American Anthropological Association 2013 Annual Meeting
A table of language-related panels and activities at the American Anthropological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting
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SLA Presidential Conversation
SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY PRESIDENTIAL CONVERSATION ON LANGUAGE AND MOBILITY: RETHINKING THE POPULATIONS, PRACTICES, AND PLACES OF “MIGRATION” Friday, November 22, 2013 12:15pm to 1:30pm… Read More »SLA Presidential Conversation
2013 SLA Student Essay Competitions Results
Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2013 Graduate Student Essay Competition 2 Winners: Elise Kramer (University of Chicago) ”Speaking for the Voiceless: Metaphors of Power and Agency… Read More »2013 SLA Student Essay Competitions Results
New SLA Anthropology News Column
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s column in Anthropology News has been updated with an article by Christopher Ball, Alejandro Paz, and Michael Silverstein, entitled, “Teleologies of… Read More »New SLA Anthropology News Column
Evolution and ‘lies to children’
Why am I uncomfortable with talk of evolution in the news? Maybe I’m hearing echoes of Herbert Spencer. A brief exploration of Terry Gross and… Read More »Evolution and ‘lies to children’
WCAA Webinar: “Language and anthropological knowledge”
The Committee on World Anthropologies of the American Anthropological Association announces a web-based seminar from the World Council of Anthropology Associations, “Language and anthropological knowledge”,… Read More »WCAA Webinar: “Language and anthropological knowledge”
Newest issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology available online
August 2013 Volume 23, Issue 2 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jola.2013.23.issue-2/issuetoc Table of Contents: Articles Thoroughly Mixed Yet Thoroughly Ethnic: Indexing Class with Ethnonyms (pages E1–E22) Andrea L.… Read More »Newest issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology available online
SLA Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the recent SLA elections. Bonnie Urciuoli was voted President-Elect, a two year term after which she will serve two… Read More »SLA Election Results
Applying to graduate school: Letters of recommendation
Recommendations for seeking letters of recommendation to graduate school from Judy Pine, Paul Garrett, Margaret Buckner, Oona Schmid, and Shannon Bischoff
Top 100 AAA Journal Articles ungated for summer
From the American Anthropological Association blog we learn that the 100 articles most downloaded from Anthrosource during 2012 will be ungated for the summer. Anyone… Read More »Top 100 AAA Journal Articles ungated for summer
SLA Undergraduate Contest Announcement
(Via Jillian Cavaugh) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of undergraduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest. The… Read More »SLA Undergraduate Contest Announcement
Shifting your deictic center
In this guest post Anna Marie Trester, Director of the MA in Language and Communication (MLC) at Georgetown University, explains how the linguistic theory of… Read More »Shifting your deictic center
AAA Elections 2013
Elections for American Anthropological Association positions, including President-Elect, Executive Board members, and several committee positions, as well as elections for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology… Read More »AAA Elections 2013
CFP: The Struggle Over Text and Context in the Healthcare Industry: Where Is Anthropological Insight
Via Lissie Wahl-Kleiser: Lissie Wahl-Kleiser, Seth D. Hannah, Michael T. Nathan Contextualization is sine que non for anthropological interpretation. Applied industries, in contrast, favor literal interpretation… Read More »CFP: The Struggle Over Text and Context in the Healthcare Industry: Where Is Anthropological Insight
Submissions Open Sapir Book Prize 2013
Submissions are now open for the 2013 edition of the Sapir Prize. Deadline: May 1, 2013.
Calls for papers: AAA 2013 panels
Members of SLA and AAA are issuing calls for papers to join panels for the AAA annual meeting via linguistic anthropology email list LINGANTH. Links… Read More »Calls for papers: AAA 2013 panels
Field language competence article
‘On communicative competence…in the field‘ is a short ‘confessional’ article I wrote about the research challenges posed by limited field language competence and the development… Read More »Field language competence article
SLA Graduate Student Research Paper Competition (March 11)
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of graduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Prize. Papers should be submitted… Read More »SLA Graduate Student Research Paper Competition (March 11)
SLA Submissions for AAA (March 15)
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, which will be held this year in Chicago,… Read More »SLA Submissions for AAA (March 15)
M.A. Program in Linguistic Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
M.A. PROGRAM IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY Flagstaff, Arizona The Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University offers one of the country’s best anthropology MA… Read More »M.A. Program in Linguistic Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
Open Subfield Positions: UCLA Department of Anthropology
Over the next one to two years, the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks to hire two anthropologists for… Read More »Open Subfield Positions: UCLA Department of Anthropology
Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion despite questionable examples
Gabriel Arana recently published a defense of creaky voice at The Atlantic. He notes that recent criticism of young women’s use of creaky voice, or… Read More »Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion despite questionable examples
Mock Spanish in Skippyjon Jones
The widely read Skippyjon Jones series of children’s picture books (Schachner 2003) presents Mock Spanish to the preschool set. Lots of material available on the… Read More »Mock Spanish in Skippyjon Jones
Where have all the numbers gone? (Or 1 + 99 = 53 + 47)
In 2011 the American Dialect Society listed ‘the 99%’ among its Words of the Year. In 2012 ‘47%’ became the new politically-charged number. These numbers… Read More »Where have all the numbers gone? (Or 1 + 99 = 53 + 47)
SKILLS: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society website
SKILLS (School Kids Investigating Lg in Life and Society) is a project spearheaded by Mary Bucholtz and Jin Sook Lee. They have developed a curriculum to… Read More »SKILLS: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society website
Why preschool hasn’t saved the world
Radio programs have recently celebrated a “new understanding” of the importance of preschool for success later in life. Related knowledge has been part of academic… Read More »Why preschool hasn’t saved the world
Student Essay Contest Winners (2012)
Undergraduate prize winner: Kamala Russell from the University of Chicago, with a paper entitled, Form and function: Character Viewpoint Gestures in Dialogic Narrative.
Graduate prize… Read More »Student Essay Contest Winners (2012)
The i-word
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/linguists-york-times-illegal-neutral-accurate/story?id=17366512&singlePage=true#.UHfgZW_A9vs Accessed Oct 11, 2012 Linguists Tell New York Times That ‘Illegal’ Is Neither ‘Neutral’ nor ‘Accurate’ By CRISTINA COSTANTINI Oct. 1, 2012 José Manuel… Read More »The i-word
American Anthropological Association 2012 Annual Meeting
A preliminary schedule for the American Anthropological Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting has been released. This schedule includes more that 50 linguistic and language-related panel sessions.
AAA Ethics Grant
Applications for AAA Committee on Ethics small grants for ethics curricular materials are due 2 November 2012. A grant of between $200 and $1,000 is… Read More »AAA Ethics Grant
Danish media reactions to Journal of Linguistic Anthropology paper
In this guest post Martha Sif Karrebæk relates how her Journal of Linguistic Anthropology paper, “What’s in your lunchbox today?”, became a topic of discussion… Read More »Danish media reactions to Journal of Linguistic Anthropology paper
AAA Leadership Nominations extended to 10 October
The AAA Nominations Committee is seeking nominations for open positions on the 2013 AAA ballot. The deadline for nominations in Monday 1 October 2012.
Ladies, Gentlemen, and English usage
Recently I have been re-reading James Thurber’s “Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Guide to English Usage”, a parody of Henry Watson Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage.… Read More »Ladies, Gentlemen, and English usage
Variation in inflectional morphology
“Variable or non-standard realizations of inflectional morphology in English” sounds rather dry and academic, but the placement of suffixes within compound words or phrases can… Read More »Variation in inflectional morphology
AAA Workshops for Graduate Student SLA and AES Memebrs
Dear Graduate Students, This year, the American Ethnological Society (AES) is sponsoring three faculty-students workshops to provide an intimate environment for discussing issues important to… Read More »AAA Workshops for Graduate Student SLA and AES Memebrs
Is “women and children” an outdated cliche?
The phrase, “women and children” to mean non-combatants killed by war strikes me as somewhat outdated. Non-combatants are not necessarily women or children, and women… Read More »Is “women and children” an outdated cliche?
Syrian Jewish Mexicans and the Language of Everyday Orientalism
Ethnic distinctions are drawn among specific Jewish sub-communities in Mexico City. Ashkenazi, Sefaradi, and non-Jews tend to evaluate Syrian Jews negatively. This negative evaluation (implicit… Read More »Syrian Jewish Mexicans and the Language of Everyday Orientalism
Late Submissions, Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
Due to a discrepancy in posted dates, submissions for the undergraduate student essay contest will be accepted until July 15.
Another possible definition of “socialist”
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer says conservative Evangelical Christians view President Obama as “the avatar of godless socialism”. Do American Christian conservatives use ‘socialist’ to… Read More »Another possible definition of “socialist”
The birth of a shibboleth
Record fans insist that the plural of ‘vinyl’ to mean “a vinyl record” is the zero-plural ‘vinyl’. This irregular form serves as a shibboleth for… Read More »The birth of a shibboleth
Can analysis of discrimination help overcome fear?
Chad Nilep reflects on work with Akiyo Cantrell to analyze reports from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and its aftermath. Evacuees from Fukushima… Read More »Can analysis of discrimination help overcome fear?
Digital ethnography of linguistic multitasking in World of Warcraft
Lauren Collister, a Ph.D. candidate in sociolinguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, describes how digital ethnography deepened her understanding of multimodal communication within a team… Read More »Digital ethnography of linguistic multitasking in World of Warcraft
Films to show in class
Here are some films that people on the linganth list have mentioned as good to show in class: Mickey Mouse Monopoly (good with Lippi-Green): http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=112 Multilingual… Read More »Films to show in class
Jimmy Smits SNL skit
This is the famous Jimmy Smits SNL skit that Jane Hill talks about in her discussion of Mock Spanish. https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/05/
Sophmoric application of readability tests
NPR’s Morning Edition and the Sunlight Foundation suggest that congressional speech-making is becoming less sophisticated. The presentation appears to validate conventional wisdom that American politics… Read More »Sophmoric application of readability tests
Call for workshops at 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute
The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute is currently soliciting proposals for workshops and conferences. If you’ve been thinking about a workshop you’d like to create, this… Read More »Call for workshops at 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute
SLA Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
On behalf of the SLA Executive Committee, I invite you to participate in this year’s Society for Linguistic Anthropology student essay prize competition for the… Read More »SLA Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
Linguistic profiling
This HUD video on housing discrimination shows a White man taking on various accents when making phone calls to ask about apts for rent. Useful… Read More »Linguistic profiling
Language and character in Disney movies
Many of the clips in the 2001 film Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood, and Corporate Power are useful for pairing with Lippi Green http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=112… Read More »Language and character in Disney movies
Steve Harvey’s white voice
Black Comedian Steve Harvey compares white and black communication styles. He imitates a white man’s voice at 2:35-4:13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICsHscXzXw0 (2:35-4:13) [Video no longer available due… Read More »Steve Harvey’s white voice