| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ethnolinguistic identity theory: a social psychological approach to language maintenance | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1987 | 290 |
| 2 | New speakers of minority languages: the challenging opportunity – Foreword | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 214 |
| 3 | The association of deference with linguistic form | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1981 | 172 |
| 4 | The genesis of vitality theory: historical patterns and discoursal dimensions | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1994 | 162 |
| 5 | Multilingual writing: a reader-oriented typology — with examples from Lira Municipality (Uganda) | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2004 | 157 |
| 6 | Language planning in the light of a general theory of language: a methodological framework | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1990 | 156 |
| 7 | Sheng and Engsh: development of mixed codes among the urban youth in Kenya | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1997 | 149 |
| 8 | Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2006 | 117 |
| 9 | The condition of Native North American languages: the need for realistic assessment and action | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1998 | 115 |
| 10 | Schooling, resistance, and American Indian languages | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1998 | 112 |
| 11 | Elite closure as a powerful language strategy: the African case | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1993 | 106 |
| 12 | Defining the new speaker: theoretical perspectives and learner trajectories | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 105 |
| 13 | What is educated spoken Arabic? | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1986 | 100 |
| 14 | Outline of a theory of diglossia | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2002 | 99 |
| 15 | Who decides the home language? A look at multilingual families | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1999 | 95 |
| 16 | The negotiation of identities in conversation: a theory of markedness and code choice | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1983 | 93 |
| 17 | New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 91 |
| 18 | Subjective ethnolinguistic vitality: a comparison of two measures | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1994 | 85 |
| 19 | The Moroccan triglossia: facts and implications | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1995 | 79 |
| 20 | Economic approaches to language and language planning: an introduction | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1996 | 79 |
| 21 | Language loss and revitalization in California: overview | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1998 | 78 |
| 22 | The economics of language: survey, assessment, and prospects | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1996 | 76 |
| 23 | Speech-accommodation theories: a discussion in terms of second-language acquisition | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1984 | 75 |
| 24 | Analysis of language policy discourses across the scales of space and time | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2010 | 75 |
| 25 | Diglossia, ethnolinguistic vitality, and language behavior | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1994 | 74 |
| 26 | Politics and Arabization: the evolution of postindependence North Africa | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1999 | 72 |
| 27 | Linguistic mudes: how to become a new speaker in Catalonia | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 72 |
| 28 | Sociolinguistic vitality of Manx after extreme language shift: authenticity without traditional native speakers | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 70 |
| 29 | New York Jewish Conversational Style | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1981 | 69 |
| 30 | Kriol is the color of Thursday | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1995 | 69 |
| 31 | Multilingualism: the case for a new research focus | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2009 | 65 |
| 32 | Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the ‘Rise of Yiddish’ | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1980 | 64 |
| 33 | Accommodation at work: some phonological data and their implications | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1984 | 63 |
| 34 | Some premises concerning the standardization of languages, with special reference to Caribbean Creole English | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1988 | 59 |
| 35 | ′Not gender difference but the difference gender makes′ — explanation in research on sex and language | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1992 | 59 |
| 36 | The geography of language shift: distance from the Mexican border and Spanish language claiming in the Southwestern U.S. | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1995 | 59 |
| 37 | New speakers, new language: on being a legitimate speaker of a minority language in Provence | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 58 |
| 38 | Discourse: scope without depth | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1986 | 57 |
| 39 | A conceptual framework for the study of language standardization | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1993 | 57 |
| 40 | Ashkenazic German (1760-1895) | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1981 | 56 |
| 41 | Questions as a mode of control in magistrates’ courts | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1984 | 56 |
| 42 | Linguistic identity among new speakers of Basque | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2015 | 55 |
| 43 | Bilingual Strategies: The Social Functions of Code- Switching | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1977 | 53 |
| 44 | The Hispanophobia of the Official English movement in the US | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1997 | 53 |
| 45 | Language shift in Grahamstown: a case study of selected Xhosa-speakers | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2000 | 53 |
| 46 | French in West Africa: a sociolinguistic perspective | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2000 | 52 |
| 47 | Politeness and interactional imbalance | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1991 | 51 |
| 48 | Optimal language regimes for the European Union | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1996 | 51 |
| 49 | Turkish in contact with German: Language maintenance and loss among immigrant children in Berlin (West) | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 1991 | 50 |
| 50 | Language shift, mother tongue, and identity in Singapore | International Journal of the Sociology of Language | 2000 | 50 |
