Manuscript Central now live! See below for more information

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Edited by:
Allan Bell

Impact Factor: 0.5

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Now publishing 5 issues per volume, Journal of Sociolinguistics has established itself as an international forum for multidisciplinary research on language and society.

Journal of Sociolinguistics promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The journal is concerned with language in all its dimensions, macro and micro, as formal features or abstract discourses, as situated talk or written text. Data in published articles represent a wide range of languages, regions and situations - from Alune to Xhosa, from Cameroun to Canada, from bulletin boards to dating ads.

TopNews and Announcements

Manuscript Central

Authors will now be able to submit their papers to the Journal of Sociolinguistics online using Manuscript Central.  Benefits of online submission include:

• Fast decisions on your paper.  Submission, review and communication are all handled online.  No more postal delays or lost messages!
• Easy. Write your paper on any word processor.  Simply save text as RTF or Word.  Graphics can be uploaded separately in any popular format, including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Convenient. Submit from any computer with an Internet connection.  No software needs to be installed.  All you need is a Web browser, Acrobat Reader and email.
• Responsive. Decisions sent by email, revisions made online.  The moment a decision is taken, an email is dispatched.  You can respond to the comments and submit a revised version online.
• Transparent. Track your manuscripts online.  Return to the site at any time to see the current status of your submission.

 

TopHighlights

The following articles are now available for free - click on the links below to be directed to the articles

Miracles of Love: The Use of Metaphor in Egg Donor Ads
Pamela Hobbs

Ideologised Values for British Accents
Nikolas Coupland & Hywel Bishop

Rear Gunners and Troubled Privates: Wordplay in a Dick Joke Competition
Mike Lloyd

Code-Switching and Social Identities in the Eastern Maroon Community of Surimme and French Guinea
Bettina Migge

Authors include:
Karin Aronsson, Robert Bayley, Deborah Cameron, Bob Carter, Jenny Cheshire, Jennifer Coates, Terry Crowley, Robert de Beaugrande, Gerard Docherty, Norman Fairclough, Joshua Fishman, Paul Foulkes, Monica Heller, Ian Hutchby, Dell Hymes, Ceil Lucas, Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Peter Mühlhäusler, Jonathan Potter, Dennis Preston, John Rickford, William Samarin, Alison Sealey, Sali Tagliamonte, Diane Vincent

Book reviews by:
Hassan R. Abd-el-Jawad, Martin Ball, Valerie Baker, Renee Blake, Thomas Bloor, John Baugh, Michael Billig, Michael Clyne, Jakob Cromdal, Nik Coupland, Jim Cummins, Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, Jacob Geert, Howard Giles, Monica Heller, Janet Holmes, Wojciech Jajdelski, Kon Kuiper, Robert McCann, Clare McMartin, Glenn A. Martinez, Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Heinrich Ramisch, Suzanne Scott, Crispin Thurlow, and others.

TopEndorsements

"What I like about the Journal of Sociolinguistics is its refreshingly broad interpretation of what constitutes sociolinguistics. This secular approach results in papers covering topics as disparate as New Zealand short vowels and gay dating advertisements, drawing on a range of critical frameworks from the variationist paradigm to critical discourse analysis. The result is a healthy heterogeneity where the tensions and conflicts between different approaches are not concealed or ignored but can be directly addressed."

Jennifer Coates, Roehampton Institute, UK

"Covers with great rigor the broad range of topics that genuinely fall under the rubric of sociolinguistics. Within just a couple of years it has become THE journal to find out what is happening in the field."

Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University, USA