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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Dare we ‘hope’?30
Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan21
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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, Paper15
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Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries. AnnaDe Fina and GerardoMazzaferro (Eds.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 296 pp. Hardback (9781788925297) 149.95 USD, Pa14
Geographies and circulations: Sign language contact at the peripheries14
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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 GBP11
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Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics. PatrickHeinrich and YumikoOhara, London: Routledge. 2019. Pp. xii +464. Hb (ISBN‐13 978‐041579027‐7) $250, Kindle ebook (ISBN 978‐041579027‐7) $39.999
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Political dimensions of gender inclusive writing in Parisian universities7
“Shake well before using”: The dialectics of Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)7
Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine‐actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue‐collar work environments6
Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers’ responses to variation in Irish6
#LadiesWeGotYou: Stances of moral–political alignment in the formation of group Identity on Facebook6
Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido5
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 (975
The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African‐American English and the blues5
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder5
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Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives4
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Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino‐americano4
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“We are cheaper, so they hire us”: Discounted nativeness in online English teaching3
Digital polycentricity and diasporic connectivity: A Norwegian‐Senegalese case study3
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Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai3
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) 3
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 GBP3
Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth‐century Spain2
Artificial intelligence and the future of sociolinguistic research: An African contextual review2
“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India2
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends2
List of reviewers (January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022)2
Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape2
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Claiming the research expertise on human–GenAI interaction for sociolinguistics2
Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora2
Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis2
“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians1”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history2
Correction to “Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation”2
Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop2
Innovations and challenges: Women, language and sexism. Carmen Rosa Caldas‐Coulthard (ed.), London and New York: Routledge. 2020. 190pp. 9 B/W illustrations. Pb (9780367133726) US$44.95. Hb (9780367132
Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography2
Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness2
Recognizing Uptalk: False Memory and Metalinguistic Commentary for a Sociolinguistic Feature2
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Stance in narration: Finding structure in complex sociolinguistic variation2
The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics2
Participation, inequality, and conversations about conservation1
Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realities. RituJain, Ed. Series: Routledge multilingual Asia series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (97803672351921
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Transnational Literacy Autobiographies as Translingual Writing, SureshCanagarajah, London, New York: Routledge2020. viii + 282 pp. Paperback $ 39.96, Hardback $ 128.00, eBook $ 39.961
Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality. Tommaso M.Milani (ed), Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing. 2018. 308pp. Pb (978‐1‐78179‐494‐4) $39.951
Epistemics, Interactional Identities, and Language Ideologies in Debates About Latinx and Latine on Social Media: How Spanish and “Latino” Identity Construction Are Leveraged to Challeng1
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Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Jamie D. I.Duncan, London: Routledge, 2021. 266pp. Hb (9780367374013) $160, Ebk (9780429353550) $34.261
Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore1
Fairness, Relationship, and Identity Construction in Human–AI Interaction1
Decolonising trans‐affirming language in Aotearoa1
Undoing raciolinguistics, unsettling (socio)linguistics1
Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question1
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Hierarchies and Constellations: Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Signed Languages1
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Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?1
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender1
Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa1
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 USD1
The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South1
National identities, non‐human animals and climate change: How to dismantle the discourses that govern our lives0
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Trash talk: Language as waste practice0
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Machines built out of other people's words: Comment on Helen Kelly‐Holmes’ discussion article0
Syllable‐final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish0
Multilingualism and climate justice: The role of linguistic diversity in environmental conservation0
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
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Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities0
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Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds0
Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English0
Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in Serbia0
The politics of conviviality: On‐the‐ground experiences from Spanish‐speaking Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London0
A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom0
Language Ideologies of Racial Microaggression and Institutional Whiteness: Experiences of Chinese International Students in UK Higher Education0
The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception: Transgender Identity Affects Sibilant Categorization in American English0
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
Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university0
Language in the middle: Class and sexuality on the Hinglish continuum0
Critical Perspectives on Language and Kinship in Multilingual Families. LynWright. London: Bloomsbury. 2020. 191 pp. Hb (9781138563308) $160, Pb (0781138563315) $46.95, Ebk (9780429260230) $42.260
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 (0
How We Talk about Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics. BetsyRymes, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2020. 201 pp. 1st edition, ISBN: 9781108725965: Pb: .0
Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek0
Language Policy in Business: Discourse, Ideology and Practice. BarakosElisabeth. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020. 195 pp. Hb (9789027207609) $143, Ebk (9789027260697) $1430
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Discourses of solidarity and resistance in alternative linguistic spaces: Galician improvised poetry as linguistic collective action0
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
Language is not a data set—Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI0
The role of social meaning in contact‐induced variation among new speakers of Basque0
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Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California0
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment0
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List of Reviewers (January 1 2021–December 31, 2021)0
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
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable0
Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity0
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
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, 1390
Deshaciendo la raciolingüística10
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Practical steps toward making trans language activism better0
Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics0
Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey: Designing knowledge about work0
/h/‐dropping and occupational role in Stoke‐on‐Trent's pottery industry0
‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens0
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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation0
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Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans0
The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research0
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Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore0
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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
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
(Socio)linguistics and generative AI: Taking the reins as researchers and steering its use toward ethical outcomes0
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies0
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
Storytelling in the digital world. Anna De Fina and Sabina Perrino (Eds.). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2019. 131 pp. Hb (9789027203960) $120.00; Ebk (9789027262202) $120.000
Voicing expertise: Exploring strategic use of vowel variants in the English pronunciation of Chinese language instructors0
Beyond “correctness”0
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
Tourism and symbolic power: Leveraging social media with the stance of disavowal0
We /r/ Tongan, not American: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Tongan English0
A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s0
Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia0
Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste0
Tribute: Jan Blommaert, a citizen sociolinguist0
Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. RajendMesthrie, EllenHurst‐Harosh and HeatherBrookes (Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. 205pp. Hardback (9781107171206) 0
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Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system0
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
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China0
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AI, power and sociolinguistics0
Claves para entender el multilingüismo contemporáneo. LuisaMartín Rojo and JoanPujolar (Eds.), Barcelona/Zaragoza: Editorial UOC/Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. HB (978‐84‐1340‐155‐3): 24 €0
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
Language and climate justice: A research agenda0
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The view from within: Gendered language ideologies of multilingual speakers in contemporary Berlin0
On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish0
Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage0
Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space0
Does waste make language?0
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“They always want to argue with you”: Navigating raciolinguistic ideologies at airport security0
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
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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) $34.720
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Making the invisible visible: Sociolinguistics meets medical communication in a travelling exhibition0
Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features0
The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London0
Troubling sociolinguistics practice and the coloniality of universalism0
The vowel space as sociolinguistic sign0
Trans language activism from the Global South*0
Mobilité. Histoire et émergence d’un concept en sociolinguistique. K.Ploog, A‐S.Calinon, N.Thamin, with the collaboration of C. De Gourcy, J‐F. Dupeyron, C. Mincke, Paris: L’Harmattan, Collection Espa0
Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows0
Trans* of color im/possibilities in trans language activism0
Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenshipQuentinWilliams, AnaDeumert, and TommasoMilani (Eds.), Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters2022. 222pp. Hardback (9781800415317) 99.95 GBP,0
Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa0
Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers0
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A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language0
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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 GBP0
Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool0
Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities. MariaKuteeva, KathrinKaufhold, NiinaHynninen, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.2020. 424 pp. Hb (9783030387549) € 145.59, Pb (97830
The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation0
Spreading language ideologies through social media: Enregistering the ‘fake ABC’ variety in Hong Kong0
Minority language maintenance and the production‐prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish0
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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) 0
Artificial intelligence and the future of our sociolinguistic work0
Poetic representations of migration narratives: A process of writing nearby0
African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra0
Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China0
Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation0
Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization0
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Language work and affect in adult language education0
Accommodation, translanguaging, and (in)discreteness in the repertoire: A scalar‐chronotopic approach0
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Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far‐right policy proposals in Bundestag debates0
Genealogies of sociolinguistics in India0
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. Alim, H. Samy, AngelaReyes, and Paul V.Kroskrity (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2020. 520 pp. Hb (9780190845995) € 113.93, Ebk (9780190846015) €93,0
Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta. Juan LuisRodriguez, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology. 2020. 216 pp. Hb (9781350115750) $110
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
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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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Reviewing and Rebuilding Objects of Inquiry0
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The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice0
Tongues of abstraction – Intentionality in trans language activism0
“OK guys, thank you for coming today”: Indexicality, utterance events, and verbal rituals in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah0
Undoing raciolinguistics0
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Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War0
Lexical gaps and the corporeal index0
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power0
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
Multilingual Environments in the Great War. JulianWalker and ChristopheDeclerq (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 255 pp. Hb (9781350141346) £95, Ebk (9781350141353) £85.50.0
Ethnographic dramas: Who can engage in critical reflections?0
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Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. VirginiaUnamuno, CarolinaGandulfo, and HéctorAndreani (E0
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan: An examination of panel speakers’ life stories0
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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
The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue0
Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process0
T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?0
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Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia0
Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions0
Key issues in the field of macro‐sociolinguistics of the Maghreb: Societal debates and contentious discourse0
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Scottish Gaelic revitalisation: Progress and aspiration0
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