Journal of Sociolinguistics
@jslx.bsky.social
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 👇
January 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
📣 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 🏭!
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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,...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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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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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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
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January 22, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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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🎤 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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Watch Dr Annette D’Onofrio & Dr Diego Arispe-Bazán discuss the symposium articles & the history & future of the field here! 👇
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Cross Journal Symposium: Dr. Annette D'Onofrio & Dr. Diego Arispe-Bazán
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January 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM
🎤 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...
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...
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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.
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Thanks to Luisa Conti (University of Jena) and her Latin American Studies students for the video and for helping spread the campaign.
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In 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...
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
In 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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Big Impact or No Advantage? Raciolinguistic Framings in Australian Media Coverage of Young People's Multilingualism
This article examines Australian media coverage of childhood multilingualism and language education through 85 news articles published between 2013 and 2024 across major news outlets. Using a critica...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Same 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.
This matters because media framings shape public perceptions and policy, with real consequences for multilingual children, families and communities.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Same 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.
This matters because media framings shape public perceptions and policy, with real consequences for multilingual children, families and communities.
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@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.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
@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.
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New 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 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
New 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! 🎉
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! 🎉
January 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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! 🎉
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! 🎉
📣 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 👇
Link below 👇
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
📣 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 👇
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 👉
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 👉
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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 👉
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! 🔗
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! 🔗
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🚨 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! 🔗
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?
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?
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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?
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:
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Explore the latest research in sociolinguistics here:
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Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 29, No 5
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November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our November issue is out! 🍂
Explore the latest research in sociolinguistics here:
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Explore the latest research in sociolinguistics here:
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🚨 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 👉
Find out more 👉
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November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 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 👉
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
@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
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🚀 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
@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
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paper 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...
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
paper 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.
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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.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎙️ 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.
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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.
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🎧 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:
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:
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎧 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:
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.
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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.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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.
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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.
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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:
@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:
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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:
@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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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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Our article lead by Hanna-Mari Pienimäki with @thiip.bsky.social received an award for being a #TopViewedArticle in @jslx.bsky.social @wiley.com.
We explored the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes in 3 neighborhoods in #Helsinki.
📜 Article: doi.org/10.1111/josl...
We explored the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes in 3 neighborhoods in #Helsinki.
📜 Article: doi.org/10.1111/josl...
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Our article lead by Hanna-Mari Pienimäki with @thiip.bsky.social received an award for being a #TopViewedArticle in @jslx.bsky.social @wiley.com.
We explored the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes in 3 neighborhoods in #Helsinki.
📜 Article: doi.org/10.1111/josl...
We explored the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes in 3 neighborhoods in #Helsinki.
📜 Article: doi.org/10.1111/josl...