Compiled by Lynnette Arnold from recommendations on LingAnth listserv Oct 2021 -Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce,… Read More »Recommended Readings Methods for Online Research in Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic anthropologists are accustomed to exploring the way speakers create structures of relevance that provide directionality to social activity. Could we also say the same… Read More »AN News: “Anthropological Listening as a Genre” by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas (UC Berkeley)
Anthropology News Article One of the perks offered to faculty at Nazarbayev University is a free campus apartment. When I was hired last year, I… Read More »AN News: “Neither Home Nor Field” by Erika Alpert (Nazarbayev University)
A story by Beth McMurtrie in the Chronicle of Higher Education asks what ethical obligations historians have to people they interview. This is, in my opinion, an issue of tremendous importance for linguists, anthropologists, and all scholars who work with human subjects.
‘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
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, but some scholarly publishers have expressed opposition. This post provides a brief summary of the bill and arguments in support and opposition.
This piece does not reflect the official opinion of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, its officers or its individual members. The Linguistic Society of America’s… Read More »Code of ethics for forensic linguistics
An article passed on by Ken Ehrensal from the New York Times on Campbell’s monkeys having grammar. The grammar is pretty simple but looks like… Read More »Monkey Grammar?