NEW FROM 54(4) "Towards a sociolinguistics of deglobalization" by @geraldroche.bsky.social & Jessica Kruk #Deglobalization #Sovereignty #Neoliberalism #Coloniality #Securitization doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "‘Deaf people are one, as they say’: Articulating ‘deaf space’ and deaf-hearing communication in a Ugandan market" by Julia Modern #DeafSpace #SignLanguage #LanguageCommunities doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Between silence and voicing out: Migrant organizations navigating online and offline realities" by Yuyan Liang & Lydia Catedral doi.org/10.1017/S004... #SocialMediaEngagement #GrassrootsOrganizing #Chronotope #IdentityConstruction #MediaIdeology #Materiality #Migrants'Rights

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "New speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of linguistic conversion" by Natalia Kudriavtseva doi.org/10.1017/S004... #NewSpeakers #LanguageIdeologies #LinguisticConversion #Suržyk #LinguisticSafeSpaces #Russo-UkrainianWar

NEW FROM 54(4) "When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy" by Anssi Peräkylä, @liisavoutil.bsky.social, Mariel Wuolio, Arnulf Deppermann #Self #Psychotherapy #Goffman #ConversationAnalysis doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia" by @armajlesi.bsky.social #PeopleWithDementia #Co-operativeActions #ConversationAnalysis #Multimodality #Ethnomethodology #Intersubjectivity doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "(Im)precise personae: The effect of socio-indexical information on semantic interpretation" by Andrea Beltrama & Florian Schwarz #SocialMeaning #Personae #PragmaticReasoning #Precision #Numerals doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "The language of smoked fish: The production and circulation of meanings and values of ‘Bornholmian Food’" by Martha Sif Karrebæk & Marie Maegaard #Food #Authentication #Nostalgia #Exotization #SemioticLandscapeAnalysis doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows" by Leonie Cornips #IntraspeciesAndInterspeciesInteractions #SemioticRepertoire #Assemblage #DairyCows #Practices doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong" by Jiapei Gu & Janet Ho #SocialExclusion #HongKong #AfricanImmigrants #VerbalRejection #NonVerbalRejection #Racism #Raciolinguistics doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy" by @marcosantello.bsky.social #Migration #Constraints #Gambia #Italy doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Asking about bias: Managing the sensitivities of voir dire questioning" by Steven E. Clayman, Matthew P. Fox #Questions #Law #VoirDire #Juries #SocialDesirabilityBias #ConversationAnalysis doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Bundled otherwise: Skills, social mobility, and raciolinguistic ideologies in the Canadian labour market" by Mireille McLaughlin #SocialClass #Raciolinguistics #Work #LanguageIdeologies #FrancophoneCanada #Bilingualism doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Linguistic ridicule and shifting indexical values on social media: The case of English in Hong Kong" by Dennis Chau #LanguageIdeologies #LinguisticRidicule #OrdersOfIndexicality #Polycentricity #SocialMedia #HongKong doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(4) "Beyond translingual playfulness: Translingual precarity" by @sdovchin.bsky.social #Translingualism #Playfulness #Precarity doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW EDITORS' NOTE FROM 54(4) "Towards a New Chapter for Language in Society" by Susan Ehrlich & Tommaso M. Milani doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(3) "Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa #Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(3) "Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish" by Luke Lu #Enregisterment #Singlish #Singapore #Sociolinguistics #LanguageIdeologicalDebates doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Marginalization, ‘Lee Kuan Yew’, and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign" by Luke Lu & Chien Wen Kung doi.org/10.1017/S004... #CollectiveRemembering #MandarinPolicy

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NEW FROM 54(3) "The liminal (vowel) space of womanhood: Fundamental frequency, formants, and the intersex body in Brazil" by Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello #BrazilianPortuguese #FundamentalFrequency #Gender #Intersex #TurnerSyndrome #VowelFormants #CriticalIntersexStudies doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(3) "Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference: Experiences of African women in the African diaspora" by Gorrety Nafula Wawire #BlackImmigrantWomen #Solidarity #StanceTaking #ScalingAndDeixisDifference #AfricanDiaspora #Intersectionality doi.org/10.1017/S004...

"Alternative spaces of encounter: Characterological metadiscourses and ‘joint voice’ in Finnish multi-ethnic inclusive theater" by Tomi Visakko #Voice #Entextualization #Interdiscursivity #Ethnicity #Raciolinguistics #Theater doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(3) 'Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media" by Xiaowei May Li #NikkiLilly #Embodiment #Multimodality #PresentationalMedia #Disability #Ordinariness #Normativity doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Anticipating the future, escaping the past: Multilingual Spanish mothers at the crossroads of multiple transitions" by Adriana Patiño-Santos & Marie-Anne Mansfield doi.org/10.1017/S004... #FamilyLanguageBiographies #Catalan #English #Anticipation #Futurity

NEW FROM 54(3) "Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964–1972" by Jamie Duncan #Sociolinguistics #Ethnography #Literacy #Reading #CulturalDeprivationTheory doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW FROM 54(3) OBITUARY "William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024)" by Penelope Eckert doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "On ‘doing being moral’ in the research interview" by Robert William Schrauf & Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez doi.org/10.1017/S004... #NarrativeAnalysis #Indexicality #Disaster #SemistructuredInterview #SocialScienceInterview #Morality #Ethics #NomicCalibration

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Collective remembering and necropolitical discourse: The American War in Vietnam commemorated" by Minh Nghia-Nguyen, Panayota Gounari doi.org/10.1017/S004... #NecropoliticalDiscourse #VietnamWar #CMDA #CollectiveRemembering #LieuDeDispute

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Between confrontation and mutual non-interference: Interactional (dis)alignment in openings of encounters between police and copwatchers" by Uwe-A. Küttner, Elliott M. Hoey doi.org/10.1017/S004... #CA #Openings #Police #Copwatching #VideoRecording #Disalignment #Disagreement

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other" by Hsi-Yao Su, @tsunglunone.bsky.social, Wan-Hsin Ann Lee doi.org/10.1017/S004... #Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Other-language recalibration repair in broadcast news interviews in Rwanda: Relating to the overhearing audience" by Joseph Gafaranga doi.org/10.1017/S004... #NewsInterviews #OtherLanguageRecalibration #Repair #OverhearingAudience #StructuralOrganisation

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NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "Opening before closing: The porosity of encounters-in-a-series" by Lorenza Mondada doi.org/10.1017/S004... #SocialInteraction #ConversationAnalysis #Multimodality #OverallStructuralOrganization #Opening #Closing #Encounters-in-a-series #Porosity

NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "The communicative dynamics of diasporic affect in a conflict-affected community: The case of Greek-Cypriot diaspora" by Constadina Charalambous, Michalinos Zembylas & Xanthia Aristidou doi.org/10.1017/S004... #Affect #Conflict #Interaction #Belonging

NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "Held to account: Comparing adversarial questioning in remote and in-person parole hearings" by David Peplow & @jakephillips.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S004... #Accounts #AdversarialQuestioning #ConversationAnalysis #Parole #Responsibility

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Heritage language recognition: The multimodal construction of language in a Tibetan-Canadian family’s literacy activities" by Shannon Ward doi.org/10.1017/S004... #HeritageLanguages #LanguageSocialization #Literacy #MetalinguisticKnowledge #Multimodality

NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages" by @ikererdocia.bsky.social, Britta Schneider, Bettina Migge doi.org/10.1017/S004... #StandardLg #AI #Authority #BigTech #RealAcademiaEspañola

NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "Against the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization and vernacular theories of language" by @katespowage.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S004... #LanguageIdeologies #Videogames #Postcolonialism

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "Trajectories of spirituality: Producing and assessing cultural evidence at the International Criminal Court" by Sigurd D'hondt, Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Fabio Ferraz de Almeida & Elena Barrett #ICC #TextTrajectory #Entextualization #Uganda doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "Positioning of applicants in asylum interviews: Case officers as recontextualising agents" by Hanna Sofia Rehnberg #AsylumInterview #Intertextuality #Positioning #Recontextualisation #SpeakerRole doi.org/10.1017/S004...

MAY MOST READ ARTICLES 1. "‘Whitefellas got miserable language skills’: Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses" by @corpusling.bsky.social & Barbara A. Meek doi.org/10.1017/S004... #Ethnoracialisation #Decolonisation #Australia #MainstreamMedia #AboriginalEng #LgIdeologies

MAY MOST READ ARTICLES 2. "Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, @ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S004... #LgAttitudes#LgIdeologies#MinorityLgs #LgPlanning #LgRevitalisation

MAY MOST READ ARTICLES 3. "“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru" by Sara A. Goico doi.org/10.1017/S004... #Deaf #SignLanguage #LinguisticEthnography #Multimodality #SemioticRepertoire #Peru

NEW FROM 54(2) "Localising cosmopolitanism in place talk: Semiotic landscape as stance object" by Fengzhi Zhao & @loujiajackie.bsky.social #Cosmopolitanism #SemioticLandscape #Stance #PlaceTalk #PlaceIdentity #Shanghai doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "‘One is allowed to show the reality’: The creation of panoptic structures in social media communication" by Janus Spindler Møller #Panopticism #SocialMedia #Conflict #PolymediaRepertoire #Audience doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru" by Sara A. Goico #Deaf #SignLanguage #LinguisticEthnography #Multimodality #SemioticRepertoire #Peru doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW #OA FROM 54(2) "Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian" by Ruth Kircher, ‪@ethankutlu.bsky.social & @mirjamvellinga.bsky.social #LanguageIdeology #MinorityLanguages #LanguageRevitalisation #NewSpeakers doi.org/10.1017/S004...

NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW "Constructing Māori deaf identity in New Zealand Sign Language" by Melissa Simchowitz & Rachel McKee doi.org/10.1017/S004... #NewZealandSignLanguage #MāoriDeaf #Ethnicity #Identity #Variation