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[Wodak, Ruth]

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From: Brian King <lsyreviewseditor at gmail.com>
Date: 9. September 2025 at 10:44:01 CEST
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Subject: [External] Language in Society - volunteers to write Book Notes



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Dear Colleague,

Please find below a list of books currently available to volunteers who would like to write a 500-word book note for Language in Society. A book note is a summary of a book's content with a brief evaluative summary at the end.

If you are an established scholar and would like to write a full critical review of one of these books (1500 words max), please feel free to suggest it to me.

Graduate students are welcome to write book notes, with a faculty member's supervision.

Please send a list of three books you would like to write notes on (in order of preference and that appear in the list below) to lsyreviewseditor at gmail.com<mailto:lsyreviewseditor at gmail.com>. Please  be aware that Edinburgh University Press, John Benjamins, Palgrave, and Springer only send eBooks, and Cambridge University Press will send print copies and eBooks to North America (including Caribbean) and greater Europe but only eBooks everywhere else. If a book is available via open access, no publisher will send print copies..

Book notes will be due 6 months after reviewers receive the book.

Please forward this list to students and colleagues who might be interested in writing a book note for Language in Society. Each book will go to the first person who requests it. Because there is a limited supply of titles, book notes will be limited to one per person. Priority will be given to those who have not published a book note in the journal in the past two years.

Sincerely,

Brian King
Reviews Editor, Language in Society


  *   Ali, Farah, Carol Ann Ready & Sherez Mohamed (eds.) (2025). Sociolinguistic approaches to Arabic and Spanish in contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vii, 222. Hb. €125.
  *   Alleesaib, Muhsina & Julie Lefort (eds.) (2025). New perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vi, 326. Hb. €135.
  *   Arpacık, Demet (2025). Beyond language: Kurdish language activism in the face of colonial language governmentality. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. Pp. 342. Hb. €110.
  *   Bortoluzzi, Maria & Elisabetta Zurru (eds.) (2024). Ecological communication and ecoliteracy: Discourses of awareness and action for the lifescape. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 286. Hb. £86. eBook Open Access.
  *   Cho, Jinhyun (2025). Multilingual practices and monolingual mindsets: Critical sociolinguistic perspectives on health care interpreting. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 162. Hb. £116.
  *   Dunmore, Stuart S. (2025). New Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: Heritage, motivation and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 192. Hb. £90. eBook OPEN ACCESS.
  *   Dupré, Jean-François (ed.) (2025). The politics of language in Hong Kong. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 212. Hb. £135.
  *   Faraclas, Nicholas G., Anne Storch<https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/results/?sf1=contributor&st1=Anne%20Storch> & Viveka Velupillai<https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/results/?sf1=contributor&st1=Viveka%20Velupillai> (eds.) (2025). Hospitable linguistics: Alternative, Indigenous and critical approaches to language research and language encounters. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 366. Pb. £43.
  *   Gerfer, Anika (2025). Jamaican Creole in global reggae and dancehall performances: Language use, perceptions, attitudes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 256. Hb. £90.
  *   Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong (2025). Our people’s language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xiv, 461. Hb. €165.
  *   Hadodo, Matthew J., Elena Ioannidou & Petros Karatsareas (eds.) (2025). Greek in minoritized contexts: Identities, authenticities, and institutions. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 232. Hb. £135.
  *   Helal, Fethi & Joseph Lo Bianco (2025). Language politics in Tunisia: A study of language ideological debates. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 390. Hb. £120.
  *   Jones, Lucy (2025). Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing marginalised identities through an intersectional lens. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 288. Hb. £85.
  *   Makihara, Miki & Juan Luis Rodriquez (2025). Language and political subjectivity: Stancemaking, power and politics in Chile and Venezuela. New York: Berghahn Books. Pp. 210. Hb. $135.
  *   Makoni, Sinfree, Unyierie Idem, Edwin Appah Dartey & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) (2025). Entanglements: Between decolonial and southernizing linguistics. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 278. Pb. £40.
  *   Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Östman, Jan-Ola (eds.) (2025). Identity perspectives from peripheries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vii, 295. Hb. €125.
  *   McIntosh, Janet (2025). Kill talk: Language and military necropolitics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 328. Pb. £13.
  *   McNeill, David (2025). Language is gesture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 240. Pb. $45. eBook OPEN ACCESS.
  *   Nagar, Ila (2025). Weaponizing language: Legislating a Hindu India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 236. Hb. £106.
  *   Pak, Vincent (2025). Queer correctives: Discursive neo-homophobia, sexuality, and Christianity in Singapore. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 296. Hb. £85.
  *   Reaser, Jeffrey, Walt Wolfram & Candy Gaskill (2025). Language and life on Ocracoke: The loving history of the Brogue. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 296. Pb. £19.
  *   Rolstad, Kellie, Wayne E. Wright, Na Liu & Jeff MacSwan (eds.) (2025). Language diversity, policy and social justice: In honour of Terrence G. Wiley. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 268. Hb. £115.
  *   Sauntson, Helen, Clare Cunningham, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Dai O’Brien (2025). Language and social justice: An introduction to linguistic activism. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 254. Pb. £36.
  *   Samata, Susan (2025). Ainu of Japan resisting the suppression of languages: An all-obliterated tongue. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 192. Hb. £85.
  *   Savski, Kristof (2024). Language policy in action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 214. Pb. £27.
  *   Skalicky, Stephen (2025). Why so serious? An interdisciplinary approach to humour and play in satirical discourse. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. Pp. 270. Hb. €125.
  *   Smalls, Krystal (2024). Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the raciosemiotics of contemporary Black diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 312. Pb. £20.
  *   Steffensen, Sune Vork, Martin Döring & Stephen Cowley (eds.) (2024). Language as an ecological phenomenon: Languaging and bioecologies in human-environment relationships. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 274. Hb. £86.
  *   Tsakona, Villy (2024). Exploring the sociopragmatics of online humour. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xi, 264. Hb. €125.
  *   Tudini, Vincenza (2025). Children's online language and interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 242. Pb. £27.

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