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Betsy Rymes, How we talk about language: Exploring citizen sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 201. Pb. £19.99.

Christopher Hart & Darren Kelsey (eds.), Discourses of disorder: Riots, strikes and protests in the media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. Pb. £20.

Kristy Beers Fägersten, Language play in contemporary Swedish comic strips. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. Pp. xi, 203. Hb. €100.

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.

Alex Georgakopoulou, Stefan Iversen, & Carsten Stage, Quantified storytelling: A narrative analysis of metrics on social media. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xiii, 149. Hb. €50.

Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner, & Sharon Avni, Hebrew infusion: Language and community at American Jewish summer camps. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Hb $27.95.

Fang Xu, Silencing Shanghai: Language and identity in urban China. New York: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 261. Hb. $105.

Gwynne Mapes, Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Hb. £26.

Tracey L. Weldon, Middle-class African American English. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 300. Hb. $100.

Chrystie Myketiak, Online sex talk and the social world: Mediated desire. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi, 238. Hb. €100.

Chris Heffer, All bullshit and lies? Insincerity, irresponsibility, and the judgment of untruthfulness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Pb. $30.

Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 246. Hb. $25.

Henning Klöter & Mårten Söderblom Saarela (eds.), Language diversity in the Sinophone world: Historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 314. Hb. £120.

Joseph Sung-Yul Park, In pursuit of English: Language and subjectivity in neoliberal South Korea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £26.

Russell H. Kaschula & H. Ekkehard Wolff (eds.), The transformative power of language: From postcolonial to knowledge societies in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. Hb. £85.

John Russell Rickford, Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and creole studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 388. Pb. £30.

Nathalie Dajko, French on shifting ground: Cultural and coastal erosion in South Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Pp. 200. Pb. $20.

E. J. White, You talkin’ to me? The unruly history of New York English. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 213. Hb. $20.

John P. O'Regan, Global English and political economy. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 282. Pb. £35.

Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand Von Mengden, & Britta Schneider (eds.), The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: Cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2019. Pp. vi, 380. Hb. €100.

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