraEdwards, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 1680
Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?0
Rethinking Zapotec time: Cosmology, ritual and resistance in colonial Mexico By DavidTavárez, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 4580
The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By ScottMacLochlainn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 2350
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The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology0
Alienable gesture0
The news event: Popular sovereignty in the age of deep mediatization By FrancisCody, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2023. pp. 2720
Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces0
Semiotic whitening: Whiteness without white people0
Methods of desire: Language, morality, and affect in neoliberal Indonesia, AuroraDonzelli. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 20190
Young children's language socialization to kinship vocatives and some of their indexicalities in an Indo‐Fijian community0
Languaging as time travel0
Indexical deprivation: The dominant link between cochlear implants and global English among Taiwanese deaf individuals0
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Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice. By PoojaRangan, AkshyaSaxena, Ragini TharoorSrinivasan, and PavitraSundar (Eds.), Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. xv0
Throw your voice: Suspended animations in Kazakhstani childhoods By MeghanneBarker, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2024. pp. xv + 2320
Silence and sacrifice: Family stories of care and the limits of love in Vietnam.MeravShohet. University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 267.0
Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the media of socialityBecky L.Schulties. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. X + 221.0
Voices of immigration: A serial narrative ethnography of language shift By Agnes WeiyunHe, Cambridge University Press. 2025. pp. 2150
Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject0
Re‐hearing parents as risks to children: Institutional listening practices in a California child welfare court0
The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines. Piers Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxxi + 291.0
Unruly speech: Displacement and the politics of transgression By SaskiaWitteborn, Stanford University Press. 2023. 250 pages. £17.31 (Softback); £65.74 (Clothbound). ISBN: 9781503634305, 15036343020
The relationship people: Mediating love and marriage in twenty‐first century Japan By Erika R.Alpert. London and Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2022. xvii +159 pp. $39.99 (pbk). ISBN: 9781498594220
Multilinguality, vitality, and endangerment: Insights from the Lived Experiences of Multilingual India By R. KarthickNarayanan, London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2025. 180pp.0
Toward a linguistic anthropological approach to listening: An ear with power and the policing of “active listening” volunteers in Japan0
Echoes of “dead” colonialism: The voices and materiality of a (post)colonial Algerian newspaper0
The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas0
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Learning Putonghua, (not) becoming Chinese: “Sinicized” figures and intersectional personae on Tibetan peripheries0
From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi0
Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories0
“Creatures of kek:” Affordance and enregisterment within “kek” on 4chan's “/pol/” board0
Investigating Structure and Agency in Chinese Indonesians' Identity Work0
Postcolonial Language Ideologies: Indian Students Reflect on Mother Tongue and English0
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Bosnian refugees in Chicago: Gender, performance, and post‐war economiesAnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xiv + 183.0
Linguistic shaming, the discourse of (sub)standard English, and religiolinguistic ideologies in Indian media0
Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation0
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Deaf mobility studies: Exploring international networks, tourism, and migration By AnneliesKusters, ErinMoriarty, AmandineLe Maire, SanchayeetaIyer, StevenEmery, Washington, DC: Gallaudet University P0
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Telling Blackness young Liberians and the raciosemiotics of contemporary Black diaspora By Krystal A.Smalls, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023 pp. [x + 294pp.]0
How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam0
Linguist on the Loose. Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork. LyleCampbell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii + 286.0
Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge0
Oral English Proficiency Tests, Interpretive Labor, and the Neoliberal University0
If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology0
Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an unnative language. Joseph Errington. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxiii +123.0
A “primera gobernadora constitucional”: Relativizing indexical and successional orders in Puerto Rico0
“A world beyond this one”: Sustaining afro‐brasilidade through language, ritual, and culture teaching in a northeastern Brazilian school0
The politics of language oppression in Tibet By GeraldRoche, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2024. pp. 2640
“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South0
The double bind of “Shame”: The colonial ramifications in Tahitian language revitalization0
Spanish So White: Conversations on the inconvenient racism of a ‘Foreign’ language education. AdamSchwartz, Bristol, UK; Jackson, TN: Multilingual Matters. 2023. pp. 1600
Correction to “Ghost deixis and the public secret in Tijuana, Mexico”0
Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective0
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“The breakfast for real toilers”: Commodification practices and the enregisterment of local language in the post‐industrial Ruhr Area0
The Colonial Constitution ofPolyas a Racial and Linguistic Category through Policing, Gentrification, and an Ideology of Oppressionlessness0
Old genres, new media: Collective witnessing and social memory‐making on Argentine Twitter0
Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs0
Recruiting Mubai: Race turning into qualification in China's private English language education0
Domestic workers talk. Language use and social practices in a multilingual workplace By KellieGonçalves and Anne AmblerSchluter (Ed.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2024 xv + 146 pp.0
Untold stories: Legacies of authoritarianism among Spanish labour migrants in later life By DavidDivita, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2024. pp. xv + 1860
Flânerie in Text and City: The Heterogeneous Urban Publics of the Georgian Feuilleton0
“It doesn't give a s*** about Arabic or English”: Semiotic ideologies and demarcation among LLM engineers in Amman, Jordan0
Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice0
“RIPEnglish”: Race, class and ‘good English’ in India0
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