Journal of Sociolinguistics

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?

Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 29, No 5 Click on the title to browse this issue

Our November issue is out! 🍂
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?

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🚀 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

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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🎧 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.
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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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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.

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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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The certificate I received for the article "Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape".

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...

really excellent paper if you've been wondering wtf is going on with AI marketing these days

Percio, A. D.. 2025. “ Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. doi.org/10.1111/josl...

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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.

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[Episode 10] Branca Fabrício meets Daniel Silva and Jerry Won Lee. A conversation about Language as Hope JSLX Conversations · Episode

🎙️ 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

Listening‐as, Listening‐for, and the Politics of Perception—Theirs and Ours Click on the article title to read more.

🚨 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:

September issue of @jslx.bsky.social is out with some very touching contributions @lhlew.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social #linguistics

✨ 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:

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...

@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

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

Really grateful to the editors of @jslx.bsky.social for this opportunity to write about Bill's legacy -- both scholarly and some personal -- from our perspective as 3 students from his later years. 🐦

w @laurelmack.bsky.social & Meredith Tamminga

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📢 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.
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🚨 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.

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