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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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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, Paper30
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“We are cheaper, so they hire us”: Discounted nativeness in online English teaching20
Recognizing Uptalk: False Memory and Metalinguistic Commentary for a Sociolinguistic Feature16
Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink : School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School14
Decolonising trans‐affirming language in Aotearoa13
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The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics11
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 USD9
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender8
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Ethnographic dramas: Who can engage in critical reflections?7
Reviewing and Rebuilding Objects of Inquiry7
Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenshipQuentinWilliams, AnaDeumert, and TommasoMilani (Eds.), Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters2022. 222pp. Hardback (9781800415317) 99.95 GBP,7
The vowel space as sociolinguistic sign7
Beyond Distinción: Media, Identity, and the Strategic Use of /s/ and /θ/ in Andalusian Spanish6
Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward6
Trash talk: Language as waste practice5
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Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power5
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Language, Identity, and Neo‐Imperial Power in Kurdistan and Ukraine: A Joint Review of Demet Arpacık's Beyond Language and Corinne A. Seals’ 5
Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans5
Multilingual Environments in the Great War. JulianWalker and ChristopheDeclerq (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 255 pp. Hb (9781350141346) £95, Ebk (9781350141353) £85.50.5
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Trans* of color im/possibilities in trans language activism4
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A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom4
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Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions4
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The politics of conviviality: On‐the‐ground experiences from Spanish‐speaking Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London4
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Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan3
Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea3
Does waste make language?3
Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California3
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Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China3
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives3
Listening‐as, Listening‐for, and the Politics of Perception—Theirs and Ours3
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
Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine‐actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue‐collar work environments3
Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora3
Undoing raciolinguistics3
Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians2
Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore2
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
Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity2
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 (978019085572
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Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realities. RituJain, Ed. Series: Routledge multilingual Asia series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (97803672351922
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Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa2
Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities2
T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?2
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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
Horizontal Multilingualism: Interview with Shobha Satyanath2
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Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore1
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Artificial intelligence and the future of sociolinguistic research: An African contextual review1
Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers’ responses to variation in Irish1
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Lexical gaps and the corporeal index1
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China1
Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English1
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The Need to Create a “Virtual Campus”: Translingual Practice and Community Building in Virtual Linguistic Landscape1
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Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth‐century Spain1
The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research1
The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue1
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
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Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography1
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Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university1
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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
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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
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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
Syllable‐final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish0
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features0
Deshaciendo la raciolingüística10
Trans language activism from the Global South*0
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable0
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Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa0
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Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?0
On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish0
Listening as Self‐Positioning: Revisiting Inoue's Psychoanalytic Approach to the Listening Subject0
African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra0
Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation0
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
Clip Voice: Misogyny and the Renegotiation of a Gendered Vocal Style in Chinese Digital Discourse0
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“Making Society a Better Place”: Interview with Momoko Nakamura0
Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai0
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Practical steps toward making trans language activism better0
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Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido0
Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process0
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work0
Discourses of solidarity and resistance in alternative linguistic spaces: Galician improvised poetry as linguistic collective action0
“OK guys, thank you for coming today”: Indexicality, utterance events, and verbal rituals in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah0
What We Do with the Meanings We Make0
Language Ideologies of Racial Microaggression and Institutional Whiteness: Experiences of Chinese International Students in UK Higher Education0
The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London0
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“They always want to argue with you”: Navigating raciolinguistic ideologies at airport security0
“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians1”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history0
Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far‐right policy proposals in Bundestag debates0
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What Does Fear Sound Like? Voice Pitch, Cognitive Frames, and Perceptions of Domestic Abuse Victimization0
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
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
Accommodation, translanguaging, and (in)discreteness in the repertoire: A scalar‐chronotopic approach0
A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s0
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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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
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Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War0
The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice0
Machines built out of other people's words: Comment on Helen Kelly‐Holmes’ discussion article0
Sumud Pedagogy as Linguistic Citizenship: A World‐Building Semiotics Where Languages Are Used “Otherwise”0
The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception: Transgender Identity Affects Sibilant Categorization in American English0
Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. VirginiaUnamuno, CarolinaGandulfo, and HéctorAndreani (E0
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Minority language maintenance and the production‐prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish0
Stance in narration: Finding structure in complex sociolinguistic variation0
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
Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis0
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Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape0
List of reviewers (January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022)0
(Socio)linguistics and generative AI: Taking the reins as researchers and steering its use toward ethical outcomes0
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Fairness, Relationship, and Identity Construction in Human–AI Interaction0
“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India0
A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language0
Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop0
“Shake well before using”: The dialectics of Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)0
Geographies and circulations: Sign language contact at the peripheries0
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
Perception Is Political: The Production–Perception Interface as a Contested Site of Power and Legibility0
Hierarchies and Constellations: Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Signed Languages0
Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino‐americano0
“You Speak Well for an Anglophone”: Resisting the Processes of Delegitimation and Developing Linguistic Security0
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
Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system0
The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation0
Language is not a data set—Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI0
Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. RajendMesthrie, EllenHurst‐Harosh and HeatherBrookes (Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. 205pp. Hardback (9781107171206) 0
We /r/ Tongan, not American: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Tongan English0
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder0
List of Reviewers (January 1 2021–December 31, 2021)0
U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style0
Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers0
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
Languaging Hope in Adverse and Gloomy Scenarios0
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
The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation0
Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows0
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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
Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space0
Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool0
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan: An examination of panel speakers’ life stories0
Artificial intelligence and the future of our sociolinguistic work0
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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Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage0
Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek0
Tongues of abstraction – Intentionality in trans language activism0
“You Have to Keep Fighting”: Interview with John R. Rickford0
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
Reimagining Accents and Speech Recognition with Sociolinguistic Perception Studies and Research on Listening Subjects0
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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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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China0
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Claiming the research expertise on human–GenAI interaction for sociolinguistics0
The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South0
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness0
Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization0
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Correction to “Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation”0
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Commentary: Sociolinguistics of diaspora0
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
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Voicing expertise: Exploring strategic use of vowel variants in the English pronunciation of Chinese language instructors0
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 globalization of local indexicalities through music: African‐American English and the blues0
AI, power and sociolinguistics0
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Undoing raciolinguistics, unsettling (socio)linguistics0
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
Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics0
‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens0
Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds0
Theorizing trans language activism for euphoric transmutation and our collective liberation*0
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Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste0
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies0
Beyond “correctness”0
Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in Serbia0
In‐Group/Out‐Group Dynamics, Contrast, and the Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception0
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment0
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
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