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This paper presents an insight into two Farsi complementary language classrooms in Copenhagen, Denmark, characterised by political sensitivities. We illustrate a number of characteristic features of the classrooms concerning language use, pedagogical methods and cultural phenomena, which were related to key adults' preferences, and we consider possible interpretations of them as indexical signs. In particular, we emphasise ideological interpretations (e.g. the monolingualism norm and language purism) and we relate the classroom characteristics to the contemporary state of Iran as well as to the time and place in which the classes occurred. We analyse both explicit metapragmatic messages and implicit ways of indicating ideologies, and see both types as characterised by avoidance of particular referents, that is, by unmentionables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on data from two restaurants in Sydney and Tokyo, this paper describes the ways in which linguistic resources, everyday tasks and social space are intertwined in terms of metrolingual multitasking. Rather than the demolinguistic enumeration of mappable multilingualism or the language-to-language or language-to-person focus of translingualism, metrolingualism focuses on everyday language practices and their relations to urban space. In order to capture the dynamism of the urban linguistic landscape, this paper explores this relationship between metrolingual multitasking - the ways in which linguistic resources, activities and urban space are bound together - and spatial repertoires - the linguistic resources available in a particular place - arguing that a focus on resources, repertoires, space, place and activity helps us understand how multilingualism from below operates in complex urban places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article lists several publications received by the February 1997 issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Some of the books received by the journal are: The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution, by Jean Aitchison; Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian Atoll, by Niko Besnier; Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulhard; Keywords in Language and Literacy, by Ronald Carter; The German Language in a Changing Europe, by Michael Clyne; Talking Difference: On Gender and Language, by Mary Crawford; Focus on South Africa, edited by Vivian De Clark; Media Discourse, by Norman Fairclough; The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace, edited by Alan Firth; Cognitive Science: An Introduction, by David W. Green; Rethinking Linguistic Relativity, edited by John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson; Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, edited by Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz; Literacy to Society, edited by Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams; etc.

The article presents a list of books on sociolinguistics. They include "Language Change in the Works of Kruszewski, Baudouin de Courtenay and Rozwadowski," by Arleta Adamska-Salaciak, "Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions and Power in Java," by Laine Berman, "Debating Diversity: Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance," by Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren "Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature," by Gene Bluestein and "Language Wars and Linguistic Politics," by Louis-Jean Calvet.

A list of publications received by the "Journal of Sociolinguistics" is presented, including "A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis," by Peter Bakker, "Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse," by Shoshana Blum-Kulka and "Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict and Inequality," by Charles L. Briggs.

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A shift from understanding languages as discrete towards understanding them as undifferentiated features in the repertoire has caused disagreements over the reality of linguistic boundaries. In this paper, I show how a middle‐ground approach is achievable by applying the complex workings of a scalar‐chronotopic lens to the discourse of bilingual/multidialectal Bahrainis. I argue that both perspectives on (in)discreteness become relevant in accounting for bi/multilingual subjectivities: at times, Arabic is idealized as a large‐scale code against English, whereas at other times, the intrusiveness of English is backgrounded to show affiliation for one Arabic variety over another. I show accommodation in communication as a spatiotemporally layered process, where the internalized contextual factors within the repertoire may overlap with or take precedence over the immediate context. As such, this paper adds to the question of linguistic discreteness, with implications for our understanding of the repertoire and its utility in bi/multilingual practices and accommodation theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a bibliography of publications that were used in the May 2001 issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics. "The Handbook of Linguistics," edited by Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller; "Language and Nationalism in Europe," edited by Stephen Barbour and Cathie Carmichael; "Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition: Form, Meaning, and Use by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig; "The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader," edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin.

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The article provides information on several books received for publication by the periodical "Journal of Sociolinguistics," in its August 01, 2000 issue. Jean Aitchison is the author of the book "The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution." Naomi S. Baron has written the book "Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading." The author of the book "Good to Talk? Living and Working in Communication Culture" is Deborah Cameron. Penelope Eckert is the author of the book "Linguistic Variation As Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High." The book "The Politics of English" has been written by Marnie Holborow. Geoffrey Lewis is the author of the book "The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success." The book "Multilingual Capital: The Languages of London's Schoolchildren and Their Relevance to Economic, Social and Educational Policies" has been edited by Philip Baker and John Beverly. The editors of the book "Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles" are Paul Foulest and Gerard Doherty.

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The paper evaluates spatial, behavioural, and material signalling of social class in African contexts, focusing on Kenya and Zambia. In particular, it draws on notions of mode of class signalling and intersectionality and a vignette of an interaction between urban-based Western educated development agents and local participants in rural Kenya to illustrate how social class is implicated in interactions. The paper shows how significant features of class and dimensions of social inequality may be perceived intersectionally so that positionalities in class structures are negotiated in contexts of interaction, thus illustrating how structural conditions of class may be challenged and questioned. The paper concludes that sociolinguistics needs to identify the various ways in which the marginalized challenge social structures of inequality. Otherwise there is a risk that sociolinguistics will work to validate inequalities as permanent and fixed, and victims of unequal treatment as permanently condemned and never able to rise against oppressive social structures that tyrannize them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Many studies of complaints‐in‐interaction have examined long sequences. This paper, by contrast, scrutinises a series of complaints produced within the same participation framework across four successive encounters. The data comprise audio‐recorded talk between an older woman (the complainant) and her stylist in a hair salon. Drawing on conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis, I show how the complainant recurrently, but implicitly, implicates her near‐co‐resident adult daughter as a culpable figure in her complaints. I argue that it is the longitudinal nature of the data that enables this identification of the daughter as the recurrent underlying target. The paper thereby contributes to studies of complaining‐in‐interaction. It also shows how we might address some of the methodological issues associated with implicitly designed complaints. Furthermore, I argue that through the detail of the way she designs her articulation of her troubles—as complaints, but with the culpability of her daughter often very implicit—the complainant discursively constructs the complexity of her familial relations and living situation. This paper thereby also contributes to sociolinguistic studies of social ageing by offering insights into some of the lived ambivalence of co‐residence arrangements in later life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books related to Sociolinguistics. Some of the books included in the list are: "Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy," by Dennis Ager; "Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent," by Susan Ehrlich; "Saussure and His Interpreters," by Roy Harris; "Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition: Foundations for Teaching, Testing and Research," by Carol A. Chapelie; "A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach," by Barbara A. Fennell.

Researchers in variationist sociolinguistics have long sought to develop social measures that are more sophisticated than demographic categories such as age, gender, and social class, while still being useful for quantitative analysis. This paper presents one such new measure: discursive worlds. For each speaker in a corpus, their discursive world is operationalized through compiling a list of specific referents cited in their interview. These lists are then used to construct similarity spaces locating the speakers along dimensions that are discursively relevant in the corpus. Using common clustering algorithms, the corpus speakers are then partitioned into categories, and this partition can be used in statistical analysis. We show how this method can be used to analyze a series of lexical variables in the Cartographie linguistique des féminismes corpus, a corpus of francophone interviews with feminist and queer activists, for which, we argue, quantitative analysis using classic demographic categories is inappropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper argues that speakers of Tongan English, an emergent variety spoken in the Kingdom of Tonga, may use rhoticity to construct a cosmopolitan and globally oriented local social identity. A variationist analysis of non‐prevocalic /r/ in a corpus of 56 speakers reveals a change in progress towards rhoticity led by young females, whereas an affiliation with Liahona High School, a Mormon secondary school, predicts advanced adoption of the feature. I argue that rhoticity carries a positive ideological load for younger speakers as an index of globalness, modernity and Western cultural values, whereas for Liahona‐affiliated speakers, an additional indexicality of rhoticity is Mormonism. Linguistic constraints on variation mirror patterns found in previous studies on L1/L2 varieties and are thus more universal, whereas social constraints on variation are best examined through a local lens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociolinguistic research has increasingly explored the ways in which semiotic features are variably recruited to stylistically perform enregistered social personae. In this paper, I add to this body of work by exploring the emergence of a stereotypically feminine style and persona that is widespread in British social media. Specifically, I examine the prevalence of non‐standard spellings (e.g., darling, gorgeous), discourse features (e.g., hun, babe, u ok hun?), and characterological tropes (e.g., the life motto 'live, love, laugh') as indexical representations of a particular type of classed, gendered, and ethnic identity in a corpus of Instagram memes. I demonstrate that these features have become enregistered as a characterological figure of a British working‐class White woman—the Hun—that is stylistically deployed as a digital commodity register. Concluding, I emphasise the need for research to engage more fully with stylisation and commodification in social and digital media interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics is a collection of works published in a variety of edited collections, journals, and conference proceedings. It also includes one unpublished conference paper. The collection traces the (ongoing) development of the concept of social meaning in language variation in 11 different papers. These are contextualized with personal reflections on variationist sociolinguistics and the profession of linguistics that frame each paper. This review article highlights some of the key themes in the collection: As well as social meaning itself, issues with style, clustering of variables, peripheral and core members of communities, and agency are discussed. Eckert's innovative proposal that variables can be differentiated on the basis of their relative "interiority" is considered, as is the assertion that linguistics transcends the referential properties of language to include the expressive and moral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that 'urban contact dialects' tend to diffuse beyond the speech communities in which they first emerge. However, no research has attempted to explore the distribution of these varieties across an entire nation nor isolate the social mechanisms that propel their spread. In this paper, we use a corpus of 1.8 billion geo‐tagged tweets to explore the spread of Multicultural London English (MLE) lexis across the United Kingdom. We find evidence for the diffusion of MLE lexis from East and North London into other ethnically and culturally diverse urban centres across England, particularly those in the South (e.g. Luton), but find lower frequencies of MLE lexis in the North of England (e.g. Manchester), and in Scotland and Wales. Concluding, we emphasise the role of demographic similarity in the diffusion of linguistic innovations by demonstrating that this variety originated in London and diffused into other urban areas in England through the social networks of Black and Asian users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on (a) a period of forced and semi‐forced migration to newly established colonies under slavery and indenture in the era of European imperialism; and (b) a post‐independence period of economic migration involving voluntary movements of large numbers of individuals to those colonies. It will show that there is no one‐size‐fits‐all outcome regarding the linguistics of migration. Rather, the patterns of migration matter greatly. The paper describes past and ongoing research into five Indian languages of South Africa: Bhojpuri‐Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Konkani and Gujarati. The diaspora varieties that evolved over a 150‐year period fall into four sociohistoric types, chiefly involving the formation of koinés as against individual dialect persistence. Implicated in these differential outcomes are important input factors like (a) areas of recruitment and origin and their linguistic diversity, (b) patterns of migration, whether unilinear, circular or chain migration, (c) internal relations among migrants with other Indian groups and (d) varied power relations involving other South Africans. The paper also presents research on the relations and interactions between the older diasporas and new Indian migrants of the global era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of sociolinguistic variation in the social evaluation of swearing. Experiment 1 is a variant categorization task, in which participants categorized acoustically ambiguous swearwords and phonetically matching neutral and nonwords as ending in either "‐ing" or "‐in." Results suggest that swearwords led participants to hear "‐ing" on ambiguous items. Experiment 2 is a matched‐guise task in which listeners heard a passage featuring a mix of swearwords and neutral "‐ing" words in one of four conditions: fully velar (All‐ing), fully alveolar (All‐in), only swearwords as velar (Swear‐ing), or only neutral words as velar (Swear‐in). Participants rated speakers on Likert scales (Schleef et al. (2017), Regional diversity in social perceptions of (ING). Language Variation and Change, 29(1), 29–56). Participants again displayed a tendency towards hearing "‐ing" on swearwords. As a result, responses to the Swear‐in guises were similar to those for the All‐ing guises. The consequences for our understanding of swearing, sociolinguistic perception and cognition, and style, are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the behaviour of one linguistic feature among one black and one white group of Bermudian men over the age of 50. The acoustic analysis of the mouth vowel, one of the most heavily stereotyped sounds of Bermudian English, is used as a window onto linguistic parody observed in the white group, a community of practice known locally for theatrical dialect performance. In combination with contextual analysis, and in light of social conditions in Bermuda, phonetic findings suggest that this linguistic practice is not only a performance of "Bermudian‐ness," but also a performance of a racialized stereotype which reflects and reinforces the raciolinguistic hierarchies of contemporary Bermudian society. The paper introduces this under‐researched and unusual sociolinguistic setting to the literature on racialized mock language, as well as attesting further to the usefulness of methods that examine highly self‐conscious speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of books on sociolinguistics that are to be reviewed in future issues is presented including "Subject, Theme and Agent in Modern Standard Arabic," by Hussein Abdul-Raof, "Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity," edited by Peter Auer, and "Approaches to Media Discourse," edited by Allan Bell and Peter Garrett.

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The article presents the guidelines of the papers to be submitted to the "Journal of Sociolinguistics." Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 45 manuscript pages which include all references, tables, figures, and appendices. Each paper should be an original work which has not been previously published and is not simultaneously in press or being considered for publication elsewhere. The first page should contain the title of the paper, a single-paragraph abstract of up to 150 words, a list of up to six key words, a short running title for use as a page header, and the word count for the main text only of the paper.

The article presents guidelines for the submission of sociolinguistic papers for publication in this periodical. Papers submitted are assumed to be original work and are peer-reviewed unless the editor thinks that they fall outside the journal's scope. Submissions, which are limited to a maximum of 40 manuscript pages, are submitted online. Some rules on writing style, spelling and punctuation, and extracts are offered. The article also discusses guidelines on extracts, notes, references, tables and figures.

The objective of this paper is to explore the dynamics of citizen science (CS) in sociolinguistics or citizen sociolinguistics, i.e. the engagement of non‐professionals in doing sociolinguistic research. Based on a CS‐study undertaken in Norway where we engaged young people as citizen scientists to explore linguistic diversity, this paper aims to clarify the definition of citizen sociolinguistics; it seeks to advance the discussion of the advantages of CS and of how CS can contribute to sociolinguistics; it also addresses the opposite: how sociolinguistics can contribute to the general field of citizen science; and it discusses the challenges of a CS‐methodology for sociolinguistic research, epistemologically and ethically, as well as in terms of recruitment, quality control and possible types of sociolinguistic tasks and topics. To meet the needs of society and societal challenges of today there is a need to develop methods and establish scientific acceptance for the relevance of public engagement in research. This paper argues that citizen sociolinguistics has the potential to advance the societal impact of sociolinguistics by constructing a dialogue between ‘the academy’ and ‘the citizens’; citizen sociolinguistics relies on and encourages participatory citizen agency, provides research experience, stimulates curiosity, further research, public understanding of science and (socio)linguistic awareness, and encourages linguistic stewardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how a peripheral English‐speaking country is constructed as a legitimate language learning space in the global English language teaching (ELT) industry by investigating South Koreans’ recent engagement in Philippine English education. It focuses on a short‐term English study abroad program, in which the Philippines serves as a transit place prior to students’ moving to a Western English‐speaking country. Drawing data from ethnographic research on South Korean youth studying English abroad, the article analyzes why Korean students seek Philippine English education in spite of their apparent pursuit of authentic English, and how they evaluate their learning experience in the Philippines. This paper finds that the Philippines holds a niche market in the global ELT industry by separating a space for English learning from other public and everyday spaces of English use and offering pedagogically intensive but emotionally supportive environments to English learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through its colonial, class‐ and caste‐based history, English in India has come to be seen as a powerful resource that opens doors for those who 'have' it and holds back those who do not. For women, English ostensibly offers various promises in addition to employment: progressiveness and 'empowerment'; and the potential for upward mobility through marriage. Yet, the conversion of English capital for English‐speaking Indian women proves to be intensely complex in practice, as many find themselves forced to navigate between shifting moral regimes attached to 'tradition' and 'modernity'. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an NGO in Delhi that offers free English training to 'disadvantaged youth', this paper explores how English capital is managed by young women striving to attain middle classness through English, and how their class, caste and gender positionings are negotiated across particular time‐space configurations as they seek to become English speakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When a person in crisis threatens suicide, police negotiators engage them in a conversation to prevent death. Working in small teams, the primary negotiator's role is to talk directly to the person in crisis. A secondary negotiator, working "behind the scenes," supports the ongoing negotiation. Using 31 hours of audio‐recorded British negotiations, we uncover the backstage work of secondary negotiators. We use conversation analysis to identify the sequential position, linguistic form, and action of the secondary negotiator's interventions on (1) the delivery (e.g. "sound angry") and (2) next actions (e.g. "say please," "try asking them to move") of the primary negotiator, and how the primary incorporates them into the negotiation. Our analysis shows that, while some suggestions were effective, others disrupted the flow of the negotiation as well as the alignment between primary negotiator and person in crisis. The paper augments current sociolinguistic understandings of the high‐stakes language activity of crisis negotiation and highlights the importance of attending to linguistic features of interaction when training negotiators to work better as a team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The authors present a discussion of the introductory article "Sociolinguistics and everyday (in)securitization" and the round table papers in the current issue. They mention the need for sociolinguists to consider the issue of both political and psychological insecurity, and the role of insecurity in language education, public surveillance, and sexuality.

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In Thurlow's (2022) paper in this journal, he offers an innovative approach to combining discard studies and sociolinguistics. Many of the examples are about language creating waste in different ways. In this response, I explore the opposite possibility—that is, how waste could be said to create language in turn. I do so with specific attention to how sociolinguistics can be approached through what cannot be said (taboo) and who cannot speak. As examples, I compare two seemingly unrelated yet similarly controversial and important scandals in late 20th century New York State: the pollution caused by the closed yet undisclosed landfill in Love Canal and the abuse and neglect of disabled persons at Willowbrook State School. These are not normal subjects for sociolinguistics, and the latter is not a normal one in discard studies either. Yet I argue that taking them together helps create unexpected linkages between these fields. In doing so, I argue that taking into account what goes unsaid and who cannot speak also helps reveal some of the undiscussed politics in both discard studies and sociolinguistics alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony. This paper analyses: (1) the process of establishing iconized links between language, culture, land and race on the second order of indexicalities; (2) the orthographic representation of mixed Mongolian and "pure" Mongolian in the Mongolian social media space Bainu. The study illuminates the interdiscursive processes of presuming and constructing linguistic, cultural, and ethnic boundaries by subaltern groups in an assimilationist nation state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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