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Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Christian Ilbury, Jack Grieve, David Hall
Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that ‘urban contact dialects’ tend to diffuse beyond the speech communities in which they first emerge. However, no research has attempted to explore the distribution of these varieties across an entire nation nor isolate the social mechanisms that propel their spread. In this paper, we use a corpus of 1.8 billion geo‐tagged tweets to explore the spread of
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Undoing raciolinguistics Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa
In this commentary, we discuss common pitfalls associated with the study of race and language, focusing specifically on the recent emergence of raciolinguistics as a frame for these efforts. We examine how raciolinguistics can be taken up in ways that silo discussions of race from the rest of linguistics—as something that the “raciolinguists” do—such that careful study of issues including colonialism
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Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Cécile B. Vigouroux
Why this text? Why now? These are two questions that Flores and Rosa's article prompted on my mind. The paper sounds like a ‘tune up’, if not a recalibration, of the raciolinguistic perspective (RP) that the two authors see drifting away from its original ambitions, which can be summarized as (1) to account for the co-naturalization of language and race and how the process is achieved semiotically;
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Troubling sociolinguistics practice and the coloniality of universalism Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Finex Ndhlovu
The quite contemporary epistemological postures that are critical of the dominance of Euro-modernist knowledge traditions are sometimes guilty of inadvertently perpetuating the very same hegemonies they seek to unsettle. For this reason, the intervention by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa is timely and relevant. In re-assessing the “common sense” assumptions that belie the concept of “raciolinguistics
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Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Ian Cushing
1 LAS ANSIEDADES SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICAS En 2023, me invitaron a dar una charla sobre el resurgimiento del pensamiento deficitario en las escuelas de Inglaterra y cómo las políticas educativas contemporáneas reproducen ideologías raciolingüísticas, las cuales enmarcan las prácticas lingüísticas de les niñes racializades y de clase trabajadora como si estuvieran sufriendo de carencias debilitantes. Después
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A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Ian Cushing
1 SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANXIETIES In 2023, I was invited to give a talk on the resurgence of deficit thinking in England's schools, and how contemporary education policies reproduce raciolinguistic ideologies which frame the language practices of working-class and racialised children as suffering from debilitating absences. After my talk, a White male professor commented that this was more about class than
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Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics? Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Wesley Y. Leonard
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT I have no conflicts of interest.
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Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Brian W. King
Flores and Rosa, in their leading piece, state that one of their main motivations in “undoing” raciolinguistics is their wariness of it becoming siloed as something “raciolinguists” do. As a sociolinguist whose work is primarily classified (with my consent) as various admixtures of queer linguistics, feminist linguistics, and (in my work bridging sociolinguistics and intersex studies) embodied sociolinguistics
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Deshaciendo la raciolingüística1 Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa
En este comentario, discutimos las trampas comunes asociadas con el estudio de la raza y el lenguaje, centrándonos específicamente en la reciente aparición de la raciolingüística como marco para estos esfuerzos. Examinamos cómo la raciolingüística puede ser abordada de maneras que aíslan las discusiones sobre la raza del resto de la lingüística -como si fuera algo que solo hacen los “raciolingüistas”-
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Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Flores and Rosa's proposition of a raciolinguistic approach provides an important political, historical, relational, and sensorial framework for understanding how people become raced and how social action becomes interpretable through a racialized lens. I build on this analysis to underscore the need for scholarship of race and language to consider a multidimensional analysis that is dynamic, historical
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Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino-americano Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Luanda Rejane Soares Sito
DECLARAÇÃO DE CONFLITO DE INTERESSES A autora declara que não tem conflito de interesses.
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The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Luanda Rejane Soares Sito
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Hanna-Mari Pienimäki, Tuomas Väisänen, Tuomo Hiippala
This article explores the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes at three linguistically diverse neighborhoods in Helsinki, Finland. The three sites were selected for qualitative fieldwork using a method that combines social media and population registry data with quantitative measures of diversity and spatial analytics. The article demonstrates how each site is characterized
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Syllable-final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Craig Welker
This study of syllable-final /s/ reduction in a 55-speaker corpus of Spanish in Juchitán, México, a contact variety, uses both language contact and social processes to explain its results. Contact with the indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language leads to decreased rates of syllable-final /s/ retention, creating a locally salient n+1-order index between “Zapotecness” and /s/ reduction that influences the
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“They always want to argue with you”: Navigating raciolinguistic ideologies at airport security Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Pippa Sterk
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Dutch public discourse promotes a self-image of the Netherlands as ‘innocently’ post-racial, a place where distinctions are drawn based on cultural differences rather than bodily characteristics. However, this innocence is called into question when groups or individuals, who culturally, legally and linguistically ‘fit’ within the Netherlands, are still racialised
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The vowel space as sociolinguistic sign Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Teresa Pratt
This paper examines variation in vowel space area and its use in social meaning making. Among adolescents at a California high school, patterns of difference in vowel space correlate to social practices of exclusion in the partying scene, albeit alongside explicit discourses of high school social life as inclusive and fluid. I treat vowel space as a sociolinguistic sign, that is, a holistic semiotic
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“OK guys, thank you for coming today”: Indexicality, utterance events, and verbal rituals in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Chaim Noy
This ethnography looks at the indexical function of several brief utterances, routinely employed by a Palestinian speechmaker, in the Sheikh Jarrah protest in East Jerusalem. Following Silverstein's contributions to the indexically based theory of (meta)pragmatics, “creative” and nonreferential utterances are examined at the utterance event level, in relation to the speech event level, and more generally
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The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African-American English and the blues Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Romeo De Timmerman, Ludovic De Cuypere, Stef Slembrouck
This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African-American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live-performed blues music: /aɪ/ monophthongization, post-consonantal
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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 James Costa
This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic change in Southern France after the Second World War. This
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The origin of semilingualism: Nils-Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 David Karlander, Linus Salö
‘Semilingualism’ is one of the most questionable theories produced in the language sciences. Yet, little is known about its origins. We present a critical account of the history of semilingualism, tracing its roots in the work of Nils Erik Hansegård, (1918–2002), inaugural chair of Sámi at Umeå University (1975–1979), who developed a theory of semilingualism (halvspråkighet) in the 1960s. We show how
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Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Laurence Buson, Aurélie Nardy, Isabelle Rousset, Chenxi Zhang
This article explores the question of style in a school community, through negation use among the adults and children in a French preschool. Thirteen adults and 61 pupils aged 3–6 years were followed over a period of 2.5 years. The findings draw on a corpus of oral data collected in an unsupervised manner and comprising almost 640,000 transcribed words (428,100 for the children and 210,241 for the
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Correction to “Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation” Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-01-24
Palfreyman, N., & Schembri, A. (2022). Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26, 105–112. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12524 The article was published without an Acknowledgements section. We apologize for this error.
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Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Matthew John Hadodo
Language users discursively circulate ideologies of identity, especially in stances taken while assigning social characteristics to enregistered personae. Previous research has demonstrated that with the Istanbul Greek (IG) diaspora, speakers use the emic terms of Ellines and Romioi to orient to or away from Mainland Greeks, respectively. In this paper, I discuss how IGs in Turkey relate such ethnonyms
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“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians1”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Aleksandar Takovski
Grandparents’ World War Two (WWII) stories are emotionally powerful, intimate accounts of firsthand experience that can shape grandchildren's ideas of state history, nation, and identity. This effect, I argue, manifests most intensively in critical times when national history and identity are threatened. Such was the case when former Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev relayed a controversial version
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Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Kristian Tamtomo, Zane Goebel
This article shows that a perspective rooted in Bakhtin's dialogism between the fixed centripetal and fluid centrifugal forces of language and culture is useful in achieving a nuanced understanding of globalization in general and semiotic landscapes in Indonesia in particular. Drawing on data from Indonesia, this article shows dialogic interconnections between fixed and fluid notions of languages and
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Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Jordan Andrew MacKenzie
This study argues that spice talk, a register that indexes spices as exotic, is one linguistic instantiation of the discourse of Orientalism. I identify the presence of this register from the advent of the Spice Trade to the present, then provide a case study of its use in cooking show programs by British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, whose Orientalist description of the spices and foods she prepares
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The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Mireille K. McLaughlin
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Tom Lewis
This article presents an analysis of the role of social networks in shaping patterns of /æ/ realization among Latinxs in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Social network metrics are shown to be statistically significant predictors of pre-nasal /æ/ tensing. I argue that social network metrics operationalize important aspects of the sociolinguistic context and contribute to our understanding of factors influencing
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Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Nina Dobrushina
Studies of multilingual systems found in Indigenous small-scale communities often assume that exogamous marriages are the norm in such societies and contribute to their linguistic diversity. This paper is an account of the language ideology of endogamous societies in rural highland Daghestan (Northeast Caucasus). By studying language policing and language choice in infrequent mixed marriages, the paper
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Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Matthew Hunt, Colleen Cotter, Hazel Pearson, Linnaea Stockall
Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of
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The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Rachelle Vessey, Elena Nicolai
In the globalized economy, multilingualism is increasingly perceived as a way of maximizing competitiveness, even in the family home. In the United Kingdom, multilingualism has become an asset for nannies, granting privileged access to a niche job market. Adopting the theoretical lens of language ideology, we identify sites and forms of language evaluation within the nannies’ discursive construction
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Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth-century Spain Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Amado Alarcón Alarcón, Maria Jesús Muiños Villaverde, Maria de los Ángeles Serrano Alonso, Josiah Heyman
This article analyses the role of linguistic skills in the process of defining professional classifications in Spain during 1919–1980. The aim is to determine the social evaluation of the skills involved. To retrace the classifications, a total of 114 official documents were examined, establishing a chronological division into three major stages: 1920–1940, 1940–1960 and 1960–1980. The first period
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Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 J. Calder, Sharese King
/s/ frontness is one of the most robustly studied linguistic variables in language and gender research. While much previous literature has established the pattern that women produce fronter /s/ than men, production work on /s/ has either largely focused on White speakers or left speaker race unexplored. This article addresses this gap by examining the production of /s/ among African American and White
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Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Shigeko Okamoto, Maho Morimoto
The observation that gender differences in Japanese language use are becoming less prevalent as women increasingly use ‘men's language’ appears in popular media from time to time. Some empirical studies support this view. However, such observations are usually based on the consideration of only one or two linguistic features, especially sentence-final forms and personal pronouns. In contrast, this
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Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Vincent Pak
Pink Dot, a homegrown LGBTQ activist group based in Singapore, has been treated as a social movement since its inauguration in 2009, and they organise an annual event to advocate for LGBTQ individuals. In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the twelfth edition of the event (PD12) took place online as a livestream on YouTube. The highlight of PD12 was the unveiling of a ‘digital pink dot’ via a virtual
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Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine-actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue-collar work environments Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Daan Hovens
A central concern in sociolinguistic ethnographies has been how people use language to make social distinctions. This article discusses the relevance of paying closer attention to the role of machines as actants in communication and social distinction-making processes. It analyses audio and video-recorded workplace interactions between humans and machines in a metal foundry in the Dutch-German borderland
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“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Katy Highet
Through its colonial, class- and caste-based history, English in India has come to be seen as a powerful resource that opens doors for those who ‘have’ it and holds back those who do not. For women, English ostensibly offers various promises in addition to employment: progressiveness and ‘empowerment’; and the potential for upward mobility through marriage. Yet, the conversion of English capital for
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Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Agurtzane Elordui, Jokin Aiestaran
This article analyses vernacularisation as a sociolinguistic change that brings with it an ideological fracturing of previous standard/vernacular indexical relations. It considers this ideological shift in the polycentric environment of social networks as mediated spaces where the values and functions of languages and varieties are re-evaluated and brought together. We argue that Instagram is a fertile
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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) 158 USD, Ebook (9789027259813) 158 USD Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Clara Molina
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Lexical gaps and the corporeal index Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Annabelle Mooney
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Does waste make language? Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Joshua Reno
In Thurlow's (2022) paper in this journal, he offers an innovative approach to combining discard studies and sociolinguistics. Many of the examples are about language creating waste in different ways. In this response, I explore the opposite possibility—that is, how waste could be said to create language in turn. I do so with specific attention to how sociolinguistics can be approached through what
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U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Christian Ilbury
Sociolinguistic research has increasingly explored the ways in which semiotic features are variably recruited to stylistically perform enregistered social personae. In this paper, I add to this body of work by exploring the emergence of a stereotypically feminine style and persona that is widespread in British social media. Specifically, I examine the prevalence of non-standard spellings (e.g., darling
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Trash talk: Language as waste practice Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Crispin Thurlow
(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
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Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Kim Schoofs, Dorien Van De Mieroop
Sociolinguistics can help us grasp how collective memory cultures are (in part) shaped by representations of historic events through varied linguistic – and other – sources (e.g. education, news media, conversations and museum displays). In this study, we specifically zoom in on the curatorial selection process of a Belgian Second World War (WWII) memorial museum, whilst simultaneously exploring the
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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, Paperback (9781788925280) 49.95 USD, Ebook (9781788925310) 40 USD Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Noel B. Salazar
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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 (9780367235192) 160 USD, Paperback (9781032000435) 44.95 USD, Ebook (9780429280146) 40.45 USD Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Wendy D. Bokhorst‐Heng
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Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far-right policy proposals in Bundestag debates Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 J Sterphone
During talk, parliamentarians (re)negotiate the boundaries of mainstream and marginal politics. With far-right parties in parliament(s) in force, center-right parties—especially those that have coopted far-right stances—must establish and maintain their position within the political mainstream, while ostracizing and marginalizing neighboring positions from the far-right. Drawing on video data of policy
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The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese
In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research, which utilizes the tools and methods of the theatre. Taking as an example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in the UK, we discuss the process of creating drama from material observed as social practice. Drawing on observations
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Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Amelia Tseng, Lars Hinrichs
Diaspora offers a fruitful and narrower approach to language and mobility than the study of globalization. By making the historical footprint of mobility evident, diaspora allows analysts to identify the tension between ideologies of language and ethnonational belonging, and patterns of mobility that destabilize them. This special issue features a series of case studies of that tension and its linguistic
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The politics of conviviality: On-the-ground experiences from Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Rosina Márquez Reiter, Adriana Patiño-Santos
This paper aims to contribute to studies of social relations among Spanish-speaking Latin Americans (SsLAs) in the London-based diaspora. In public discourse, members of this social group present themselves as an “ethnic community.” However, reported tensions among themselves suggest that this image of unity is not necessarily consonant with their on-the-ground experiences of one another in diaspora
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Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Devyani Sharma
Studies of generational dialect change in diaspora communities have tended to find that local forces outweigh transnational ones: parent varieties are rejected as too saliently foreign, and transnational effects fade in later generations. Examining the speech of second-generation British Asians, I document this initial shift away from the low status of Indian English, but also unexpected long-distance
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Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Rajend Mesthrie
This paper focuses on (a) a period of forced and semi-forced migration to newly established colonies under slavery and indenture in the era of European imperialism; and (b) a post-independence period of economic migration involving voluntary movements of large numbers of individuals to those colonies. It will show that there is no one-size-fits-all outcome regarding the linguistics of migration. Rather
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Commentary: Sociolinguistics of diaspora Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Cécile B. Vigouroux, Salikoko S. Mufwene
In this commentary we respond to the articles of this special issue focusing on the proposal for a sociolinguistics of diaspora. We discuss especially whether diaspora as conceptualized in the articles helps sociolinguists better understand the intersection of migration, globalization, and language. Central to our comments is the question of whether the concept of diaspora is operationalized clearly
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Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Annelies Kusters, Ceil Lucas
The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes—are of immediate relevance to sign languages. At the same time, sign language researchers using a range of data sources and methods (e.g., sign language corpora, linguistic
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Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Lynn Hou,Connie Vos
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Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Nick Palfreyman,Adam Schembri
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Geographies and circulations: Sign language contact at the peripheries Journal of Sociolinguistics (IF 1.587) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Robert Adam,Ben Braithwaite