Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes.
Submissions are now open for the 2019 prize. The SLA invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as ethnographic and descriptive works. Single-or multi-author books – but not edited collections– are eligible. Books must have been published between January 2016 and December 31, 2018 to be eligible for the 2019 award. Any given book is eligible in only one biennial round of competition.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to the address below by May 15, 2019. (Publishers will often send them at the author’s request.) A committee appointed by the president of the SLA will evaluate all submissions. The winner will be determined by November 2019 and the author will be notified in advance of the AAA annual meeting and assume responsibility for notifying the publisher.
The Sapir Prize will be formally awarded at the SLA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in 2019.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to:
Asif Agha
President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
325 University Museum, 3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398