[PLing] WG: Language in Society - volunteers to write Book Notes

[Wodak, Ruth]

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Em. Professor Dr DDr h.c. Ruth Wodak, FAcSS
Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies
Lancaster University/University Vienna
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/people/ruth-wodak
http://lancaster.academia.edu/RuthWodak
https://orcid.org/<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5327-5559>0000-0001-5327-5559<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5327-5559>

New Book
“Babyelefant und Hausverstand”. Wie Krisen produziert werden. (with Markus Rheindorf) Picus-Konturen 2026. https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/de/detail/ISBN-9783711735065/Wodak-Ruth/Babyelefant-und-Hausverstand

Recent books:
Das kann immer noch in Wien passieren. Alltagsgeschichten (ed. Ruth Wodak), Czernin 2024. https://www.czernin-verlag.com/buch/das-kann-immer-noch-in-wien-passieren
Identity Politics Past and Present. Political Discourses from Post-war Austria to the Covid Crisis (with Markus Rheindorf). Exeter Press 2022. https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/en/Book/2110/Identity-Politics-Past-and-Present.html
The Politics of Fear. The shameless normalization of far-right populist discourses. Sage 2021 https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-politics-of-fear/book265617
Politik mit der Angst: Die schamlose Normalisierung rechtspopulistischer und rechtsextremer Diskurse. Konturen 2020. https://www.konturen.cc/buecher/politik-mit-der-angst/




Von: Brian King <lsyreviewseditor at gmail.com>

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 comment 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

  *   Akinlotan, Mayowa (ed.) (2026). A sociolinguistics of Englishes around Africa. Munich: LINCOM. Pp. 308. Hb. €75.
  *   Biers, Kelly (2026). Boojoo! An introduction to Wisconsin Walloon. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 140. Pb. $34.
  *   Bogetić, Ksenija (2025). Language, gender and politics in central and eastern Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xxiii, 371. Hb. €150.
  *   Braber, Van de Putte & van den Elzen (eds.) (2026). Language and memory: Interactions and mediations. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 272. Hb. £85.
  *   Britain, Hedegard & Sudbury (2026). Falkland Island English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 200. Hb. €125.
  *   Britain, Matsumoto, Hess, Leonhardt & Lynch (eds.) (2026). Micronesian Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 300. Hb. €125.
  *   Carruthers, Andrew M. (2026). Spectres of affinity: The social life of comparison at a Southeast Asian border. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 260. Hb. CA$75.
  *   Chen, Li-Chi (2026). Humour, identity and (de)localness in digital spaces: Gay Taiwanese men’s language and gendered expression. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xii, 238. Hb. €140.
  *   Choe, Hanwool (2026). Family talk online: Multimodality, technology and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 260. Pb. £32.
  *   Clemons, Aris Moreno (2026). U.S. Black vernacular Spanish(es): Linguistic transnationalism and race making. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 250. Hb. €120.
  *   DeGraff, Michel (2026). Our own language: Harnessing the power of Kreyòl and other mother tongues for education and liberation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 356. Pb. $40. (pdf copy only)
  *   Dixon, R.M.W. (2025). The anatomy of avoidance: A full study of Jalnguy, the Dyirbal ‘mother-in-law-language’. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 373. Hb. €120.
  *   Drummond, Rob (2026). Manchester voices: Accents, dialects and identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 260. Hb. £25.
  *   Goodchild, Samantha (2026). Multilingualism in rural Senegal: Linguistic practices and perceptions in a Casamance village. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 250. Hb. €125.
  *   Handford, Michael (2026). Lump in my throat: What cancer taught me about communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 276. Hb. £20.
  *   Karlander, David & Monica Heller (eds.) (2026). Constructed languages and the sociolinguistics of language making. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 280. Hb. £71.
  *   Khoshsirat, Zia (ed.) (2026). Toward a linguistic anthropology of Iran: Essays on language, culture, and society. Singapore: Springer. Pp. xiii, 260. Hb. €140.
  *   Kretzer, Makoni & Kaschula (eds.) (2026). Language policy across continents: Decolonisation, language rights and multilingualism in education. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 477. Hb. €130.
  *   Leto, Mario (2026). The discursive construction of veganism: An ecolinguistics approach. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 240. Hb. £85.
  *   LeVasseur, Todd (ed.) (2026). Critical ecolinguistics within Singapore, ‘The Garden City’. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 240. Hb. £95.
  *   Lin, Jingxia & Ming Chew Teo (2026). Singapore Mandarin Chinese: Variation and shifts in a glocalized world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 338. Hb. £115.
  *   Pacheco-Franco, Marta (2026). Spelling as a sociolinguistic practice: Variation in colour-, theatre- and licence-type words. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 250. Hb. €110.
  *   Paulasto, Meriläinen, Kaislaniemi & Laitinen (eds.) (2026). English language contacts and change in the digital age. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xvi, 240. Hb. €110.
  *   Reznicek-Parrado, Quan, Méndez Kline, Isordia & Menard-Warwick (eds.) (2026). Raciolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S.: Ideologies, identities and pedagogies. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 315. Hb. €120.
  *   Ritchey, Elyse (2025). Revalorising Occitan in the 21st century: Language and culture in a rural French community. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 230. Hb. €125.
  *   Schippling, Melanie (2026). Speaking of writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 429. Hb. €125.
  *   Smith, Adam & Peter Collins (eds.) (2026). Worldwide perspectives on English usage: Into the third millennium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 412. Pb. £30.
  *   Smith, Hiram (2026). Wassup, my nigga: The hidden history of a controversial word. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 320. Hb. $30.
  *   Sweet, Nikolas (2025) The verbal art of mobility in West Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 208. Pb. $32. OPEN ACCESS
  *   Vamling, Kiss, Petersson & Pidkuimukha (eds.) (2026). Languages in conflict and war: Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xxv, 332. Hb. €140.
  *   Van Mensel, Luk & Eline Zenner (eds.) (2026). Language and the family: Stretching concepts, challenging methods. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 229. Hb. €120.
  *   Werner, Schützler, Schlüter, Knappe, Sönning & Vetter (eds.) (2026) Juggling intra- and extralinguistic factors in the study of variation and change. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 460. Hb. €110.
  *   Williams, Colin H. (2025) Official language regimes: Transformation and innovation. Cham: Palgrave. Pp. xix, 411. Hb. €130.
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