Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Refereed books

Ajšić, A. & Vessey, R. (Eds.) (2026). Current approaches to language ideology and metalinguistic discourse. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488910

Ajšić, A. (2025b). Modeling metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies (Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003646297

Ajšić, A. (2021b). Language and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans: A corpus-based approach. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72177-0

Refereed journal articles

Ajšić, A. (2025a). Language ideology as fake news. Linguistics Vanguard.  https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0063 (Q1)

Ajšić, A. (2021a). Capturing Herder: A three-step approach to identification of language ideologies using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Corpora, 16(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0209 (Q1)

Ajšić, A. (2014). Political loanwords: Postwar constitutional arrangement and the co-occurrence tendencies of Anglicisms in contemporary Bosnian. Journal of Language and Politics, 13(1), 21-50. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.13.1.02ajs (Q1)

Chapters in refereed edited volumes

Ajšić, A. (2026). Challenges in corpus-based study of metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies. In A. Ajšić & R. Vessey (Eds.). Current approaches to language ideology and metalinguistic discourse. New York: Routledge.

Vessey, R. & Ajšić, A. (2026). Introduction. In A. Ajšić & R. Vessey (Eds.). Current approaches to language ideology and metalinguistic discourse. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488910-1

Vessey, R. & Ajšić, A. (2025). Corpus linguistics and language ideologies. Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00466-X

Ajšić, A. (2020). Large-scale lexical patterns in discourse as indicators of ideologies: Comparing exploratory factor analysis and topic modeling. In B. Busse, N. Dumrukcic, & R. Möhlig-Falke (Eds.), Language and Linguistics in a Complex World: Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation (pp. 4-7). Cologne, Germany: University and City Library (USB) Cologne. Retrieved from https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/36462/1/ICAME41%20Extended%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf

Ajšić, A. (2020). Floating on English in a rising sea of globalization: Liminality, liability, transformation. In B. Yazan, S. Canagarajah & R. Jain (Eds.), Autoethnographies in ELT: Transnational identities, pedagogies, and practices (pp. 128-145). New York and London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001522

Ajšić, A. (2020). Challenges in corpus-based study of language-related discourses and ideologies. In C. Taylor, A. Marchi, D. del Fante, & J. Kidgell (Eds.), #CADS 2020: Corpora and Discourse (p. 5). Falmer, Sussex: University of Sussex. Retrieved from https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/145315/1/Book_of_Abstracts_CDConf10.pdf

Ajšić, A. (2016). English, “polyglot” politicians and polyglot businessmen: Language ideologies in contemporary Bosnian press. In L. Buckingham (Ed.), The status of English in Bosnia and Herzegovina (pp. 159-202). Bristol, Buffalo: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095971-011

Ajšić, A., & McGroarty, M. (2015). Mapping language ideologies. In F. M. Hult & D. C. Johnson (Eds.), Research methods in language policy and planning: A practical guide (pp. 181-192). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118340349.ch16

Ajšić, A. (2014). “Crossing” into the L2 and back: Agency and native-like ultimate attainment by a post-critical period learner.  In P. Deters, X. Gao, E. R. Miller & G. Vitanova (Eds.), Theorizing and analyzing agency in second language learning: Interdisciplinary approaches (pp. 154-172). Bristol: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783092901-011

Book reviews in refereed journals

Ajšić, A. (2022, April 28). (Springer Texts in Education) Research questions in language education and applied linguistics: A reference guide, H. Mohebbi, C. Coombe (Eds.), Springer, Cham (2021). [Review of the book Research questions in language education and applied linguistics: A reference guide, edited by H. Mohebbi & C. Coombe]. System. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2022.102804 (invited)

Ajšić, A. (2018, April). Triangulating methodological approaches in corpus-linguistic research. [Review of the book Triangulating methodological approaches in corpus-linguistic research, edited by P. Baker & J. Egbert]. Applied Linguistics, 39(2), 253-256. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx025

Ajšić, A. (2013, April 9). Corpora and language teaching. [Review of the book Corpora and language teaching, edited by K. Aijmer]. English for Specific Purposes, 32(3), 187-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2013.02.002

Ajšić, A. (2012, November 27). Language teacher education for a global society. [Review of the book Language teacher education for a global society: A modular model for knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing, by B. Kumaravadivelu]. Education Review, 15.

Ajšić, A. (2012). Dreams and realities: Developing countries and the English language. [Review of the book Dreams and realities: Developing countries and the English language, edited by H. Coleman]. Language Policy, 11(3), 283-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-011-9229-0

Ajšić, A. (2011, July 13). Language and politics in Africa. [Review of the book Language and politics in Africa: Contemporary issues and critical perspectives, edited by D. O. Orwenjo & J. O. Ogone]. Linguist List, 22.2873.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Ajšić, A. (2021, June 25). Using digital technology to uncover ‘invisible’ patterns in language and society [Blog post]. Edinburgh University Press Blog. Retrieved from https://euppublishingblog.com/2021/06/25/digital-technology/

Ajšić, A. (2015, April). AILA World Congress, 2014. GSAAL Newsletter, 8(1), 5.