Dear SLA Colleagues, Greetings! We are writing to encourage you to consider nominating yourself for the open SLA position of Secretary-Treasurer in the 2020 AAA elections. If you are… Read More »Urgent! SLA Secretary Treasurer Nominations!
Dear All, Please check out this video composed by the devoted undergraduate marketing team at U.C. Boulder to promote the SLA 2020 Spring Conference! promotional video
By Chu May Paing I dream about the day when I am no longer praised for my “well-articulated” thoughts. The week before the Reading Week… Read More »“Subtitled Dreams”
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 award,… Read More »Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2020 Undergraduate Essay Contest
Deadline: February 1, 2020 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces the John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition. Each year the Society for… Read More »2020 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize
Please be advised that the deadline for the SLA 2020 Spring conference has been pushed back from December 2nd, to December 16th. See the updated information on… Read More »SLA 2020 Abstract Submission Deadline Pushed Back!
Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today GESM 130g – Seminar in Social Analysis – 35427R University of Southern California Hebrew Union College… Read More »Syllabus: Language, Race, and Identity in the United States Today
Link to Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/opinion/words-and-power/
Book information from Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that… Read More »When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam Hodges (SUP, 2019)
Co-Construcing Meaning in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia. A video produced by National Center for Neurogenic communication Disorders Telerounds. February 28, 1996 in… Read More »Charles Goodwin – Co-constructing meaning in conversations with a man with severe aphasia
Please click the link below to see a complete list of SLA panels at this year’s AAA/CASCAA Meetings in Vancouver: SLA panels at 2019 AAA/CASCAA… Read More »SLA Panels at AAA/CASCAA in Vancouver!
Author with students and community partners at course event By Lynnette Arnold At the start of every semester, I find myself pondering again the significance… Read More »“Teaching to Advance Social Justice”
Please review the updated submission information here for the most current information about the SLA 2020 conference. Submission information The submission portal is now open. Abstracts are due… Read More »Updated Information Re. SLA 2020 Conference
Announcing the 2020 Spring Conference of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology “Future Imperfect: Language in Times of Crisis and Hope” April 2-5, 2020, Boulder, Colorado… Read More »Call for Papers: SLA 2020 Spring Conference
Instructor/Creator: Stephanie Lindemann Institution/Campus/Department: Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University Course: AL8470 – Sociolinguistics Subject(s): Sociolinguistics Topic(s): Code Communities, Disadvantage, Discrimination, Ethnography, Gender, Language Planning, Language Variation, Language Variation and Change, Language Varieties, Linguistic Relativism;, Sociolinguistics and Education, Solidarity and Politeness, Speech Communities, Talk… Read More »AL8470 – Sociolinguistics
Instructor/Creator: Dylan Clark Institution/Campus/Department: Anthropology, University of Toronto Course: ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Subject(s): Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Topic(s): Class and ethnicity, Gender, language endangerment, language in social action, language revitalization, multi-racial… Read More »ANT206Y5 – Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
By Adeli Block I have found that scholars and non-scholars alike still continue to refer to the indigenous peoples and languages of North Africa as… Read More »“Respecting Identity: Amazigh Versus Berber”
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: When Should You Contact an Editor about Whether Reviews are In?
By Steven Black Working at the intersection of anthropological subfields often involves thinking laterally, connecting parallel threads of scholarship in distinct subdisciplines. For me, these… Read More »“Transposition Across Subfields”
Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors (Berghahn, Chicago, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford) and two… Read More »Ask an Editor: Press Editor or Series Editor — What’s the Difference?