Above photo: Image of the American Sign Language sign for ‘Interpreter’”. https://www.ai-ada.com/language-access-professionals/sign-language-interpreters/ By Claire Cummings One click. The news pops up on your TV and you… Read More »“Deaf Community Deserves Greater Access to Medical Information during Covid-19”
Join language and politics experts across the United States as they discuss the 2020 election in this free online forum, launching Friday, October 9, 6pm (CST). The… Read More »Introducing “Talking Politics 2020” Online Forum
Dear SLA members and friends, The SLA Executive Board in please to invite you to the SLA Fall Open Forum, to be hosted on zoom on Thursday,… Read More »SLA Fall Open Forum
The submission deadline is October 16, 2020. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA member or members for… Read More »SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Linguistic Anthropology special issue on LANGUAGE AND WHITE SUPREMACY Guest Editors: Krystal Smalls, Arthur Spears, and Jonathan Rosa (*Revised call for papers… Read More »Call for Papers, JLA Special Issue on Language and White Supremacy
Dear Colleagues, The current COVID-19 pandemic has continued to impact our scholarly community in multiple ways. We are particularly aware of and concerned about… Read More »SLA Hardship Grants and Membership Waivers!
By Luke Fleming and James Slotta In the images and stories of families that have been separated by the spread of coronavirus, we have some… Read More »“Social Distancing and the Cultural Semiotics of Contact”
Image, top: taglines and artwork from the 2019 Speak Good English Movement, “Let’s connect. Let’s speak good English.” Image, bottom: screen capture from “Code-Switching” by… Read More »“Code-Switching and Standardizing Singlish”
Dear SLA 2020 Registrants and SLA Membership, As the COVID-19 health and economic crises continue in the US, I wanted to be in touch… Read More »SLA Conference Postponed Until Spring 2021!!
Dear SLA Colleagues, Greetings! We are writing to encourage you to consider nominating yourself for the open SLA position of Secretary-Treasurer in the 2020 AAA elections. If you are… Read More »Urgent! SLA Secretary Treasurer Nominations!
Dear All, Please check out this video composed by the devoted undergraduate marketing team at U.C. Boulder to promote the SLA 2020 Spring Conference! promotional video
By Chu May Paing I dream about the day when I am no longer praised for my “well-articulated” thoughts. The week before the Reading Week… Read More »“Subtitled Dreams”
Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper. The selected winner will be given a cash award,… Read More »Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2020 Undergraduate Essay Contest
Deadline: February 1, 2020 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces the John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition. Each year the Society for… Read More »2020 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize
Please be advised that the deadline for the SLA 2020 Spring conference has been pushed back from December 2nd, to December 16th. See the updated information on… Read More »SLA 2020 Abstract Submission Deadline Pushed Back!
Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today GESM 130g – Seminar in Social Analysis – 35427R University of Southern California Hebrew Union College… Read More »Syllabus: Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today
Link to Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/opinion/words-and-power/
Book information from Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that… Read More »When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam Hodges (SUP, 2019)
Co-Construcing Meaning in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia. A video produced by National Center for Neurogenic communication Disorders Telerounds. February 28, 1996 in… Read More »Charles Goodwin – Co-constructing meaning in conversations with a man with severe aphasia
Please click the link below to see a complete list of SLA panels at this year’s AAA/CASCAA Meetings in Vancouver: SLA panels at 2019 AAA/CASCAA… Read More »SLA Panels at AAA/CASCAA in Vancouver!