刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《社会语言学》2024年第1-3期

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volume 28, Issue 1-3, 2024

Journal of Sociolinguistics（SSCI二区，2023 IF：1.5，排名：76/194）2024年第1-3期共发文23篇，其中研究性论文9篇，讨论型文章1篇，评论型文章7篇，书评5篇，书评型文章1篇。研究论文涉及地方指示性、接触语言变体、语言振兴、语言景观、符号景观、离散者的身份建构、城市接触方言、种族化等方面。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ISSUE 1

ARTICLES

■ The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African-American English and the blues, by Romeo De Timmerman, Ludovic De Cuypere, Stef Slembrouck, Pages: 3-25.

■ Syllable-final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish, by Craig Welker, Pages: 26-45.

■ The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation, by Chien Ju Ting, Pages: 46-64.

■ Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China, by Xiaoyan (Grace) Guo, Michelle Mingyue Gu, Pages: 65-84.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Language, global mobilities, blue-collar workers and blue-collar workplaces. Kellie Gonçalves and Helen Kelly-Holmes (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2021. 258pp. 3 B/W illustrations. Hardback (9780367279004) 96.00 GBP, Paperback (9780367642730) 29.59 GBP, Ebook (9780429298622) 29.59 GBP, by Dorte Lønsmann, Pages: 85-88.

■ Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenship. Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert, and Tommaso Milani (Eds.), Bristol and Jackson: Multilingual Matters 2022. 222pp. Hardback (9781800415317) 99.95 GBP, Paperback (9781800415300) 29.95 GBP, Ebook (9781800415324) 20 GBP, by Marco Espinoza, Pages: 89-92.

■ Lengua y utopía: El movimiento esperantista en España, 1890–1936. Roberto Garvía. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. 2022. 301 pp. 24 B/W illustrations. Paperback (9788433869364) 24 EUR, Ebook (9788433869371) 9.60 EUR, by Mariana di Stefano, Pages: 93-96.

ISSUE 2

ARTICLES

■ Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape, by Hanna-Mari Pienimäki,  Tuomas Väisänen,  Tuomo Hiippala, Pages: 3-21.

■ Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop, by Yuhan Lin, Tianxiao Wang, Pages: 22-41.

■ Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai, by Yuanyuan Liu, Fengwei Liu, Zichen Wang, Ying Mei, Pages: 42-60.

BOOK REVIEWS

■ Speaking my soul: Race, life, and language. John Russell Rickford, London and New York: Routledge. 2022. 216pp. 55 Color & 19 B/W Illustrations. Hardback (9781032068855) 125 USD, Paperback (9781032068831) 32.95 USD, Ebook (9781003204305) 29.65 USD, by Genevieve Ruth Phagoo, Pages: 61-64.

■ Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and Inclusion. Hilary Footitt, Angela M. Crack, and Wine Tesseur. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 248 pp. 1 B/W illustration. Hardback (9783030517755) 49.99 EUR, Paperback (9783030517786) 49.99 EUR, Ebook (9783030517762) 42.79 EUR, by Felix Banda, Pages: 65-69.

ISSUE 3

DIALOGUE: DISCUSSION ARTICLE

■ Trans language activism and intersectional coalitions, by Lal Zimman, Pages: 3-8.

DIALOGUE: COMMENTARIES

■ Trans language activism from the Global South, by Rodrigo Borba, Mariah Rafaela Silva, Pages: 9-14.

■ Tongues of abstraction – Intentionality in trans language activism, by Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile, Pages: 15-19.

■ Trans* of color im/possibilities in trans language activism, by Andrea Bolivar, Pages: 20-24.

■ Theorizing trans language activism for euphoric transmutation and our collective liberation, by Tulio Bermudez Mejía, Anyel Marquinez Montaño, Pages: 25-29.

■ Decolonising trans-affirming language in Aotearoa, by Julia de Bres, Pages: 30-34.

■ Beyond “correctness”, by Shu Min Yuen, Pages: 35-39.

■ Practical steps toward making trans language activism better, by Kirby Conrod, Pages: 40-44.

ARTICLES

■ Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English, by Christian Ilbury, Jack Grieve, David Hall, Pages: 45-70.

■ Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender, by Mary Elizabeth Beaton, Whitney Chappell, Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello, Pages: 71-93.

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

■ The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics, by Branca Falabella Fabrício, Pages: 94-106.

摘要

The globalization of local indexicalities through music: African-American English and the blues

Romeo De Timmerman, Linguistics Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Ludovic De Cuypere, Linguistics Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; BCLS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Stef Slembrouck, Linguistics Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Abstract This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African-American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live-performed blues music: /aɪ/ monophthongization, post-consonantal word-final /t/ deletion, post-consonantal word-final /d/ deletion, alveolar nasal /n/ in < ing > ultimas, and post-vocalic word-final /r/ deletion. Mixed effects logistic regression analysis applied to a corpus of 80 performances finds no statistically significant association between national/ethnic background and variant use, and indicates that blues artists, from different eras and nationalities, are highly probable to realize the AAE variant of the analyzed variables, regardless of their sociocultural background. By building on early scholarly work on language and music, existing studies considering the use of AAE by non-members of the African-American community, and current theorizing on authenticity, style, and indexicality, this study hence provides tentative support for the existence of a standard blues singing style, which involves performers using AAE forms as a stylistic-linguistic strategy to index artistic authenticity.

Key words African-American English, authenticity, indexicality, staged performance, stylistic language use

Syllable-final /s/ as an index of language, gender, and ethnicity in a contact variety of Mexican Spanish

Craig Welker, Department of Spanish Language and Literature, University of Bern, Bern,Switzerland

Abstract This study of syllable-final /s/ reduction in a 55-speaker corpus of Spanish in Juchitán, México, a contact variety, uses both language contact and social processes to explain its results. Contact with the indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language leads to decreased rates of syllable-final /s/ retention, creating a locally salient n+1-order index between “Zapotecness” and /s/ reduction that influences the indexical field for syllable-final /s/ reduction. Zapotec identity is associated with tradition and femininity. Therefore, in this new indexical field, syllable-final /s/ reduction comes to directly index Zapotec language dominance and indirectly index both femininity and tradition. This leads feminine and elderly speakers to reduce /s/ more frequently than “less feminine” and young speakers, even though the opposite pattern is usually found in other varieties. The results show, therefore, that language contact can influence the indexical field typically linked to socially meaningful variation and thereby cause unexpected patterns of variation to emerge.

Key words indexical field, language contact, Mexican Spanish, post-syllabic /s/,sociolinguistic, variation

The discursive construction of language ownership and responsibility for Indigenous language revitalisation

Chien Ju Ting, Language and Culture, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract Unpacking the possible ramification of how ownership of language and the responsibility of language revitalisation is perceived and how this may impact language revitalisation, this study uses a critical discourse studies approach to examine how the speakers negotiate their language ownership, which eventually leads to the question ‘who is responsible for language revitalisation’. The data of this study comes from semi-structured interviews with 11 Indigenous participants in Taiwan. The findings suggest that, when deciding who can ‘do’ language revitalisation, only those who are deemed legitimate by the speakers have the power to act. However, the speakers view the non-Indigenous speakers as potential speakers and, thus, were also assigned language revitalisation responsibility. Thus, by encouraging non-Indigenous speakers to become speakers of an Indigenous language via language acquisition, language ownership is shared. This study shows the complexity of how the speakers negotiate language ownership and how this has an impact on language revitalisation efforts.

Key words critical discourse studies, Indigenous language revitalisation, language ownership, Taiwan

Whose English gets paid off?—Neoliberal discourses of English and ethnic minority students’ subjectivities in China

Xiaoyan (Grace) Guo, School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, P. R. China

Michelle Mingyue Gu, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China

Abstract The study traces the trajectories of Uyghur college students’ subjectivity construction and transformation from Foucault's governmentality perspective. Drawing on ethnographic data of two telling cases, it explores how minoritized students’ subjectivities were linked to neoliberal discourses of English and constituted by power techniques, self-technologies, and affective dispositions embedded in wider institutional transformations. Participants were found experiencing a shift to the individualistic subjectivity associated with academic achievement and performance in English away from the collective identity of “authentic Uyghur” symbolized by the Uyghur language. Two salient discourses of English, i.e., English as constraints, and English as academic excellence, emerging from the neoliberal-oriented institutional English language education policies and practices, shaped the participants either as incompetent English learners or elite subjects. Participants learned to responsibilitize themselves through such self-technologies as confession and preaching, and affective practices. Yet, technologies of hope and optimism became for a few the enjoyment of experiences and performance of elitism while projecting a majority disadvantaged as affectively problematic others. The self-technologies and affective responses without recognition of larger structures of inequality could further reinforce the neoliberal logic. The affective labor of sense of solidarity, commitment to community, empathy for the deprived ones with critical reflection and collective action, nevertheless, may counter neoliberal logic and point to an alternative path to meaning-making and social relations.

Key words affect, English, ethnic minorities, neoliberal governmentality, subjectivity

Making sense of linguistic diversity in Helsinki, Finland: The timespace of affects in the linguistic landscape

Hanna-Mari Pienimäki, Department of Languages, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Tuomas Väisänen, Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University ofHelsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Urban and RegionalStudies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,Finland

Tuomo Hiippala, Department of Languages, University ofHelsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University ofHelsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Urban and RegionalStudies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,Finland

Abstract This article explores the spatiotemporal and affective qualities of linguistic landscapes at three linguistically diverse neighborhoods in Helsinki, Finland. The three sites were selected for qualitative fieldwork using a method that combines social media and population registry data with quantitative measures of diversity and spatial analytics. The article demonstrates how each site is characterized by its own distinct affective atmosphere, which is discursively construed and made sense of through references to other places and times. The timespace analysis of affects provides conceptual and methodological tools that allow analyzing the change and circulation of social meanings in the landscape, as well as differences in these aspects across settings.

Key words affect, go-along interviews, linguistic and cultural diversity, linguisticlandscapes, timespace

Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop

Yuhan Lin, College of International Studies, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Tianxiao Wang, Chinese International Education College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Abstract Although recent sociolinguistic research on high performance has shown that persona construction is multidimensional and context-specific, little work has explored how interactions between personae affect their shared semiotic landscape. This study focuses on stylistic practices in 2017′s The Rap of China, China's first hip hop-themed competition show. A quantitative analysis was conducted to describe the rhyming styles of contemporary Chinese rappers. Based on language uses, visual representations, and lyrical themes, we then identify three rapper personae and discuss the semantic dimensions of hip hop authenticity invoked by each persona. Finally, through an analysis of a combative rap performance and reactions to it, we argue that contestation among different personae shapes the ideological landscape of “authentic Chinese hip hop.” This work demonstrates the potential of the semiotic landscape as a theoretical tool for the analysis of digital communities and cultural forms.

Key words authenticity, Chinese hip hop, persona, rhyming, semiotic landscape

Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai

Yuanyuan Liu, School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Fengwei Liu, School of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Zichen Wang, School of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Ying Mei, School of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Abstract This article reports on a study of multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction for six Ukrainians in Shanghai, China. Thematic analysis of data collected from netnographic observation, semi-structured interviews, and narrative frame writing revealed that diasporic Ukrainians’ language choice is both instrumentally strategic and sociopolitically charged; in the public domain, they construct light “citizen of the world” and “nice foreigner” identities; in the private domain, they construct “Ukrainian who speaks Ukrainian language” identity. To understand the seemingly binary or even conflicted situation, we turn to the concept of “social anchoring” and propose a conceptualization of “diasporic people's language choice and identity selection.” This study shows that the construction of diasporic identity is, first of all, an individualistic process, articulating the affective aspect in their seeking psychological stability; it is also a social practice indicating diasporic people's strategies in seeking social stability.

Key words anchor seeking, diasporic Ukrainian, language choice, multilingual practice, thick and light identity

Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English

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

Jack Grieve, Department of English Language and Linguistics, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

David Hall, Independent Researcher

Abstract Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that ‘urban contact dialects’ tend to diffuse beyond the speech communities in which they first emerge. However, no research has attempted to explore the distribution of these varieties across an entire nation nor isolate the social mechanisms that propel their spread. In this paper, we use a corpus of 1.8 billion geo-tagged tweets to explore the spread of Multicultural London English (MLE) lexis across the United Kingdom. We find evidence for the diffusion of MLE lexis from East and North London into other ethnically and culturally diverse urban centres across England, particularly those in the South (e.g. Luton), but find lower frequencies of MLE lexis in the North of England (e.g. Manchester), and in Scotland and Wales. Concluding, we emphasise the role of demographic similarity in the diffusion of linguistic innovations by demonstrating that this variety originated in London and diffused into other urban areas in England through the social networks of Black and Asian users.

Key words diffusion, Multicultural British English, Multicultural London English, multiethnolects, social media, Twitter, urban contact dialects

Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender

Mary Elizabeth Beaton, Department of Modern Languages, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA

Whitney Chappell, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello, Department of World Languages and Literature, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Abstract In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo’s YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal ‘welfare queen,’ we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby disreputable forms of femininity, class expression, and nonstandard language are co-indexical with the yal’s failure to normatively “whiten” herself. We contend that US colonial narratives that scapegoat poor women of color for the island's poverty are reconstructed in Lugo’s parodies by depicting the yal as provincial and excessive. Lugo’s performative choices underscore the interplay of linguistic, material, and discursive elements that marginalize the yal, enabling parody without challenging structural inequalities. Our analysis sheds light on the ways in which semiotic practices reify such social hierarchies where they are systemically denied.

Key words colonial recursivity, covert racialization, parody, Puerto Rico, welfare queen

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, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, language and gender studies, pragmatics and conversational analysis.

《社会语言学》是一个引领语言和社会研究的国际论坛。本刊对社会语言学研究的既定和创新方法持开放态度，将社会语言学推广为一项彻底的语言学和彻底的社会科学努力。语言和社会都应该出现在所有贡献中。语言不仅被视为社会的反映，而且本身也构成了社会生活的大部分特征。本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学问题。适合从微观到宏观的语言学分析，从语音变量的定量研究到文本的话语分析。本刊对来自各种语言和国际背景的数据开放。欢迎来自语言传统的民族志、变异主义、建构主义和社会学的贡献，以及来自语言社会心理学、语言人类学、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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