News update! The call for symposia has now been published! Our submission system is OPEN. Submit your symposium proposal at bcbl.eu/events/isb15/e… and be part of this event!

Additionally, all keynote speakers are confirmed. See website for more on them and the conference theme!

✨ NEW online first #JSLX article: Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact #dialect : A case study of Multicultural #London #English by Christian Ilbury, Jack Grieve & David Hall.

🌐 #OA : buff.ly/3Trce5G

✨ #JSLX Dialogue #flashback : 'Communities of practice in #sociolinguistics ' (2005)

🌐 Free access to 3rd contribution entitled 'Biographies, #agency and power' by Miriam Meyerhoff: buff.ly/4cihe4Z

✨ #JSLX Dialogue #flashback : 'Communities of practice in #sociolinguistics '(2005).

➡️ 2nd response by James Paul Gee: 'Meaning making, #communities of practice, and analytical toolkits'.

🌐 Free access: buff.ly/3PweeZ1

✨ #JSLX Dialogue #flashback : 'Communities of practice in #sociolinguistics : What is the role of #power in sociolinguistic #variation ?' (2005).

🌐 Free access to leading article by Penelope Eckert & Etienne Wenger: buff.ly/3THlUKr

✨ 'Sociolinguistic authenticities' by Nikolas Coupland (2003) in a #JSLX #Dialogue section on ' #Sociolinguistics and #authenticity : An elephant in the room'.

🌐 Free access: buff.ly/3T96GfR

➡️ See other articles by P. Eckert and M.Bucholtz: buff.ly/3VckA3n

➡️ #JSLX #Dialogue on ' #Sociolinguistics and #authenticity ' (2003).

✨ 2nd article by M. Bucholtz: 'Sociolinguistic #nostalgia and the authentication of #identity '

🌐 Free access: buff.ly/3v4k2C5

Sociolinguistic Symposium 25 program is up! Who is coming? ss25.com.au/program.php #ss25

✨ #JSLX #Dialogue section on ' #Sociolinguistics and #authenticity : An elephant in the room' (2003). Leading article by Penelope Eckert and two responses by Mary Bucholtz and Nikolas Coupland.

🌐 Full access to Eckert's leading article: buff.ly/3IxcavU

✨NEW #JSLX article: Syllable-final /s/ as an index of #language , #gender , and #ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican #Spanish .
📖 '[...] high rates of /s/ reduction are linked to the use of Isthmus Zapotec and an orientation to “Zapotecnessness'.
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Our latest #JSLX Conversations episode with suresh canagarajah & M.Moyer questions the notion of #language #competence and discusses the role of pain and #vulnerability in embodied communication.

🎧 Listen to it: buff.ly/42fCzr9
📖 Read the script: buff.ly/3uzHQgL

✨ NEW #JSLX article: Whose #English gets paid off? #Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ #subjectivities in #China .

⬇️ Read abstract below.

🌐 Read full article for free here: buff.ly/3OYmeAU

#sociolinguistics #governmentality

✨ NEW #JSLX article: 'The discursive construction of #language ownership and responsibility for #Indigenous language #revitalisation ' by Chien Ju Ting.

🌐 Read it in #OA here: buff.ly/3KaKLRY

#Taiwan #sociolinguistics

✨ NEW #JSLX article by R.Timmerman UGent, L. De Cuypere VUB & Stef Slembrouck: 'The globalization of local indexicalities through #music : African-American #English and the #blues '.

➡️ Read article for free: buff.ly/3mPJiYf

#sociolinguistics #authenticity

✨ In our new #JSLX issue: D. Lønsmann reviews 'Language, global #mobilities , blue-collar #workplaces ' by @helenkellyholme & Kellie Gonçalves.
➡️ 'Although #language requirements may vary, blue-collar work is far from ‘language marginal’ (p.13)'.
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➡️ In our latest #JSLX issue: Review of 'Struggles for #multilingualism and linguistic #citizenship '

📖 'This volume is also a convincing example that critical #sociolinguistics is necessarily an interdisciplinary endeavor'

🌐 Read for free: buff.ly/3oEci6e

✨ In our latest #JSLX issue: Review of Garvía's 'Language and #utopia : the Esperantist movement in #Spain , 1860-1936'.
🗒️ #Esperanto 'attracts very diverse groups, representing a wide range of feelings, ideas, and attitudes toward that language'.
🌐 buff.ly/43ZVdmW

🚨 New #OA books by Multilingual Matters.

Are you preparing new courses in #sociolinguistics ?

🎧 (Re-)listen to our #JSLX Conversations podcast episode on #teaching sociolinguistics with resource recommendations by Mariana Achugar & @helenkellyholme

🌐 buff.ly/3XQp53a

🚨 Our NEW 28 (1) #JSLX issue is OUT!

⬇️ Contents: 4 original research articles (2 #OA ) & 3 book reviews.

🌐 Wanna check it out? buff.ly/3uwWuWk

#sociolinguistics