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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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“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments | Language in Society | Cambridge Core “And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments

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"“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments" by John Terry Dundon

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#InstitutionalDiscourse #LegalDiscourse #SCOTUS #MultipartyInteraction #Alignment

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Ethnolinguistic infusion: Community language socialization and reclamation without proficiency | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Ethnolinguistic infusion: Community language socialization and reclamation without proficiency

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"Ethnolinguistic infusion: Community language socialization and reclamation without proficiency" by @sarah-bunin-benor.bsky.social

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#HeritageLanguage #Hebrew #Loanwords #metalinguisticCommunity #postvernacularity #LanguageRevitalization

18.11.2025 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization" by @geraldroche.bsky.social & Jessica Kruk

#Deglobalization #Sovereignty #Neoliberalism #Coloniality #Securitization
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‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market | Language in Society | Cambridge Core ‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market" by Julia Modern

#DeafSpace #SignLanguage #LanguageCommunities
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Between silence and voicing out: Migrant organizations navigating online and offline realities | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Between silence and voicing out: Migrant organizations navigating online and offline realities

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"Between silence and voicing out: Migrant organizations navigating online and offline realities" by Yuyan Liang & Lydia Catedral

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#SocialMediaEngagement #GrassrootsOrganizing #Chronotope #IdentityConstruction #MediaIdeology #Materiality #Migrants'Rights

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New speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of linguistic conversion | Language in Society | Cambridge Core New speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of linguistic conversion

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"New speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of linguistic conversion" by Natalia Kudriavtseva

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#NewSpeakers #LanguageIdeologies #LinguisticConversion #Suržyk #LinguisticSafeSpaces #Russo-UkrainianWar

20.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy | Language in Society | Cambridge Core When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy" by Anssi Peräkylä, @liisavoutil.bsky.social, Mariel Wuolio, Arnulf Deppermann

#Self #Psychotherapy #Goffman #ConversationAnalysis
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Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia" by @armajlesi.bsky.social

#PeopleWithDementia #Co-operativeActions #ConversationAnalysis #Multimodality #Ethnomethodology #Intersubjectivity
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15.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation | Language in Society | Cambridge Core (Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation - Volume 54 Issue 4

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"(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation" by Andrea Beltrama & Florian Schwarz

#SocialMeaning #Personae #PragmaticReasoning #Precision #Numerals
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13.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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02.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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02.10.2025 00:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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22.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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18.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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