This paper argues for a focus on the social meaning of variation, based in a study of stylistic practice. It is common in the study of variation to interpret variables as reflections of speakers' membership in social categories. Others have argued more recently that variables are associated not with the categories themselves, but with stances…
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Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Multilingual Education and Policy, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.
| Publisher | Wiley |
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| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Sociolinguistics 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistic Variation and Morphology Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Gender Studies in Language Discourse Analysis in Language Studies |
| ISSN | 1360-6441 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.65 |
| h-index | 118 |
| i10-index | 576 |
| Total citations | 54,228 |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Toronto |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com |
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This paper explores the effects of the standard language ideology on attitudes to language of nonlinguists and of language specialists, and considers how far linguists themselves have been affected by – and have contributed to – this ideology. The primary definition of standardization is taken to be the imposition of uniformity upon a class of…
The globalized new economy is bound up with transformations of language and identity in many different ways (cf., e.g. Bauman 1997; Castells 2000; Giddens 1990). These include emerging tensions between State‐based and corporate identities and language practices, between local, national and supra‐national identities and language practices, and between hybridity and uniformity. Ethnolinguistic minorities provide a…
This article reflects on recent challenges emerging from the study of language and the body in social interaction. There is a general interest in language and the body across disciplines that has invited a reconceptualization of the broader issues relative to action, cognition, culture, knowledge, social relations and identities, spatiality and temporality. The study of…