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International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Subject Areas: Linguistics and Language
Publisher: De Gruyter - de Gruyter
ISSN: 1613-3668
SJR: 41

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2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2024-frontmatter286
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Introduction to special issue: languages in modern day Puerto Rico

Morales Lugo, Katherine; Carroll, Kevin S.; Campos, Simón D.

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0061

AbstractThis introduction to our special issue surveys some of the current work undertaken by scholars on the island of Puerto Rico and abroad that document the language forms, uses, and ideologies of language in the U.S. territory. We provide the “total linguistic fact” (Silverstein 1985) of...
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English skills of Puerto Rican students: the effect of gender, SES and school socioeconomic composition

Morales-Reyes, Alexandra; Pérez-Vargas, José C.; Siberón, Jessimar; Wolfgang, Rolke

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0022

AbstractThis study evaluates the effects of gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and school of origin on students’ language performance. We used data from the test Measurement and Evaluation for Educational Transformation (META, for its acronym in Spanish). We analyzed the results of 21,425...
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The bilingual styles of young Puerto Rican adolescents online

Morales Lugo, Katherine

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0024

AbstractThis article examines the language mixing practices of Puerto Rican adolescents in various social media platforms through a framework of code-mixing and socioindexicality. Over a twelve-week period, I collected samples of online text messages from six island bilinguals of an elite...
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“You have to learn the language of where you are”: language policies, ideologies, and the educational experiences of Puerto Rican transnational youth

Soto-Santiago, Sandra L.

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0023

AbstractTransnational movement to and from the United States is a social phenomenon that impacts all aspects of life in Puerto Rico. This includes language and education for minors who move back and forth between both locations. The present investigation focuses on the educational experiences of...
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El español de Loíza en el Debate de los Criollos del Español: Un análisis sociohistórico y lingüístico

Visconte, Piero

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0020

ResumenEste estudio combina conocimientos sociohistóricos y lingüísticos para arrojar luz sobre la naturaleza y el origen del español de Loíza (EL), una variedad afrohispánica hablada en Loíza, Puerto Rico, por los descendientes de los africanos traídos a esta región para trabajar como esclavos...
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The imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish: a case of language contact or grammaticalization?

Delgado-Díaz, Gibran J.

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0021

AbstractThe present study examines the use of the Spanish imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish to determine if this construction is influenced by English, or if it is responding to internal grammaticalization processes as defined as the process in which a lexical item acquires a...
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Choosing between Cyrillic and Latin for linguistic citizenship in contemporary Serbia

Albury-Garcés, Nathan John

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0090

AbstractBoth the Cyrillic and Latin scripts are routinely used for writing in Serbian. In existing ideological discourses, using Cyrillic is associated by some with Serbian ethnic authenticity and loyalty to nationhood, but by others with conservatism, Russian-leaning politics and dangerous...
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How interpreting influences defendants’ participation: a discursive study of zero renditions and non-renditions in court interpreting

Du, Biyu Jade

2024 International Journal of the Sociology of Language

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0054

AbstractThe inquisitorial feature of Chinese criminal trials requires active participation from defendants in courtroom interaction. To fully participate in the trial proceedings, defendants who cannot speak the language of the court have to rely on the language support offered by interpreters....

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