De Gruyter Mouton is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Joshua A. Fishman Award.

The award, now in its third edition, recognizes exceptional Ph.D. dissertations that push intellectual boundaries and offer innovative, forward-looking perspectives in the sociology of language.

This year, three early-career scholars were selected among many promising applicants from across the globe:

Joshua L. Martin: Automatic Speech Recognition Systems, Spoken Corpora, and African American Language: An Examination of Linguistic Bias and Morphosyntactic Features (University of Florida)

Sharifa Khalid Muhanna Al Battashi: Translanguaging and Young Muslim Children’s Negotiations of Intersectional Muslim Identities in an English Reception Classroom: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study (University College London)

Sudha Athipet Vepa: Language, Education and the Empowerment of Women: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography (University College London)

Congratulations to the winners!

We thank the reviewers and the editors of the book series ‘Contributions to the Sociology of Language’, Prof. Ofelia García and Prof. Francis Hult.

Learn more about the winning dissertations: https://blog.degruyter.com/congratulations-winners-of-the-2024-joshua-a-fishman-award/
Learn more about the award: https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/fishmanaward
Learn more about the book series: https://www.degruyter.com/serial/csl-b/html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Sociolinguistics