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
How do I tell my health care provider about a pain that I can’t name? How are symptoms experienced when they emerge from a part… Read More »AN News: “(Not) Talking about Unmentionable Symptoms” by Christine Labuski (Virginia Tech)
Recently Elise Berman asked colleagues via the LINGANTH email list to recommend recent ethnographies of language and culture. Several people responded; some titles and links… Read More »Ethnographies of Language and Gender
See below for a list of recent ethnographies on language and gender, which will appeal to educators and students of anthropology, particularly at the undergraduate level, as well… Read More »Ethnographies of Language and Gender: Resources for Teaching Undergraduate Anthropology
The Fresh Air interview of David Thorpe and Susan Sankin makes me look forward to Thorpe’s film, “Do I Sound Gay?” But Sankin’s suggestions that… Read More »(Socio-) Phonetics in the news
On behalf of William Leap (American University), Co-editor, Journal of Language and Sexuality: The Journal of Language and Sexuality (www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls) is now in its fifth year of publication. JL&S explores… Read More »The Journal of Language & Sexuality
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
The phrase, “women and children” to mean non-combatants killed by war strikes me as somewhat outdated. Non-combatants are not necessarily women or children, and women… Read More »Is “women and children” an outdated cliche?
In “Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo” Hideko Abe shows how identity positions are constructed and claimed through language use. One passage, which shows how… Read More »“Ordinary” language use
This is the first of columns listing links in the news connected to language. These links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Society… Read More »Language Links #1
I currently have the privilege of TAing Intro to linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto and in the previous weeks the students read and… Read More »Piecemeal Comments on Language and Gender (or PCs)
P. Kerim Friedman, NDHU In her now classic 1989 paper on language and political economy, Judith Irvine talked about situations where language doesn’t merely index… Read More »Your own private griot