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{"title":"Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment","authors":"Matthew John Hadodo","doi":"10.1111/josl.12696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12696","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate the same social meanings with the variety as IG speakers. Results from a verbal guise experiment and metapragmatic stancetaking discourse suggest the confluence of IG features co-present in multiple Greek varieties (a) hinders non-IG-listeners from placing speakers and (b) allows for other varieties’ social meanings to influence judgments. Although listeners attend to multiple structures, features involved with allophonic processes are most salient. Consequently, the salience of competing processes led listeners to (re)interpret features based on their awareness of them in other enregistered speech. These findings add nuance to how enregisterment occurs within (sub)communities, and how social meanings are unevenly distributed among individuals based on the exemplars that emerge via enregisterment. Results further complicate how personae circulate and contribute to social differentiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 2","pages":"136-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12696","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recognizing Uptalk: False Memory and Metalinguistic Commentary for a Sociolinguistic Feature","authors":"Amelia Stecker,&nbsp;Annette D'Onofrio","doi":"10.1111/josl.12695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12695","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Relatively little work has examined how metalinguistic awareness about sociolinguistic features can impact processes of sociolinguistic memory, which are crucial to the formation of cognitive sociolinguistic representations. This article explores how metalinguistic commentary can bias listeners’ memory of a linguistic feature, <i>uptalk</i>, that is ideologically linked with women in popular meta-discourses. A novel contour-recognition paradigm tests how listeners mis-remember uptalk depending on the perceived gender of the speaker. We provided participants with top-down metalinguistic information about which gendered speakers were most likely to use uptalk to induce metalinguistic bias toward associations between rising contours and speakers of particular genders. Results show a speaker's perceived gender, as well as metalinguistic information provided to a listener, can bias recognition of prosodic contours, but only when this information reinforces listeners’ pre-existing beliefs. Overall, we suggest that linguistic ideologies can shape how listeners interpret and even remember both metalinguistic statements and sociolinguistic variants.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 2","pages":"122-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epistemics, Interactional Identities, and Language Ideologies in Debates About Latinx and Latine on Social Media: How Spanish and “Latino” Identity Construction Are Leveraged to Challenge Gender-Inclusive Identity Labels","authors":"Benjamin Puterbaugh","doi":"10.1111/josl.12692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12692","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The current study analyzes disalignment strategies in social media users’ metapragmatic discussions centering on the panethnic gender-inclusive terms <i>Latinx</i> and <i>Latine</i>. Data included 70 comments and replies responding to two posts by the media companies Remezcla and Netflix on Facebook and Instagram, respectively. The study's findings indicate that most users responded negatively to the terms, in many cases reproducing harmful language ideologies. Through careful epistemic management, these users constructed identities as “legitimate” members of the “Latino” speech community. One of the primary discourse strategies identified for doing so was codeswitching between English and Spanish. In this particular context, the strategic deployment of Spanish allowed users to position themselves against gender-inclusive panethnic labels. Speakers also engaged in aggressive othering strategies to attribute <i>Latinx</i>/<i>e</i> to socially progressive imagined communities. Finally, the study's findings demonstrate how social media users established their authority through tactics of intersubjectivity and, in doing so, policed the language of others.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 2","pages":"109-121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore","authors":"Penelope Eckert","doi":"10.1111/josl.12694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 2","pages":"148-154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language Ideologies of Racial Microaggression and Institutional Whiteness: Experiences of Chinese International Students in UK Higher Education","authors":"Shuang Gao","doi":"10.1111/josl.12693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12693","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores how language intersects with race in shaping the experience of Chinese international students in UK higher education (HE). Through the lenses of racial microaggression, critical race theory, and raciolinguistic ideologies, the study analyzes interviews and written diaries from Chinese students at a public research university. It reveals three language ideologies rooted in white supremacy: the ideology of English-only, the ideology of incompetence, and the ideology of exclusion. These ideologies manifest in everyday interactions and institutional practices, positioning Chinese students as the inferior Other and reproducing the university as a white space. However, these ideologies are sometimes internalized by students who reproduce their own raciolinguistic inferiority. The article argues that students’ racial experiences are embedded in the racial logics of the internationalization of HE and the racial hierarchies of knowledge construction, which sustain and rely on white English supremacy as a multi-scalar and transnational endeavor.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 2","pages":"97-108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language","authors":"Anna M. Babel","doi":"10.1111/josl.12689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12689","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Linguistic awareness is a complex and multi-layered set of processes, existing in different forms of consciousness or knowledge. Social meaning resides in the ways that people perceive linguistic behavior as patterned and predictable, depending on their experience with, stereotypes about, and understanding of different groups. Ample evidence from experimental and ethnographic work indicates that sociolinguistic processes are actively engaged in the interactional construction of meaning. Furthermore, these processes hold material power over the world and how our positions in it are constructed. Theorizing these relationships is key to advancing research on sociolinguistic awareness and control and ultimately to understanding the complex linkages between language and social categorization, as evidenced in the contributions to this thematic issue. To illustrate these points, I present data from the Quechua–Spanish contact zone in Bolivia in which speakers report hearing differences in sounds that were not manipulated by the researchers in an experimental study. Second, I examine a case study in an educational setting in which Latinx students are categorized as English language learners based on racializing discourses and biased assessment tools. Both these examples demonstrate the importance of attending to listeners’ representations of socio + linguistic information, not only that which exists in a measurable way “in the world,” but that which is filled in by social expectation and pattern recognition at a sociocognitive level. I draw on semiotic theory, in particular the device of the &lt;i&gt;interpretant&lt;/i&gt;, to argue that social information is perceived in dynamic and varied ways as part of the sign system that constitutes language. It is not something that is added on or filtered &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; linguistic information; indeed, the whole concept of “social vs. linguistic” is a false dichotomy that has led too many researchers astray. The interpretant incorporates elements of our theory of the world in our interpretation of signs and provides a third “leg” to the dualistic Saussurean sign–symbol relationship. That is, our perception of the relationship between sign and symbol is itself part of the sign. This recursive relationship helps us to access the sophisticated systems of social behavior and modeling that people contain and have knowledge of, information that not only assists them in interpreting but also plays a role in constructing meaning and content of socially laden signs. Social meaning resides in the ways that people perceive linguistic behavior as patterned and predictable, yet also dynamic and available for creative play. We cannot rely only on people's experience with, stereotypes about, and understanding of different groups but must also lean toward models that allow for creativity, innovation, and shifting hierarchies. These processes ultimately have material effects on our world and on the power structures that we inhabit and reprod","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"59-73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to the Thematic Issue","authors":"Anna M. Babel,&nbsp;Kathryn Campbell-Kibler,&nbsp;Kevin B. McGowan","doi":"10.1111/josl.12690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12690","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The topics of awareness and control have been investigated for decades in sociolinguistics, but they have been approached in different ways, both theoretically and methodologically, in different corners of the subdiscipline. This has resulted in confusing and sometimes contradictory terminology, as well as divergent theoretical perspectives on what, exactly, is meant by these terms. As our understanding of the relationships between various social and cognitive systems has become more detailed and sophisticated, it has become increasingly urgent to untangle the overlapping and at times contradictory ways of understanding these concepts. For this reason, this Thematic Series responds to a need for further and more coherent development of the concept of awareness - and for coordination between different subfields of (socio)linguistics as we do so.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"44-58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Place-Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features","authors":"Kathryn Campbell-Kibler","doi":"10.1111/josl.12691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12691","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious/unconscious distinction unsupported in current cognitive psychology. A more effective approach takes a theoretical step back, asking basic questions about how analogous sociolinguistic meanings relate across activities. In this article, I do so by asking whether explicit verbal reports and speaker evaluations of accentedness in Ohio correlate in strength across individual language users. Such a correlation would suggest a shared representation and/or a shared learning process. A total of 1106 participants listened to Ohio talkers reading word lists of <span>trap</span>, <span>dress</span>, <span>lot</span>, or <span>goose</span> tokens. Participants rated each talker's accentedness, then the accentedness of seven Ohio places. The expected main effects emerged: southern and rural Ohio were most accented, then northern Ohio, and lastly cities and central Ohio. Likewise, the acoustic features influenced talker ratings. Crucially, however, these two effects largely did not interact: those most likely to describe northern (southern) Ohio as accented were no more or less sensitive to northern (southern) vowel features. These results support the small but growing evidence that indexical relationships are learned and used independently across linguistic practices. They also move us further from a unidimensional model of awareness toward an approach where different systems are treated independently.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"74-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12691","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Existential challenges and interactional sociolinguistics/linguistic ethnography","authors":"Ben Rampton","doi":"10.1111/josl.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12685","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;I am not a specialist in digital communication, and instead I do interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography (henceforth ‘IS’ and ‘LE’), a syncretic research programme that draws &lt;i&gt;inter alia&lt;/i&gt; on linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis and Goffman, usually cross-referring to relevant work in other disciplines (Rampton, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; IS/LE centres on the careful ethnographic observation, recording and analysis of embodied communication, and it investigates communication's embedding in a layered and interweaving multiplicity of social, cultural and material systems and processes. Depending on the questions and arguments that it is addressing, IS/LE certainly varies both in the forms of semiosis and the systems that it attends to (and I myself have tended to focus on spoken interaction in recreational and educational locales affected by racism, social class and securitisation). But when Helen Kelly-Holmes asks whether artificial intelligence (AI) now departs from ‘the known world for sociolinguistics’, it is a timely opportunity to reflect on the possibilities for—or indeed possibility &lt;i&gt;of&lt;/i&gt;—IS/LE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kelly-Holmes speaks of a ‘seismic shift’ in the scholarly universe, citing Jan Blommaert (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;, p. 7), who also advocated ‘an acute eye for change’, saying that ‘reality changes. The bastard changes all the time; society refuses to sit still’ (Blommaert &amp; Van de Aa, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;, p. 6). But Blommaert could also be rather equivocal about the significance of these changes, and elsewhere recommends less spectacular adaptations—‘we have to adjust… [and] what you do needs to be relevant, so don't go for the big recipes’ (2020, p. 6). Not knowing more about AI, I cannot gauge authoritatively the magnitude of its implications for IS/LE, but pursuing Blommaert's more muted second option, I can see several ways in which AI can remain a researchable empirical topic (Rampton, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;, pp. 314–324).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A lot of this can be studied empirically (Georgakopoulou et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). Yes, these technological developments are likely to stretch IS/LE's methodological repertoire, also warranting the formation of new interdisciplinary collaborations with, for example, different kinds of computer scientist. But digital processes like these are actually drawn into analytical salience by one of IS/LE's foundational preoccupations: ‘algorithmic knowledge and media ideologies are now – alongside other semiotic resources and language ideologies – central in &lt;i&gt;having a voice&lt;/i&gt;’ (Maly, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;, p. 15; emphasis added).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least two terms figure prominently in this shift, driven by reckonings not only with AI but also with coloniality and the climate emergency (Chakrabarty, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Kell &amp; Budach, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Pennycook, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). Post-humanism is one, inter alia proposing a ‘philosophical critique of the Western humanist ideal of the “man o","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"28 5","pages":"38-43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.12685","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial intelligence and the future of sociolinguistic research: An African contextual review","authors":"Patience Afrakoma hMensa","doi":"10.1111/josl.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"28 5","pages":"26-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142691210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}