(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what a sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In the first two parts, I provide some general rationale and academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding the dirty places and raw lives of waste, sociolinguists obscure two important relations: first, the social worlds of people who live and work with/in waste; second, the social connection between “us” (as makers of waste) and those left to pick up the pieces. I briefly review the isolated precedents in sociocultural linguistics for attending to waste. In the third and fourth parts, I propose at least two ways sociolinguistics can contribute usefully and distinctively to discard studies. I start by offering two empirical vignettes concerned with the discursive creation and destruction of value. In this vein, and orienting to economic sociology, I argue that scholarship on stancetaking can helpfully pinpoint the processes of (e)valuation and valuation by which things are declared unworthy or “waste-able.” Against the backdrop of these initial propositions, the dialogue continues with commentaries by Jillian Cavanaugh, Annabelle Mooney, and Joshua Reno who contribute their own ideas about approaching waste from a decidedly (socio)linguistic angle.

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垃圾？设想废物的社会语言学

（英语）作为关于语言与浪费的精选对话的开幕词，本文考虑了废物的社会语言学可能是什么样子。在前两部分中，我提供了一些开始注意到浪费的一般理由和学术背景。通过避免垃圾的肮脏地方和原始生活，社会语言学家模糊了两个重要的关系：首先，与垃圾一起生活和工作的人的社会世界；其次，“我们”（作为废物制造者）与那些留下来收拾残局的人之间的社会联系。我简要回顾了社会文化语言学中处理浪费的孤立先例。在第三和第四部分中，我提出了至少两种社会语言学可以为废弃研究做出有用而独特的贡献。我首先提供两个关于价值的话语创造和破坏的经验性小插曲。在这方面，并以经济社会学为导向，我认为，关于立场的学术研究可以帮助确定（e）评估和评估过程，通过这些过程，事物被宣布为不值得或“可浪费的”。在这些初步提议的背景下，对话继续进行，Jillian Cavanaugh、Annabelle Mooney 和 Joshua Reno 发表了评论，他们从明确的（社会）语言角度提出了自己关于处理浪费的想法。