刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《社会中的语言》2022年第4-5期

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY

Volume 51, Issue 4-5, 2022

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY（SSCI一区，2021 IF：2.392）2022年第4-5期共刊文31篇。第4期共发文16篇，其中研究性论文6篇，书评2篇，读书笔记8篇；第5期共发文15篇，其中研究性论文6篇，书评2篇，读书笔记7篇。研究论文涉及语言意识形态、语体实践、多模态、对话分析、语言复兴、语言接触、新传统美学、批判符号景观研究等。欢迎转发扩散！（2022年已更完）

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目录

ISSUE 4

ARTICLES

■ A cline of enregisterment and its erasure: Intersections of ideology and technology in minority-language news, by Kathryn E. Graber, Pages 551-576.

■ Varying orientations to sharing life stories: A diachronic study of Japanese women's discourse, by Ikuko Nakane, Kaori Okano, Claire Maree, Chie Takagi, Lidia Tanaka, Shimako Iwasaki, Pages 577-602.

■ Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs, by Yuhan Lin, Marjorie K. M. Chan, Pages 603-626.

■ Sign networks: Nucleated network sign languages and rural homesign in Papua New Guinea, by Lauren W. Reed, Pages 627-661.

■ Continuity and hybridity in language revival: The case of Manx, by Christopher Lewin, Pages 663-691.

■ How categorization impacts the design of requests: Asking for email addresses in call-centre interactions, by Marie Flinkfeldt, Sophie Parslow, Elizabeth Stokoe, Pages 693-716.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Diana Forker & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. 386. Hb. €100., by Victor A. Friedman, Pages 717-718.

■ Alastair Pennycook, Critical applied linguistics: A critical (re-)introduction. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 220. Pb. £28., by Wesley Martin, Enrique David Degollado, Pages 719-722.

BOOK NOTES

■ Kristy Beers Fägersten, Language play in contemporary Swedish comic strips. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. Pp. xi, 203. Hb. €100., by Katherine Arnold-Murray, Pages 723-724.

■ Fang Xu, Silencing Shanghai: Language and identity in urban China. New York: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 261. Hb. $105., by Eleanor Yue Gong, Pages 724-725.

■ Joseph Sung-Yul Park, In pursuit of English: Language and subjectivity in neoliberal South Korea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Pb. £26., by Katy Highet, Pages 725-726.

■ John P. O'Regan, Global English and political economy. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 282. Pb. £35., by Pamoda M. Jayaweera, Pages 727-728.

■ Rodney H. Jones (ed.), Viral discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vi, 95. Pb. £15., by Cagla Karatepe, Pages 728-729.

■ Farzad Karimzad & Lydia Catedral, Chronotopes and migration: Language, social imagination, and behavior. London: Routledge, 2021, Pp. 156. Hb. £120., by Naji Obaid, Pages 729-730.

■ Rajend Mesthrie, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, & Heather Brookes (eds.), Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. Hb. £85., by Troy E. Spier, Pages 731-732.

■ Helene Seltzer Krauthamer, The great pronoun shift: The big impact of little parts of speech. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 152. Pb. £28., by Tran Truong, Pages 732-733.

ISSUE 5 (Semiotic Timescapes)

ARTICLES

■ Semiotic timescapes, by Michelle M. Lazar, Pages 735-748.

■ Mapping the itineraries of semiotic artefacts in the linguistic landscape of protest: The case of shields in Venezuela, by Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí, Pages 749-773.

■ Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times: Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation, by Marie Maegaard, Kristine Køhler Mortensen, Pages 775-795.

■ ‘Living memories of the changing same’: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race, by Rodrigo Borba, Branca Falabella Fabrício, Fátima Lima, Pages 797-818.

■ The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings, by Crispin Thurlow, Alessandro Pellanda, Laura Wohlgemuth, Pages 819-837.

■ Chronotopes of ‘Chinese’ privilege: Class-inflected racialisation in condominium hoardings, by Michelle M. Lazar,  Pages 839-859.

REVIEWS

■ Susan Gal & Judith T. Irvine, Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 326. Pb. $25., by Bonnie Urciuoli, Pages 861-864.

■ Natalia Knoblock (ed.), Language of conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian crisis. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 296. Pb. £29., by Valentyna Ushchyna, Pages 864-867.

BOOK NOTES

■ 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., by Juan Berríos, Pages 869-870.

■ Gwynne Mapes, Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Hb. £26., by Allison Checkeye, Pages 870-871.

■ Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 246. Hb. $25., by Lise M. Dobrin, Pages 871-872.

■ E. J. White, You talkin’ to me? The unruly history of New York English. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 213. Hb. $20., by Scott Kiesling, Pages 873-874.

■ Shuang Gao & Xuan Wang (eds.), Unpacking discourses on Chineseness: The cultural politics of language and identity in globalizing China. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 205. Hb. £100., by Leying Li, Pages 874-875.

■ Sylvia Sierra, Millennials talking media: Creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 198. Pb. $40., by Minghui Sun, Pages 875-876.

■ Laura Rupp & David Britain, Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: Let's talk about -s. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 370. Pb. €36., by Nikolaus Wildner, Pages 877-878.

摘要

A cline of enregisterment and its erasure: Intersections of ideology and technology in minority-language news

Kathryn E. Graber, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Abstract Audiences often ascribe monolithic linguistic authority to news media institutions, viewing journalists as the bearers of language standards. Yet media are in fact heteroglossic, with journalists across different media platforms negotiating competing practical demands and different understandings of the social purposes and possibilities of their work. This article examines a case of hyperideologized minority-language media to show how the interplay of deep-seated language ideologies, the local sociohistorical context of media, and the material, technological affordances of different platforms produces a cline of enregisterment. It focuses on media produced in Buryat, a Mongolic language of southeastern Siberia whose speakers are shifting to Russian. Comparing journalists’ linguistic practices and audiences’ interpretations across the coexisting media platforms of newspapers, radio, and television shows how media enregisterment and, in turn, the enregisterment of a standard literary language occur along a cline that is shaped by the intersections of ideology with technology. 

Key words Media, language ideology, enregisterment, standardization, purism, materiality, Russia, Russian, Buryat

Varying orientations to sharing life stories: A diachronic study of Japanese women's discourse

Ikuko Nakane, University of Melbourne, Australia

Kaori Okano, La Trobe University, Australia

Claire Maree, University of Melbourne, Australia

Chie Takagi, Osaka University, Japan

Lidia Tanaka, La Trobe University, Australia

Shimako Iwasaki, Monash University, Australia

Abstract Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals’ language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers’ stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally from the same area in western Japan, the same high school, and similar socio-economic background, conducted by a single researcher eleven years apart. The chronological and inter-participant comparisons reveal a complex pattern of stylistic practice and stance taking as the women share stories about career, family and relationships with the researcher. The study also discusses audience design in language variation and explores how the participants utilise their discursive repertoires in their interaction with the researcher, whose background is significantly divergent from theirs. 

Key words Language across the lifespan, stylistic practice, Japanese

Linguistic constraint, social meaning, and multi-modal stylistic construction: Case studies from Mandarin pop songs

Yuhan Lin, Shenzhen University, China and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Marjorie K. M. Chan, The Ohio State University, USA

Abstract While the sociolinguistic variable is often deemed the carrier of social meaning, recent work reveals that the strength of social meaning can interact with linguistic environments. This study provides additional evidence that the same sets of variants can index drastically different social meanings across linguistic environments. Specifically, we present two cases of linguistic stylization in Taiwanese singer Jay Chou's performance in different genres: the ‘Chinese Flavor’ ballad and hip hop. Focusing on two socially salient variables in Mandarin—rhotacization and retroflex sibilants—we argue that while in both cases, Chou adopts variants associated with standard and mainland Mandarin, they index different social meanings. The conforming linguistic use in the ‘Chinese Flavor’ ballad indexes a sense of tradition, whereas the hypercorrected forms in the hip-hop song construct an unconventional stance. The study also addresses the connections between linguistic and non-linguistic stylizations and calls for more research on the multimodal construction of style. 

Key words Social meaning, linguistic constraint, multimodal, high performance, Mandarin

Sign networks: Nucleated network sign languages and rural homesign in Papua New Guinea

Lauren W. Reed, Australian National University, Australia

Abstract The sociodemographic typology of sign languages classifies them based on the characteristics and configurations of their users. When considering homesign and sign languages in rural areas, this typology needs further refinement. Here, I present new concepts to enable this. The study is based on fieldwork with twelve deaf people in Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and review of studies worldwide. Sign language communities can be mapped as sign networks. Using this mapping, I propose a new typological category for languages with one central deaf user and many fluent hearing signers: nucleated network sign language. I use sign base analysis to determine lexical consistency between unconnected deaf signers in Western Highlands. The high level of consistency among largely unconnected deaf people is explained by a regional sign network connecting deaf and hearing signers. This research emphasises the role of both deaf and hearing signers in sign language emergence and maintenance. 

Key words Sign languages, social networks, sign networks, typology, homesign, rural sign languages, Papua New Guinea

Continuity and hybridity in language revival: The case of Manx

Christopher Lewin, Aberystwyth University, Wales

Abstract This article presents a typology of phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical features illustrative of factors conditioning the usage of speakers and writers of Revived Manx, including substratal influence from English; language ideologies prevalent within the revival movement, especially forms of linguistic purism; and language-specific features of Manx and its orthography. Evidence is taken primarily from a corpus of Revived Manx speech and writing. The observed features of Revived Manx are situated within Zuckermann's (2009, 2020) framework of ‘hybridization’ and ‘revival linguistics’, which takes Israeli Hebrew as the prototypical model of revernacularization of a non-L1 language. However, Manx arguably provides a more typical example of what to expect when a revived minority language remains predominantly an L2 for an indefinite period, with each new cohort of speakers able to reshape the target variety in the absence of a firmly established L1 norm. 

Key words Manx, Celtic, language revival, language ideology, language shift, language contact

How categorization impacts the design of requests: Asking for email addresses in call-centre interactions

Marie Flinkfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden

Sophie Parslow, Loughborough University, UK

Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University, UK

Abstract Marketing research shows that organizations tailor communication for particular customer ‘segments’, but little is known about the live design of interaction for different categories. To investigate this, we examine telephone calls to a holiday sales call-centre (for ‘seniors’) and a university admissions call-centre (for ‘young’ students). While topically different, call-takers in both datasets requested callers’ email addresses in order to progress service. Using conversation analysis, we examine how these requests were designed, where and how ‘age’ was made relevant, and how subsequent service provision was handled in a way that matched callers’ presumed age categories. Contrastive to the static notion of ‘segments’, we show how recipient design is bound up with categorial considerations while being responsive to the live unfolding of actual interaction. The article demonstrates how a comparative collection-based approach can be used to analyse the relevance of social categories in situations where this is implicit or ambiguous. 

Key words Membership categorization, customer segmentation, conversation analysis, recipient design, requests, age

Semiotic timescapes

Michelle M. Lazar, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abstract In linguistic/semiotic landscape (LSL) studies, overall, time and temporalities have occupied a curious space between visibility and invisibility, resulting in time and temporalities being treated as an optional, additive, subordinate, or separate dimension in the linguistic and semiotic study of place-making. The term semiotic timescape serves as a heuristic concept which endeavours to centre time and its imbrication with space/place, with an explicit focus on the semiosis of ‘temporalized place-making’. The five articles in this special issue highlight the ‘complex and multiplex’ dimensions of time (Adam 2008) interconnected with spaces/places, as important aspects in understanding social realities and practices, via entanglements with multimodal meaning-making, materialities, embodiment, and politics of social actors and communities. 

Key words Semiotic timescapes, interconnectedness of time and space, complexities and multiplexities, multimodality, materialities

Mapping the itineraries of semiotic artefacts in the linguistic landscape of protest: The case of shields in Venezuela

Jessica Velásquez Urribarrí, La Trobe University, Australia

Abstract This study explores the emergence and developments through time of a semiotic artefact, the shield, used by demonstrators in violent anti-government protests in contemporary Venezuela. Drawing on the concept of discourse itineraries (Scollon 2008), the material and semiotic transformations this artefact underwent are mapped through various protest cycles, whilst considering the semiotic enrichment of century-long traditions of shields that inform the various functions they play within current day itineraries. The study concludes by discussing the advantages of using the concept of discourse itineraries for understanding moments in the life cycle of semiotic artefacts in the linguistic landscape and outlines future opportunities to expand the analysis of shields beyond the Venezuelan case. 

Key words Linguistic landscape of protest, discourse itineraries, semiotic artefact, shields, Venezuela

Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times: Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation

Marie Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Kristine Køhler Mortensen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract This article examines struggles related to the recasting of the collective memory connected to Danish colonialism, through analyses of exhibitions in, and communication from, the Danish National Museum. By use of multimodal and semiotic landscape analysis, we show how the Danish National Museum works to reformulate the historical relationship between Greenland and Denmark in ways that avoid the colonizer's language and at the same time describe and construct complex relations of past and present. The analysis demonstrates how a temporal ambiguity is present in the museum exhibitions, not offering a conclusive understanding of the colonial period. At the same time, we show how the presence and absence of colonial language in public space is inscribed into temporal frames legitimizing or problematizing their status. 

Key words Semiotic landscape, colonialism, language and nation, temporality

‘Living memories of the changing same’: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race

Rodrigo Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Branca Falabella Fabrício, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fátima Lima, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of chronotope by examining effects of the African diaspora in Brazil. The experience of radical uprooting it promoted fuses spatiotemporal dimensions that operate in complementary directions. On the one hand, a necrotope sets forth submission and destruction. On the other, visceral resistance to obliteration emerges when the timespace of encruzilhadas ‘crossroads’ is produced in the cracks of colonial power. The LL at Pedra do Sal in Rio de Janeiro suggests that approaching timespace from this perspective captures the juxtaposition of stasis and mobility, oppression and resistance, loss and life, past and present. We argue that thinking of time OUTSIDE and AGAINST the Euro-chronometer requires decolonial epistemologies that have the potential to disrupt racist chronologies. 

Key words Chronotope, linguistic landscapes, African diaspora, temporality, race, Rio de Janeiro

The discursive chronotopes of waste: Temporal laminations and linguistic hauntings

Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland

Alessandro Pellanda, University of Bern, Switzerland

Laura Wohlgemuth, University of Bern, Switzerland

Abstract This article presents two case-study examples of the discursive chronotopes by which domestic waste is organized as a linguistic, spatial, and temporal configuration. Marked by their liminality and temporal laminations, curbside garbage collection and secondhand/thrift shops are major sociomaterial practices in Switzerland. The three discursive chronotopes we address in these contexts are those concerned with regulation, repression, and (re)valuation. By focusing on the temporalities of waste, we complicate how linguistic landscape research typically conceives of, and approaches, both space and language. The language of waste is not always visible or even expressed. Indeed, waste is often deliberately rendered invisible—under the cover of darkness, behind closed doors, sent elsewhere—and thereby functions as an act of discursive suppression. For these reasons, we endorse a hauntological approach to linguistic landscapes. 

Key words Waste, linguistic landscape, discursive chronotope, temporal lamination, hauntology

Chronotopes of ‘Chinese’ privilege: Class-inflected racialisation in condominium hoardings

Michelle M. Lazar, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abstract This article explores racial ‘privilege’ through the lens of temporalized landscapes. Specifically, I examine chronotopes of class-inflected ‘Chinese’ privilege on advertising hoardings for ‘Jadescape’, a condominium development in multiracial Singapore. Two chronotopic dimensions are discussed. The first, pertaining to representations inscribed on the hoardings, manifest a ‘chronotopic bricolage’, involving the fusion of a ‘traditional racial-cultural chronotope’ of a historicised ‘Chineseness’, and a ‘modern cosmopolitan chronotope’ of contemporariness and transnationalism. Embedded in this mix are further multiplicities of time, which altogether create a Sinocentric ‘neo-traditional’ aesthetic. The second dimension relates to the impermanence of the semiotic-materiality of the hoardings installed along the perimeter of the construction site only while the condominium is being built. The temporariness of hyper-visible representability of ‘Chineseness’, read against other similar media and communication practices in multiracial public spaces, secures a ‘semiotic-material immunity of privilege’, which renders racialized Chinese privilege in Singapore both elusive and normalised. 

Key words Chronotopes of privilege, ‘Chinese privilege’, ‘chronotopic bricolage’, neo-traditional aesthetic, condominium advertising, critical semiotic landscape studies

期刊简介

Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with language and discourse as aspects of social life. The journal publishes empirical articles of general theoretical, comparative or methodological interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related fields. Language in Society aims to strengthen international scholarship and interdisciplinary conversation and cooperation among researchers interested in language and society by publishing work of high quality which speaks to a wide audience. In addition to original articles, the journal publishes reviews and notices of the latest important books in the field as well as occasional theme and discussion sections.

《社会中的语言》是社会语言学的国际期刊，关注语言和话语作为社会生活的各个方面。该期刊发表对研究社会语言学、语言人类学和相关领域的学生和学者感兴趣的一般理论、比较或方法论方面的实证文章。《社会中的语言》旨在通过出版面向广大读者的高质量作品，加强对语言和社会感兴趣的研究人员之间的国际学界和跨学科对话与合作。除了原创文章外，该期刊还发表该领域最新重要书籍的评论和通知，以及不定期发表主题讨论。

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