刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《社会中的语言》2024年第1-2期

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY

Volume 53, Issue 1-2, 2024

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY（SSCI一区，2023 IF：2.0，排名：44/194）2024年第1-2期共发文35篇，其中第一期发表研究性论文6篇，书评4篇，读书笔记8篇。第二期发表研究性论文6篇，书评3篇，读书笔记8篇。研究论文涉及语言意识形态、语言测试、语言程式化、多语主义、批评话语分析、会话分析等方面。主题包括世界英语、性别话语、警察话语、政治话语、课堂话语等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ISSUE 1

ARTICLES

■ Marking and Unmarking the (Non)Native Speaker through English Language Proficiency Requirements for University Admission, by Piller Ingrid, Agnes Bodis, Pages 1–23.

■Constructing ‘corrupted village wives and urban men’ through multilingual performances, by Gegentuul Baioud, Pages 25–45.

■‘You Probably Have a Parasite’: Neoliberal Risk and the Discursive Construction of the Body in the Wellness Industry, by Maeve Eberhardt, Pages 47–69.

■Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect, by Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Pages 71–97.

■ Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk, by Hanna Svensson, Pages 99–128.

■ Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans, by Jaime Benheim, Annette D'Onofrio, Pages 129–155.

BOOK NOTES

■Lenore A. Grenoble & Jessica Kantarovich, Reconstructing non-standard languages: A socially-anchored approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xv, 354. Hb. €100, by Marc Gandarillas, Pages 173–174.

■ Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Digital grooming: Discourses of manipulation and cyber-crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. Hb. £64, by Johanne Kirkeby, Pages 174–175.

■ Giulia Pepe, New migrations, new multilingual practices, new identities: The case of post-2008 Italian migrants in London. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 219. Hb. £89.99, by Coirle Magee, Pages 175–177.

■Mark Nartey, Political myth-making, nationalist resistance, and populist performance: Examining Nkrumah's construction and promotion of the African dream. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 200. Hb. $160, by Mary Kathleen Dryer, Pages 177–178.

■Sonja Lanehart, Language in African American communities. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 260. Pb. $24, by Bruno Andrade, Pages 178–179.

■Sinfree Makoni, Magda Madany-Saa, Bassey E. Antia, & Rafael Lomeu Gomes (eds.), Decolonial voices, language and race. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 136. Pb. £15, by Adesoji Babalola, Pages 179–180.

■Lisa Jansen, English rock and pop performances. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. 188. Hb. €95, by Jueun Lee, Pages 180–181.

■Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger, The language of pick-up artists: Online discourses of the seduction industry. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 226. Hb. $136, by Tran Truong, Pages 182–183.

REVIEWS

■ Paul Kerswill & Heike Wiese (eds.), Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and South. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xviii, 350. Hb. £130, by Jaspal Naveel Singh, Pages 157–162.

■Camilla Vásquez (ed.), Research methods for digital discourse analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 352. Pb. £26, by Xuekun Liu, Pages 162–165.

■ Sonia Ryang, Language and truth in North Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021. Pp. 238. Hb. $80, by Marc R. H. Kosciejew, Pages 165–168.

■Stephen Pihlaja (ed.), Analysing religious discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 359. Hb. £85, by Eva Triebl, Pages 169–172.

ISSUE 2

ARTICLES

■ Hearing the quiet voices: Listening as democratic action in a Norwegian neighborhood, by Janet E. Connor, Pages 185–210.

■Preference organization and possible -isms in institutional interaction: The case of adult second language classrooms, by Nadja Tadic, Pages 211–237.

■‘We get that’: Narrative indexicality and the construction of frustration in police stories about domestic violence victim/survivors, by Jennifer Andrus, Nicole Clawson, Pages 239–260.

■Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique, by Chiara Ardoino, Pages 261–289.

■Commemorative city-texts: Spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland, by Isabelle Buchstaller, Małgorzata Fabiszak, Seraphim Alvanides, Anna Weronika Brzezińska, Patryk Dobkiewicz, Pages 291–320.

■Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects: Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy, by Prem Phyak, Pages 321–342.

BOOK NOTES

■Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Individual language policy: Bilingual youth in Vietnam. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 144. £90, by Maria Antón i Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Pages 357–358.

■Laurence R. Horn (ed.), From lying to perjury: Linguistic and legal perspectives on lies and other falsehoods. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 411. Hb. €114.95, by Jaqueline Bemmer, Pages 358–359.

■Rosaleen Howard, Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, politics, power. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 240. Hb. £96, by Alexander Black, Pages 359–360.

■Kayo Kondo, Patient-centred communication: Discourse of in-home medical consultations for older adults. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp.240. Hb. £109.95, by Emma Brooks, Pages 361–362.

■Jai Mackenzie, Connected parenting: Digital discourses and diverse family practices. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 248. Hb. £96, by Cedar Brown, Pages 362–363.

■Karen V. Beaman & Gregory R. Guy (eds.), The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 346. Hb. $170, by Allison T. Casar, Pages 363–365.

■Silvina Montrul, Native speakers, interrupted: Differential object marking and language change in heritage languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 324. Hb. £85, by Sarah Hopkyns, Pages 365–366.

■Ian Cushing, Standards, stigma, surveillance: Raciolinguistic ideologies and England's schools. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. 251. Hb. £109.99, by Katie Mansfield, Pages 366–367.

REVIEWS

■Lauren Hall-Lew, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.), Social meaning and linguistic variation: Theorizing the third wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 406. Hb. £95, by Roy Alderton, Pages 345–348.

■Jeff MacSwan (ed.), Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022. Pp. 368. Hb. £39.95, by Janet Holmes, Pages 348–352.

■Durk Gorter & Jasone Cenoz, A panorama of linguistic landscape studies. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2023. Pp. 472. Pb. £39.95, by Andre Joseph Theng, Pages 352–355.

摘要

Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission

Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia

Agnes Bodis, Macquarie University, Australia

Abstract This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English language admission requirements. Universities are today caught between the order of the nation state and that of corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national and international students. This tension produces conflicting processes of (converse) racialization and linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct language proficiencies and ethnonational identities. Our study finds two categorically different constructs of English language proficiency (ELP): inherent ELP based on citizenship, linguistic heritage, and prior education, and tested ELP. These two constructs of ELP map onto two dichotomous student groups. One side of this binary—the white native-speaker citizen construct—is subject to converse racialization and unmarking. While it becomes blurred, it casts its Other into clear relief: the Asian non-native speaker non-citizen. The research has implications for critical language testing and language policies in higher education.

Key words Citizenship, English as a global academic language, internationalization of higher education, international students, language ideologies, language testing, native speakerism, racialization, World Englishes

Constructing ‘corrupted village wives and urban men’ through multilingual performances

Gegentuul Baioud, Uppsala University, Sweden

Abstract This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category of young Mongol wives in rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and a group of young urban Mongol men whose dream is to be rich and indulge themselves in luxury. By drawing on the analytical framework of stance and stylization, the study analyzes how the performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards constructed personas and specific social-moral orders are communicated through their skillful stylization of multilingual resources in Inner Mongolia. It also points out that language stylization and stance-taking, taking place in reference to local cultural values and linguistic ideologies, are anchored in continually evolving ethnic, gender, and class relationships in a changing, minoritized Mongolian society in the context of Chinese modernization and capitalist marketization.

Key words Stance-taking, language stylization, gendered discourses, Mongols, multilingualism

‘You probably have a parasite’: Neoliberal risk and the discursive construction of the body in the wellness industry

Maeve Eberhardt, University of Vermont, USA

Abstract In this article, I ask how the body is discursively constructed within the wellness industry. I analyze a corpus of articles from the Goop franchise, examining how bodies are constructed, and how subjects are impelled to act within contemporary neoliberal risk culture. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis reveals that the body is ultimately constructed as unwell and at risk, by virtue of its presence in the environment. Faced with this inescapable risk, the neoliberal citizen is responsible for managing the self in ever-increasing domains. I link the particularities of this discursive embodiment to larger cultural imperatives of self-surveillance, discipline, and control, and argue that it is particularly a white female subject who is interpellated within this discourse. Throughout, the wellness industry is revealed as propelling the interminable cycle of the project of the self, and as a contemporary mechanism for the reproduction of docile white female bodies.

Key words Discursive embodiment, neoliberal ideology, risk society, corpus analysis, critical discourse analysis, feminist critique

Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect

Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, University of Edinburgh, UK

Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Edinburgh, UK

Claire Cowie, University of Edinburgh, UK

Abstract Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearing aids and cochlear implants can be considered semiotic resources. For deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, assistive hearing devices enter into a process of bricolage with linguistic and other symbolic resources, generating new potentials for the embodiment of affect.

Key words Affect, iconicity, Taiwan Mandarin, embodied sociolinguistics, deafness

Name(ing) norms: Mispronunciations and ethnic categories in political talk

Hanna Svensson, University of Basel, Switzerland

Abstract This article investigates the situated orientation to and production of social and political norms related to the pronunciation of person names in the context of announcing next speakers during a political meeting. Through a detailed multimodal analysis of naturally occurring interaction, the article discusses how participants to a political party's congress in Sweden treat the chairpersons’ pronunciation of person names as rendering them (non)normative and as relating them to ethnic categories. In associating specific prosodic realizations of person names with ‘(non)Swedish-ness’ and orienting to this as inacceptable, the participants reflexively establish these membership categories as (non)normative and, moreover, as unequal. In this way, the article contributes to our understanding of normative aspects regarding public announcements of next speakers as a turn-taking procedure in political interaction and how names are invoked and established as related to (non)normative ethnic categories by virtue of the formal properties of their production.

Key words Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, person names, political interaction, turn-taking, ethnicity, prosody

Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans

Jaime Benheim, Northwestern University, USA

Annette D'Onofrio, Northwestern University, USA

Abstract Research on Jewish English in the United States has drawn on a set of ideologies linking the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire to New York City English, but less is known about how these ideologies interface with the social meanings of regional features in the communities outside New York in which these speakers live. Through meta-linguistic commentary and acoustic analyses drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with white Jewish and Catholic Chicagoans, we find that meta-linguistic ideologies associate Jewish speakers with New York City English and white Catholic speakers with ‘local’ Chicago features. However, in actual production, these linguistic differences appear to be driven by neighborhood rather than ethnoreligious identity alone. We argue that while meta-linguistic commentary may re-circulate broader linguistic ideologies, the uptake of elements of the ethnolinguistic repertoire may depend on the social meanings of those features in the local community more broadly, including class- and place-linked variation.

Key words Ethnolinguistic repertoire, place, Northern Cities Shift, Jewish English

Hearing the quiet voices: Listening as democratic action in a Norwegian neighborhood

Janet E. Connor, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Abstract This article explores how modes of listening and ideologies of democratic action are intertwined, through the example of a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo, Norway. While much work on language and democracy focuses on speakers, this article instead interrogates how a government listens to citizens, and how different conceptualizations of what listening is index different understandings of democratic action. While the Oslo municipality sees listening as a form of legitimation for governmental policymaking, local residents try to create a more open form of listening, which they see to be a better way of addressing the needs of a more diverse citizenry. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with municipal employees, neighborhood organizations, and residents, the analysis focuses on the participation frameworks and interactional genres that my interlocutors take to be instances of democratic listening, and how listening practices are intertwined with imaginations of a more inclusive future. 

Key words Listening, democracy, participatory politics, Norway

Preference organization and possible -isms in institutional interaction: The case of adult second language classrooms

Nadja Tadic, Georgetown University, USA

Abstract This study examines preference organization in adult second language classrooms in relation to possible -isms—utterances which are hearably racist, classist, (hetero)sexist, or otherwise exclusionary, although their exclusionary nature may be (re)negotiated in situ. A collection of sixty-one possible -isms from a corpus of fifty-five hours of video-recorded English second language classes was examined using conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis. The analysis shows that participants orient to solidarity by supporting -isms, progressivity by deleting -isms, and moral accountability by challenging -isms; however, participants prioritize solidarity, enacting it early, even in cases of deletion and challenges. I argue that this preference organization is rooted in the institutional roles and objectives of adult second language classrooms, where presumably competent members of diverse cultures aim to foster an environment for active participation. Findings underscore the importance of conducting microanalyses of talk-in-interaction to uncover structural constraints which facilitate the reproduction of systemic exclusion.

Key words -isms, preference, conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, classroom interaction, exclusion in interaction

‘We get that’: Narrative indexicality and the construction of frustration in police stories about domestic violence victim/survivors

Jennifer Andrus, University of Utah, USA

Nicole Clawson, University of Utah, USA

Abstract This article considers a particular set of cultural and ideological discourses—police discourse about domestic violence (DV) victim/survivors—in a study about indexicality. Via the processes of indexicality, victim/survivors are consistently described and constructed as frustrations for police officers and police work. We pinpoint two sociosemantic structures that index frustration—the use of the word frustration and statements that initially show understanding for the victim/survivors’ situation—and then mitigate that understanding with stories about being frustrated. In the process, we argue, DV victim/survivors become indexical forms that index the social meaning that victim/survivors are frustrating rather than compliant. Further, we show how such constructions are available for reiteration by different speakers in police discourse and different contexts. The linguistic features that signal ‘frustration’ thus function in police discourse as indexical features that can be accessed and animated by police officers when they describe encounters with victim/survivors and the victim/survivors themselves.

Key words Indexicality, narrative, police discourse, domestic violence

Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Chiara Ardoino, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Abstract Standardisation is often touted as the default means to improve attitudes towards minoritised languages and prevent/reverse their obsolescence. However, standardisation can ‘tamper’ with the indexicalities of minoritised languages, potentially alienating their speakers. Two aspects of standardisation stand out as particularly problematic: the shift from ‘ideologies of authenticity’ to ‘ideologies of anonymity’ (Woolard 2016), and the resulting introduction/intensification of prescriptivism (Eckert 1983). Although much literature focuses on the irreconcilable nature of these ideologies, I show that their discursive manifestations are neither clear-cut nor always incompatible. First, I analyse a TV debate on the standardisation of Martinican Creole (MC), in which the fault-line between authenticity and anonymity is blurred and partially overcome. Next, I draw on a Martinican activist's Instagram profile to show how various discursive strategies and a positive take on language variation can help promote MC as an ‘anonymous’ language without forgoing its‘authenticity’or openly stigmatising spontaneous practices.

Key words Minoritised languages, Creoles, Martinique, maintenance, standardisation, ideologies of authenticity, anonymity, prescriptivism, purism, Abstand

Commemorative city-texts: Spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland

Isabelle Buchstaller, Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Małgorzata Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Seraphim Alvanides, Northumbria University, UK

Anna Weronika Brzezińska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Patryk Dobkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Abstract This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years. Our analysis combines memory studies, linguistic landscape (LL) research and critical toponymy with GIS visualization techniques to explore (turnovers in) naming practices across time and space. The key difference between the two localities lies in the commemorative pantheon of referents—events, people, and places inscribed as traces of a hegemonic national past—that are replaced when commemorative priorities change. Other patterns are common to both study sites. Notably, in both Poznań and Leipzig, peaks of renaming occur at the threshold of regime change, after which commemorative renaming activity subsides. We report on our findings and propose methodological guidelines for analyzing street renaming from a longitudinal, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspective.

Key words Collective memory, critical toponymy, memoryscape, linguistic landscapes, encoding of ideology, comparative analysis of Eastern Europe, longitudinal analysis, commemoration, GIS visualization

Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects: Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy

Prem Phyak, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Abstract This article analyzes how English medium of instruction (EMI) policy is implemented by disciplining teachers’ and students’ language behaviors in school spaces. I adopt Foucault's (1977) ‘discipline’ to examine how schools exercise disciplinary power to create an English-only environment in multilingual classroom contexts. The data is drawn from an ethnographic study of EMI policies in two Nepali schools. The findings of the study show that schools exercise their disciplinary power through both panoptic and post-panoptic surveillance strategies to police their students’ and teachers’ language practices and punish them for speaking the languages other than English. Such disciplinary power is reinforced by neoliberal development ideology that legitimizes linguistic and symbolic capitals of English. While enforcing EMI policies, schools craft students’ identity as disciplined English-speaking subjects who are perceived to contribute to development ideology. The article discusses some major impacts that sociolinguists can make on transforming unequal EMI language policies and practices. 

Key words Discipline, English medium of instruction (EMI), language policing

期刊简介

Language in Society 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》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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