刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《社会语言学》2023年第1-3期

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Volume 27, Issue 1-3, 2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics（SSCI一区，2022 IF：1.9，排名：62/194）2023年第1-3期共刊文22篇。2023年第1期共发文7篇，其中研究性论文3篇，书评4篇；第2期共发文7篇，其中研究性论文4篇， 书评3篇；第3期共发文8篇，研究性论文4篇， 书评4篇。研究论文涉及对话分析、民族志、语言接触、语言纯粹主义、语言意识形态、社交媒体、多语社会、社会流动性、女性气质等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ISSUE 1

ARTICLES

■ Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine-actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue-collar work environments, by Daan Hovens, Pages: 3-23

■ Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore, by Vincent Pak, Pages: 24-41

■ Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis, by Shigeko Okamoto, Maho Morimoto, Pages: 42-65 

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador, by Nicholas Limerick, Pages: 87-89

■ Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero, by Cecilia Tallatta, Pages: 90-94

■ Critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, by

Maartje De Meulder, Pages: 95-98

■ The promise of New Speakers: Power with and against agency for a sociolinguistics of justice, by Mireille K. McLaughlin, Pages: 99-110

ISSUE 2

ARTICLES

■ Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth-century Spain, by Amado Alarcón Alarcón,  Maria Jesús Muiños Villaverde,  Maria de los Ángeles Serrano Alonso,  Josiah Heyman, Pages: 115-135

■ Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable, by Matthew Hunt,  Colleen Cotter,  Hazel Pearson,  Linnaea Stockall, Pages: 136-158

■ Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan, by Nina Dobrushina, Pages: 159-176

■ Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender-sensitive language in Serbia, by Ksenija Bogetic, Pages: 177-197

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Linguistics in pursuit of justice, by John Baugh, Jamie A. Thomas, Pages: 198-203

■ Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave, by James Slotta, Pages: 204-207

■ Ethnographic dramas: Who can engage in critical reflections, by Rommy Anabalon Schaaf, Pages: 208-217

ISSUE 3

ARTICLES

■ The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London, by Rachelle Vessey,  Elena Nicolai, Pages: 221-244

■ Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows, by Jordan Andrew MacKenzie, Pages: 245-267

■ Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage, by Kristian Tamtomo,  Zane Goebel, Pages: 268-289 

■ “Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history, by Aleksandar Takovski, Pages: 290-307

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Global English and political economy, by Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Pages: 308-311

■ Graphic politics in eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy, by Jaspal Naveel Singh, Pages: 312-315

■ Language and intercultural communication in tourism, by Anne Storch, Pages: 316-320

■ Mixed messages: Mediating native belonging in Asian Russian, by Vlada Baranova, Pages: 321-323

摘要

Breakdowns and assemblages: Including machine-actants in sociolinguistic ethnographies of blue-collar work environments

Daan Hovens, Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross-Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Abstract A central concern in sociolinguistic ethnographies has been how people use language to make social distinctions. This article discusses the relevance of paying closer attention to the role of machines as actants in communication and social distinction-making processes. It analyses audio and video-recorded workplace interactions between humans and machines in a metal foundry in the Dutch-German borderland. Specifically, it focuses on several cases of a breakdown of a production process, a frequently observed phenomenon in the foundry. The cases show that: (1) the production work entails many improvised human–human and human–machine interactions as opposed to Taylorised working practices; (2) the machine-actants initiate and afford (re)negotiations of situated, hierarchical workplace relations through these interactions; and (3) the question whether these interactions should be considered ‘language-centred’ or ‘language-marginal’ partly depends on an ideological, conceptual distinction between what counts as ‘language’ and what not.

Key words assemblage,  blue-collar  workplace,  ethnography,  human–machineinteraction, posthumanism, workplace communication

Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of PinkDot’s counterpublic discourse in Singapore

Vincent Pak, Department of English, Linguistics andTheatre Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, School of Education, Communication & Society, King’s CollegeLondon, London, UK

Abstract Pink Dot, a homegrown LGBTQ activist group based in Singapore, has been treated as a social movement since its inauguration in 2009, and they organise an annual event to advocate for LGBTQ individuals. In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the twelfth edition of the event (PD12)took place online as a livestream on YouTube. The highlight of PD12 was the unveiling of a ‘digital pink dot’ via a virtual map of Singapore, where the permeability of its discourse in virtual and physical spaces became much more apparent in comparison with previous physical iterations of the event. Approaching the data with counterpublic and citizenship theory, I outline the circulability of discourse as the key feature of a counterpublic, and argue that PD12achieves this in two ways: (i) the semiotic fragmentation of its physical signs and online discourse; and (ii) the deployment of intertextual elements in a drag performance.

Key words circulability, counter public, LGBTQ, Pink Dot, sexual citizenship, Singapore, social movement

Gender norms and styling in Japanese conversation: A multilevel analysis

Mirjam Elisabeth Eiswirth, Sociolinguistics Lab, Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Shigeko Okamoto, Department of Languages and AppliedLinguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Maho Morimoto, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Information and Communication Sciences, SophiaUniversity, Mitaka-city, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract The observation that gender differences in Japanese language use are becoming less prevalent as women increasingly use ‘men's language’ appears in popular media from time to time. Some empirical studies support this view. However, such observations are usually based on the consideration of only one or two linguistic features, especially sentence-final forms and personal pronouns. In contrast, this study analyzes the use of multiple linguistic and paralinguistic features related to gender, regarding them as resources for styling identity. According to our analysis of eight same-gender and mixed-gender dyadic conversations of college students, these speakers’ use of features other than sentence-final forms, which we found to vary little by gender, is normatively gendered to a large extent. The study thus demonstrates that the analysis of multiple and multilevel variables enables us to better understand the complex process of styling through the speaker's negotiation of linguistic gender norms in actual practice.

Key words Styling identity, gender norms, multilevel analysis, ideology, Japanese

Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth-century Spain

Amado Alarcón Alarcón, Maria Jesús Muiños Villaverde, Maria de los Ángeles Serrano Alonso, Josiah Heyman, Departments of Business Administration & Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain

Abstract This article analyses the role of linguistic skills in the process of defining professional classifications in Spain during 1919–1980. The aim is to determine the social evaluation of the skills involved. To retrace the classifications, a total of 114 official documents were examined, establishing a chronological division into three major stages: 1920–1940, 1940–1960 and 1960–1980. The first period (1920–1940) shows efforts toward the initial objectification of working conditions and salary scales, revealing social prejudices and tacit conventions shaping the employment hierarchy, while the second one (1940–1960) indicates the extent to which office work stood out over manual work. Finally, the third stage (1960–1980) shows processes of language rationalisation, which entailed attempts to standardise positions based on required skill sets.

Key words language skills, professional classification, sociohistorical study

Swear(ING) ain’t play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable

Matthew Hunt, University of Southampton, Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics, Southampton, UK

Colleen Cotter, Hazel Pearson, Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Linguistics, London, UK

Abstract Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of sociolinguistic variation in the social evaluation of swearing. Experiment 1 is a variant categorization task, in which participants categorized acoustically ambiguous swearwords and phonetically matching neutral and nonwords as ending in either “-ing” or “-in.” Results suggest that swearwords led participants to hear “-ing” on ambiguous items. Experiment 2 is a matched-guise task in which listeners heard a passage featuring a mix of swearwords and neutral “-ing” words in one of four conditions: fully velar (All-ing), fully alveolar (All-in), only swearwords as velar (Swear-ing), or only neutral words as velar (Swear-in). Participants rated speakers on Likert scales (Schleef et al. (2017), Regional diversity in social perceptions of (ING). Language Variation and Change, 29(1), 29–56). Participants again displayed a tendency towards hearing “-ing” on swearwords. As a result, responses to the Swear-in guises were similar to those for the All-ing guises. The consequences for our understanding of swearing, sociolinguistic perception and cognition, and style, are discussed.

Key words sociolinguistic cognition, sociolinguistic perception, style, swearing, variable (ING)

Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan

Nina Dobrushina, Institute for Finno-Ugric/Uralic Studies, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University (Russian Federation), Moscow, Russia

Abstract Studies of multilingual systems found in Indigenous small-scale communities often assume that exogamous marriages are the norm in such societies and contribute to their linguistic diversity. This paper is an account of the language ideology of endogamous societies in rural highland Daghestan (Northeast Caucasus). By studying language policing and language choice in infrequent mixed marriages, the paper uncovers the beliefs that support endogamy and reveals issues of linguistic identity and attitudes toward the usage of the matrilect within the family and the village. Interviews show that in-married women do not bring new languages to the villages, because they quickly acquire the local language new to them and use it with all their in-laws and their children. A strong association between villages and languages together with the ideology supporting linguistic homogeneity within the village contributes to the maintenance of the regional linguistic diversity.

Key words Daghestan, endogamy, exogamy, language ideology, linguistic diversity, small-scale multilingualism

Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender-sensitive language in Serbia

Ksenija Bogetic, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract This article studies the sociolinguistic and social semiotic transgression enacted by a group of political signs in a public university in Hong Kong. It demonstrates how the signs break normative/stabilized social, cultural and political boundaries and order by mixing up multifarious stylistic and generic resources, resulting in a heteroglossic blending of diverse, often incongruent identities, voices and ideologies predominantly rooted in the modern history of Greater China. The article suggests that this heteroglossia ideologically distances the university away from the state, defends its historical, Western-style autonomy and aligns it with the local pro-democracy civil society amid the escalating sociopolitical tensions in Hong Kong particularly after the Umbrella Movement in 2014. It shows the value of linguistic and semiotic landscape research on institutions as dynamic and complex communities and discursive spaces.

The language ideologies of multilingual nannies in London

Rachelle Vessey, Elena Nicolai, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

Abstract In the globalized economy, multilingualism is increasingly perceived as a way of maximizing competitiveness, even in the family home. In the United Kingdom, multilingualism has become an asset for nannies, granting privileged access to a niche job market. Adopting the theoretical lens of language ideology, we identify sites and forms of language evaluation within the nannies’ discursive construction of their language work. Using thematic analysis of interview and focus group data with nannies, we examine how nannies represent their English and L1 language practices, verbalizations, and embodiments. Findings suggest that, rather than language practices, it is the verbalization of the symbolic value of multilingualism (normally through the medium of English) that grants nannies an advantageous position in the market. This market is made possible by upper-middle-class families, whose privileging of specific languages and speakers perpetuates eliteness, gendered language work, and problematic approaches to second language learning.

Spice talk: An Orientalist register in Nigella Lawson's cooking shows

Jordan Andrew MacKenzie, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Abstract This study argues that spice talk, a register that indexes spices as exotic, is one linguistic instantiation of the discourse of Orientalism. I identify the presence of this register from the advent of the Spice Trade to the present, then provide a case study of its use in cooking show programs by British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, whose Orientalist description of the spices and foods she prepares is a means of indexing physical commodities from the East as ‘‘Oriental’’ and naturalizing the link between spices and the exotic, as well as upholding power imbalances. I maintain that spice talk comprises five thematic features: poetics, sensuality, tourism, otherness, and coloniality. I argue throughout for a situated understanding of spice talk, asserting that contemporary practices of consumption and patterns of taste cannot be divorced from the broader social order or the weight of history.

Dialogic landscapes: Toward a nuanced understanding of globalization in urban Indonesian signage

Kristian Tamtomo, Department of Sociology, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Zane Goebel, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Abstract This article shows that a perspective rooted in Bakhtin's dialogism between the fixed centripetal and fluid centrifugal forces of language and culture is useful in achieving a nuanced understanding of globalization in general and semiotic landscapes in Indonesia in particular. Drawing on data from Indonesia, this article shows dialogic interconnections between fixed and fluid notions of languages and cultures through a multimodal and indexical analysis of governmental and commercial signage in the urban center of Semarang, the provincial capital of Central Java. The analysis highlights the nuanced localizing and globalizing strategies in signage and how dialogicity helps shape the semiotic landscape.

“Grandpa was fatally administered by the Bulgarians”: Family narratives, national identity, and state history

Aleksandar Takovski, Faculty of English, AAB College, Pristina, Kosovo

Abstract Grandparents’ World War Two (WWII) stories are emotionally powerful, intimate accounts of firsthand experience that can shape grandchildren's ideas of state history, nation, and identity. This effect, I argue, manifests most intensively in critical times when national history and identity are threatened. Such was the case when former Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev relayed a controversial version of Macedonian national history and identity in a TV interview. In reaction, many Macedonian citizens shared fragments of their grandparents’ WWII stories. This study analyzes several more detailed versions of these grandparents’ narratives in order to ascertain the formative power of family WWII stories over one's personal sense of national identity. To do so, it will examine the positioning practices of the present-day narrators, the grandchildren of WWII participants, focusing on the manners in which they interactively reproduce their own sense of national identity vis-a-vis-these stories.

期刊简介

The Journal of Sociolinguistics is an international forum for leading research on language and society. It is open to both established and innovative approaches to sociolinguistic research. The Journal promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The linguistic and the social are both expected to be present in all contributions. Language is regarded as not only a reflection of society but as itself constituting much of the character of social life. The Journal promotes the building and critique of sociolinguistic theory and encourages the application of social theory to linguistic issues. The Journal is hospitable to linguistic analyses ranging from the micro to the macro, from the quantitative study of phonological variables to discourse analysis of texts. It is open to data from a wide range of languages and international contexts. Contributions from the ethnographic, variationist, constructivist and sociology of language traditions are welcomed, as are papers from the social psychology of language, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, language and gender studies, pragmatics and conversational analysis.

《社会语言学》是领先的语言和社会研究的国际论坛。它对社会语言学研究的既定方法和创新方法都是开放的。该期刊强调社会语言学在语言学和社会科学领域的贡献。语言和社会都应该出现在所有的论文中。语言不仅被视为社会的反映，而且其本身构成了社会生活的大部分特征。该期刊促进社会语言学理论的建立和批判，并鼓励将社会理论应用于语言问题。该期刊欢迎从微观到宏观的语言分析，从语音变量的定量研究到文本的话语分析。它欢迎来自各种语言和国际背景的数据，来自语言传统的民族志、变体研究、建构主义者和社会学的贡献，以及来自语言社会心理学、人类学语言学、话语分析、语言和性别研究、语用学和会话分析的论文。

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