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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sociolinguistics is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. MichaelWroblewski, London, New York: Bloomsbury. 2021. 200 pp. 18 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9781350212817) 124.54 USD, Paper	26
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Recognizing Uptalk: False Memory and Metalinguistic Commentary for a Sociolinguistic Feature	18
“We are cheaper, so they hire us”: Discounted nativeness in online English teaching	15
Decolonising trans‐affirming language in Aotearoa	13
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender	10
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The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics	10
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Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook. LaurenZentz, London: Routledge. 2021. 243 pp. Hardback (9780367895587) 160 USD, Paperback (9780367776411) 44.95 USD	8
Reviewing and Rebuilding Objects of Inquiry	7
The vowel space as sociolinguistic sign	7
Introduction to the Thematic Issue	7
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Ethnographic dramas: Who can engage in critical reflections?	6
Trash talk: Language as waste practice	6
Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward	5
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Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans	5
Multilingual Environments in the Great War. JulianWalker and ChristopheDeclerq (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 255 pp. Hb (9781350141346) £95, Ebk (9781350141353) £85.50.	5
A raciolinguistic perspective from the United Kingdom	5
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power	5
Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenshipQuentinWilliams, AnaDeumert, and TommasoMilani (Eds.), Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters2022. 222pp. Hardback (9781800415317) 99.95 GBP,	5

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Trans* of color im/possibilities in trans language activism	4
Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions	4
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The politics of conviviality: On‐the‐ground experiences from Spanish‐speaking Latin Americans in Elephant and Castle, London	3
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Speaking of Race: Language, identity, and schooling among African American Children. Jennifer B.Delfino, London: Lexington Books. 2021. 202pp. Hb (9781793606488) $36.55, Ebk (9781793606495) $34.72	3
Does waste make language?	3
Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California	3
Lengua y utopía: El movimiento esperantista en España, 1890–1936.RobertoGarvía. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. 2022. 301 pp. 24 B/W illustrations. Paperback (9788433869364) 24 EUR, Ebook (	3
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Troubling sociolinguistics practice and the coloniality of universalism	3
Undoing raciolinguistics	3
Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China	3
Horizontal Multilingualism: Interview with Shobha Satyanath	2
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Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine‐actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue‐collar work environments	2
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Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity	2
Transcultural voices: Narrating hip hop culture in complex Delhi. Jaspal NaveelSingh. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2020. 310 pp. 28 B/W illustrations. Paperback (9781800413818) 39.95 GBP	2
Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realities. RituJain, Ed. Series: Routledge multilingual Asia series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (9780367235192	2
Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan	2
Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea	2
Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore	2
Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa	2
Being and Understanding	2
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives	2
Introduction: Mobility, polylingualism, and change: Toward an updated sociolinguistics of diaspora	2
Critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education. KristinSnoddon and Joanne C.Weber (Eds.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 272 pp. Hardback (9781800410749) 134.95 Euro, 149.95 USD, 139	2
T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?	2
Linguistic landscape in the Spanish‐speaking world. Edited by PatriciaGubitosi and Michelle F.Ramos Pellicia (Eds.). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2021. 395 pp. Hardback (9789027208866)	1
Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities	1
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Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university	1
Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth‐century Spain	1
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The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research	1
Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China	1
Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore	1
Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English	1
Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography	1
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Lexical gaps and the corporeal index	1
In pursuit of English: Language and subjectivity in neoliberal South Korea.JosephSung‐Yul Park, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 208pp. Hardback (9780190855734) 81.00 GBP, Paperback (97801908557	1

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Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers’ responses to variation in Irish	1
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The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue	1
Fairness, Relationship, and Identity Construction in Human–AI Interaction	0
Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization	0
Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste	0
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Hierarchies and Constellations: Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Signed Languages	0
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The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines.PiersKelly, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 328 pp. 47 illustrations. Hardback (9780197509913) 99.00 USD, Paperback (9780197	0
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Artificial intelligence and the future of sociolinguistic research: An African contextual review	0
Voicing expertise: Exploring strategic use of vowel variants in the English pronunciation of Chinese language instructors	0
Tongues of abstraction – Intentionality in trans language activism	0
Global English and political economy. John P.O'Regan, London: Routledge. 2021. 282 pp. Hardback (9781138811119) 120.00 GBP, Paperback (9781138811126) 34.99 GBP, Ebook (9781315749334) 31.49 GBP	0
Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse. GwynneMapes. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. 224 pp. Hardback (9780197533444) 81.00 GBP, Paperback (9780197533451) 25.99 GBP	0
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Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics	0
Stance in narration: Finding structure in complex sociolinguistic variation	0
The movements of the raciolinguistic perspective in the Latin American South	0
Hellenes and Romans: Oppositional characterological figures and the enregisterment of Istanbul Greek	0
Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?	0
Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. RajendMesthrie, EllenHurst‐Harosh and HeatherBrookes (Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. 205pp. Hardback (9781107171206)	0
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Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers	0
Communities of practice in language research: A critical introduction. Brian W.KingNew York: Routledge. 2019. 186 pp. Pb (9781138942479) $45.56, Hb (9781138942462) $128, Eb (9780429283499) $51.25	0
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List of reviewers (January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022)	0
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Graphic politics in eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy. NishaantChoksi. London: Bloomsbury. 2021. 203 pp. Hardback (9781350159587) 85 GBP, Paperback (9781350215924) 28.99 GBP, Ebook (978	0
Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido	0
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan: An examination of panel speakers’ life stories	0
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Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation	0
Beyond “correctness”	0
The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice	0
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Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far‐right policy proposals in Bundestag debates	0
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Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life. SusanGal and Judith T.Irvine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 319 pp. Paperback (9781108741293) 20.99 GBP	0
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U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style	0
Language is not a data set—Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI	0
Minority language maintenance and the production‐prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish	0
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“They always want to argue with you”: Navigating raciolinguistic ideologies at airport security	0
Linguistics in pursuit of justice. JohnBaugh. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018. 238 pp. Hardback (9781107153455) 116.00 USD, Paperback (9781316607312) 31.99 USD, Ebook (97811085822	0
Language Ideologies of Racial Microaggression and Institutional Whiteness: Experiences of Chinese International Students in UK Higher Education	0
“Making Society a Better Place”: Interview with Momoko Nakamura	0
Accommodation, translanguaging, and (in)discreteness in the repertoire: A scalar‐chronotopic approach	0
Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment	0
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Syllable‐final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish	0
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Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and InclusionHilaryFootitt, Angela M.Crack, and WineTesseur. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 248 pp. 1 B/W illustration. Hardback (9783030	0
Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. VirginiaUnamuno, CarolinaGandulfo, and HéctorAndreani (E	0
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Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa	0
Correction to “Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation”	0
Theorizing trans language activism for euphoric transmutation and our collective liberation^*	0
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African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra	0
Commentary: Sociolinguistics of diaspora	0
Claiming the research expertise on human–GenAI interaction for sociolinguistics	0
“You Speak Well for an Anglophone”: Resisting the Processes of Delegitimation and Developing Linguistic Security	0
Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War	0
Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis	0
“OK guys, thank you for coming today”: Indexicality, utterance events, and verbal rituals in political speeches in Sheikh Jarrah	0
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The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London	0
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Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia	0
Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness	0
A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s	0
The Spanish language in the United States: Rootedness, racialization, and resistance.José A.Cobas, BonnieUrciuoli, Joe R.Feagin, and Daniel J.Delgado (Eds.), New York and London: Routledge. 2022. 162p	0
Practical steps toward making trans language activism better	0
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Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool	0
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder	0
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“You Have to Keep Fighting”: Interview with John R. Rickford	0
Glossolalia and the Problem of Language. NicholasHarkness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021. 240 pp. Hardback (9780226749389) 105 USD, Paperback (9780226749419) 35 USD, Ebook (9780226749556)	0
Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage	0
Os movimentos da perspectiva raciolinguística no sul latino‐americano	0
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work	0
Trans language activism from the Global South^*	0
Language and intercultural communication in tourism. Bal KrishnaSharma and ShuangGao (Eds). New York/London: Routledge. 2022. 282 pp., 47 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367541637) 120 GBP, EBook (97	0
Mixed messages: Mediating native belonging in Asian Russian. Kathryn E.Graber. Ithaca, New York; London: Cornell University Press. 2020. xix + 262 pp. Hardback (9781501750502) 92 USD, Paperback (15017	0
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On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish	0
Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape	0
(Socio)linguistics and generative AI: Taking the reins as researchers and steering its use toward ethical outcomes	0
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable	0
Figures of interpretation. B. A. S. S. Meier‐Lorente‐Muth‐Duchêne, Bristol & Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 176 pp. Hardback (9781788929394) 29.95 GBP, Ebook/ PDF (9781788929400) 5	0
Epistemics, Interactional Identities, and Language Ideologies in Debates About Latinx and Latine on Social Media: How Spanish and “Latino” Identity Construction Are Leveraged to Challeng	0
A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language	0
Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. LaurenHall‐Lew, EmmaMoore, and Robert J.Podesva (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xiv + 390 pp. Hardback (9781108	0
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The Need to Create a “Virtual Campus”: Translingual Practice and Community Building in Virtual Linguistic Landscape	0
Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process	0
Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features	0
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Language, global mobilities, blue‐collar workers and blue‐collar workplacesKellieGonçalves and HelenKelly‐Holmes (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2021. 258pp. 3 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367279004)	0
Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries. AnnaDe Fina and GerardoMazzaferro (Eds.), Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 2021. 296 pp. Hardback (9781788925297) 149.95 USD, Pa	0
AI, power and sociolinguistics	0
Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop	0
Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space	0
‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens	0
Discourses of global queer mobility and the mediatization of equality. JosephComer, New York, NY: Routledge. 2022. 252 pp. 30 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367521721) 84 GBP	0
Discourses of solidarity and resistance in alternative linguistic spaces: Galician improvised poetry as linguistic collective action	0
“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians¹”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history	0
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We /r/ Tongan, not American: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Tongan English	0
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List of Reviewers (January 1 2021–December 31, 2021)	0
Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds	0
Machines built out of other people's words: Comment on Helen Kelly‐Holmes’ discussion article	0
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies	0
Geographies and circulations: Sign language contact at the peripheries	0
Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows	0
The Routledge handbook of language and superdiversity. AngelaCreese, and AdrianBlackledge (Eds). New York/London: Routledge. 2018. xlv + 536 pp. Hardback (9781138905092) 152 GBP, Paperback (9780367783	0
The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation	0
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Speaking my soul: Race, life, and languageJohnRussell Rickford, London and New York: Routledge. 2022. 216pp. 55 Color & 19 B/W Illustrations. Hardback (9781032068855) 125 USD, Paperback (978103206	0
Autorretrato de un idioma: Crestomatía glotopolítica del español. Josédel Valle, DanielaLauria, MarielaOroño, and DaríoRojas (Eds). Madrid:Lengua de Trapo. 2021. 602 pp. Paperback (9788483812600) 25.7	0
Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai	0
Undoing raciolinguistics, unsettling (socio)linguistics	0
Deshaciendo la raciolingüística1	0
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Les langues en débat dans une Europe en projet. ZoranaSokolovskaLyon: ENS Editions. 2021. 306 p. Pb (979‐10‐362‐0291‐9). Price : 14,99 €	0
The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African‐American English and the blues	0
Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China	0
The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation	0
Soft power struggles: A diasporic perspective on the competing ideologies and innovative practices regarding the Chinese writing system	0
Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in Serbia	0
Dire le silence: Insécurité linguistique en Acadie 1867–1970. AnnetteBoudreau, Sudbury: Prise de parole. 2021. 228 pp. Paperback (9782897441326) 26.95 CAD, Ebook (978‐2897441333) 19.99 CAD	0
The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception: Transgender Identity Affects Sibilant Categorization in American English	0
“Shake well before using”: The dialectics of Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)	0
Artificial intelligence and the future of our sociolinguistic work	0
“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India	0