Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025
Marvin Sterling Prof. Marcy Morgan was co-chair of my MA and PhD committees in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. My MA thesis explored the… Read More »Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025
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They don’t see a problem, we don’t see the desire for connection: Indifference to language loss in Papua New Guinea and its challenge for research
-Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick How could language endangerment, which many scholars see as an alarming problem, be largely invisible to the people whose… Read More »They don’t see a problem, we don’t see the desire for connection: Indifference to language loss in Papua New Guinea and its challenge for research
A Navajo Poetry of Place
-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names… Read More »A Navajo Poetry of Place
“Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression
-Danny Begg Tik Toks, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram reels are all examples of short-form video content that is ubiquitous across social media. The term “doomscrolling”… Read More »“Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression
Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI
-Joseph Wilson The following is an (lightly edited) excerpt from Joseph Wilson’s forthcoming book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines to be… Read More »Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI
Introduction: In/Visibility in Linguistic Anthropology
-Sarah Muir & Courtney Handman Four times a year, Anthropology News puts out calls for submissions on a particular theme. The current theme of “in/visibility”… Read More »Introduction: In/Visibility in Linguistic Anthropology
Trump 2.0, reader submissions
More scholars of language on Trump and Trumpism Send us yours to be added! Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump Jan… Read More »Trump 2.0, reader submissions
A Reading List for Trump 2.0
For those interested in what linguistic anthropology can tell us about Trump and Trumpism, SLA digital media recommends: On Trump himself: Janet McIntosh and Norma… Read More »A Reading List for Trump 2.0
Researching the Right in the Era of Hurricane Truthers
Margaret Rex, University of Buffalo In the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere. The tamest of these theories assert… Read More »Researching the Right in the Era of Hurricane Truthers
Summer Reading
Recommendations from the Media Team: Alim, H.S. (2023). Inventing “the White voice”: Racial capitalism, raciolinguistics & culturally sustaining pedagogies. Daedalus,152(3), 147–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_02023 Arnold, L. (2024). National heroes… Read More »Summer Reading
Talking Politics 2023: Conversations and Public Pedagogies Beyond the Webinar
Joshua Babcock, Maureen Kosse, and Wee Yang Soh During the spring of 2023, students and early-career scholars at the University of Chicago and the University… Read More »Talking Politics 2023: Conversations and Public Pedagogies Beyond the Webinar
Gender Gaga vs Normal German: language, gender and education in Switzerland
On the streets of Liestal in Switzerland, a former elementary school teacher gathers signatures to launch a cantonal initiative to teach “clear, linguistically correct, understandable… Read More »Gender Gaga vs Normal German: language, gender and education in Switzerland
The “both-and,” non-binary semiotics of intersectionality
Joshua Babcock and Jay Ke-Schutte In two recent special issues in Signs and Society and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, we outlined how we see… Read More »The “both-and,” non-binary semiotics of intersectionality
Linguistic Anthropology in Collaboration Across the Global North and South
Among the four primary subfields of American anthropology, linguistic anthropology is arguably the least widely recognized and practiced globally (even as it overlaps in significant… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology in Collaboration Across the Global North and South
Strengthening Social Justice Pedagogies: Creating Space(s) for Dialogue
Lynnette Arnold and Anna Corwin Lynnette Arnold is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She has served… Read More »Strengthening Social Justice Pedagogies: Creating Space(s) for Dialogue
Book Excerpt: “Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta”
[This is an excerpt from Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta which won the SLA New Voices 2021 Book Prize] This book is… Read More »Book Excerpt: “Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta”
An Unconventional Plan
By Eva Rothenberg One of the first ambitious proposals put forth by the Biden administration has caused a linguistic schism between Democrats and Republicans, the… Read More »An Unconventional Plan
Creative Contributions: Undergraduates apply linguistic anthropological insights beyond the classroom
Catherine R. Rhodes In my recent upper-division, undergraduate course, Language and Culture, most students were unfamiliar with linguistic anthropology, with what linguistic anthropologists do, and the… Read More »Creative Contributions: Undergraduates apply linguistic anthropological insights beyond the classroom
Gender Comes to Germany
Colin Halverson, PhD In 2017, Katrin Göring-Eckhardt, a Green Party member of the German federal parliament, addressed an audience of children as “Liebe Kinderinnen und… Read More »Gender Comes to Germany
“Deaf Community Deserves Greater Access to Medical Information during Covid-19”
Above photo: Image of the American Sign Language sign for ‘Interpreter’”. https://www.ai-ada.com/language-access-professionals/sign-language-interpreters/ By Claire Cummings One click. The news pops up on your TV and you… Read More »“Deaf Community Deserves Greater Access to Medical Information during Covid-19”