Language in Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Language in Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Chris Heffer, All bullshit and lies? Insincerity, irresponsibility, and the judgment of untruthfulness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Pb. $30.25
Stephanie Schnurr & Kieran File (eds.), The language of inclusion and exclusion in sports. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. Pp. 300. Hb. €110.23
John C. Mayer (ed.), Language communities in Japan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 176. Hb. £81.23
F. Daniel Morales Hernández, (2023). Latin Americans in London: Language ideologies and discourses of migration . Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. x, 242. 18
Rhizomatic assemblage of the seascape in the Anthropocene: MARA as a multisensory semiotic landscape approach16
Laura Rupp & David Britain, Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: Let's talk about -s. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 370. Pb. €36.15
Publications Received15
Pierre Wilbert Orelus, All English accents matter: In pursuit of accent equity, diversity, and inclusion. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 128. Hb. £45.15
Heather Burnett, Meaning, identity, and interaction: Sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 250. Hb. £95.15
Peter Siemund, Multilingual development: English in a global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. Pb. £27.14
Tactile engagement of prospective next speakers in Indonesian multiparty conversations13
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency12
Gladis Massini-Gagliari, Rosane Andrade Berlinck, & Angelica Rodrigues (eds.), Understanding linguistic prejudice: Critical approaches to language diversity in Brazil. Cham: Springer, 2023. Pp. xx12
Held to account: Comparing adversarial questioning in remote and in-person parole hearings12
Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions11
Jeff MacSwan (ed.), Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 368. Hb. £39.95.11
Robert McColl Millar, A history of the Scots language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. Pb. £30.10
LSY volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market9
Hansun Zhang Waring & Nadja Tadic (eds.), Critical conversation analysis: Inequality and injustice in talk-in-interaction. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2024. Pp. 264. Hb. £25.9
LSY volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Back matter9
Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times: Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation8
‘Whitefellas got miserable language skills’: Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses8
Karen Stollznow, Bitch: The journey of a word . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 202. Pb. £20.8
Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung, Cantonese: Since the 19th century. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023. Pp. 361. Hb. $55.7
Other-language recalibration repair in broadcast news interviews in Rwanda: Relating to the overhearing audience7
Wellman Kondowe, Chimwemwe M. M. Kamanga, & Precious Madula (eds.), Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and perspectives . Abingdon: Routledge7
Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk7
David Block, Innovations and challenges in identity research. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 146. Hb. £34.88.6
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, & Pema Wangdi (eds.), Celebrating indigenous voice: Legends and narratives in languages of the tropics and beyond. Berlin: De Gruyter Mout6
Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet6
Publications Received6
‘Gangpu is too funny!’: The mediatization of Hong Kong Mandarin as a jocular register6
Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique6
Between silence and voicing out: Migrant organizations navigating online and offline realities5
David Block, Interviews in applied linguistics: Autobiographical reflections on research processes Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 212. Pb. £405
Chrystie Myketiak, Online sex talk and the social world: Mediated desire. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi, 238. Hb. €100.4
Christopher Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Katie Drager, & Malcah Yaeger-Dror (eds.), Dimensions of linguistic variation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. xi, 569. Pb. £33.4
Feeling clean: Language materiality and the discursive production of value in hotel ‘laundry routes’4
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer, & Angelo Costanzo, The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the politics of identity. Leiden: Brill, 4
Tyler Everett Kibbey (ed.), Linguistics out of the closet: The interdisciplinarity of gender and sexuality in language science. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 279. Hb. €124.95.4
Kim Potowski & Lourdes Torres, Spanish in Chicago. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. Pb. £26.4
Ruth Breeze, Sarali Gintsburg, & Mike Baynham (eds.), Narrating migrations from Africa and the Middle East: A spatio-temporal approach. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 220. Pb. £26.4
Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect4
LSY volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong4
Guy Merchant, Why writing still matters: Written communication in changing times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 280. Hb. £80.4
LSY volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Carolyn McKinney, Pinky Makoe, & Virginia Zavala (eds.), The Routledge handbook of multilingualism 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 528. Hb. £172.3
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity3
Neriko Musha Doerr & Jennifer M. Mcguire (eds.), Performative linguistic space: Ethnographies of spatial politics and dynamic linguistic practices. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 184. Hb. €115.3
LSY volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language3
Grassroots scaling up: Navigating algorithmic scales in a technopolitical landscape3
Maida Kosatica, The burden of traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 183. Hb. £85.50.3
(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation3
Merryn Davies-Deacon, Breton in contemporary media: Speakers, language, community. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Pp. 218. Hb. €120.3
Greg Niedt & Corinne Seals (eds.), Linguistic landscapes beyond the language classroom. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp xviii, 239. Hb. £28.99.3
LSY volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio (eds.), Language and neoliberal governmentality. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 242. Pb. £38.99.2
“I repeatedly tell you, the future is yours—the righteous, not the liars”: Hope in Saleh Diab's political speeches in East Jerusalem2
The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists’ incitement to violence2
Sabina M. Perrino & Joshua O. Reno, Pandemic health and fitness Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 190. Hb. €145.2
Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy, & Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), Sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition across the lifespan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. vi, 315. Hb. €105.2
Sinfree Makoni, Magda Madany-Saa, Bassey E. Antia, & Rafael Lomeu Gomes (eds.), Decolonial voices, language and race. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 136. Pb. £15.2
Natalie Braber, Lexical variation of an East Midlands mining community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. Hb. £75.2
Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater2
“No questions? Then, fight me!” A tribute to Deborah Cameron (1958–2026)2
Anthropocentric engagement with the elephant in a tourist town2
Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities2
Grafting in interaction: A sequential analysis of interdiscursive ‘moments’ in American public school board meetings2
Philip Seargeant with Korina Giaxoglou & Frank Monaghan, Political activism in the linguistic landscape: Or, how to use public space as a medium for protest. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. P2
Kieran File, How language shapes relationships in professional sports teams: Power and solidarity dynamics in a New Zealand rugby team. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 239. Hb. £67.2
Natalia Knoblock (ed.), Language of conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian crisis. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 296. Pb. £29.2
‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse2
Stuart Dunmore, Karolina Rosiak, & Charlotte Taylor (eds.), New approaches to language and identity in contexts of migration and diaspora Abingdon: R2
Dissecting the dominant framings of multilingualism in education in Pakistan: A southern perspective2
Kathleen C. Riley, Bernard C. Perley & Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez (eds.), Language and social justice: Global perspectives London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 508. Pb. £40.1
Looking back – Looking ahead1
Villy Tsakona, Exploring the sociopragmatics of online humor . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xi, 264. Hb. €125.1
Labour mobility across the Baltic Sea: Language brokering at a blue-collar workplace in Sweden1
Avineri Nette & Jesse Harasta (eds.), Metalinguistic communities: Case studies of agency, ideology, and symbolic uses of language. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xvii, 264. Pb. €100.1
Heritage language recognition: The multimodal construction of language in a Tibetan-Canadian family’s literacy activities1
Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, & Li Wei (eds.), Translingual practices: Playfulness and precariousness Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. Hb. $135.1
Digital face-work, politics, and small scandals1
LSY volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
‘Now there aren’t any birds’: Attention and disorientation in landscapes of planetary crisis1
Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative1
Jeffrey L. Kallen, Linguistic landscapes: A sociolinguistic approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 378. Hb. £95.1
E. Summerson Carr, Working the difference: Science, spirit, and the spread of motivational interviewing . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 21
Publications Received1
Sinfree Makoni, Anna Kaiper-Marquez, Magda Madany-Saá, & Bassey E. Antia (eds.), Foundational concepts of decolonial and Southern epistemologies. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. 194. Hb. 1
New speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of linguistic conversion1
LSY volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object1
Daniel N. Silva & Jerry Won Lee, Language as hope Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 185. Hb. £95. Open Access on Cambridge Core.1
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing1
Shannon M. Ward, Amdo lullaby: An ethnography of childhood and language shift on the Tibetan Plateau . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. Pp. xx1
Chronotopes of ‘Chinese’ privilege: Class-inflected racialisation in condominium hoardings1
‘Wasp porn’: The discursive construction of ridicule and the right to joke about science1
LSY volume 53 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Catherine R. Rhodes, Undoing modernity: Linguistics, higher education, and indigeneity in Yucatan . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. Pp. 302. Hb.1
Emma Moore, Socio-syntax: Exploring the social life of grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. Hb. £95.1
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