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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ 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).

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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 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:

Listening‐as, Listening‐for, and the Politics of Perception—Theirs and Ours

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 26d

✨ 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:

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 28d

🤖 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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 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:

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Sep 5

📖 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:

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Aug 8

@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...

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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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....

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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Sep 4

☀️ 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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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨 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.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚀 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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 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

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · May 12

📚 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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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · May 2

📢 New Open Access Article!

💡 Devyani Sharma explores how speakers and listeners interpret each other's speech styles in real time in "The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation"

Read it here 👉

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Apr 14

📢 New Open Access Article! 📢

How do listeners perceive incongruity in voices? 🗣️🔍 Kyler Laycock & Kevin B. McGowan explore how a novel unhidden instruction condition using the Matched Guise Technique impacts listener awareness in their latest work.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 31

🚨 New Article! 🚨

How do cisgender listeners perceive trans voices? A fascinating study by Emmett Jessee & J Calder explores how gender identity affects how certain sounds are categorised by listening subjects. 🎙️🔍

📖 Read the full article here:

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 24

⏰ Remember: Our Call for Proposals for Theme Series is still open!
Have an idea that pushes the boundaries of sociolinguistics? Submit your proposal and shape the conversation. 🔗 buff.ly/4htwZs5

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 19

📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics!

📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online
🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers.

ECR & PhD students encouraged to join!

🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to Get Published. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

The editors of Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguisticsare jointly sponsoring an online seminar on the theme of publishing in academic journals. This 60-minute webinar is intended to provid...

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚀 New #OpenAccess Article! 🚀

Alina Kamalova explores language ideologies in Kazakhstan’s social media during the Russian-Ukrainian war. 🇰🇿💬 What meanings are tied to shala-Kazakh and Russian online? Find out 🔗 here: [https://buff.ly/E2VSCoB ]

We loved it—what do you think? 💭👇

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Mar 10

🏳️‍⚧️ Have you read any of the articles in our collection on trans language activism?

Discover them here:

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨 Our February issue is here!

Read thought-provoking articles on:
📌 Race & LGBTQ+ youth identities
📌 The embodiment of sexuality by signers & speakers
📌 A special theme issue on awareness in sociolinguistics

See the full issue here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841...

Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 29, No 1

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Feb 17

✨ New OA article!
Anna M. Babel explores semiotic approaches to social meaning in language, with insights from Quechua-Spanish contact in Bolivia 🇧🇴 and #Raciolinguistic perceptions of #Latinx students in U.S. schools 🇺🇸

📖 Read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12689

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Feb 14

🔍✨ Call for Proposals: Theme Series!
Do you have an idea for a collection of original research articles? We’re looking for theme series that push the boundaries of sociolinguistics by raising new questions or sparking current debates.

🔗 Find out more & submit your proposal here: buff.ly/4htwZs5

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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