See the information below for the SLA Business Meeting: Friday Nov 13: ◦ 12:30-2:30 pm ET SLA Business Meeting (open to everyone) Join zoom meeting (passcode 292478): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87430571418?pwd=ZnFyeFMxSHNlaTk3d1FHK1RvNXl0QT09
Dear colleagues in linguistic anthropology,The SLA portion of the Raising Our Voices live-streamed program begins tomorrow! Please know that you can still register to attend… Read More »SLA Portion of Raising Our Voices Begins
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”
Original images no longer available. [Image, top: taglines and artwork from the 2019 Speak Good English Movement, “Let’s connect. Let’s speak good English.” Image, bottom:… 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!
[Original photos no longer available. Image: Author with students and community partners at course event] By Lynnette Arnold At the start of every semester, I… Read More »“Teaching to Advance Social Justice”
Please review the updated submission information here for the most current information about the SLA 2020 conference. Submission information The submission portal is now open. Abstracts are due… Read More »Updated Information Re. SLA 2020 Conference
Announcing the 2020 Spring Conference of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology “Future Imperfect: Language in Times of Crisis and Hope” April 2-5, 2020, Boulder, Colorado… Read More »Call for Papers: SLA 2020 Spring Conference
Instructor/Creator: Stephanie Lindemann Institution/Campus/Department: Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University Course: AL8470 – Sociolinguistics Subject(s): Sociolinguistics Topic(s): Code Communities, Disadvantage, Discrimination, Ethnography, Gender, Language Planning, Language Variation, Language Variation and Change, Language Varieties, Linguistic Relativism;, Sociolinguistics and Education, Solidarity and Politeness, Speech Communities, Talk… Read More »AL8470 – Sociolinguistics
Instructor/Creator: Dylan Clark Institution/Campus/Department: Anthropology, University of Toronto Course: ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Subject(s): Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Topic(s): Class and ethnicity, Gender, language endangerment, language in social action, language revitalization, multi-racial… Read More »ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
By Adeli Block I have found that scholars and non-scholars alike still continue to refer to the indigenous peoples and languages of North Africa as… Read More »“Respecting Identity: Amazigh Versus Berber”
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: When Should You Contact an Editor about Whether Reviews are In?
By Steven Black Working at the intersection of anthropological subfields often involves thinking laterally, connecting parallel threads of scholarship in distinct subdisciplines. For me, these… Read More »“Transposition Across Subfields”
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: Press Editor or Series Editor — What’s the Difference?
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is pleased to announce its second spring conference, to be held April 2-5, 2020 at the Hiltons on Canyon in Boulder, Colorado. SLA 2020… Read More »2020 Spring Conference of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Above photo: Interview with Former Headmaster of Boro School, 2018. Fieldwork for Archive for Northeast Indian Languages. By Christina Wasson The United Nations declared 2019 the… Read More »“Creating Online Resources for Language Revitalization”
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Award Deadline: October 1, 2019 for conferences in 2020 SLA announces an initiative to fund conference… Read More »SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Award
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: Previously Published Articles as Book Chapters
By Coleman Donaldson Linguistic anthropologists pass hours transcribing and translating recordings of public and not-so-public figures from across the world. We do so, in… Read More »“Making Transcripts Public in Manding”
Ask an Editor Ilana Gershon May 23, 2019 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press… Read More »Ask an Editor: The Pros and Cons of Advance Contracts
By Sarah Benor I teach a freshman seminar at the University of Southern California called “Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today.” Students… Read More »“Students’ open letters to Disney”
—- The Program in Linguistics at Emory University is now accepting applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics, starting August 2019. PhD in… Read More »Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: What Should You Ask an Editor
Initiating Contact Ask an Editor Ilana Gershon February 24, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five… Read More »Ask an Editor: When Should You First Contact an Editor
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019, Reminder
IMAGE CREDIT: JAMES PROVOST (CC BY-ND) Kids in the middle: Recognizing the important role of children as cultural translators By Kendall Powell, Knowable Magazine Linguistic anthropologist… Read More »Kids in the Middle, Q&A with Inmaculada García-Sánchez
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: Good Questions?
Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest Deadline: June 24, 2019 Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! Do you have a stellar research paper that… Read More »Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
[Photo Credit: Mike Lovett/Brandeis University] by Michael Prentice In my fall course, “Language in American Life,” we explored a range of topics focusing on linguistic… Read More »“Comedy in the Archives”
SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations The submission deadline is October 1, 2019. Created and awarded for the first time… Read More »Call for Nominations! SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2019 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2019
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: Dissertations versus Books
The Anthropology program at Western Illinois University is offering an online B.A. degree in Anthropology. They are a faculty-led program and one of the first… Read More »New Online BA Program in Anthropology: Western Illinois University!
