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.

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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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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.

@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.

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 🧵

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Please check out our website, and our recently published pieces, which includes Samy Alim’s exciting interview with William Labov!

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! 🎉

Honoring the Life, Legacy, and Linguistics of William Labov: A Conversation About Language, Race, Hip Hop, and the Education of Black Children This article honors the life, legacy, and linguistics of William Labov. It features a wide-ranging, candid conversation with Labov in 1998, when the field of African American Language was at multiple...

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📣 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.

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