New SLA Blog!
ANNOUNCEMENT: SLA Blog! At the 2018 AAA meeting, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Board decided to open a space on SLA’s website to begin a… Read More »New SLA Blog!
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Jurafsky: The Language of Food
Press coverage of Dan Jurafsky’s The Language of Food exposes readers to linguistic ideas ranging from etymology and vocabulary to pragmatics, the philosophy of language,… Read More »Jurafsky: The Language of Food
“Selling the Language Gap” in Anthropology News
Susan Blum and Kathleen Riley offer a critical evaluation of programs designed to close the “language gap” between disadvantaged and middle-class children at Anthropology News.
“Club G’itmo” and semiotic status claims. Anthropology News
Linguistic anthropologist Robin Shoaps examines how American conservatives outside of media punditry engage with the American Right’s claims of embattled minority status in this month’s… Read More »“Club G’itmo” and semiotic status claims. Anthropology News
Evolution and ‘lies to children’
Why am I uncomfortable with talk of evolution in the news? Maybe I’m hearing echoes of Herbert Spencer. A brief exploration of Terry Gross and… Read More »Evolution and ‘lies to children’
Wikipedia and the Academy
Barbara Johnstone (2011) “Making Pittsburghese” and Timothy Messer-Kruse (2012) “The ‘undue weight’ of truth on Wikipedia” present very different views of scholar’s experiences with Wikipedia.… Read More »Wikipedia and the Academy
Developing Expertise
By Mark Allen Peterson (MiamiU) Journalist Alix Spiegel’s feature story “When Did We Become Mentally Modern?” on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered in August… Read More »Developing Expertise