SLA is pleased to announce that the following 24 titles have been nominated and are eligible for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. This is a notably rich and vibrant collection of recent work in linguistic anthropology. The winner of this prize for the book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society will be announced at the SLA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, on Friday November 19, 6:15-7:30 pm.
| SLA Sapir Book Prize Competition 2010 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Title | Year Published | Publisher |
| Bate, Bernard | Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic | 2009 | Columbia University Press |
| Bennardo, Giovanni | Language, Space and Social Relations | 2009 | Cambridge |
| Besnier, Niko | Gossip and the everyday production of politics | 2009 | University of Hawaii Press |
| Blum, Susan D. | My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture | 2009 | Cornell |
| Cavanaugh, Jillian | Living Memory | 2009 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Chrisomalis, Stephen | Numerical Notation | 2010 | Cambridge |
| Cotter, Colleen | News Talk | 2010 | Cambridge |
| Duchene, Alexandre | Ideologies Across Nations | 2008 | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. |
| Enfield, N.J. | The Anatomy of Meaning | 2009 | Cambridge |
| Fader, Ayala | Mitzvah Girls | 2009 | Princeton University Press |
| Galloway, Brent D. | Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem Volume 1 & 2 | University of California Press | |
| Grosjean, Francois | Bilingual | 2010 | Harvard University Press |
| Hanks, William F. | Converting Words | 2010 | University of California Press |
| Hill, Jane H. | The Everyday Language of White Racism | 2008 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Klaits, Frederick | Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana’s Time of Aids | 2010 | University of California Press |
| Kockelman, Paul | Language, Culture and Mind | 2010 | Cambridge |
| Mandeville, Francois | This is What They Say | 2009 | University of Washington Press |
| O’Neill, Sean | Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California | 2008 | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Park, Joseph | Local Construction of a Global Language | 2009 | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. |
| Richland, Justin B. | Arguing with Tradition | 2008 | University of Chicago Press |
| Rosenwald, Lawrence | Multilingual America | 2008 | Cambridge |
| Tomlinson, Matt | In God’s Image: Metaculture of Fijian Christianity | 2009 | University of California Press |
| Webster, Anthony K. | Explorations in Navajo Poetry | 2009 | University of New Mexico Press |
| Wilce, James M. | Language and Emotion | 2009 | Cambridge |
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Congratulations to all the nominees!
Leila
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[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]
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[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]
[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]
[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]
[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]
[...] François Grosjean’s new book Bilingual: Life and Reality, which has been nominated for the Edward Sapir Book Prize 2010. Prof. Grosjean knows intimately what he writes about: not only is he “one of the grand old [...]