Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Journal Title: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Volume Number: Volume 2024
Issue Number: Issue 28
Issue Date: 2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: The Politics of Academic Reading: 50th Anniversary Issue of IJSL; Issue Editor: Alexandre Duchêne

Main Text:

The International Journal of the Sociology of Language was first published in 1974 under the editorship of Joshua Fishman and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024. Anniversaries deserve celebration (many celebrations, in fact), but they are also key moments to reflect on what we do, why we do it, with whom and for whom, and how we do it, as well as to examine the challenges and issues inherent in our work. Such introspection, when applied to a scientific journal that has published 285 issues and more than 2,000 articles over 50 years, brings up essential questions about the politics of writing and reading, which are inherently sociolinguistic: who writes what, for whom, how, and why? We wanted to launch, for this anniversary, a debate with the journal editors who de facto concerned (as reader, as gatekeeper, as part of the knowledge economy) with the politics of reading and the politics of writing. To initiate this conversation, we decided to reprint (and translate into English, French, and Spanish) a paper written in German about 35 years ago by the linguistics scholar Wolfgang Klein. In this article, Klein addressed these problems and proposed some potential (for some, unconventional or even outlandish) solutions. We found this text to be refreshing, ironic, and humorous, yet also deeply serious, making it an ideal trigger for reflection on the politics of reading from the perspective of editors of sociolinguistics (and/or applied linguistics) journals worldwide. 28 journal editors of sociolinguistics (understand in a very broad sense) from all over the world have accepted this invitation and we are delighted to share with this anniversary issue as Free to read access.

Read the full issue here: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/ijsl/2024/289-290/html

Table of Contents:

Editorial

Reading: An anniversary conversation with journal editors
Alexandre Duchêne, Sibonile Ellece, Maria Sabaté Dalmau, Ruanni Tupas, Virginia Unamuno, Jacqueline Urla
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0137/html

Article
Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel
Wolfgang Klein
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0007/html

Commentaries

Sobre el acceso a la bibliografía académica desde el Sur: diagnóstico, estrategias de resistencia y un proyecto disruptivo concreto [Anuario de Glotopolítica]
Daniela Lauria
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0004/html

Toward un-WEIRDing academic publishing about language [Applied Linguistics]
Christina Higgins
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0073/html

Recognising the human in humanities [Australian Review of Applied Linguistics]
Rhonda Oliver, Sender Dovchin
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0049/html

文字简化、学术产出与技术进化—来自中国的经验 [Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning]
Xi Guo [郭熙], Shanhua He [何山华]
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0045/html

Meine kleine Lesemaschine: Reflexion zur Begrenzung der Produktion von wissenschaftlichen Texten [International Journal of Multilingualism]
Eva Vetter
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0071/html

The politics of writing and reading: An Arabic sociolinguistics perspective [Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics]
Reem Bassiouney
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0131/html

To read is to cite: A moral proposition [Journal of Linguistic Anthropology]
Sonia N. Das
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0040/html

Sociolinguistics towards a culturalist turn: a sociolinguistic response to the challenges of mankind [Journal of Multicultural Discourses]
Shi-xu
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0113/html

Wolfgang Klein as Don Quixote [Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development]
Jean-Marc Dewaele
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0032/html

An extended lunch break: a response to Wolfgang Klein [Journal of Pragmatics]
Andreas H. Jucker, Anne Bezuidenhout
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0014/html

The economic reterritorialization of academic publishing and the politics of reading [Journal of Sociolinguistics]
Sari Pietikäinen, Virginia Zavala
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0068/html

How I learned to stop worrying and love the explosion of information [Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society]
Mark Alves
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0003/html

Writing and publishing language studies in the Arab region [Khitabaat Journal]
Emad Abdul-latif
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0026/html

Accouchons des idées, pas des articles: politiser la proposition de Wolfgang Klein pour repenser le travail scientifique [Langage et Société]
Luca Greco
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0006/html

Reading or writing is not the question: politicizing the politics of scholarly production and reception [Language, Culture and Society]
Cécile B. Vigouroux, Alfonso Del Percio
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0061/html

Writing to be read, or how to achieve more through less [Language Matters]
Terrence R Carney
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0013/html

Writing or reading? An incommensurable choice? [Language in Society]
Tommaso M. Milani, Susan Ehrlich
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0063/html

Can we escape the textocalypse? Academic publishing as community building [Language on the Move]
Ingrid Piller
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0132/html

Acceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy]
Miguel Pérez-Milans and Kate Menken
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0080/html

On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
Eva Codó and Jürgen Jaspers
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0021/html

Where global discourses meet local realities: the case of scholarly publishing in Sinhala [Sāhityaya]
Harshana Rambukwella, Krishantha Fedricks and Kaushalya Perera
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0037/html

Navigating a national linguistics journal through local interests and global pressures: an editorial view on the problem of academic overproduction [Slovo a slovesnost]
Petr Kaderka and Tamah Sherman
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0072/html

Navigating a national linguistics journal through local interests and global pressures: an editorial view on the problem of academic overproduction [Slovo a slovesnost]
Petr Kaderka and Tamah Sherman
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0072/html

What is the place of African languages in knowledge production? [South African Journal of African Languages]
Gibson Ncube
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0033/html

Publishing issues and overwhelm [Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies]
Johanita Kirsten
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0025/html

Strengthening local academic publishing in the age of academic fast fashion [TILAMSIK]
Nicanor L. Guinto
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0022/html

Dromm und die verlorene Balance [The Mouth: Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society]
Dromm and the lost balance [The Mouth: Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society]
Anne Storch
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0016/html

Meritocracy, governmental intervention, and academic nepotism: a South Korean academic publishing landscape [The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea]
Hojung Kim, Seungjoo Baek and In Chull Jang
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0024/html

Indagando a aceleração da produção acadêmica com bom humor: Uma visão do sul [Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada]
Daniel Silva and Viviane Veras
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0081/html

Final Commentary
How to amend the supply-demand imbalance in research?
Wolfgang Klein
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0136/html

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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Sociolinguistics