Journal of Sociolinguistics

Thanks so much for such thoughtful review of our work!

Our book symposiums are a brilliant way to not only get insight into important, recent work in our field - they're an opportunity to join a wider conversation in the field. Join us!

More Seats at the Table: Bringing Linguistics Behind Bars Click on the article title to read more.

Finally, Dominique Branson offers a powerful commentary on inclusivity and racial justice, from the perspective of working at the intersection of language and race in the US criminal legal system 👇
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Descolonizando Decolonizing Linguistics, or the Perils of Refusing Pero no Mucho Tshekatsheko eno e e tseneletseng ya Decolonizing Linguistics e baya kgatiso eno mo gare ga dikganetsano tsa Amerika Borwa ka ga sekolone go botsolotsa melelwane ya dipuisano tsa segompieno tsa go tl...

Rodrigo Borba's beautifully written essay unearthes the contradictions of the decolonial project, warning us against the narcisism of academia, and asking how we can "open cracks in the academic mirror" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ungrammatical Selves Click on the article title to read more.

Vincent Pak reflects on 'ungrammaticality' in the field of linguistics, asking why "the welcoming of ‘broken’ rules in language is not extended to linguists themselves" 👇
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African Perspectives on Decolonising Linguistics Click on the article title to read more.

Felix Banda argues for African perspectives in decolonising linguistics, offering practical suggestions to "create equitable spaces between Global Souths and Global Norths epistemologies": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Retrieving the Body in Linguistics Click on the article title to read more.

Tsung-Lun Alan Wan's 'Retrieving the Body in Linguistics' is a powerful account of recent of the contributions that crip linguistics offers to our field 👇
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Articulating Our Vision and Claiming Our Place: Personal Reflections on Language, Linguistics, and the Academy Click on the article title to read more.

Secondly, check out our Book Symposium, where scholars across the field discuss recent publications on inclusive and decolonial perspectives in linguistics. It begins with Erica Britt's thoughtful reflection on inclusivity and positionality:
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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body o...

First up, @christianilbury.bsky.social and Rianna Walcott explore how AAVE features get digitally recontextualised as "Tiktok" language 👇
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Looking for some reading to start your week? Check out this week's early view offerings from the Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📚

Deborah Cameron (1958–2026) Click on the article title to read more.

The Journal of Sociolinguistics Editorial Board were saddened to learn of Deborah Cameron's passing earlier this year. We are grateful to Don Kulick for writing this obituary - a moving account of Debbie's brilliance, and a friendship that spanned decades:

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Forging the Future of Sociolinguistics: The Expanding Pluriverse of Language and Social Justice Click on the article title to read more.

❓What can a social-justice oriented, pluriversal sociolinguistics look like? @yecidortega.bsky.social reflects on this question in his review essay of 3 brilliant new books on critical sociolinguistics, language & social justice. Early view version here! 👇

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Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 30, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

... and 3 fantastic book review essays on dialect studies, Kurdish language politics and linguistic landscapes, as well as an author interview on Language as Hope 🙌. Not to be missed!

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... voice pitch variation and perceptions of domestic abuse victims, Gender-inclusive language on German youth radio, and self-referential speech of Taiwanese politicians! We have two fantastic interviews with Bill Labov (H. Samy Alim) and Momoko Nakamura (Mie Haramoto)... (2/3)

🥳 The latest issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics is here! February's issue contains a brilliant and wide-ranging set of orginial research in Sociolinguistics, including the indexicality of 'bad' schools in Chicago, variable ING in Australian indigenous boarding schools... (1/3)

Sociolinguistics in Practice: Interview With Penelope Eckert In this interview, Penelope Eckert discusses her life experiences and career as a linguist. Eckert describes a lifelong fascination with language, from her earliest observations of stylistic variatio...

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🚨Not to be missed! Check out Annette D'onofrio's interview with Penelope Eckert, who reflects on her pioneering ethnographic work in schools, her 'ground up' approach to research, and what it means to be doing sociolinguistic research in times like these. A bold and brilliant interview! 👇

❓What can an intersectional approach to reverse linguistic stereotyping tell us about the raciolinguistic and misogynistic complexities of language proficiency in Italy? Check out Gabriella Licata's paper available through early view this month 👇
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Languaging Hope in Adverse and Gloomy Scenarios Click on the article title to read more.

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Book prize announcement from the American association of applied linguistics

🎉Huge congratulations to our associate editor Daniel Silva @dnsfortal.bsky.social and Jerry Won Lee for this very well deserved prize!! 🏆

Check out Branca Falabella Fabricio’s transcribed interview with the authors just out in this month’s issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics! 👇

Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on…

Early view paper available open access ! 🙌 Read Xiao, Wang and Ying's study of how language becomes a marker of racialised belonging and exclusion for Chinese international students pre- and post-migration to the US 👇
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Last week @clrnance.bsky.social was on BBC Radio Lancashire and Radio Cumbria talking about rhoticity and accent change. If you’re in the UK, you can still catch up on the segment!

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🚨 New JoS publication just out on early view! Check out Becker, @montreallx.bsky.social, Petty & @parkerjscarpa.bsky.social’ exploration of #uptalk, indexical field and social personae in the US. Link below 👇

Articulating Shala Qazaq in America: Chronotopes and Language Ideologies in Central Asian Kazakh Families This article examines how Central Asian Kazakh families in California draw on spatial–temporal chronotopes, including Soviet legacies, diasporic minority governance, post-independence nation-building...

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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 👇

Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th-century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur,...

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 🏭!

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Linguistic identity in times of crisis: The roles of the Ukrainian and Russian languages in the lives of Ukrainian war refugees | Lingoblog In Ukraine, being a bilingual who speaks both Russian and Ukrainian is such a ‘normal’ thing that many people hesitate to even call themselves bilinguals. As

A small sociolinguistic study of attitudes toward Russian and Ukrainian in relation to whether speakers changed into speaking Ukrainian: www.lingoblog.dk/en/linguisti...
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Cross-Journal Symposium on Listening Practices and Linguistic Perception: Wiley Online Library Virtual Issues Click on the title to browse this issue

And don’t forget to check out the full symposium here:

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Cross Journal Symposium: Dr. Annette D'Onofrio & Dr. Diego Arispe-Bazán YouTube video by Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

🎤 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! 👇

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Thanks to Luisa Conti (University of Jena) and her Latin American Studies students for the video and for helping spread the campaign.