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<span style="color: black;">Em. Professor Dr DDr h.c. Ruth Wodak, FAcSS<br>
Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies<br>
Lancaster University/University Vienna<br>
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<span style="color: black;">“<i>Babyelefant und Hausverstand”. Wie Krisen produziert werden.</i> (with Markus Rheindorf) Picus-Konturen 2026.</span>
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<i>Das kann immer noch in Wien passieren. Alltagsgeschichten </i>(ed. Ruth Wodak), Czernin 2024.
<span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://www.czernin-verlag.com/buch/das-kann-immer-noch-in-wien-passieren" data-outlook-id="de926e13-c651-4c8b-868a-6a5f25ccb03f" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://www.czernin-verlag.com/buch/das-kann-immer-noch-in-wien-passieren</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>Identity Politics Past and Present. Political Discourses from Post-war Austria to the Covid Crisis</i> (with Markus Rheindorf). Exeter Press 2022.
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<span style="color: black;"><i>The Politics of Fear. The shameless normalization of far-right populist discourses.
</i>Sage 2021 </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-politics-of-fear/book265617" title="Ursprüngliche URL:
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<span style="color: black;"><i>Politik mit der Angst: Die schamlose Normalisierung rechtspopulistischer und rechtsextremer Diskurse.</i> Konturen 2020.
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<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Akinlotan, Mayowa (ed.) (2026).
<i>A sociolinguistics of Englishes around Africa</i>. Munich: LINCOM. Pp. 308. Hb. €75.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Biers, Kelly (2026).
<i>Boojoo!</i> <i>An introduction to Wisconsin Walloon. </i>Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 140. Pb. $34.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Bogetić, Ksenija (2025).
<i>Language, gender and politics in central and eastern Europe</i>. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xxiii, 371. Hb. €150.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Braber, Van de Putte & van den Elzen (eds.) (2026).
<i>Language and memory: Interactions and mediations</i>. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 272. Hb. £85.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Britain, Hedegard & Sudbury (2026).
<i>Falkland Island English</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 200. Hb. €125.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Britain, Matsumoto, Hess, Leonhardt & Lynch (eds.) (2026).
<i>Micronesian Englishes</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 300. Hb. €125.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Carruthers, Andrew M. (2026).
<i>Spectres of affinity: The social life of comparison at a Southeast Asian border</i>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 260. Hb. CA$75.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Chen, Li-Chi (2026).
<i>Humour, identity and (de)localness in digital spaces: Gay Taiwanese men’s language and gendered expression</i>. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xii, 238. Hb. €140.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Choe, Hanwool (2026).
<i>Family talk online: Multimodality, technology and identity</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 260. Pb. £32.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Clemons, Aris Moreno (2026).
<i>U.S. Black vernacular Spanish(es): Linguistic transnationalism and race making</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 250. Hb. €120.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">DeGraff, Michel (2026).
<i>Our own language: Harnessing the power of Kreyòl and other mother tongues for education and liberation</i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 356. Pb. $40. (pdf copy only)</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Dixon, R.M.W. (2025).
<i>The anatomy of avoidance: A full study of Jalnguy, the Dyirbal ‘mother-in-law-language’</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 373. Hb. €120.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Drummond, Rob (2026).
<i>Manchester voices: Accents, dialects and identities</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 260. Hb. £25.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Goodchild, Samantha (2026).
<i>Multilingualism in rural Senegal: Linguistic practices and perceptions in a Casamance village</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 250. Hb. €125.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Handford, Michael (2026).
<i>Lump in my throat: What cancer taught me about communication</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 276. Hb. £20.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Karlander, David & Monica Heller (eds.) (2026).
<i>Constructed languages and the sociolinguistics of language making</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 280. Hb. £71.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Khoshsirat, Zia (ed.) (2026).
<i>Toward a linguistic anthropology of Iran: Essays on language, culture, and society</i>. Singapore: Springer. Pp. xiii, 260. Hb. €140.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Kretzer, Makoni & Kaschula (eds.) (2026).
<i>Language policy across continents: Decolonisation, language rights and multilingualism in education</i>.
</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 477. Hb. €130.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Leto, Mario (2026).
<i>The discursive construction of veganism: An ecolinguistics approach</i>. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 240. Hb. £85.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">LeVasseur, Todd (ed.) (2026).
<i>Critical ecolinguistics within Singapore, ‘The Garden City’</i>. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 240. Hb. £95.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Lin, Jingxia & Ming Chew Teo (2026).
<i>Singapore Mandarin Chinese: Variation and shifts in a glocalized world</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 338. Hb. £115.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Pacheco-Franco, Marta (2026).
<i>Spelling as a sociolinguistic practice: Variation in colour-, theatre- and licence-type words</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 250. Hb. €110.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Paulasto, Meriläinen, Kaislaniemi & Laitinen (eds.) (2026).
<i>English language contacts and change in the digital age</i>. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xvi, 240. Hb. €110.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Reznicek-Parrado, Quan, Méndez Kline, Isordia & Menard-Warwick (eds.) (2026).
<i>Raciolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S.: Ideologies, identities and pedagogies</i>.
</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 315. Hb. €120.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">Ritchey, Elyse (2025).
<i>Revalorising Occitan in the 21st century: Language and culture in a rural French community</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. Pp. 230. Hb. €125.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Schippling, Melanie (2026).
<i>Speaking of writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability</i>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 429. Hb. €125.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Smith, Adam & Peter Collins (eds.) (2026).
<i>Worldwide perspectives on English usage: Into the third millennium</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 412. Pb. £30.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Smith, Hiram (2026).
<i>Wassup, my nigga: The hidden history of a controversial word</i>. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 320. Hb. $30.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Sweet, Nikolas (2025)
<i>The verbal art of mobility in West Africa</i>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 208. Pb. $32. OPEN ACCESS</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Vamling, Kiss, Petersson & Pidkuimukha (eds.) (2026).
<i>Languages in conflict and war: Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics</i>. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xxv, 332. Hb. €140.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Van Mensel, Luk & Eline Zenner (eds.) (2026).
<i>Language and the family: Stretching concepts, challenging methods</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 229. Hb. €120.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation">Werner, Schützler, Schlüter, Knappe, Sönning & Vetter (eds.) (2026)
<i>Juggling intra- and extralinguistic factors in the study of variation and change</i>. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. 460. Hb.
</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">€110.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">W</span>illiams, Colin H. (2025)
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" role="presentation"><i>Official language regimes: Transformation and innovation</i>. Cham: Palgrave. Pp. xix, 411. Hb.
</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" role="presentation">€130.</span></li></ul>
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