SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations The submission deadline is October 1, 2018. Created and awarded for the first time by… Read More »Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is… Read More »Journal of Linguistic Anthropology seeking Editor-in-Chief
May 2, 2018 Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors of books commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago,… Read More »Editors Edit
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Susan Hill April 2, 2018 In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary shortlisted the noun-turned-verb-turned-gerund “adulting” for its Word of the Year designation. Oxford defined adulting as “the… Read More »#Adulting and the Disordered State of American Adulthood
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Alexandra Jaffe March 7, 2018 Kit Woolard received the 2017 Edward Sapir Book Prize for Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority… Read More »Reflections on Kit Woolard’s Singular and Plural
Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the wider professional community of linguistic… Read More »SLA Annual Undergraduate Student Essay Contest 2018
The inaugural SLA spring meeting is less than two weeks away. To read about the meeting, information for presenters, and the schedule of presentations, please… Read More »SLA Spring Meeting Information
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces The 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Deadline: Wednesday March 21, 2018 The Society for Linguistic… Read More »2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition
Was #MeToo washed away in baptismal waters? Jon Bialecki January 26, 2018 There is a clip that has been circulating through both conventional broadcast and cable news… Read More »The Highpoint Church Standing Ovation
Lessons from Charlottesville Since the violent events that took place in Charlottesville, VA, this past August, when a white supremacist rally led to the killing… Read More »AN column: “Free Speech” in Times of Conflict by Lise M. Dobrin and Eve Danziger
Puerto Rican Aftermath Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Puerto Rico is a colony. The tensions encompassed by these two facts were extremely clear in the… Read More »AN column: The Storm after Maria by Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Please see the following for an end-of-year index of Adam Hodges’s Trumped Up Words columns on the Anthropology News website. Adam assures us there are more… Read More »Adam Hodges’s 2017 “Trumped Up Words” columns
Society for Linguistic Anthropology Ilana Gershon and Susan Lepselter January 19, 2018 Susan Lepselter won the 2017 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, The Resonance… Read More »Susan Lepselter on Winning the Bateson Book Prize
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
This year’s recipient for the Edward Sapir Book Prize, awarded at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Washington D.C., was Kathryn Woolard. She received the… Read More »2017 Sapir Book Prize Winners Announced
This year’s recipients for the New Millennium Book Award, given by the Society of Medical Anthropology, were Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs. They received the… Read More »Charles Briggs Receives Society of Medical Anthropology Book Award
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is pleased to announce, through a very generous gift from Jenny Cook-Gumperz, the establishment of an endowment fund in honor… Read More »SLA Endowment for John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize
Stavroula Pipyrou November 21, 2017 In 1999, the implementation of act no. 482 finally created the opportunity to link linguistic minorities in Italy directly with… Read More »Endangered minorities and linguistic pluralism in Italy
Shalini Shankar October 18, 2017 The latest rendition of “sorry, not sorry” is not just topping the Billboard charts. It is also a public relations… Read More »Here’s the Rub on the Dove Skincare Ad
The submission deadline HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 15, 2017. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA… Read More »SLA Public Outreach Award Deadline Extension to 10/15