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Social Indexicality

Social Indexicality is a linguistic phenomenon whereby particular language forms systematically signal or correlate with specific social identities, groups, or relations, distinguishing it from other indexicalities by its exclusive focus on socially constructed categories such as class, gender, ethnicity, or stance within a given sociocultural context.

52

Publications

6.7K

Citations

58

Authors

42

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

18

Parents

Publications

52

Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life

Michael Silverstein · Language & Communication · 2003 · 3.6K citations

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Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese”

Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus, Andrew E. Danielson · Journal of English Linguistics · 2006 · 667 citations · Full text

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Social Indexicality in French Pronominal Address

Janet Morford · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 1997 · 182 citations

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Indexical meanings of [s+] among Copenhagen youth: Social perception of a phonetic variant in different prosodic contexts

Nicolai Pharao, Marie Maegaard, Janus Spindler Møller et al. · Language in Society · 2014 · 157 citations · Full text

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Gender indexicality in the Native Americas: Contributions to the typology of social indexicality

Luke Fleming · Language in Society · 2012 · 142 citations

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Authors

58

  1. NP
    Nicolai Pharao

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    2 publications · 181 citations

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  2. BJ
    Barbara Johnstone

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    1 publications · 667 citations

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  3. PE
    Penelope Eckert

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 154 citations

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  4. LF
    Luke Fleming

    Université de Montréal, Canada

    2 publications · 175 citations

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  5. AB
    Andrea Beltrama

    University of Konstanz, Germany

    2 publications · 60 citations

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Institutions

42

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    3.7K citations

  2. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    53 citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    127 citations

  5. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    57 citations

  6. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    326 citations

  7. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    676 citations

  8. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    1 publications

    80 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

    JLA · 6 publications · 542 citations

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  2. Language in Society

    4 publications · 334 citations

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  3. Journal of Sociolinguistics

    5 publications · 243 citations

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  4. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 3 publications · 101 citations

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  5. Analysis

    3 publications · 79 citations

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