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SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service The submission deadline is October 15, 2016. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014,… Read More »SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
Cuz it ain’t in the dictionary
This morning in my English composition class, composed mainly of Japanese speakers, I came upon another pitfall of relying on “in the dictionary” as a test of acceptability. The verb ‘ruralize’, which rarely appears in books published after 1940, is nevertheless present in bilingual dictionaries.
AN News: “Outreach and Engagement in a Science Museum” by Leslie C. Moore (The Ohio State University) et al.
Anthropology News Column In recent years, several sociolinguists have published accounts of successful integration of Outreach and Engagement into their research and/or teaching, including outreach… Read More »AN News: “Outreach and Engagement in a Science Museum” by Leslie C. Moore (The Ohio State University) et al.
AAA/SLA election reminder
Just a quick reminder to the SLA membership that the AAA election deadline is May 31st. So if you haven’t already voted, please do so… Read More »AAA/SLA election reminder
AN News: “Communicating Bodies: New Juxtapositions of Linguistic and Medical Anthropology” by Charles L. Briggs (U California, Berkeley) and Paja Faudree (Brown U)
Linguistic anthropology and medical anthropology are growth areas of anthropology, yet research across these two fields has been relatively limited. Recently medical and linguistic anthropologists… Read More »AN News: “Communicating Bodies: New Juxtapositions of Linguistic and Medical Anthropology” by Charles L. Briggs (U California, Berkeley) and Paja Faudree (Brown U)
SLA 2016 Undergraduate Essay Contest
Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2016 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest Deadline: June 30, 2016 Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! Do you have a stellar research paper… Read More »SLA 2016 Undergraduate Essay Contest
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology seeking Editor-in-Chief
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 a three year term, beginning September 1, 2016.
Arika Okrent language-related videos
a series of videos on English vocabulary, language origins, and other language and society related topics
Irish accent and Irish language
Saoirse Ronan tries to teach Stephen Colbert to speak English with an Irish accent. Separately, Jim McCloskey discusses the Irish language on The World.
AN News: “Taking Full Accountability (but None of the Blame)” by Aaron Ansell (Virginia Tech)
Last year, in the midst of a campus mobilization led by Black students that rocked the U of Missouri (“Mizzou”), we caught a glimpse of… Read More »AN News: “Taking Full Accountability (but None of the Blame)” by Aaron Ansell (Virginia Tech)
AN News: “Working at the Border of Sister Disciplines” by Anna Babel (The Ohio State University)
Anthropology News Article One of this column’s areas of focus for the upcoming year is interdisciplinarity in linguistic anthropology. We’re excited to have contributions lined… Read More »AN News: “Working at the Border of Sister Disciplines” by Anna Babel (The Ohio State University)
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2016
Submissions are now open for the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize for 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. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2016
AN News: “A Proposal to Initiate a Spring SLA Meeting” by Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
At our recent SLA annual business meeting in Denver, I proposed to the Board and to the membership in attendance that we consider organizing a… Read More »AN News: “A Proposal to Initiate a Spring SLA Meeting” by Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
Guns in America: Simple solutions are not easy
In this opinion article, Chad Nilep suggests that empathy, informed by cultural relativism is necessary to help gun control advocates and foes understand one another’s positions and to work toward solutions to the problems of mass shootings and gun violence in America.
Seth Meyers “Boston Accent Trailer”
This segment from Late Night with Seth Meyers, “Boston Accent Trailer”, parodies Hollywood films set in Boston and their treatment of language. It comments humorously… Read More »Seth Meyers “Boston Accent Trailer”
Oh, pants
If a dog wore pants, would word meaning help us decide what they should look like? Using prototype theory and native speaker judgements, we find no clear, shared definition of the word ‘pants’. The results point to gradient understanding of meaning.
Call for Nominations — Open until February 10, 2016
Dear SLA Colleagues, Greetings! We are writing to encourage you to consider nominating yourself for one of two open SLA positions in the 2016 AAA… Read More »Call for Nominations — Open until February 10, 2016
SLA Graduate Essay Contest 2016
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites submissions of graduate student papers for the 2016 Graduate Student Essay Prize.
Papers should be submitted by the deadline, Friday March 11, 2016.
SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Fund CFP & Application
Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Fund Call for Proposals Deadline: October 1, 2016 for 2017 Conferences SLA announces an initiative to fund conference submissions promoting the… Read More »SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Fund CFP & Application