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Language in Society is an international journal of #sociolinguistics concerned with #language and #discourse as aspects of social life. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society

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The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’ | Language in Society | Cambridge Core The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’ - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’" by Martha Sif Karrebæk & Marie Maegaard

#Food #Authentication #Nostalgia #Exotization #SemioticLandscapeAnalysis
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The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows | Language in Society | Cambridge Core The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows" by Leonie Cornips

#IntraspeciesAndInterspeciesInteractions #SemioticRepertoire #Assemblage #DairyCows #Practices
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Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong" by Jiapei Gu & Janet Ho

#SocialExclusion #HongKong #AfricanImmigrants #VerbalRejection #NonVerbalRejection #Racism #Raciolinguistics
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Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy" by @marcosantello.bsky.social

#Migration #Constraints #Gambia #Italy
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Asking about bias: Managing the sensitivities of voir dire questioning | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Asking about bias: Managing the sensitivities of voir dire questioning

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"Asking about bias: Managing the sensitivities of voir dire questioning" by Steven E. Clayman, Matthew P. Fox

#Questions #Law #VoirDire #Juries #SocialDesirabilityBias #ConversationAnalysis
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Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market" by Mireille McLaughlin

#SocialClass #Raciolinguistics #Work #LanguageIdeologies #FrancophoneCanada #Bilingualism
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Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong" by Dennis Chau

#LanguageIdeologies #LinguisticRidicule #OrdersOfIndexicality #Polycentricity #SocialMedia #HongKong
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Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity" by @sdovchin.bsky.social

#Translingualism #Playfulness #Precarity
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Towards a New Chapter for Language in Society | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Towards a New Chapter for Language in Society - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Towards a New Chapter for Language in Society" by Susan Ehrlich & Tommaso M. Milani

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Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence - Volume 54 Issue 3

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"Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa

#Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures
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Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish - Volume 54 Issue 3

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"Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish" by Luke Lu

#Enregisterment #Singlish #Singapore #Sociolinguistics #LanguageIdeologicalDebates
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Marginalization, ‘Lee Kuan Yew’, and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Marginalization, ‘Lee Kuan Yew’, and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign

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"Marginalization, ‘Lee Kuan Yew’, and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign" by Luke Lu & Chien Wen Kung

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#CollectiveRemembering #MandarinPolicy

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Language in Society: Volume 54 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - Language in Society - Volume 54 - Issue 4

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The liminal (vowel) space of womanhood: Fundamental frequency, formants, and the intersex body in Brazil | Language in Society | Cambridge Core The liminal (vowel) space of womanhood: Fundamental frequency, formants, and the intersex body in Brazil - Volume 54 Issue 3

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"The liminal (vowel) space of womanhood: Fundamental frequency, formants, and the intersex body in Brazil" by Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello

#BrazilianPortuguese #FundamentalFrequency #Gender #Intersex #TurnerSyndrome #VowelFormants #CriticalIntersexStudies
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Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference: Experiences of African women in the African diaspora | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference: Experiences of African women in the African diaspora - Volume 54 Issue 3

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"Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference: Experiences of African women in the African diaspora" by Gorrety Nafula Wawire

#BlackImmigrantWomen #Solidarity #StanceTaking #ScalingAndDeixisDifference #AfricanDiaspora #Intersectionality
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Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater - Volume 54 Issue 3

"Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater" by Tomi Visakko

#Voice #Entextualization #Interdiscursivity #Ethnicity #Raciolinguistics #Theater
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Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media - Volume 54 Issue 3

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'Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media" by Xiaowei May Li
#NikkiLilly #Embodiment #Multimodality #PresentationalMedia #Disability #Ordinariness #Normativity
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Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions

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"Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions" by Adriana Patiño-Santos & Marie-Anne Mansfield

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#FamilyLanguageBiographies #Catalan #English #Anticipation #Futurity

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Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964–1972 | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964–1972 - Volume 54 Issue 3

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"Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964–1972" by Jamie Duncan
#Sociolinguistics #Ethnography #Literacy #Reading #CulturalDeprivationTheory
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William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) | Language in Society | Cambridge Core William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) - Volume 54 Issue 3

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OBITUARY
"William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024)" by Penelope Eckert
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"On ‘doing being moral’ in the research interview" by
Robert William Schrauf & Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez

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#NarrativeAnalysis #Indexicality #Disaster #SemistructuredInterview #SocialScienceInterview #Morality #Ethics #NomicCalibration

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Collective remembering and necropolitical discourse: The American War in Vietnam commemorated | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Collective remembering and necropolitical discourse: The American War in Vietnam commemorated

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

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#NecropoliticalDiscourse #VietnamWar #CMDA #CollectiveRemembering #LieuDeDispute

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Between confrontation and mutual non-interference: Interactional (dis)alignment in openings of encounters between police and copwatchers | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Between confrontation and mutual non-interference: Interactional (dis)alignment in openings of encounters between police and copwatchers

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"Between confrontation and mutual non-interference: Interactional (dis)alignment in openings of encounters between police and copwatchers" by Uwe-A. Küttner, Elliott M. Hoey

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#CA #Openings #Police #Copwatching #VideoRecording #Disalignment #Disagreement

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“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other | Language in Society | Cambridge Core “Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other

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

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#Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan

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Other-language recalibration repair in broadcast news interviews in Rwanda: Relating to the overhearing audience | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Other-language recalibration repair in broadcast news interviews in Rwanda: Relating to the overhearing audience

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

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#NewsInterviews #OtherLanguageRecalibration #Repair #OverhearingAudience #StructuralOrganisation

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Language in Society | Cambridge Core Language in Society - Professor Susan Ehrlich, Professor Tommaso Milani

Language in Society is now Research Open! This means that all forthcoming research articles will be published under Creative Commons licenses and will be freely available to read online.

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Language in Society | Cambridge Core Language in Society - Professor Susan Ehrlich, Professor Tommaso Milani

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Opening before closing: The porosity of encounters-in-a-series | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Opening before closing: The porosity of encounters-in-a-series

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

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#SocialInteraction #ConversationAnalysis #Multimodality #OverallStructuralOrganization #Opening #Closing #Encounters-in-a-series #Porosity

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The communicative dynamics of diasporic affect in a conflict-affected community: The case of Greek-Cypriot diaspora | Language in Society | Cambridge Core The communicative dynamics of diasporic affect in a conflict-affected community: The case of Greek-Cypriot diaspora

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

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#Affect #Conflict #Interaction #Belonging

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Held to account: Comparing adversarial questioning in remote and in-person parole hearings | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Held to account: Comparing adversarial questioning in remote and in-person parole hearings

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"Held to account: Comparing adversarial questioning in remote and in-person parole hearings" by David Peplow & @jakephillips.bsky.social

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#Accounts #AdversarialQuestioning #ConversationAnalysis #Parole #Responsibility

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