Journal of Sociolinguistics
Publishes leading research on language and society. Follow us for info on new articles, theme issues, dialogues and more. EIC: Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
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- 📣 What is the figure of *Shala Qazaq* and how does this shape Kazakh family language ideologies and language policies in California? This #earlyview paper by Munira Kairat & Amy Kyratzis explores how transnational families use these figures to articulate social imaginaries and cultural continuity 👇
- Fancy some weekend reading on historical sociolinguistics? Check out our latest #earlyview paper by Claire Nance and Malika Mahamdi on accent change and derhoticisation in post-Industrial Revolution Lancashire 🏭! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- 🎤 Check out the 1st interview with contributors to our Cross Journal Symposium with @journaloflinganth.bsky.social on listening practices ✨ Watch Dr Annette D’Onofrio & Dr Diego Arispe-Bazán discuss the symposium articles & the history & future of the field here! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?si=auX...
- And don’t forget to check out the full symposium here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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- Reposted by Journal of SociolinguisticsIn Oct 2025, Rio police killed 117 men in the Alemão and Penha favelas—the deadliest operation in its history. I’m crowdfunding to support women who lost partners, sons, or fathers. Funds go directly to them. Please donate or share: ko-fi.com/danielsilva2...
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- Reposted by Journal of SociolinguisticsSame linguistic practice, completely different framing: raciolinguistics in action in Australian media. This matters because media framings shape public perceptions and policy, with real consequences for multilingual children, families and communities.
- Reposted by Journal of Sociolinguistics@htorsh.bsky.social Yanisa Jakklom and I analysed 85 Australian news articles and found a troubling double standard: when White monolingual children learn languages, it's celebrated as 'competitive advantage'. When racialised children are already multilingual, it's framed as deficit or threat.
- Reposted by Journal of SociolinguisticsNew publication alert! Out article 'Big Impact or No Advantage? Raciolinguistic Framings in Australian Media Coverage of Young People's Multilingualism' is now available in early online view in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social 🧵
- Happy New Year from the editors of the Journal of Sociolinguistics! 🌟 We’re excited to announce that this year our editorial team will grow. Katy Highet joins us as Reviews Editor and Teresa Pratt as Associate Editor. We also have a new and larger Editorial Board, soon to be announced! 🎉
- Please check out our website, and our recently published pieces, which includes Samy Alim’s exciting interview with William Labov!
- 📣 Just out! Don't miss H. Samy Alim's interview with the late William Labov. Interviewed originally in 1998, Alim provides a poignant reflection almost thirty years later on Labov's life and legacy, from his groundbreaking work to his commitment to social justice and to his students. Link below 👇
- New book review essay! 📝 How do we know when a dialect feature is “stabilised”? 🤔 Claire Cowie examines evidence for this through Sharma’s From Deficit to Dialect and Leuckert et al.’s Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Read it here 👉
- 🚨 New book review essay! Dimitris Kitis reviews two compelling books—Demet Arpacık's Beyond Language and Corinne A. Seals’ Choosing a Mother Tongue—in a new essay on Language, Identity and Neo-Imperial Power. Don’t miss it! 🔗
- New #OA article ✨ How do Taiwanese MPs use self-reference to navigate power and legitimacy? @tsunglunone.bsky.social explores how candidates with narrower electoral margins use formal běnxí to assert political legitimacy in his latest paper 👉 buff.ly/Yll9c7B. What do you think?
- Our November issue is out! 🍂 Explore the latest research in sociolinguistics here: 👉
- 🚨 Do not miss @laceywade.bsky.social's #OA contribution to our cross-journal symposium on Listening practices and Linguistic perception. How do in-/out-group contrasts shape the very act of listening—and the kind of subjects we become through speech perception? Find out more 👉
- 🚀 New Article! @luciafrai.bsky.social @celesterl.bsky.social @matthuntgardner.bsky.social, Glenys D Collard and James Walker examine social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English. What are the meanings associated with different realisations of (ING)? Find out 🔗 buff.ly/uaG8VoH
- Reposted by Journal of Sociolinguisticspaper to the dialogue section on Trans Language Activism in @jslx.bsky.social (#OpenAccess) introduce "euphoric transmutation", a form of language play emerging in safe(r) spaces. It consists of "survivorship testimonies, ritual language, language play, and counterhegemonic narratives" (26) and...
- 🎙️ Don’t miss Shobha Satyanath in conversation with Jaspal Singh in our new Interview Series! They discuss her work on language variation and change, and why some Western sociolinguistic frameworks fall short in capturing the multicultural fabric of Indian and Guyanese societies. 🔗
- 🎧 New cross-journal virtual issue! This collection brings together Inoue’s (2003) landmark article on listening subjects with 6 pieces from @journaloflinganth.bsky.social and JSLX. 9 early-career scholars share their commentaries—senior scholar responses coming soon. 🔗 Read here:
- Check out our new Interview series 🌟 In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics. 🔗
- What does fear sound like? 👂 @mchlinguistics.bsky.social explores how pitch variation indexes femininity in domestic abuse victimisation. Those who don't fit the "expected" sound of fear are perceived as less scared and less rational in heteronormative relationships. 🔗 Read here:
- Have you checked out our new Interview series yet? 🌟 Don't miss Mie Hiramoto talking to Momoko Nakamura about her influential career in Japanese sociolinguistics—exploring language, gender, and sexuality, and the importance of bridging academic research with public life. 🔗
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- 🤖 New Early View! In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity. 🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv
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- 🔊 New OA paper! ⚽️ Nicholas Henriksen & Lucas Rubin analyze how Andalusian soccer star Joaquín Sánchez uses /s/ and /θ/ to negotiate commonly stereotyped meanings associated with his regional identity—uneducated, informal, rural, humorous. Read here 👉
- 🚨 New OA article! What does it mean to have a "cute" voice? In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture. Read here: 👉
- 🎙️ New podcast episode! Can language make room for hope in difficult times? In Episode 10 of JSLX Conversations Branca Falabella Fabrício meets Daniel Silva & Jerry Won Lee to discuss their new book Language as Hope (Cambridge UP). 🎧 Listen now → buff.ly/nAwQpHw
- 🚨 New book review alert! Joshua Babcock, Benjamin Salinas and Rina Sugawara "Listening-as, Listening-for, and the Politics of Perception—Theirs and Ours" bring together two recent works on sounded experience and the politics of listening. 👉 What does it mean to listen? Read here:
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- ✨ New JSLX INTERVIEWS series In these conversations recently retired scholars reflect on their careers, share personal stories, and give unique insights into the history of sociolinguistics The first three feature Shobha Satyanath, John Rickford & Momoko Nakamura Now in Early View:
- 🤖 New Early View! In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity. 🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv
- 🌍 In "Sumud Pedagogy as Linguistic Citizenship” Muzna Awayed-Bishara explores how Palestinian Arabic-speaking youth in Haifa employ multilingual & semiotic resources to reject imposed subjectivities and imagine new modes of being, belonging, and knowing. 🔗 Read Open Access here:
- 📖 New in Journal of Sociolinguistics! @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social’s “Being and Understanding” reviews two recent works in Crip linguistics, highlighting how communication barriers shape participation and intelligibility. 👉 Read the Early View piece here:
- Reposted by Journal of Sociolinguistics@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Journal of Sociolinguistics📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia? Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies. Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97 Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge
- ☀️ We’ve been busy this summer! Explore our latest publications now available in the Early View papers section of the Journal of Sociolinguistics website. 🔗 [https://buff.ly/RsJy1kH ]
- 🚨 New publication! Haowei Luo & Hua Yu explore the virtual linguistic landscapes that shape a Virtual University Campus in Douban, China, where students connect to cope with shared struggles and resist dominant meritocratic narratives. Follow the link for more: 🔗 buff.ly/HOkq1Gc
- 🚀 New #OpenAccess Article! Gegentuul Baioud explores emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia. Find out more about linguistic hauntings at the margins of China 🔗 here: buff.ly/lBxn9LZ We loved it—what do you think?💭
- 🚨 New article now in early view ✍️ Maria Khachaturyan, George Moroz & Pé Mamy explore how speakers navigate grammar in multilingual settings. Find out more about how Mano and Kpelle speakers are sensitive to contact-induced grammatical variation here 👉 buff.ly/vY6cn8z
- 📚 New Open Access article! How do French speakers in British Columbia navigate linguistic identity? Marie-Eve Bouchard explores how legitimation—and delegitimation—shape experiences of linguistic (in)security within Francophone communities in our latest early view paper. 🔗 buff.ly/IhSbzns
- 📢 New Open Access Article! 💡 Devyani Sharma explores how speakers and listeners interpret each other's speech styles in real time in "The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation" Read it here 👉
- 📢 New Open Access Article! 📢 How do listeners perceive incongruity in voices? 🗣️🔍 Kyler Laycock & Kevin B. McGowan explore how a novel unhidden instruction condition using the Matched Guise Technique impacts listener awareness in their latest work. 🔓 Read it now:
- 🚨 New Article! 🚨 How do cisgender listeners perceive trans voices? A fascinating study by Emmett Jessee & J Calder explores how gender identity affects how certain sounds are categorised by listening subjects. 🎙️🔍 📖 Read the full article here:
- ⏰ Remember: Our Call for Proposals for Theme Series is still open! Have an idea that pushes the boundaries of sociolinguistics? Submit your proposal and shape the conversation. 🔗 buff.ly/4htwZs5
- 📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online 🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers. ECR & PhD students encouraged to join! 🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5
- 🚀 New #OpenAccess Article! 🚀 Alina Kamalova explores language ideologies in Kazakhstan’s social media during the Russian-Ukrainian war. 🇰🇿💬 What meanings are tied to shala-Kazakh and Russian online? Find out 🔗 here: [https://buff.ly/E2VSCoB ] We loved it—what do you think? 💭👇
- 🏳️⚧️ Have you read any of the articles in our collection on trans language activism? Discover them here:
- 🚨 Our February issue is here! Read thought-provoking articles on: 📌 Race & LGBTQ+ youth identities 📌 The embodiment of sexuality by signers & speakers 📌 A special theme issue on awareness in sociolinguistics See the full issue here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841...
- ✨ New OA article! Anna M. Babel explores semiotic approaches to social meaning in language, with insights from Quechua-Spanish contact in Bolivia 🇧🇴 and #Raciolinguistic perceptions of #Latinx students in U.S. schools 🇺🇸 📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12689 #Socioli…
- 🔍✨ Call for Proposals: Theme Series! Do you have an idea for a collection of original research articles? We’re looking for theme series that push the boundaries of sociolinguistics by raising new questions or sparking current debates. 🔗 Find out more & submit your proposal here: buff.ly/4htwZs5
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- 🤔💬 How do beliefs about a language register shape reactions to its features? Do people with strong or weak beliefs respond more intensely? 📖 Find out in @kathrynck.bsky.social’s new #OpenAccess paper! 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1111/josl.12691 #Sociolinguistics #Awareness #EarlyView
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- 🚀 New research out! In the latest #EarlyView papers from our upcoming Theme Series on Awareness in Sociolinguistics, @AnnaMBabel @kathrynck.bsky.social & @kbmcgowan.bsky.social explore the entanglements of language and social information. Enjoy! 🔗 Read here:
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- Curious about how we use our bodies to express social meanings and social identities? 🤔✨ Check out this Early View paper and let us know what you think! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #embodiment #signlanguage #sexuality 📚💬
- 🚨 Have you read our EARLY VIEW paper by @lucyjones.bsky.social yet? 👓 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/josl.... Don't miss it! 💡📖
- 🔵 In the context of invisible mediation and technologies, we face a number of fundamental challenges in terms of defining what is language. How do we deal now with technologically (co-)produced language that is both human and technological? Helen Kelly-Holmes thinks of AI in our latest SI.
