LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY

Volume 52, Issue 1-3, 2023

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY（SSCI一区，2022 IF：1.5，排名：79/194）2023年第1-3期共发文44篇，其中第1期发表研究性论文7篇，读书笔记6篇。第2期发表研究性论文6篇，读书笔记9篇。第3期发表研究性论文7篇，读书笔记8篇，书评1篇。研究论文涉及社会阶层、话语性、语言意识形态、语言互动、性别语言、快速语言传播、语料库语言学、语言欺骗、种族语言学、语言监管、代码转换、语言变异、批判性话语分析等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ISSUE 1

ARTICLES

■ Affect in sociolinguistic style, by Teresa Pratt, Pages 1–26.

■ Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/zero variation, by Timothy Gadanidis, Angelika Kiss, Lex Konnelly, Katharina Pabst, Lisa Schlegl, Pocholo Umbal, Sali A. Tagliamonte, Pages 27–50.

■‘I've got a daughter now man it's clean man’: Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men, by Pia Pichler, Pages 51–78.

■ Mechanisms of meaning making in the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses, by Erik Schleef, Pages 79–105.

■‘Use your words’: Vocalization and moral order in an oral preschool classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing children, by Kristella Montiegel, Pages 107–127.

■Rescaling the global borderlands: Transperipheral projections from ‘the heart of the Amazon’, by Joel Windle, Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes, Pages 129–149.

■(De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore, by Vincent Pak, Pages 151–172.

■ Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter: A Mixed Methods Study of Webcare Styles, by Matteo Fuoli, Isobelle Clarke, Viola Wiegand, Hendrik Ziezold, Michaela Mahlberg, Pages 569–595.

BOOK NOTES

■Robert Blackwood & Deirdre A. Dunlevy (eds.), Multilingualism in public spaces: Empowering and transforming communities. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 268. Hb. £68.40, byThomas Debois, Pages 173–174.

■Salvatore Attardo, The linguistics of humor: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. Pb. £29.99, by Joseph Comer, Pages 174–175.

■Janus Mortensen & Kamilla Kraft (eds.), Norms and the study of language in social life. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. 237. Hb. £94, by Paola Gabriela Konrad, Pages 176–177.

■ Paulina Bounds, Jennifer Cramer, & Susan Tamasi, Linguistic planets of belief: Mapping language attitudes in the American South. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp.180.Pb.£35, by Clara Cantos Delgado, Pages 177–178.

■ Leketi Makalela & Goodith White (eds.), Rethinking language use in digital Africa: Technology and communication in sub-Saharan Africa. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 216. Pb. £30, by Dallel Sarnou, Pages 178–179.

■John E. Petrovic & Bedrettin Yazan (eds.), The commodification of language: Conceptual concerns and empirical manifestations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp.216. Pb.£15, by Ayako Hiasa, Pages 180–181.

ISSUE 2

ARTICLES

■Objects in embodied sociolinguistics: Mind the door in research group meetings, by Suresh Canagarajah, Valeriya Minakova, Pages 183–214.

■ Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum, by Louis Strange, Pages 215–239.

■ Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore, by Tong King Lee, Pages 241–261.

■Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style, by Csilla Weninger, Danyun Li, Pages 263–294.

■Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features, by Stefan Grondelaers, Stefania Marzo, Pages 295–320.

■ The language of suppression: Muslims, migrant workers, and India's response to COVID-19, by Ila Nagar, Pages 321–344.

BOOK NOTES

■Zannie Bock & Christopher Stroud (eds.), Language and decoloniality in higher education: Reclaiming voices from the South.London:Bloomsbury,2021.Pp. 221. Pb. £26.09, by Ayse Gur Geden, Pages 345–346.

■ Abhimanyu Sharma, Reconceptualising power in language policy: Evidence from comparative cases. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 285. Hb. €120, by Yanyu Wang, Pages 346–347.

■ Paul Kockelman, The anthropology of intensity: Language, culture, and environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 402. Pb. £23, by Sean P. Smith, Pages 348–349.

■ Carmen Fought & Karen Eisenhauer, Language and gender in children's animated films: Exploring Disney and Pixar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. Pb. $30, by Yumin Chen, Rongji Zhang, Pages 349–350.

■ Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer, & Angelo Costanzo, The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the politics of identity. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv, 260. Hb. €110, by Joseph Patrick, Pages 350–351.

■Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese, Volleyball: An ethnographic drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 80. Pb. $21.95, by Anastasia Stavridou, Pages 352–353.

■ Nicholas Q. Emlen, Language, coffee, and migration on an Andean-Amazonian frontier. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. $60, by Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, Pages 353–354.

■ Natalie Braber, Lexical variation of an East Midlands mining community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. Hb. £75, by Jingdan Hu, Pages 354–355.

ISSUE 3

ARTICLES

■ The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate, by Ian Cushing, Julia Snell, Pages 363–386.

■The discursive construction of new citizen identities in Singapore, by Raymund Vitorio, Pages 387–408.

■ English as a Southern language, by M. Obaidul Hamid, Pages 409–432.

■‘You son of a perverse rebellious woman’: Mobilizing the storytelling event for self-empowerment, by Yael Zilberman Friedmann, Hadar Netz, Pages 433–457.

■“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data, by Sadie Durkacz Ryan, Holly Dann, Rob Drummond, Pages 459–483.

■Enregistering mask-wearing in the time of a public health crisis, by Sheng-Hsun Lee, Pages 485–509.

■ Racism is not just hate speech: Ethnonationalist victimhood in YouTube comments about the Roma during Covid-19, by Petre Breazu, David Machin, Pages 511–531.

REVIEW

■Irene Theodoropoulou & Johanna Tovar, Research companion to language and country branding. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 411. Pb. £43, by Giovanna Parmigiani, Pages 533–535.

BOOK NOTES

■ Massimiliano Demata, Discourses of borders and the nation in the USA: A discourse-historical analysis. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 86. Hb. £35.99, by Chris Featherman, Pages 537–538.

■Jennifer Eagleton, Discursive change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical dynamics, metaphor, and one country, two systems. New York: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 404. Hb. $120, by Eugene Yu Ji, Pages 538–539.

■ Maida Kosatica, The burden of traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 183. Hb. £85.50, by Joanna Pawelczyk, Pages 539–540.

■Kieran File, How language shapes relationships in professional sports teams: Power and solidarity dynamics in a New Zealand rugby team. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 239. Hb. £67, by Hamish Pottinger, Pages 541–542.

■Tyler Barrett, A sociolinguistic view of a Japanese ethnic church community. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 127. Pb. £39, by Alexandra Shaitan, Pages 542–543.

■Greg Niedt & Corinne Seals (eds.), Linguistic landscapes beyond the language classroom. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp xviii, 239. Hb. £28.99, by Alicia Taylor, Pages 543–544.

■ Robert M. McKenzie & Andrew McNeill, Implicit and explicit language attitudes: Mapping linguistic prejudice and attitude change in England. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 206. Hb. £96, by Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Pages 545–546.

■Mie Femø Nielsen & Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen, Revisiting trustworthiness in social interaction. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 202. Hb. £130, by Anna Weichselbraun, Pages 546–547.

摘要

 Affect in sociolinguistic style

Teresa Pratt, San Francisco State University Humanities Building 1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco, CA 94132, USA 

Abstract This article argues for a focus on affect in sociolinguistic style. I integrate recent scholarship on affective practice (Wetherell 2015) and the circulation of affective value (Ahmed 2004b) in order to situate the linguistic and bodily semiotics of affect as components of stylistic practice. At a Bay Area public arts high school, ideologically distinct affects of chill or high-energy are co-constructed across signs and subjects. I analyze a group of cisgender young men's use of creaky voice quality, speech rate, and bodily hexis in enacting and circulating these affective values. Crucially, affect co-constructs students’ positioning within the high school political economy (as college-bound or not, artistically driven or not), highlighting the ideological motivations of stylistic practice. Building on recent scholarship, I propose that a more thorough consideration of affect can deepen our understanding of meaning-making as it occurs in everyday interaction in institutional settings. 

Key words Affect, political economy, embodiment, bricolage, voice quality, speech rate, high school

Integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance: A case study of English that/zero variation

Timothy Gadanidis, University of Toronto, Canada

Angelika Kiss， University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics Sidney Smith Hall,4th Floor,100St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada

Lex Konnelly，University of Toronto, Canada

Katharina Pabst，University of Toronto, Canada

Lisa Schlegl，University of Toronto, Canada

Pocholo Umbal，University of Toronto, Canada

Sali A. Tagliamonte，University of Toronto, Canada

AbstractPrevious work has shown that stance—the way speakers position themselves with respect to what they are talking about and who they are talking to—provides powerful insights into why speakers choose certain linguistic variants, beyond correlations with macro-social categories such as gender, ethnicity, and social class. However, as stancetaking moves are highly context-dependent, they have rarely been explored quantitatively, making the observed variable patterns difficult to generalize. This article seeks to contribute to this methodological gap by proposing a formal guide to coding stance and demonstrating how it can be operationalized quantitatively. Drawing on a corpus of eight individuals, self-recorded in three situations with varying levels of social distance, we apply this method to variation between English complementizers that and zero (i.e. no overt complementizer), providing a replicable and theoretically grounded protocol that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative analyses in a variationist sociolinguistic study. 

Key words Stance, complementizers, that, English

‘I've got a daughter now man it's clean man’: Heteroglossic and intersectional constructions of fatherhood in the spontaneous talk of a group of young southeast London men

Pia Pichler, Department of English and Comparative Literature Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW, UK

AbstractThis article provides an insight into the heteroglossic and intersectional construction of fatherhood in the self-recorded, spontaneous talk of a group of young men from ethnically and racially mixed working-class backgrounds in southeast London. By adopting an interactional sociolinguistic approach, informed by Bakhtin's (1981, 1984, 1986) work on dialogicality and Tannen's (1989, 2004) notion of constructed dialogue, this article explores the young men's use of voices for their positioning in a range of fathering discourses which are shaped by and shape intersectional and hegemonic masculinities. Intersections of race, ethnicity, and social class inform many of the young men's positions, especially in their talk about the influences of hip hop on their children. This polyphony of voices allows the group to balance traditional discourses of fathers as providers, protectors, and moral guides with contemporary models of intimate and involved fatherhood, but also competing discourses of virile masculinity and bad boy identity.  

Key words Dialogicality, discourse, ethnicity, fatherhood, hegemony, heteroglossia, intersectionality, identity, masculinity, race, social class, voice

Mechanisms of meaning making in the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses

Erik Schleef, English and American Studies University of Salzburg, Austria Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, Unipark Nonntal 5020 Salzburg, Austria

AbstractThis study explores the social meanings of unfilled pauses, you know, like, and combinations thereof by comparing the evaluation of speech with these features to speech without them. The comparison is based on a set of perception surveys in which participants listened to manipulated audio stimuli and rated them on a series of scales. Unfilled pauses are evaluated differently from all other features: they are rated high on Status and low on Dynamism. Where significant differences emerge, the pragmatic markers you know, like, and combinations of pauses with these are always rated lower than the guises without. They are most sensitive to personal characteristics in the Dynamism dimension, followed by Conversational Skills, Likeability, and Status. The mechanism that adapts the potential social meanings of linguistic features when they are combined hinges on the social salience of the features in question. Various outcomes are possible ranging from additive to non-additive effects.  

Key words Like, you know, attitudes, social meanings, prestige, solidarity, dynamism

Use your words’: Vocalization and moral order in an oral preschool classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing children

Kristella Montiegel, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Sociology 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Abstract This ethnographic study examines deaf or hard-of-hearing children's socialization in an oral classroom, a setting designed to promote spoken language as the primary mode of communication. Drawing from nine months of observations, I describe how the meanings assigned to children's vocalizations create a system of values and judgements that organizes and regulates classroom behavior. Specifically, vocalization itself is oriented to as a moral practice that is necessary for the mutual understanding and accomplishment of classroom activities. Informed by ethnomethodological and language-socialization perspectives, I illustrate how participants co-construct a local moral order wherein students are held accountable for ‘using their words’ to perform social actions. Analyses discuss three interactional contexts where moral issues are routinely constructed as contingent on and resolvable through vocalization—children's help-seeking, children's disputes, and negotiations of classroom participation—thereby shaping children's understanding of language use and reflecting broader institutional expectations and ideology regarding oral communication. 

Key words Moral order, preschool children, socialization

Rescaling the global borderlands: Transperipheral projections from ‘the heart of the Amazon’

Joel Windle,University of South Australia, AustraliaFluminense Federal University, Brazil

Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

AbstractThis article examines semiotic resignifications undertaken in ‘peripheral’ cultural production through an ethnographic analysis of the trajectory of the Amazonian artist, Jaloo. Jaloo occupies multiple positions of marginality in Brazilian society and artistic scenes, which he connects to other global peripheries in his performances, aesthetics, and self-narratives. Building on anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship, we show how ‘peripheral’ status is managed by Jaloo in the context of a growing and politicised audience for outsider and alternative cultural production. We theorise Jaloo's negotiation of his relationship with audiences and the media as rescaling. Further, we argue that this rescaling entails the ordering of semiotic resources into a social imaginary that reconfigures peripheral territories and identities, which we consider in terms of a transperipheral chronotope.  

Key words Inequality, chronotopes, indexicality, race, coloniality, scales, periphery

(De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore

Vincent Pak, Department of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore Blk AS5, 7 Arts Link Singapore 117570

AbstractHarmonious multiracialism is one of Singapore's national values, yet race in Singapore is almost always precariously managed. In 2019, race once again became the centre of public debate when a government-sanctioned advertisement featured a Chinese Singaporean actor ‘brownfacing’ as an Indian Singaporean, incurring public outcry. Local entertainers Preeti and Subhas Nair responded with a rap music video that criticised the advertisement and included the line ‘Chinese people always out here fucking it up’, which drew flak from the government and the Chinese community in Singapore. This article considers the state's response to the antiracist practices of the Nair siblings, and the subsequent labelling of their behaviour as racist. The article also introduces the concept of the state listening subject and describes its role in the semiotic process of rearticulation to elucidate how the Singaporean state selectively (de)couples race and language to maintain the national racial order. 

Key words Raciolinguistic ideology, multiracialism, rearticulation, state listening subject, race, Singapore, antiracism

Objects in embodied sociolinguistics: Mind the door in research group meetings

Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State University，USA

Valeriya Minakova，Penn State University，USA

AbstractThis article addresses recent calls in sociolinguistics to accommodate the agentive role of material objects in communicative interactions. The study explores how agency is shared between humans and objects, and how the latter may influence and shape the semiotic repertoires in a professional interaction. We adopt interactional sociolinguistics to analyze video recordings from the research group meetings (RGM) of a team of multinational microbiologists in a midwestern American university to demonstrate how the door plays an important role in the RGM genre of discourse. The door serves as a contextualization cue for the opening and composition of the interaction, indexes the participant identities, constructs the interactional space into an ‘ecological huddle’, and frames the ‘professional vision’ by bringing into salience the relevant semiotic resources, footing, participation frameworks, and ethos. 

Key words Objects, embodied sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, ecological huddle, research group meetings

Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum

Louis Strange, Queen Mary University of London，UK

AbstractIn a 2018 referendum, the Irish public voted to lift the Irish state's near-total constitutional ban on abortion, bucking a recent global trend towards restrictions on reproductive rights. While abortion rights have long been a major concern of Irish feminists, appeals to national identity have often been viewed with suspicion by the women's rights movement in Ireland due to the historic role of national identity construction in perpetuating gender-based inequalities. This article explores the way(s) in which discourses of Irish identity and gender were mediated by the use of Irish in the linguistic landscape (LL) at the time of the vote. Proposing a modified version of Du Bois’ (2007) stance triangle, I argue that signs use Irish as both a means of stancetaking and as an object of stance in itself, thus effectively taking a stance on both the referendum and on Irish national identity, indexed by the language. 

Key words Stancetaking, Irish (language), national identity, gender, abortion, Eighth Amendment

Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore

Tong King Lee，University of Hong Kong，China

Abstract This article is a case study on how Singaporean intellectuals articulate resistant language ideologies by enregistering the local vernacular, Singlish. The case in point is Gwee Li Sui's 2018 companion Spiaking Singlish, lauded as the first book to be written in Singlish about Singlish. It is argued that in tactically leveraging Singlish in a folk-lexicographical project, Gwee takes the vernacular to the third indexical order; and in so doing, he performs a ludic and extreme form of Singlish through which an everyday tongue turns into a fetish object. Contextualising Gwee's polemics within his tension with the language establishment in Singapore, the article highlights the ethical dilemma implicit in the celebration of languages speaking to an egalitarian ethos, suggesting that in enunciating a vernacular on the order of reflexive performance, intellectuals may inadvertently fashion it into a more elitist language than that which is spoken on the streets.

Key words Singlish, Singapore, enregisterment, performativity, indexicality

Performing microcelebrity: Analyzing Papi Jiang's online persona through stance and style

Csilla Weninger，Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Danyun Li，Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China

Abstract Contemporary digital media is characterized by a cultural logic of participation that encourages sharing, confession, phatic communication, and an emphasis on the visual. In this techno-cultural milieu, self-presentation has become a key mode of communication, and has enabled ordinary individuals to attain a measure of celebrity status. A key component of being a microcelebrity entails developing a consistent persona that is recognizable and unique. How such persona can be studied from the sociolinguistic perspective of stance and style is the focus of this article. We combined corpus linguistic and qualitative discourse analytic methods to examine a small corpus of videos produced by Chinese online celebrity, Papi Jiang. The article presents key lexico-grammatical, discourse-level, and non-linguistic resources that are analyzed as stance markers that together contribute to Papi's intense, critical-satirical performative style. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to performance, performativity, and critique in digital media. 

Key words Persona, microcelebrity, style, performance, stance

Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features

Stefan Grondelaers，Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Stefania Marzo，KU Leuven, Belgium

Abstract In this article, we investigate social meaning as a determinant of linguistic diffusion by confronting laboratory and corpus data of Citétaal, a multi-ethnolect that has spread across Flanders. In a speaker evaluation experiment, we found that Citétaal was upgraded on ‘streetwise dynamism’, even by respondents unfamiliar with its migrant origin. From this, we conclude that it is Citétaal's third-order indexicality, pruned of ethnic associations, which carries the diffusion. To determine the relative importance of streetwise cool vis-à-vis other predictors, we studied the diffusion across Twitter of the principal Citétaal shibboleth (/s/ palatalisation). As a production proxy for streetwise cool, we included expressive compensation strategies such as lengthening (verrry), which turned out to be among the main predictors of the Citétaal form. We argue that social meaning is a major change determinant, and that Twitter is the optimum source to track both a diffusion and the factors, including social meaning, which drive it.

Key words Rapid linguistic diffusion, social meaning, streetwise prestige, speaker evaluation experiment, corpus linguistics, Twitter

The language of suppression: Muslims, migrant workers, and India's response to COVID-19

 Ila Nagar，The Ohio State University, USA

Abstract When a society faces a moment of crisis, its language can mirror, expose, and reinforce societal chaos and fault lines. As India came to terms with COVID-19, the coronavirus’ impacts on different populations exposed and widened India's deep social, economic, and religious divides. This article studies the language of India's response to COVID-19 surrounding three major events that occurred in the early months of the pandemic: the janta curfew, the Tablighi Jamaat incident, and the migrant worker crisis. Through an analysis of media reports, speeches made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and representations on social media, we see how forms of linguistic trickery—silence, presuppositions, accommodations, othering, dog whistling, and povertyism—were used to suppress, harm, and marginalize two minority groups: Muslims and migrant workers. This article demonstrates how those in power use language to reflect, shape, and reinforce meaning, social hierarchies, and marginalization in a time of crisis.

Key words Linguistic trickery, othering, silence, presupposition, accommodation, dog whistling, povertyism

The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate

Ian Cushing，Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

Julia Snell，University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Abstract England has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI), and since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). The inspectorate, a workforce made up of a majority of white inspectors, conduct regular inspections of all state schools in England, producing reports which comment on various aspects of educational provision, including teachers’ and students’ spoken language. In this article we deploy a raciolinguistic genealogy to examine the listening practices of the inspectorate, drawing on historical inspection reports generated from archival work, inspectorate language policy, and a large corpus of contemporary reports. We show how raciolinguistic ideologies are deeply embedded into the sociopolitical culture of the inspectorate, and how these ideologies translate into systems of sonic surveillance in which the nonstandardised language practices of students and teachers are heard as impoverished, deficient, and unsuitable for school.

Key words Raciolinguistics, schools, language policing, standardised English, Ofsted, England, social class, ideology

The discursive construction of new citizen identities in Singapore

Raymund Vitorio，De La Salle University, Philippines

Abstract This article investigates how new citizens reconfigure dominant indexes of citizenship to claim status as legitimate new citizens of Singapore. New citizens are expected to resolve a tension that underpins public discourses in Singapore society: while the statal narrative of multiculturalism countenances new citizens to have perceivable markers of difference, everyday discourses expect new citizens to assimilate into the ‘Singapore core’—a term used in Singapore that denotes a homogeneous understanding of what it means to be Singaporean. By adopting a metapragmatic approach, this article identifies three common indexes of citizenship that new citizens negotiate to resolve this contradiction: language, loyalty, and legacy. By reconfiguring common markers of citizenship in Singapore, new citizens are able to discursively construct a type of citizenship that they can legitimately claim and contribute to. This expands common understandings of the notion of citizenship in Singapore society.

Key words Citizenship, language ideologies, multiculturalism, metapragmatics, Singapore

English as a Southern language

M. Obaidul Hamid，The University of Queensland, Australia

Abstract Drawing on the epistemologies of the Global South and the sociolinguistic reality of English in postcolonial Bangladesh, this article conceptualises English as a Southern language. This conception recognises the imperative of English for postcolonial societies in an English-dominant world while also emphasising the necessity of breaking away from its hegemony as represented by so-called native speaker or Standard English norms. It is argued that since English works as the principal epistemic tool for knowledge construction and theorising in most disciplines, decolonising knowledge and epistemology in favour of Southern perspectives may not be achieved without decolonising the language in the first place. While English as a Southern language builds on the paradigms of world Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and translanguaging, the proposed conception also seeks a notable departure from them. Calls for the co-existence of epistemologies of the North and South need to recognise English along the same lines.

Key words English as a Southern language, epistemologies of the South, English in Bangladesh, English and representation of the world

‘You son of a perverse rebellious woman’: Mobilizing the storytelling event for self-empowerment

Yael Zilberman Friedmann，The Open University of Israel, Israel

Hadar Netz，Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Abstract The current study investigates the discursive strategies used by Jewish Israeli women when telling stories of self-empowerment involving interpersonal tension with authority figures. Our corpus is based on in-depth interviews with thirty women aged fifty to ninety-three from the southern city of Beer Sheva, Israel. We identified forty-two narratives manifesting interpersonal tension, mostly with authority figures. Drawing on the theoretical framework of narrative analysis, we conduct a performance-based, pragmatic microanalysis of four stories through which we demonstrate an ensemble of strategies paramount in shaping and contesting power relations, including use of direct reported speech, address and reference terms, and code-switching. By telling their stories, our storytellers mobilized the storytelling event as an occasion to perform a self-empowering move through which they subverted the frameworks of authority not only on a local level in the narrated and storytelling events but potentially also on a broader societal level, disrupting hegemonic asymmetries.

Key words Power relations, narratives, self-empowerment, direct reported speech, code-switching, terms of address, terms of reference

“Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data

Sadie Durkacz Ryan，Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Holly Dann，Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Rob Drummond，Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Abstract This article explores the shift to non-rhoticity in Oldham (UK), using oral history interviews recorded in the 1980s, with speakers born between 1893 and 1929. We first account for the linguistic constraints on /r/ use and explore macro-level social patterns, where the women were more advanced in the change. We investigate this finding further using a modified version of the lectal focusing in interaction method (Sharma & Rampton 2015), tracking two speakers’ variation through the course of an interaction, and providing insight into the social meaning of rhoticity for these speakers. We suggest that, for them, rhoticity may be ideologically linked to tradition and older ways of life, and non-rhoticity may be ideologically linked to modernity and mobility, and the gender split may partly reflect the men and women's differing orientations to these concepts. We also evaluate the effectiveness of applying modern methods, such as LFI analysis, to archival data. 

Key words Rhoticity, social meaning, language variation and change, gender, sociophonetics

Enregistering mask-wearing in the time of a public health crisis

Sheng-Hsun Lee，University of Queensland, Australia

Abstract This study explores how during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan, mask-wearing emerged as a semiotic register in health communication. Focusing on enregisterment (Agha 2007), I analyze interactional recordings of press conferences by the Taiwanese government, Chinese language lessons offered to international students, and conversations at a convenience store between an Australian student and her Taiwanese friend. The analysis reveals information production and reception on three social scales: public health policies, institutionalized health instruction, and interpersonal-care practices. On each scale, masking is enregistered as a semiotic sign associated with particular social actions, actors, and relations. This enregisterment transpires through an orchestration of verbal and non-verbal resources, conveying ideologies about invisible viruses in everyday life. While inconsistencies exist across scales, masking is consistently overlaid with civic solidarity and moral responsibility. In times of crisis, mask-wearing is an issue of public health and a process of typifying behaviors, identities, and relationships. 

Key words COVID-19, enregisterment, scale

Racism is not just hate speech: Ethnonationalist victimhood in YouTube comments about the Roma during Covid-19

Petre Breazu，Loughborough University, United Kingdom

David Machin，Shanghai International Studies University, China 

Abstract Research shows that racism and xenophobia soared during the Covid-19 pandemic and this was certainly the case with the Roma in Romania. In this article, using critical discourse analysis, we analyse comments left below a television news clip posted on YouTube early in the crisis. This gives us valuable access to the way racism and xenophobia are linguistically expressed in social media, particularly in this Romanian context. It yields insights into how more overt forms of racism can sit alongside others which are less so, all united by a sense of shared embittered victimhood on behalf of Romanian citizens. We show how this takes place as the affordances of social media allow for a collective expression of frustration and mobilisation, reflecting on how social media may increase exposure to more extreme forms of racism.

Key words Critical discourse analysis, Covid-19, online racism, Roma, social media, white victimhood

期刊简介

Applied Linguistics 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.

《社会中的语言学》是一本国际社会语言学杂志，关注语言和话语作为社会生活的各个方面。该杂志发表了社会语言学、语言人类学和相关领域的学生和学者对一般理论、比较或方法感兴趣的实证文章。《社会中的语言》旨在通过出版面向广大读者的高质量作品，加强国际学术以及对语言和社会感兴趣的研究人员之间的跨学科对话与合作。除了原创文章外，该杂志还发布该领域最新重要书籍的评论和通知，以及偶尔的主题和讨论部分。

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