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In this interview Emili Boix-Fuster, one of the most prominent figures of post-Francoist Catalan sociolinguistics, reflects on his work and academic trajectory as well as on the contribution of Catal...

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...

Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz respond to the Decolonizing Linguistics and Inclusion in Linguistics Book Symposium with commentaries by Felix Banda, Rodrigo Borba, Dominique Branson, Erica B...

In an age of proliferating protocols and public moral anxieties, this Dialogue asks what sociolinguistics becomes when ethics is treated not as protocol but as relational practice. Contributions rewo...

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 semistru...

Despite evidence that gender-inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left-wing politics. ...

Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body o...

The indexical field is a common framework for understanding the relationship between a linguistic variable and its social meanings, though there is still much to be learned about how meanings relate ...

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...

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 ...

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

Stakeholders often conceptualize Singlish as emblematic of the hybrid Singaporean condition, deploying it as a subversive linguistic symbol against an English-speaking leadership. This discourse anal...

This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three st...

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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In this article, I investigate commodification discourses and ideologies of English from the perspective of Nepali tourism workers. Drawing data from interviews with porters and trekking guides in Ne...

Drawing from the various theoretical constructs and analyses of class in sociology, economics, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics, I discuss a number of issues regarding class and possible future...

This article considers the connection of language work and affect in the exemplary site of a private language education company as part of a larger discourse-ethnography in Vienna, Austria. Using the....

This article considers the rapidly expanding online market for English teaching. Drawing on interviews with 11 Filipino online English teachers and the first author's own experiences teaching English....

This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shar...

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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This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech ...

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Tshekatsheko eno e e tseneletseng ya Decolonizing Linguistics e baya kgatiso eno mo gare ga dikganetsano tsa Amerika Borwa ka ga sekolone go botsolotsa melelwane ya dipuisano tsa segompieno tsa go tl...

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