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- ISSN: 0047-4045 (Print), 1469-8013 (Online)
- Editors: Professor Susan Ehrlich York University, Canada, and Professor Tommaso Milani University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Editors' Pick
Enjoy free access to a collection of articles selected by the Editors to showcase how sociolinguistic research on language, race and gender has a bearing on current issues in U.S. social/political life:
Call for special issues
Language in Society publishes special issues of the journal once a year. As editors, we want to make the selection process for these special issues more transparent by issuing a call for proposals at a particular time during the year. These proposals will be reviewed by the editors and relevant members of the editorial board (i.e., editorial board members with expertise in the subject matter of the proposed special issue). We are seeking collections of articles that make a significant contribution to the advancement of the study of language in society by pushing debates forward in innovative ways or by taking discussions in new directions. We are looking for collections of papers that connect in meaningful ways with each other and which cohere to form something more than the sum of the collection’s parts.
The deadline for proposals is 1 July 2021 . Proposals should describe the contribution of the collection as a whole in approximately 2000 words and should also include 250/300-word abstracts from authors. Proposals should be e-mailed to langinsoc@gmail.com by the deadline. Please address any questions to the editors at this same email address.
A message from the incoming Co-Editors Susan L. Ehrlich and Tommaso M. Milani
We are thrilled to take on the position of Co-Editors of Language in Society. Our aim is to cultivate the theoretical and methodological breadth that has characterized Language in Society since its inception by encouraging publications that span the gamut of sociolinguistic inquiry, from variationist sociolinguistics to critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. There are areas, however, that we feel are underrepresented in the journal. We would like address some of these gaps by commissioning special issues of the journal from leading scholars in sociolinguistics on topics such as socio-phonetics, linguistic variation and embodiment, multimodality, raciolinguistics, language and globalization, the political economy of multilingualism, and language and affect. In the same way, while we are committed to publishing cutting-edge work from North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, we also plan to further broaden the geopolitical range of the articles in the journal. Because of Tommaso’s ties with the Global South, we want to actively expand the geopolitical breadth of the Editorial Board in order to increase the number of submissions from countries that are currently underrepresented in the journal.
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Inaugural JIPA Most Illustrative Illustration Prize
- 04 May 2021,
- The Journal of the International Phonetic Association is delighted to announce the winner of the inaugural JIPA Most Illustrative Illustration Prize, as voted Congratulations to all the authors of Kalasha (Bumburet variety)! Congratulations also to the authors of the other shortlisted Illustrations: Ambel Kejom (Babanki) Zhushan Mandarin These Illustrations represent languages spoken in Pakistan, Indonesia (West Papua), Cameroon . . . → Read More: Inaugural JIPA Most Illustrative Illustration Prize...
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Cambridge at AAAL 2021
- 19 March 2021,
- We’re sorry that we won’t be able to meet in person at the AAAL conference this year and invite you to visit our virtual exhibit table, including a discount Plus, AAAL delegates can join our editor Rebecca Taylor at the panel session on 23 March at 11am talking all things publishing in applied linguistics! What’s new in applied linguistics from Cambridge? Journals Cambridge is working to open up the scholarship published in our journals. If there’s an agreement in place between CUP and your university, you may be able to publish in our applied linguistics journals Open Access and free . . . → Read More: Cambridge at AAAL 2021...
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An Historical Linguistics Detective Story. This is well confusing!
- 18 December 2020,
- Written by James Stratton, author of A Diachronic Analysis of the Adjective Intensifier well from Early Modern English to Present Day English in the Canadian If you want to convince someone that the book you just read is worth reading, you can intensify your speech. Intensifiers are linguistic devices which allow speakers to impress, praise, persuade, and generally influence a listener’s understanding of a message. A sentence like “the book was so interesting” is clearly more convincing than just “the book was interesting”. However, specific intensifiers can go stale over time if they are overused, which means that different intensifiers are favored at different points in time. In Present Day English, the three most frequently used intensifiers are so, really, and very, . . . → Read More: An Historical Linguistics Detective Story. This is well confusing!...
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