The upcoming SLA Boulder 2022 conference (Apr. 7-9) will have 450+ presentations taking place in-person and on Gather. You won’t want to miss it! Today… Read More »SLA Boulder 2022- Important Deadlines Today! (Mon. Feb. 14)
[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”
Today marks the one-week countdown to the SLA 2022 Updates and New Submissions deadline of Monday, February 14. Please join our keynotes Letícia Cesarino, Michel DeGraff, Angela Reyes, and Virginia Zavala in Boulder on April 7-9 and/or… Read More »One-Week Countdown for SLA 2022 Updates & Submissions (due Feb. 14)
Dear SLA 2022 attendees and potential attendees, We’re excited to let you know that the virtual track of SLA 2022 will be hosted in Gather.town.… Read More »SLA 2022 Virtual Track Email Announcement
SLA 2022, to be held in Boulder, Colorado on April 7-9, is now accepting new submissions for panels, roundtables, workshops, papers, and posters at the New… Read More »New Submissions for Spring 2022 SLA Boulder Conference (due Feb. 14)
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces the John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition. Each year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology confers an… Read More »SLA 2022 John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize
Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper. The selected winner will be given a cash… Read More »SLA Undergraduate Essay Contest
Congratulations to 2021 Awardees (2021 Prizes & Awards) Congratulations to 2021 awardees for the New Voices Book Prize, Edward Sapir Book Prize, Public Outreach and… Read More »Congratulations to 2021 Awardees & Welcome to New Incoming Officers!
In addition to curating the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Facebook page, I have my own account for connecting with friends. Recently I’ve seen several posts… Read More »Presupposition and “Occupy facebook with art”
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
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
The submission deadline is October 1, 2021. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA member or members… Read More »SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations
In January 2020, a team of language researchers at the Ohio State University (OSU) won a grant to start offering popular science demonstrations in Spanish through the Language… Read More »Language Science, Pandemic Edition
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
The Language and Social Justice committee of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) condemns all violent attacks and discrimination against Asian Americans, Asians, and Pacific… Read More »LSJ Statement on Anti-Asian Discrimination
2021 SLA Meeting Moved to Spring 2022 One More Postponement Dear members and friends of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, I am writing in my capacity as… Read More »Postponement of SLA Conference
(Note: This email is sent on behalf of the SLA Program Chair, Sarah Shulist, at s.shulist@queensu.ca. Please direct all questions and concerns about AAA 2021 directly to her.)… Read More »AAA 2021: Calls for SLA proposals
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2021 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces two book prize competitions in 2021. Books must have been published between January 2018 and December… Read More »SLA Book Prizes 2021: Edward Sapir Book Prize, New Voices Book Prize
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
Mass migration, displacement, economic pressures, and conflict will continue to involve large numbers of people crossing borders at a variety of scales. At the same time,… Read More »New Book Announcement! Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions, by Wortham, Nichols, Clonan-Roy & Rhodes