Society for Linguistic Anthropology Business Meeting Ilana Gershon December 2nd, 2017 President’s Report SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award This funds conference submissions beyond the AAA… Read More »SLA Business Meeting Report
SLA Invited & Co-Sponsored Sessions & Meetings Thursday, November 30 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – SLA graduate student paper contest: Semiotic processes across scale media, and voice –… Read More »SLA at the AAAs
Anthropology News Column by Aaron Ansell In late 2016, I noticed a peculiar convergence between Brazilian and US politics. In both countries, the political right… Read More »AN News: Right-wing Politics in Brazil: Iconization and Accusations of Corruption
March 7, 2017 Richard Bauman chatted with Ilana Gershon over coffee about his career upon receiving the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. … Read More »Interview with Richard Bauman, part 2
Richard Bauman chatted with Ilana Gershon over coffee about his career upon receiving the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. Below is the… Read More »Interview with Richard Bauman, part 1
Anthropology News Column SLA Business Meeting Saturday, November 19th, 2016 President’s Report Report on SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award: Supported invited colloquium at AAAL by… Read More »AN News: SLA Business Meeting Report
Anthropology News Column On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my… Read More »AN News: “Run, Hide, Fight” by Anna M. Babel (The Ohio State University)
Anthropology News Article By Miranda Cady Hallett (U of Dayton) and Lynnette Arnold (U Mass-Amherst) During the 20th century, military dictatorships in Latin America became… Read More »AN News: “Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language” by Miranda Cady Hallett and Lynnette Arnold
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) panels and other events at the upcoming AAA Annual Meeting (November 16-20 in Minneapolis,MN) promise to be exciting ones.… Read More »AN News: “SLA at the 2016 AAA Meeting” by Aaron Ansell and Anna Babel
Anthropology News Article Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey), Susan D. Blum (U of Notre Dame), Eric Johnson (Washington State U Tri-Cities),… Read More »AN News: “The Gap That Won’t Be Filled: An anthropolitical critique of the ‘Language Gap’” by Avineri et. al.
Anthropology News Article Since 2000, any agency receiving government funding is legally obligated to provide clients with access to interpreters who speak their language. However,… Read More »AN News: “Difficult Interpretations: Linguistic anthropology and access to social services” by Rusty Barrett (U Kentucky), Hilaria Cruz (U Kentucky), and María Luz García (Eastern Michigan U)
In recent years, AAA’s Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) has generously supported a range of efforts intended to create interdisciplinary dialogues. In 2014, this support… Read More »AN News: “Interdisciplinary Collaborations around Language and Social Justice” by Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University) and Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)
Anthropology News Column When most people think about linguistic geography, if they think of it at all, they think of dialect atlases such as the… Read More »AN News: “Charting New Territory: The Intersection of Linguistics and Geography” by Catherine Lee (U Hawaiʻi Manoa)
Anthropology News Column In recent years, several sociolinguists have published accounts of successful integration of Outreach and Engagement into their research and/or teaching, including outreach… Read More »AN News: “Outreach and Engagement in a Science Museum” by Leslie C. Moore (The Ohio State University) et al.
Linguistic anthropology and medical anthropology are growth areas of anthropology, yet research across these two fields has been relatively limited. Recently medical and linguistic anthropologists… Read More »AN News: “Communicating Bodies: New Juxtapositions of Linguistic and Medical Anthropology” by Charles L. Briggs (U California, Berkeley) and Paja Faudree (Brown U)
Last year, in the midst of a campus mobilization led by Black students that rocked the U of Missouri (“Mizzou”), we caught a glimpse of… Read More »AN News: “Taking Full Accountability (but None of the Blame)” by Aaron Ansell (Virginia Tech)
Anthropology News Article One of this column’s areas of focus for the upcoming year is interdisciplinarity in linguistic anthropology. We’re excited to have contributions lined… Read More »AN News: “Working at the Border of Sister Disciplines” by Anna Babel (The Ohio State University)
At our recent SLA annual business meeting in Denver, I proposed to the Board and to the membership in attendance that we consider organizing a… Read More »AN News: “A Proposal to Initiate a Spring SLA Meeting” by Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
How do I tell my health care provider about a pain that I can’t name? How are symptoms experienced when they emerge from a part… Read More »AN News: “(Not) Talking about Unmentionable Symptoms” by Christine Labuski (Virginia Tech)
Anthropology News Article In Greater New Orleans, there is an enregistered (Agha 2003) dialect of English that sounds similar to New York City English, making… Read More »AN News: “Linguistic and Local Peripherality: The Case of Chalmatians in Greater New Orleans” by Katie Carmichael (Virginia Tech)