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{"title":"Retrieving the Body in Linguistics","authors":"Tsung-Lun Alan Wan","doi":"10.1111/josl.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Seeing <i>Inclusion in Linguistics</i> begin with Jon Henner's (<span>2024</span>) chapter on crip linguistics feels like a long-overdue correction. Traditionally, linguistics textbooks treat sign language as an “add-on” near the final pages, whereas disability is cordoned off within clinical sciences, including clinical linguistics, as if disabled people's languaging experiences have nothing to do with non-disabled linguistics. My experience teaching “clinical linguistics and social justice” at our department has shown me how vital it is to blur these boundaries; I have watched students transition from a purely medical audiological background to a multimodal study of phonological variation among deaf learners. The editors’ decision to place this framework at the forefront is a powerful reclamation of space, and it is the lens through which I will anchor my discussion in this commentary.</p><p>Henner's chapter left a question that remains unresolved: If crip linguistics invites us to value all disabled ways of languaging, then how can we critique linguistic deprivation without reproducing deficit narratives about those deprived of it (p. 32)? Language deprivation, by definition, is a label given to “a host of different cognitive, social, and behavioral challenges that arise from none-to-incomplete access to a natural language during formative years” (Robinson and Henner <span>2017</span>, 1424). Examples include deaf children who are denied access to sign language and receive only partial access to spoken language due to the sensory incompatibility between speech phonetics and their auditory capacities, resulting in the development of cognitive functions—such as executive control—that differ from those of children who have full access to a natural language (Hall et al. <span>2017</span>).</p><p>As crip linguistics ontologically removes any negative framing of body-mind differences manifested through ways of languaging, a critique of language deprivation grounded in a negative ontology—one that presupposes <i>delayed</i> or <i>deviant</i> cognitive development as its consequence—risks tripping up its own agenda. This tension, however, illustrates the embodied nature of language, as emphasized by Henner and by recent calls for an embodied sociolinguistics (Bucholtz and Hall <span>2016</span>). Although it is almost a cliché in introductory linguistics to educate students that all languages and varieties are equal, in practice some remain “more equal than others.” Linguistic differences that stem from body-mind types falling below a socially defined standard deviation from the “average” body-mind are typically deemed unfit to stand on the same podium of equality. Of course, variation exists within that statistically “normal” range of body-minds, and such variation also affects language. Yet these differences are rarely subject to negative framing, precisely because they constitute the statistical majority and the socially dominant. This, in essen","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 2","pages":"218-222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708000","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":"Articulating Shala Qazaq in America: Chronotopes and Language Ideologies in Central Asian Kazakh Families","authors":"Munira Kairat,&nbsp;Amy Kyratzis","doi":"10.1111/josl.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines how Central Asian Kazakh families in California draw on spatial–temporal chronotopes, including Soviet legacies, diasporic minority governance, post-independence nation-building, and U.S. migration/assimilation, through the culturally situated label of <i>Shala Qazaq</i> (“incomplete Kazakh”) to discursively construct moralized timelines of their life trajectories and transnational experiences, which in turn shape family language ideologies and language policies. <i>Shala Qazaq</i> is a cultural label indexing an ideology that treats a lack of fluency in Kazakh as falling short of authentic ethnic identity. Drawing on interviews and ethnography from four Kazakh immigrant parents from Kazakhstan and China, the article demonstrates how parental language ideologies are shaped not only intergenerationally but also across national trajectories and geopolitical histories within the same transnational group. The article proposes an approach to studying transnational/postcolonial multilingual communities’ language decisions with a focus on spatiotemporal chronotopes and historically charged labels that families use to articulate social imaginaries and cultural continuity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 2","pages":"165-176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708196","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":"Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire","authors":"Claire Nance,&nbsp;Malika Mahamdi","doi":"10.1111/josl.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th-century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917 in three urban settlements which contrast in social makeup and history. The quantitative analysis shows strong maintenance of rhoticity in speakers from Preston, less so in Lancaster, and almost no rhoticity in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial boom town. We then use historical census data to analyse population origin, growth, occupation and fertility rates to argue that new dialect formation occurred in Barrow during the late 19th century, leading to accelerated derhoticisation. Overall, our analysis supports a model of urban historical dialect change which includes population origins, social networks and population dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 2","pages":"177-192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708298","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":"Journalists’ Use of Gender-Inclusive Language in German Youth Radio: Ethnographic Insights From On- and Off-Air Communication","authors":"Sarah Josefine Schaefer","doi":"10.1111/josl.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of gender-inclusive language (GIL) in German is frequently examined in linguistics and related fields. While journalistic texts are often the central element of such analyses, research on the actual language users – the journalists – and their complex linguistic practices behind the scenes is rather scarce. This article is based on a larger EU-funded research project that examines journalistic practices at a German youth radio station to gain a detailed understanding of how content is created and which factors shape this process. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork at the youth radio station, 20 semi-structured interviews with journalists and a qualitative linguistic corpus analysis of morning show scripts, this article explores why and how journalists use GIL in the newsroom and which shaping factors arise during content production. It also draws attention to the different forms of GIL used in youth radio communication and which social values are part of journalistic practices and discourses.</p>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"43-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josl.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217557","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":"Honoring the Life, Legacy, and Linguistics of William Labov: A Conversation About Language, Race, Hip Hop, and the Education of Black Children","authors":"H. Samy Alim","doi":"10.1111/josl.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article honors the life, legacy, and linguistics of William Labov. It features a wide-ranging, candid conversation with Labov in 1998, when the field of African American Language was at multiple, major crossroads. I offer a refreshing view of Labov, discussing personal and political issues with him, major debates in the field, and the persistence of racism both in sociolinguistic research and in the education of Black children. Further, we discuss at length the linguistic creativity of hip hop culture and its value to broader issues of language variation and change. Three aspects of Bill Labov are readily apparent: (1) his commitment to social justice; (2) his commitment to remaining open to new knowledge; and (3) his commitment to mentoring students, including undergraduates like me (at the time). As we mark what would have been Bill's 100th birthday next year, it is his mentorship that I will most cherish.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"70-84"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146224524","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":"“The Bad School on the Northwest Side”: Indexical Order and High School Choice in Chicago1","authors":"Jaime Benheim","doi":"10.1111/josl.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Research throughout the United States has found that the type of high school a speaker attended can impact linguistic variation. However, this work has largely focused on adult alumni of schools. This paper examines high school students’ reversal of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, an ongoing sound change in Chicago, through a qualitative analysis of interview content and quantitative analysis of vowel production. Results show that students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds who attend “elite” high schools produce more reversed variants of the highly salient TRAP and LOT vowels than those at other schools. This suggests that variants originally associated with class have taken on higher-order indexical meanings as students use them to reflect their positions in a status-based hierarchy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"3-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146223911","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":"Linguistic Landscapes: Focus on Public Signs – Focus on Multilingualism","authors":"Eva Ogiermann","doi":"10.1111/josl.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"112-118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146224426","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":"What Counts as Evidence for the Stabilisation of Dialect Features? Surveys of Indian English Past and Present","authors":"Claire Cowie","doi":"10.1111/josl.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"92-98"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680302","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":"Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School","authors":"Lucía Fraiese,&nbsp;Celeste Rodríguez Louro,&nbsp;Matt Hunt Gardner,&nbsp;Glenys Dale Collard,&nbsp;James Walker","doi":"10.1111/josl.12725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12725","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This original sociolinguistic ethnographic study examines social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English, an indigenized variety of English spoken by First Nations people in Australia. Based on 42 hours of audio recordings and ethnographic data with 31 girls at a predominantly First Nations boarding school in the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia, we find higher rates but similar linguistic conditioning of [ɪn] compared to other Englishes in Australia. Additionally, a third variant [ɪŋk] emerges as an iconic affective resource. We also explore the indexicalities of (ING) variants. Our analysis reveals that (ING) use reflects group orientation towards or against school norms and is mediated by access to other languages as identity markers. [ɪŋk] serves an independent function as an iconic resource for emphasis or to signal high emotion.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"15-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315603","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":"In-Group/Out-Group Dynamics, Contrast, and the Listening Subject in Sociolinguistic Perception","authors":"Lacey Wade","doi":"10.1111/josl.12724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12724","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Research in linguistic perception has shown that social knowledge shapes how speech is processed, with listeners’ social biases influencing their interpretation of the speech signal. Such findings are inherently in step with the concept of <i>listening practices</i> in linguistic anthropology. Miyako Inoue's foundational work on the “listening subject” highlights how meaning emerges through listeners’ ideological positions, demonstrated through an analysis of Japanese schoolgirl speech. I argue that sociolinguistic perception work has much to be gained from integrating a listening subject framework, foregrounding the social conditions enabling perception and emphasizing interpretive agency. In this commentary, I focus on how the listening subject is constituted through contrast with the object of speech perception and explore how this dynamic intersects with ongoing work on in-group/out-group identity and the role of experience in shaping sociolinguistic perception, specifically drawing on my research on US regional dialect perception. Finally, I discuss how experimental sociolinguistics and public engagement efforts might be enhanced by critically examining the listening subject positions of research participants.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51486,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociolinguistics","volume":"29 5","pages":"371-375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145530214","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}