JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Volume 26, Issue 3,-5 2022

Journal of Sociolinguistics（SSCI二区，2021 IF：0.99）2022年第3-5期共刊文31篇。2022年第3期共发文11篇，其中研究性论文3篇，对话4篇，书评4篇；第4期共发文8篇，其中研究性论文4篇， 对话4篇；第5期共发文12篇，其中主题系列文章5篇，研究性论文3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！（2022年已更完）

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目录

ISSUE 3

ARTICLES

■ Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization, by Gegentuul Baioud, Cholmon Khuanuud, Pages 315-334.

■ Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far-right policy proposals in Bundestag debates, by J Sterphone, Pages 335-361.

■  On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish, by Justin Davidson, Pages 362-385.

DIALOGUE

■ Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste, by Crispin Thurlow, Pages 386-403.

■ Trash talk: Language as waste practice, by Jillian R. Cavanaugh, Pages 404-410.

■ Lexical gaps and the corporeal index, by Annabelle Mooney, Pages 411-417.

■ Does waste make language?, by Joshua Reno, Pages 418-425.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Speaking of Race: Language, identity, and schooling among African American Children, by Reshara Alviarez,  Zahra Safdarian, Pages 426-430.

■ Les langues en débat dans une Europe en projet, by Bruno Maurer, Pages 431-434.

■ Glossolalia and the Problem of Language, by Matt Tomlinson, Pages 534-536.

■ Multilingual Environments in the Great War, by Marcel Koschek, Pages 435-438.

ISSUE 4

ARTICLES

■ Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university, by Corey Fanglei Huang, Pages 441-461.

■  Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process, by Kim Schoofs,  Dorien Van De Mieroop, Pages 462-482.

■ U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style, by Dr. Christian Ilbury, Pages 483-504.

■ Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity, by Agurtzane Elordui,  Jokin Aiestaran, Pages 505-524.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Elite authenticity: Remaking distinction in food discourse, by Andre Joseph Theng, Pages 525-529.

■ Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realities, by Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Pages 530-533.

■ Glossolalia and the Problem of Language, by Matt Tomlinson, Pages 534-536.

■ Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook, by Scott F. Kiesling, Pages 537-540.

ISSUE 5

THEME SERIES ARTICLES

■ Sociolinguistics + Art, by Erez Levon, Pages 543-544.

■ Three Rothkos, by Tim McNamara, Pages 545-552.

■ Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey: Designing knowledge about work, by Sari Pietikäinen, Pages 553-567.

■ Making the invisible visible: Sociolinguistics meets medical communication in a travelling exhibition, by Mirjam Elisabeth Eiswirth, Pages 568-585.

■ The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research, by Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese, Pages 586-603.

ARTICLES

■ Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California, by J. Calder,  Sharese King, Pages 604-623.

■ Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans, by Tom Lewis, Pages 624-647.

■ “She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India, by Katy Highet, Pages 648-665.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Linguistic landscape in the Spanish-speaking world, by Clara Molina, Pages 666-670.

■ Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries, by Noel B. Salazar, Pages 671-674.

■ Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa, by Jaspal Naveel Singh, Pages 675-679. 

■ Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life, by Haley De Korne, Pages 680-683.

摘要

Three Rothkos

Tim McNamara, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Abstract What makes the work of the American Abstract Expressionist, Mark Rothko, great? Critics and the galleries of the world which hold his paintings, especially those he painted in his typical style of vertically arranged blocks of colour after the critical year 1949, often present his work using terms such as ‘ethereal’, ‘spiritual’, ‘luminous’, ‘mystical’, ‘sublime’. But this discourse about Rothko appears at odds with Rothko's own way of talking about his paintings, which he looked at as ‘dramas’ whose subject was ‘the basic human emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on’. The article proposes that the mature paintings share a principle of organization, a syntax, which allows the expression of specific dramas of feeling in each painting. First, I suggest that the separate blocks of colour are to be read vertically, from top to bottom. Second, each block of colour is made up of multiple fine layers of paint of different colours. I argue that Rothko exploits the layering to enact a drama of feeling in each panel. I test out this argument by offering readings of three characteristic works of Rothko, and relate the discussion to Jaffe's (2016) discussion of indexical fields.

Key words indexical field, Rothko, syntax

Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey: Designing knowledge about work

Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskyä, Finland

Abstract This article examines speculative design's capacity to co-produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co-constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key findings of an ethnography on hockey work through an art exhibition of speculative hockey memorabilia. As such, these art pieces showed the intertwined relationships of material, discursive, and affective aspects in hockey work as well as the multiplicity of aspirations, challenges, investments, and risks that go into this kind of mobile, unpredictable work. The design process also showed how knowledge production is an emergent process of exchange, dependent on interactions and relationships, and embedded in power relations.

Key words art, assemblage, design, discourse, ethnography, knowledge production, sportsAbstrakti

Making the invisible visible: Sociolinguistics meets medical communication in a travelling exhibition

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

Abstract Visual art is increasingly used to mediate scientific findings, engage and educate the public and as a part of the research process itself. However, work connecting sociolinguistics and art in this way is only just emerging. This paper presents a project at the intersection of sociolinguistics, art and Graphic Medicine. It discusses how art can be used for public engagement and how the process of creating art feeds into the research process: Drawings can ground the analysis in the big picture and show how themes that need to be analytically separated relate to each other. Identifying motifs highlights what does and does not get talked about. Trans-mediating narratives into comics raises questions about the definition and structure of narratives, about tellability, shared knowledge and epistemic access. Overall, I suggest that sociolinguistics stands to gain from collaborating with artists in terms of public engagement and as an inspiration in the research process.

Key words art, science communication, graphic medicine, sociolinguistics, inter-disciplinary approaches

The potential of ethnographic drama in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research

Adrian Blackledge, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

Angela Creese, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research, which utilizes the tools and methods of the theatre. Taking as an example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in the UK, we discuss the process of creating drama from material observed as social practice. Drawing on observations in a welfare advice centre in a Chinese community centre, and a city-based volleyball team, we propose that theatre techniques enable audiences and academic researchers to see communicative encounters in a new light. We propose that ethnographic drama offers three opportunities in particular: (i) it has the potential to make available outcomes of research beyond the academy; (ii) it has the potential to discover understandings of ethnographic material which remain latent in accounts that do not involve performance; and (iii) it has the capacity to democratize voice, privileging the voices of research participants rather than those of academic researchers. Ethnographic drama thus offers considerable potential in the representation, interpretation, and democratization of sociolinguistic research.

Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California

J. Calder,  Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Sharese King, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Abstract /s/ frontness is one of the most robustly studied linguistic variables in language and gender research. While much previous literature has established the pattern that women produce fronter /s/ than men, production work on /s/ has either largely focused on White speakers or left speaker race unexplored. This article addresses this gap by examining the production of /s/ among African American and White speakers in Bakersfield, California. While the White speakers exhibit a gender split consonant with previous studies, African American Bakersfieldians exhibit no gender split, with African American men producing /s/ as front as African American women. We argue that African American men in Bakersfield avoid a backed production of /s/ indexical of a White country identity which has historically oppressed them in the area. These production patterns illuminate the importance of an intersectional analysis, taking into account the effect of speaker race on gendered variables like /s/.

Key words gender, indexicality, intersectionality, race, sociophonetics

Social network geometry, linguistic ideologies, and identity negotiation among Latinx English speakers in New Orleans

Tom Lewis, Department of English & Modern Languages, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, USA

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the role of social networks in shaping patterns of /æ/ realization among Latinxs in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Social network metrics are shown to be statistically significant predictors of pre-nasal /æ/ tensing. I argue that social network metrics operationalize important aspects of the sociolinguistic context and contribute to our understanding of factors influencing how Latinx speakers recruit locally significant sociolinguistic variables in linguistic performance. The data and analysis strongly argue against distinctiveness approaches to studies of language and ethnicity, where “racial categories are equated with empirically distinctive sets of linguistic features” (Rosa & Flores, 2017), by demonstrating that Latinx speakers participate in a local change-in-progress in ways that are shaped by the same types of sociolinguistic factors that shape linguistic variation generally. The analysis is based on excerpts from a series of interviews conducted with Latinxs in the city (n = 33) in 2017–2018. The interviews were transcribed and coded for tokens of /æ/. Participants were categorized into one of three systems of /æ/ realizations, and tokens of /æ/ were further analyzed using inferential statistics to determine which independent variables were significant predictors of pre-nasal /æ/ tensing. This research contributes to a growing body of work rejecting distinctiveness approaches to the linguistic performance of minoritized speakers, focusing instead on the ways in which individual speakers recruit linguistic features in the negotiation of identity (Eckert, 2008, 2018; Rosa & Flores, 2017; King 2016, 2018) and helps advance our understanding of how linguistic ideologies and articulations of ethnicity shape linguistic performance.

Key words linguistic ideologies, social networks, Latinx English, New OrleansEnglish, raciolinguistic ideologies

“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India

Katy Highet, Department of Culture, Communication & Media, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

Abstract Through its colonial, class- and caste-based history, English in India has come to be seen as a powerful resource that opens doors for those who ‘have’ it and holds back those who do not. For women, English ostensibly offers various promises in addition to employment: progressiveness and ‘empowerment’; and the potential for upward mobility through marriage. Yet, the conversion of English capital for English-speaking Indian women proves to be intensely complex in practice, as many find themselves forced to navigate between shifting moral regimes attached to ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an NGO in Delhi that offers free English training to ‘disadvantaged youth’, this paper explores how English capital is managed by young women striving to attain middle classness through English, and how their class, caste and gender positionings are negotiated across particular time-space configurations as they seek to become English speakers.

Key words English, ethnography, India, social mobility, womanhood

Transgression in institutional space: Heteroglossic political signs in a Hong Kong university

Corey Fanglei Huang, Faculty of Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong

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.

Key words heteroglossia, Hong Kong, institution, political signs, transgression, university

Reflecting and forging master narratives: A discursive analysis of a Belgian WWII museum's curatorial selection process

Kim Schoofs,  Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium

Dorien Van De Mieroop, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium

Abstract Sociolinguistics can help us grasp how collective memory cultures are (in part) shaped by representations of historic events through varied linguistic – and other – sources (e.g. education, news media, conversations and museum displays). In this study, we specifically zoom in on the curatorial selection process of a Belgian Second World War (WWII) memorial museum, whilst simultaneously exploring the reflexive relation between this curatorial process and the wider WWII remembrance context. To this end, we compare exhibited video testimony fragments to the full testimonies available in the museum's research centre, to examine which narratives were selected or silenced. Additionally, we confront fine-grained analyses of the testimonies with master narratives on WWII remembrance. As our analyses illustrate, the exhibited fragments align with these – typically coherent – master narratives, while the full testimonies are complex. Overall, we show that museums not only reflect master narratives, but are also sites for forging them.

Key words curatorial narrative, master narratives, memorial museum, silencing,testimonies, WWII remembrance

U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style

Christian Ilbury, Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Abstract Sociolinguistic research has increasingly explored the ways in which semiotic features are variably recruited to stylistically perform enregistered social personae. In this paper, I add to this body of work by exploring the emergence of a stereotypically feminine style and persona that is widespread in British social media. Specifically, I examine the prevalence of non-standard spellings (e.g., <dallyn> darling, <gawjus> gorgeous), discourse features (e.g., hun, babe, u ok hun?), and characterological tropes (e.g., the life motto ‘live, love, laugh’) as indexical representations of a particular type of classed, gendered, and ethnic identity in a corpus of Instagram memes. I demonstrate that these features have become enregistered as a characterological figure of a British working-class White woman—the Hun—that is stylistically deployed as a digital commodity register. Concluding, I emphasise the need for research to engage more fully with stylisation and commodification in social and digital media interaction.

Key words digital culture, identity, LGBTQ+, memes, social media, stylisation

Basque in Instagram: A scalar approach to vernacularisation and normativity

Agurtzane Elordui, Nor Research Group, University of the Basque Country, Leioako Campusa, z/g, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain

Jokin Aiestaran, Nor Research Group, University of the Basque Country, Leioako Campusa, z/g, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain

Abstract This article analyses vernacularisation as a sociolinguistic change that brings with it an ideological fracturing of previous standard/vernacular indexical relations. It considers this ideological shift in the polycentric environment of social networks as mediated spaces where the values and functions of languages and varieties are re-evaluated and brought together. We argue that Instagram is a fertile space to study the hierarchies among Basque varieties which could reveal a sociolinguistic change among the Basque youth. In our stylistic and ethnographic research, we draw the data from the corpus of the Gaztesare project that contains the production in Instagram of 30 Basque university students. The discussion highlights the difficulty to give a simple answer to the question of what ‘best’ language is, and it underlines the importance of a multi-scalar perspective to explore the complex and multidimensional ideological schemes of the Basque youth and to detect new values and hierarchies among Basque varieties.

Key words Basque, indexical orders, Instagram, scale-level, social media, stan-dard language ideology, vernacularisation

Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization

Gegentuul Baioud, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden

Cholmon Khuanuud, Department of Sinology, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany

Abstract As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony. This paper analyses: (1) the process of establishing iconized links between language, culture, land and race on the second order of indexicalities; (2) the orthographic representation of mixed Mongolian and “pure” Mongolian in the Mongolian social media space Bainu. The study illuminates the interdiscursive processes of presuming and constructing linguistic, cultural, and ethnic boundaries by subaltern groups in an assimilationist nation state.

Keywords Constructing ethnic boundaries, language ideology, metadiscourse of linguistic purism, Mongolian identity

Negotiating the mainstream: Proximate stancetaking and far-right policy proposals in Bundestag debates

J Sterphone, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Abstract During talk, parliamentarians (re)negotiate the boundaries of mainstream and marginal politics. With far-right parties in parliament(s) in force, center-right parties—especially those that have coopted far-right stances—must establish and maintain their position within the political mainstream, while ostracizing and marginalizing neighboring positions from the far-right. Drawing on video data of policy debates in the German Bundestag, this paper takes a conversation analytic approach to examining practices deployed by members of mainstream parties for rejecting proposals made by the far-right. It shows ways center-right politicians (re)produce both the mainstream and their own political identity by rejecting such proposals without also rejecting outright the underlying stance. By distinguishing between oppositional and proximate stancetaking, this analysis further demonstrates ways that politicians orient to stancetaking as structuring rejection formats.

Keywords Bundestag,   conversation   analysis,   ethnomethodology,   Germany,membership categories, talk-in-interaction

On Catalan as a minority language: The case of Catalan laterals in Barcelonan Spanish

Justin Davidson, Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Abstract This investigation examines the variable production of alveolar laterals in Barcelonan Spanish as a case study evidencing the effects of language contact between a majority language, Spanish, and a minority language, Catalan. The Catalan-Spanish speech community constitutes a rather unique case of majority-minority language contact, particularly within the Spanish-speaking world, as Catalan, though a minority language in Spain, is characterized by such a high degree of linguistic vitality, linguistic capital, and social prestige in the autonomous region of Catalonia that its status as a minority language is to a degree, questionable. I account for sociophonetic variability in the production of Barcelonan Spanish /l/ by a set of linguistic (phonological context, cognate status) and social factors (gender, age, style, language dominance) that support an analysis of lateral velarization as contact-induced and situate this case of language contact as a natural or otherwise predictable outcome of this community's sociolinguistic and sociodemographic history, notably concerning changes in immigration patterns, language ideologies, and language use in the last century. Additionally, I highlight how the gradient nature of select sociophonetic variables uniquely conditions nuanced social indexation in the speech community, specifically in the absence of any one singular or discrete, community-wide acoustic variant.

Key words Catalan-Spanish contact, gradient sociolinguistic variable, lateralvelarization, majority-minority language contact, sociophonetics

Rubbish? Envisioning a sociolinguistics of waste

Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Bern, 3014 Switzerland

Abstract (English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what a sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In the first two parts, I provide some general rationale and academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding the dirty places and raw lives of waste, sociolinguists obscure two important relations: first, the social worlds of people who live and work with/in waste; second, the social connection between “us” (as makers of waste) and those left to pick up the pieces. I briefly review the isolated precedents in sociocultural linguistics for attending to waste. In the third and fourth parts, I propose at least two ways sociolinguistics can contribute usefully and distinctively to discard studies. I start by offering two empirical vignettes concerned with the discursive creation and destruction of value. In this vein, and orienting to economic sociology, I argue that scholarship on stancetaking can helpfully pinpoint the processes of (e)valuation and valuation by which things are declared unworthy or “waste-able.” Against the backdrop of these initial propositions, the dialogue continues with commentaries by Jillian Cavanaugh, Annabelle Mooney, and Joshua Reno who contribute their own ideas about approaching waste from a decidedly (socio)linguistic angle.

Key words discard studies, ecolinguistics, language, materiality, social semiotics,sociolinguistics, value, waste

Does waste make language?

Joshua Reno, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, USA

Abstract In Thurlow’s (2022) paper in this journal, he offers an inno-vative approach to combining discard studies and sociolin-guistics. Many of the examples are about language creatingwaste in different ways. In this response, I explore the oppo-site possibility—that is, how waste could be said to createlanguage in turn. I do so with specific attention to how soci-olinguistics can be approached through what cannot be said(taboo) and who cannot speak. As examples, I compare twoseemingly unrelated yet similarly controversial and impor-tant scandals in late 20th century New York State: the pol-lution caused by the closed yet undisclosed landfill in LoveCanal and the abuse and neglect of disabled persons at Wil-lowbrook State School. These are not normal subjects forsociolinguistics, and the latter is not a normal one in dis-card studies either. Yet I argue that taking them togetherhelps create unexpected linkages between these fields. Indoing so, I argue that taking into account what goes unsaidand who cannot speak also helps reveal some of the undis-cussed politics in both discard studies and sociolinguistics alike.

Keywords discard studies, disgust, unspeakability, waste

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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