Language, Culture and Society

General Editors
ORCiD logo with linkAlfonso Del Percio | FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland | lcs.journal.jb1 at gmail.com
ORCiD logo with linkCécile B. Vigouroux | Simon Fraser University, Canada

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Language, Culture and Society provides an international platform for cutting-edge research that advances thinking and understanding of the complex intersections of language, culture and society, with the aim of pushing traditional disciplinary boundaries through theoretical and methodological innovation. Contributors are encouraged to pay close attention to the contextualized forms of semiotic human activity upon which social conventions, categories and indexical meanings are constructed, actualized, negotiated and disputed vis-à-vis wider social, cultural, racial, economic and historical conditions. The journal is open to analysis focusing on different spatio-temporal scales; it also welcomes contributions addressing such issues through the lens of any of the analytical paradigms stemming from the sociolinguistic and anthropological study of language, discourse and communication. Exploration of new communicative contexts and practices is considered particularly valuable, and research that breaks new ground by making connections with other disciplines is highly encouraged. Thinking-aloud pieces, reactions and debates, and other alternative formats of contributions are also welcome.

Language, Culture and Society publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 2543-3164 | E-ISSN: 2543‑3156
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs
Latest articles

17 March 2026

  • Creativity as messy interface: Fish and water tropes in writers’ descriptions of their practice
    Charlotte E. Christiansen
  • 20 February 2026

  • Lyrical code-switching in Malayalam Hip Hop songs: Negotiating the local and the global
    Gouthaman K. J.Nandini Pradeep J | LCS 7:2 (2025) pp. 224–245
  • 13 January 2026

  • Insider perspectives and ontological curiosity: A critical look at translanguaging
    Laura GurneyEugenia Demuro | LCS 7:2 (2025) pp. 144–169
  • Breaking language barriers in healthcare: Translanguaging among physicians and patients in a Philippine public hospital
    Earl John M. ManaloRobin A. De Los Reyes | LCS 7:2 (2025) pp. 170–195
  • Who gets the thumbs up? Navigating polycentric desires in Iranian blind dates
    Soodeh MansouriSaman Jamshidi | LCS 7:2 (2025) pp. 196–223
  • She contracted eight: Linguistic strategies of naming diseases in Efik
    Eyo O. Mensah | LCS 7:2 (2025) pp. 121–143
  • 2 September 2025

  • Language, culture and society
    LCS 7:1 (2025) pp. 1–4
  • 31 July 2025

  • Epistemic authority, authenticity, and the Filipino conyo
    Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen | LCS 7:1 (2025) p. 5
  • 28 July 2025

  • Ambulant vendors’ living labour on Copacabana beach
    Rosina Márquez ReiterDouglas Sanque | LCS 7:1 (2025) pp. 28–67
  • Masculinity and violence in Kathmandu’s Raw Barz rap battles on YouTube
    Bal Krishna SharmaGita Neupane | LCS 7:1 (2025) pp. 68–97
  • 19 May 2025

  • The “tough guy” and the “human”: Evolving officer identity in culpability narratives
    Nicole Clawson | LCS 7:1 (2025) p. 98
  • 7 March 2025

  • Editorial
    LCS 6:2 (2024) pp. 131–136
  • 18 February 2025

  • The variation of the indefinite pronoun uno as a desubjectivizing resource by sex/gender
    María José Serrano | LCS 6:2 (2024) pp. 223–249
  • 17 February 2025

  • It’s your fault: A critical discourse analysis of narratives surrounding gender-based violence in a Russian talk show
    Alina Kamalova | LCS 6:2 (2024) pp. 190–222
  • The politics of positionality and naming practices in socio-cultural relations
    Sara WeuffenAleryk Fricker | LCS 6:2 (2024) pp. 137–157
  • IssuesOnline-first articles

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    Editorial info
    General Editors
    ORCiD logo with linkAlfonso Del Percio | FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland | lcs.journal.jb1 at gmail.com
    ORCiD logo with linkCécile B. Vigouroux | Simon Fraser University, Canada
    Advisory Board
    ORCiD logo with linkAna Deumert | University of Cape Town, South Africa
    ORCiD logo with linkSusan Gal | University of Chicago, USA
    William F. Hanks | University of California, Berkeley, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkAdam Jaworski | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    ORCiD logo with linkClaire Kramsch | University of California, Berkeley, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkSalikoko S. Mufwene | University of Chicago, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkBen Rampton | King's College, London, UK
    John R. Rickford | Stanford University, USA
    Kathryn A. Woolard | University of California, San Diego, USA
    Editorial Board
    ORCiD logo with linkAlexandre Duchêne | University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    ORCiD logo with linkZhu Hua | University of Birmingham, UK
    Angel M.Y. Lin | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    ORCiD logo with linkLian Malai Madsen | University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    ORCiD logo with linkStephen May | University of Auckland, New Zealand
    ORCiD logo with linkLuisa Martín Rojo | Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkTommaso M. Milani | The Pennsylvania State University, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkJoan Pujolar Cos | Open University of Catalonia, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkBonnie Urciuoli | Hamilton College, Clinton NY, USA
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