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Language in Society
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Language in Society is an international journal of #sociolinguistics concerned with #language and #discourse as aspects of social life.

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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
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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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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"Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization" by @geraldroche.bsky.social & Jessica Kruk

#Deglobalization #Sovereignty #Neoliberalism #Coloniality #Securitization
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Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization - Volume 54 Issue 4
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October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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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‘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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October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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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
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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October 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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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
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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October 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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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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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October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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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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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October 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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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(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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October 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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 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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October 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows" by Leonie Cornips

#IntraspeciesAndInterspeciesInteractions #SemioticRepertoire #Assemblage #DairyCows #Practices
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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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October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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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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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October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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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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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October 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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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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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October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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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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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October 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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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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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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September 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity" by @sdovchin.bsky.social

#Translingualism #Playfulness #Precarity
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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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September 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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NEW EDITORS' NOTE FROM 54(4)

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

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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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September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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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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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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September 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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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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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September 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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
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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September 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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NEW ISSUE 54(4)

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Cambridge Core - Language in Society - Volume 54 - Issue 4
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September 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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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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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September 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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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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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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September 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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"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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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
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September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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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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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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September 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM