The Journal of Sociolinguistics editorial board extends sincere thanks to Yoshiko Matsumoto for a fitting tribute to the life & work of Robin Lakoff, whose contributions to our field & advocacy for marginalised groups in society will be long remembered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguistics

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Just a reminder that you can check out all our #EarlyView articles here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841... Topics include reverse #linguistic #stereotyping, #language & #socialjustice, language #policing, and much more! Each of these will be assigned to an upcoming issue. Watch this space 😎

In our latest book review essay, Merve Özçelik puts forward a powerful argument for theory as a technology of survival in autoethnographic work, drawing on recent edited volumes by Ari Sherris & Joy Kreeft (2025) and Qianqian Zhang-Wu & Bridget Goodman (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Just out in the Journal of Sociolinguistics: Eva Codó’s thought-provoking interview with Emili Boix-Fuster, one of the most prominent figures of post-Francoist Catalan sociolinguistics! A must read for anyone wanting to learn more about the contributions of Catalan sociolinguistics to our field! ✨👇

📣 Heyyy sociophoneticians and fans of speech variation! Check out this #EarlyView paper from the Journal of #Sociolinguistics on Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in a community with rigid gender roles. Important findings for /s/! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A BUMPER issue of the Journal of #Sociolinguistics is out just in time for your summer reading list! We have articles on #AAVE & 'TikTok' language; #uptalk; #genderinclusive language; & #raciolinguistics, along with a brilliant dialogue on #ethics, a response to our book symposium, & 2 interviews!

This week's #earlyview paper by Lotte Remue looks at the interactional strategies employed to build trust between unaccompanied minors and their guardians in the context of asylum interviews, with a focus on the social role of 'small stories' 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

In the lead-up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they m...

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Just out in the Journal of #Sociolinguistics - Jamie Duncan's interview with Roger W. Shuy. Collated from a year of correspondance, the interview is a fascinating reflection on the early years of the development & emergence of Sociolinguistics in the US!👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sociolinguistics of Literacy During the Development of Sociolinguistics: Interview With Roger W. Shuy

This article presents correspondences with Roger W. Shuy carried out from February 2025 to March 2026. Shuy is a linguist known for his pioneering work in Forensic Linguistics since the 1980s. Prior ...

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Check out our #EarlyView paper from the Journal of #Sociolonguistics for your #weekendreading! Sandhya Krittika Narayanan's ethnographic study explores indigenous language education practices and (post?)colonial multilingual regimentation in Peru 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Speakers for Established Listeners: Multilingual Regimentation for the Global Listening Subject in Peru

This article explores how institutionalized Indigenous language education practices perpetuate relationships of coloniality by regimenting the legibility of Indigenous linguistic knowledge in relatio...

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Travel with us to #Italy and #Singapore in these two #early view papers exploring linguistic hierarchies and judgements 📝

Our next #JoS issue features Jaspal Singh’s interview with Adam Jaworski! Looking back over a 40 year career, he reflects on intellectual curiosity, innovation & reading beyond disciplinary boundaries 📚 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Interested in interviewing for JoS? Get in touch! 👇

Interview with Adam Jaworski: Enjoying the Fluidity

Adam Jaworski's contributions to sociolinguistics are wide-ranging and enduring. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has shown how language, power and identity intersect in public and i...

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📣 CALL FOR INTERVIEWS! If you know a recently retired sociolinguist who had a major influence on the field, consider interviewing them and publishing the transcript with the Journal of Sociolinguistics! To propose an interview, just email the EICs with your idea - contact details below 👇

Language, labour, and workers, my triad of obsession 🛠️ 👇🏽

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Looking for some reading to celebrate #internationalworkersday #MayDay? The Journal of #Sociolinguistics has a brilliant back catalogue of research on #language, #labour and #workers 💪 Take your pick from the suggestions below, or visit our website for more!

Very nice thread here from the Journal of Sociolinguistics containing some great reading for May 1st, including a really great article on work and English teachers in the list here!

Journal of Sociolinguistics@jslx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking for some reading to celebrate #internationalworkersday #MayDay? The Journal of #Sociolinguistics has a brilliant back catalogue of research on #language, #labour and #workers 💪 Take your pick from the suggestions below, or visit our website for more!

Looking for some reading to celebrate #internationalworkersday #MayDay? The Journal of #Sociolinguistics has a brilliant back catalogue of research on #language, #labour and #workers 💪 Take your pick from the suggestions below, or visit our website for more!

Our latest #earlyview paper by Hsi-Yao Su looks at #languagepolicing and the performance of #linguisticauthority by Taiwanese netizens in the context of Taiwan-China relations 💻 Fascinating paper, available #openaccess! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to....

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The latest issue of Journal of #Sociolinguistics is out! Visit our site for the newest papers on #raciolinguistics, #linguisticlandscapes, #chronotopes & #accentchange, as well as our Book Symposium on #decolonisinglinguistics & #inclusioninlinguistics 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841...

Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 30, No 2

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Just out in #earlyview from Amanda Cole, this innovative paper draws on multiple investigation strands to offer methodological advancements in dialect identification tasks, highlighting the importance of social meaning in perceptual processes. Check it out below #openaccess !

Thanks so much for such thoughtful review of our work!

Journal of Sociolinguistics@jslx.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Secondly, check out our Book Symposium, where scholars across the field discuss recent publications on inclusive and decolonial perspectives in linguistics. It begins with Erica Britt's thoughtful reflection on inclusivity and positionality: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for some reading to start your week? Check out this week's early view offerings from the Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📚

The Journal of Sociolinguistics Editorial Board were saddened to learn of Deborah Cameron's passing earlier this year. We are grateful to Don Kulick for writing this obituary - a moving account of Debbie's brilliance, and a friendship that spanned decades: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deborah Cameron (1958–2026)

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❓What can a social-justice oriented, pluriversal sociolinguistics look like? @yecidortega.bsky.social reflects on this question in his review essay of 3 brilliant new books on critical sociolinguistics, language & social justice. Early view version here! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Forging the Future of Sociolinguistics: The Expanding Pluriverse of Language and Social Justice

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🥳 The latest issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics is here! February's issue contains a brilliant and wide-ranging set of orginial research in Sociolinguistics, including the indexicality of 'bad' schools in Chicago, variable ING in Australian indigenous boarding schools... (1/3)

🚨Not to be missed! Check out Annette D'onofrio's interview with Penelope Eckert, who reflects on her pioneering ethnographic work in schools, her 'ground up' approach to research, and what it means to be doing sociolinguistic research in times like these. A bold and brilliant interview! 👇

❓What can an intersectional approach to reverse linguistic stereotyping tell us about the raciolinguistic and misogynistic complexities of language proficiency in Italy? Check out Gabriella Licata's paper available through early view this month 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Huge congratulations to our associate editor Daniel Silva @dnsfortal.bsky.social and Jerry Won Lee for this very well deserved prize!! 🏆 Check out Branca Falabella Fabricio’s transcribed interview with the authors just out in this month’s issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics! 👇

Early view paper available open access ! 🙌 Read Xiao, Wang and Ying's study of how language becomes a marker of racialised belonging and exclusion for Chinese international students pre- and post-migration to the US 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts

This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on…

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Last week @clrnance.bsky.social was on BBC Radio Lancashire and Radio Cumbria talking about rhoticity and accent change. If you’re in the UK, you can still catch up on the segment! Link on: phoneticslab.github.io/general/2026...

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Fancy some weekend reading on historical sociolinguistics? Check out our latest #earlyview paper by Claire Nance and Malika Mahamdi on accent change and derhoticisation in post-Industrial Revolution Lancashire 🏭! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New JoS publication just out on early view! Check out Becker, @montreallx.bsky.social, Petty & @parkerjscarpa.bsky.social’ exploration of #uptalk, indexical field and social personae in the US. Link below 👇

Montreal Benesch 🍉@montreallx.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'Uptalk, Personae, and the Structure of Social Meaning in the Indexical Field' is out now in the Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social! Find out how Americans perceive uptalk in English when told the talker is a girlboss, Valley Girl, stoner, twink, or butch 👀 Free link: tinyurl.com/cj8w556w

📣 What is the figure of *Shala Qazaq* and how does this shape Kazakh family language ideologies and language policies in California? This #earlyview paper by Munira Kairat & Amy Kyratzis explores how transnational families use these figures to articulate social imaginaries and cultural continuity 👇