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About the Journal of Sociolinguistics format

Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Multilingual Education and Policy, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–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 inMultilingual Education and Policy Linguistic Variation and Morphology Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Gender Studies in Language Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
ISSN1360-6441
Citation impact (2-yr)1.65
h-index118
i10-index576
Total citations54,228
Article processing charge$3,550
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Toronto
Journal websiteonlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Papers published in Journal of Sociolinguistics per year

51
2014
56
2015
60
2016
47
2017
60
2018
90
2019
48
2020
91
2021
78
2022
53
2023
43
2024
57
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Sociolinguistics by publication year

1.9K
2014
1.2K
2015
2K
2016
800
2017
666
2018
1.1K
2019
452
2020
628
2021
368
2022
185
2023
110
2024
114
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Sociolinguistics

Variation and the indexical field<sup>1</sup>

Penelope Eckert · 24 Aug 2008

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…

1,976 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization

James Milroy · 1 Nov 2001

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…

1,198 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity

Monica Heller · 1 Nov 2003

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…

Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction

Lorenza Mondada · 1 Jun 2016

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…

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Journal of Sociolinguistics uses Author–year (Chicago) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Sociolinguistics 12 (3): 45–58.
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