Barbara Johnstone (2011) “Making Pittsburghese” and Timothy Messer-Kruse (2012) “The ‘undue weight’ of truth on Wikipedia” present very different views of scholar’s experiences with Wikipedia.… Read More »Wikipedia and the Academy
This political ad features an imagined lecture, in Beijing in 2030 in Mandarin (e.g. after the Chinese have trounced the US) complete with evil ha… Read More »Yellow Peril Political Ads: China as a threat to the US
There was an ad from New Hampshire which featured shots of Jon Huntsman speaking Mandarin, while a commentator asked questions like “the Manchurian candidate. What’s… Read More »Yellow Peril Political Ads: Jon Hunstman
Republican Peter Hoekstra, candidate for US Senate, made a campaign video/mock website with an Asian American doing some Mock Asian (“Your economy get very weak,ours get… Read More »Yellow Peril Political Ads: Peter Hoekstra
Sketch from “A Bit of Frye and Laurie” useful for discussing reference and as a lead-in to linguistic relativity,
The SLA is calling for applications for registration waivers for participants in next year’s Annual Meetings in San Francisco. The SLA will have one waiver… Read More »SLA Call for Application/Registration Waivers
Stuart Dunmore (U Edinburgh) introduces his research on the life trajectories of adults who were educated in Gaelic. He seeks to discover how such former… Read More »Gaelic-medium education outcomes in Scotland – Stuart Dunmore
“Socialism” and “liberalism” are poorly defined in US politics; the former is over-applied to left-of-center positions, and the latter used in two almost reverse ways.… Read More »On socialism, liberalism, and neo-liberalism
Introducing myself, my work, and my ideas for digital content at SLA. I see the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s digital content as serving essentially two… Read More »Digital Content Editor self-introduction
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE The Verbal Artistry of Julius Malema From the Anthro News Blog Language and Culture Column. Guest Columnist Steven P. Black Steven P.… Read More »The Verbal Artistry of Julius Malema
Dear Linguistic Anthropologists, It’s that time of year again: The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 2012… Read More »Call for Submissions, AAA 2012
A light-hearted dialogue on the meaning of “free will”, inspired by Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior.
The “Research Works Act”, H.R. 3699, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in December 2011. The Association of American Publishers applauded the bill,… Read More »Research Works Act – H.R. 3699
In lieu of an inaugural posting as the in-coming digital content editor (it’s coming next year, I promise), enjoy this year-end roundup of ling-anth related… Read More »Year-end Roundup
A Fork in the Chinese Road: Educating Tibetans in Tibetan? Susan D. Blum December 23, 2011 Earlier this month a Tibetan monk set himself on… Read More »Educating Tibetans in Tibetan?
H. Samy Alim writing in the NY Times about “What if We Occupied Language?” When I flew out from the San Francisco airport last October,… Read More »Occupying Language
From my University of Wyoming Colleague Paul Flesher. Comments on this piece and the languages of Channukah and other holidays most welcome! Happy holidays to… Read More »Languages of Christmas
The Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August… Read More »Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, UNC Charlotte
The Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation is carrying out a letter-writing campaign to urge President Obama to sign an… Read More »Executive order on Native American Language Revitalization
Applications are invited for appointment as Assistant Professor in English Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong.