Blommaert Wins Metzger Prize
Linguistic Anthropologist Jan Blommaert wins the first Barbara Metzger Prize from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and Current Anthropology.
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December 2010
Call For Papers SALSA XIX: Language in the Public Domain
The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its 19th Annual meeting, to be held April 15-17 at the University of Texas at Austin. The theme of this year’s conference is “Language in the Public Domain;” SALSA
As I was going through the Times…
Stephen Chrisomalis, Wayne State University
Recently, there has been a “Puzzle Moment” in the science section of the New York Times, with an eclectic mix of articles combining scientific pursuits with cognitive and linguistic play of various sorts. One that caught my eye is ‘Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus’ by Pam Belluck, which is an account of the well-known Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The RMP is an Egyptian mathematical text dating to around 1650 BCE, and is one of the most complete and systematic known accounts of ancient Egyptian mathematics.
Increasing number of US students study ASL
According to an article in the New York Times, American Sign Language is now the fourth most-studied language among US college and university students. While… Read More »Increasing number of US students study ASL
Congratulations to our Student Essay Prize Winners!
From Jillian Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College, Chair of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Student Essay Prize Committee The 2010 SLA Graduate Student Essay prize went to:… Read More »Congratulations to our Student Essay Prize Winners!