Journal of Sociolinguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sociolinguistics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. MichaelWroblewski, London, New York: Bloomsbury. 2021. 200 pp. 18 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9781350212817) 124.54 USD, Paper26
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“We are cheaper, so they hire us”: Discounted nativeness in online English teaching17
Recognizing Uptalk: False Memory and Metalinguistic Commentary for a Sociolinguistic Feature17
Decolonising trans‐affirming language in Aotearoa14
The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics12
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Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender10
Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook. LaurenZentz, London: Routledge. 2021. 243 pp. Hardback (9780367895587) 160 USD, Paperback (9780367776411) 44.95 USD8
Introduction to the Thematic Issue7
Reviewing and Rebuilding Objects of Inquiry7
The vowel space as sociolinguistic sign7
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Trash talk: Language as waste practice6
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Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenshipQuentinWilliams, AnaDeumert, and TommasoMilani (Eds.), Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters2022. 222pp. Hardback (9781800415317) 99.95 GBP,5
Multilingual Environments in the Great War. JulianWalker and ChristopheDeclerq (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 255 pp. Hb (9781350141346) £95, Ebk (9781350141353) £85.50.5
A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom5
Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans5
Ethnographic dramas: Who can engage in critical reflections?5
Trans* of color im/possibilities in trans language activism5
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power5
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Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions4
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Undoing raciolinguistics3
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Speaking of Race: Language, identity, and schooling among African American Children. Jennifer B.Delfino, London: Lexington Books. 2021. 202pp. Hb (9781793606488) $36.55, Ebk (9781793606495) $34.723
Does waste make language?3
Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California3
Lengua y utopía: El movimiento esperantista en España, 1890–1936.RobertoGarvía. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. 2022. 301 pp. 24 B/W illustrations. Paperback (9788433869364) 24 EUR, Ebook (3
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Troubling sociolinguistics practice and the coloniality of universalism3
The politics of conviviality: On‐the‐ground experiences from Spanish‐speaking Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London3
Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China3
Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan2
Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora2
Critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education. KristinSnoddon and Joanne C.Weber (Eds.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 272 pp. Hardback (9781800410749) 134.95 Euro, 149.95 USD, 1392
Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa2
Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore2
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives2
Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea2
Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realities. RituJain, Ed. Series: Routledge multilingual Asia series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (97803672351922
T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?2
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Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine‐actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue‐collar work environments2
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Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity2
Transcultural voices: Narrating hip hop culture in complex Delhi. Jaspal NaveelSingh. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2020. 310 pp. 28 B/W illustrations. Paperback (9781800413818) 39.95 GBP2
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China1
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Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers’ responses to variation in Irish1
Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography1
Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university1
Making the invisible visible: Sociolinguistics meets medical communication in a travelling exhibition1
In pursuit of English: Language and subjectivity in neoliberal South Korea.JosephSung‐Yul Park, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 208pp. Hardback (9780190855734) 81.00 GBP, Paperback (978019085571
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Lexical gaps and the corporeal index1
Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English1
Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth‐century Spain1
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The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue1
Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore1
The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research1
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Artificial intelligence and the future of sociolinguistic research: An African contextual review1
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Linguistic landscape in the Spanish‐speaking world. Edited by PatriciaGubitosi and Michelle F.Ramos Pellicia (Eds.). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2021. 395 pp. Hardback (9789027208866) 1
Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities1
African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra0
Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape0
Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries. AnnaDe Fina and GerardoMazzaferro (Eds.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 296 pp. Hardback (9781788925297) 149.95 USD, Pa0
Stance in narration: Finding structure in complex sociolinguistic variation0
Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?0
(Socio)linguistics and generative AI: Taking the reins as researchers and steering its use toward ethical outcomes0
Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop0
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“Shake well before using”: The dialectics of Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)0
Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process0
List of reviewers (January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022)0
The Need to Create a “Virtual Campus”: Translingual Practice and Community Building in Virtual Linguistic Landscape0
Discourses of global queer mobility and the mediatization of equality. JosephComer, New York, NY: Routledge. 2022. 252 pp. 30 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367521721) 84 GBP0
The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation0
Geographies and circulations: Sign language contact at the peripheries0
Machines built out of other people's words: Comment on Helen Kelly‐Holmes’ discussion article0
Discourses of solidarity and resistance in alternative linguistic spaces: Galician improvised poetry as linguistic collective action0
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“OK guys, thank you for coming today”: Indexicality, utterance events, and verbal rituals in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah0
Correction to “Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation”0
List of Reviewers (January 1 2021–December 31, 2021)0
The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African‐American English and the blues0
‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens0
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Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization0
Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system0
Language Ideologies of Racial Microaggression and Institutional Whiteness: Experiences of Chinese International Students in UK Higher Education0
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The Spanish language in the United States: Rootedness, racialization, and resistance.José A.Cobas, BonnieUrciuoli, Joe R.Feagin, and Daniel J.Delgado (Eds.), New York and London: Routledge. 2022. 162p0
Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage0
Autorretrato de un idioma: Crestomatía glotopolítica del español. Josédel Valle, DanielaLauria, MarielaOroño, and DaríoRojas (Eds). Madrid:Lengua de Trapo. 2021. 602 pp. Paperback (9788483812600) 25.70
Artificial intelligence and the future of our sociolinguistic work0
Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds0
Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows0
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Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation0
Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space0
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The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice0
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Glossolalia and the Problem of Language. NicholasHarkness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (9780226749389) 105 USD, Paperback (9780226749419) 35 USD, Ebook (9780226749556)0
Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste0
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The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines.PiersKelly, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 328 pp. 47 illustrations. Hardback (9780197509913) 99.00 USD, Paperback (97801970
Global English and political economy. John P.O'Regan, London: Routledge. 2021. 282 pp. Hardback (9781138811119) 120.00 GBP, Paperback (9781138811126) 34.99 GBP, Ebook (9781315749334) 31.49 GBP0
Trans language activism from the Global South*0
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Tongues of abstraction – Intentionality in trans language activism0
Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa0
Fairness, Relationship, and Identity Construction in Human–AI Interaction0
Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool0
“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians1”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history0
Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China0
Accommodation, translanguaging, and (in)discreteness in the repertoire: A scalar‐chronotopic approach0
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Claiming the research expertise on human–GenAI interaction for sociolinguistics0
Theorizing trans language activism for euphoric transmutation and our collective liberation*0
“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India0
The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South0
AI, power and sociolinguistics0
Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido0
Beyond “correctness”0
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Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. RajendMesthrie, EllenHurst‐Harosh and HeatherBrookes (Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. 205pp. Hardback (9781107171206) 0
Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai0
We /r/ Tongan, not American: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Tongan English0
U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style0
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Language is not a data set—Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI0
Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers0
Undoing raciolinguistics, unsettling (socio)linguistics0
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“They always want to argue with you”: Navigating raciolinguistic ideologies at airport security0
On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish0
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Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies0
Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in Serbia0
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Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable0
Figures of interpretation. B. A. S. S. Meier‐Lorente‐Muth‐Duchêne, Bristol & Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 176 pp. Hardback (9781788929394) 29.95 GBP, Ebook/ PDF (9781788929400) 50
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan: An examination of panel speakers’ life stories0
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Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far‐right policy proposals in Bundestag debates0
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Deshaciendo la raciolingüística10
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The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation0
Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. VirginiaUnamuno, CarolinaGandulfo, and HéctorAndreani (E0
Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse. GwynneMapes. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. 224 pp. Hardback (9780197533444) 81.00 GBP, Paperback (9780197533451) 25.99 GBP0
The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception: Transgender Identity Affects Sibilant Categorization in American English0
Syllable‐final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish0
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Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis0
Epistemics, Interactional Identities, and Language Ideologies in Debates About Latinx and Latine on Social Media: How Spanish and “Latino” Identity Construction Are Leveraged to Challeng0
A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language0
Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War0
Hierarchies and Constellations: Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Signed Languages0
Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and InclusionHilaryFootitt, Angela M.Crack, and WineTesseur. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 248 pp. 1 B/W illustration. Hardback (97830300
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness0
Digital polycentricity and diasporic connectivity: A Norwegian‐Senegalese case study0
“You Speak Well for an Anglophone”: Resisting the Processes of Delegitimation and Developing Linguistic Security0
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder0
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Language and intercultural communication in tourism. Bal KrishnaSharma and ShuangGao (Eds). New York/London: Routledge. 2022. 282 pp., 47 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367541637) 120 GBP, EBook (970
The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London0
Women in the history of linguistics. WendyAyres‐Bennett and Helena Sanson (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020, pp. viii + 648. Hb (978‐0‐19‐875495‐4) 110 GBP0
Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek0
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Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics0
Dire le silence: Insécurité linguistique en Acadie 1867–1970. AnnetteBoudreau, Sudbury: Prise de parole. 2021. 228 pp. Paperback (9782897441326) 26.95 CAD, Ebook (978‐2897441333) 19.99 CAD0
Commentary: Sociolinguistics of diaspora0
Graphic politics in eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy. NishaantChoksi. London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 203 pp. Hardback (9781350159587) 85 GBP, Paperback (9781350215924) 28.99 GBP, Ebook (9780
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Voicing expertise: Exploring strategic use of vowel variants in the English pronunciation of Chinese language instructors0
Mixed messages: Mediating native belonging in Asian Russian. Kathryn E.Graber. Ithaca, New York; London: Cornell University Press. 2020. xix + 262 pp. Hardback (9781501750502) 92 USD, Paperback (150170
Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino‐americano0
A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s0
The Routledge handbook of language and superdiversity. AngelaCreese, and AdrianBlackledge (Eds). New York/London: Routledge. 2018. xlv + 536 pp. Hardback (9781138905092) 152 GBP, Paperback (97803677830
Linguistics in pursuit of justice. JohnBaugh. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018. 238 pp. Hardback (9781107153455) 116.00 USD, Paperback (9781316607312) 31.99 USD, Ebook (978110858220
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment0
Language, global mobilities, blue‐collar workers and blue‐collar workplacesKellieGonçalves and HelenKelly‐Holmes (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2021. 258pp. 3 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367279004) 0
Practical steps toward making trans language activism better0
Speaking my soul: Race, life, and languageJohnRussell Rickford, London and New York: Routledge. 2022. 216pp. 55 Color & 19 B/W Illustrations. Hardback (9781032068855) 125 USD, Paperback (9781032060
Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia0
Les langues en débat dans une Europe en projet. ZoranaSokolovskaLyon: ENS Editions. 2021. 306 p. Pb (979‐10‐362‐0291‐9). Price : 14,99 €0
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Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life. SusanGal and Judith T.Irvine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 319 pp. Paperback (9781108741293) 20.99 GBP0
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Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. LaurenHall‐Lew, EmmaMoore, and Robert J.Podesva (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xiv + 390 pp. Hardback (97811080
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Minority language maintenance and the production‐prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish0
Communities of practice in language research: A critical introduction. Brian W.KingNew York: Routledge. 2019. 186 pp. Pb (9781138942479) $45.56, Hb (9781138942462) $128, Eb (9780429283499) $51.250
Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features0
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