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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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Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 1d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 2d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 3d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 6d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 7d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 7d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 10d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 13d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 15d

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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 17d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 20d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 20d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 21d

NEW ISSUE 54(4)

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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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Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 22d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 23d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 24d

"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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 27d

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 28d

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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

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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · 29d

NEW FROM 54(3)

"Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964–1972" by Jamie Duncan
#Sociolinguistics #Ethnography #Literacy #Reading #CulturalDeprivationTheory
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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Sep 8

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OBITUARY
"William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024)" by Penelope Eckert
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William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) | Language in Society | Cambridge Core

William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) - Volume 54 Issue 3

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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

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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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

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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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

“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

Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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

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