Language in Society

Language in Society is an international journal of #sociolinguistics concerned with #language and #discourse as aspects of social life.

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"Rethinking sociolinguistics beyond positivist anthropocentrism" by Leonie Cornips

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Collective remembering and necropolitical discourse: The American War in Vietnam commemorated" by Minh Nghia-Nguyen, Panayota Gounari

#NecropoliticalDiscourse #VietnamWar #CMDA #CollectiveRemembering #LieuDeDispute

https://t.co/Fm6kG3SubO

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other" by Hsi-Yao Su, @TsungLunOne, Wan-Hsin Ann Lee

#Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan
https://t.co/pN0MJUrrUz

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions" by Adriana Patiño-Santos & Marie-Anne Mansfield
#FamilyLanguageBio #CatalanChildrenRaisedInEnglish #Anticipation #Futurity
https://t.co/P4zR0YLeOs

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Other-language recalibration repair in broadcast news interviews in Rwanda: Relating to the overhearing audience" by Joseph Gafaranga

#NewsInterviews #OtherLanguageRecalibration #Repair #OverhearingAudience #StructuralOrganisation
https://t.co/tilD4F8R9X

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NEW FROM 55(4)

""On ‘doing being moral’ in the research interview"" by Robert William Schrauf & Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez

#NarrativeAnalysis #Indexicality #Disaster #SemistructuredInterview #Morality #Ethics #NomicCalibration
https://t.co/snIS72Nk25

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"“Community engagement just might finish us off”: Authenticity and commodification in ASL" by Erin Moriarty

#Authenticity #Commodification #MinoritizedLanguages #Neologisms
https://t.co/Q8NMEdNX81

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Between confrontation and mutual non-interference: Interactional (dis)alignment in openings of encounters between police and copwatchers" by Uwe-A. Küttner & @elliotthoey
#CA #Police #Copwatching #VideoRecording #Disalignment #Disagreement
https://t.co/rwM89FsQg5

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Opening before closing: The porosity of encounters-in-a-series" by Lorenza Mondada

#SocialInteraction #ConversationAnalysis #Multimodality #OverallStructuralOrganization #Opening #Closing #EncountersInASeries #Porosity
https://t.co/2s80f2Zhhb

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"“If you talk to someone under eighteen in the UK, you go to jail”: Exploring chronotopic identities of transnational Iranians on live streaming apps" by Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi & @DariushIzadi

https://t.co/9polgTobei
#OnlineComm #IranianDiaspora #NexusAnalysis

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NEW FROM 55(4)

"Deborah (Debbie) Cameron, 1958–2026" by Sally McConnell-Ginet
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NEW ISSUE 55(4)

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"From Afro-American anthropology to the ethnography of literacy: Conversations with John F. Szwed" by Jamie Duncan

https://t.co/pMkt09tQz8
#Afro-AmericanAnthropology #UrbanEthnography #Sociolinguistics #Writing #Reading #Literacies

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"The neurotypical listening subject in autistic young people’s accounts of participation in online affinity spaces" by @koteyko_nelya, Jessica Aiston, Martine Van Driel & Flo Bremner

https://t.co/K2iVpnX1w2

#LanguageIdeologies #MetapragmaticAwareness #Masking

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"Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English" by PraiseGod Aminu

https://t.co/oCyVjHgk6r
#AfricanLanguages #Colonialism #Coloniality #GenderInAfrica #NigerianCrossdressers #NigerianEnglish #Stance #Variation

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"‘To invest or divest’: Speculative bilingualism and meritocratic subjectivity in Chinese multinational corporations amid post-globalisation dynamics" by @Eleanor_GY

#PostGlobalisation #MultinationalCorporations #LanguageInvestment

https://t.co/g26SxgJXeQ

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"“SI NO HABLAS ESPAÑOL, ¡TE LARGAS!”: Language ideologies, stylization, and shaming of ‘no sabo kids’ on Caso Cerrado" by Sean McKinnon

#LanguageIdeologies #LanguageShaming #LanguagePanic #Personae #Enregisterment #SpanishInTheUS

https://t.co/JDl69ErpmY

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NEW FROM 55(3)

"The communicative dynamics of diasporic affect in a conflict-affected community: The case of Greek-Cypriot diaspora" by Constadina Charalambous, Michalinos Zembylas & Xanthia Aristidou

#Affect #Diaspora #Emotions #Interaction #Belonging
https://t.co/0G9Zjg0KgP

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NEW FROM 55(3)

"Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages" by @Iker_Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge

#StandardLanguage #AI #AuthorityInLanguage #BigTech #RAE
https://t.co/c16G6DjjSb

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NEW FROM 55(3)

"Against the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization and vernacular theories of language" by @KateSpowage

#LanguageIdeologies #Videogames #Postcolonialism
https://t.co/HmHRb1eqgs