On August 12, AAA announced the 2026 award recipients. Two recipients, Alejandro Ivan Paz and Michael Min-Torresday, are SLA members! Awards will be presented to… Read More »SLA Members Awarded by AAA for Work Advancing the Field of Anthropology
The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is… Read More »Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology – Deadline October 15, 2026
There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self What happens when the tools designed to protect research participants end up… Read More »There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self
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
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for four positions this fall. We encourage you to consider nominating yourself or another member. Each position has a three-year… Read More »SLA Call for Nominations
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
An SLA Online Conversation Friday, April 4, 2025 12pm to 1:30pm Central Time (UTC-6) Register for the Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/slaonline2 This online panel gathers… Read More »What I Wish I Knew Then… Reflections on Building a Career in Linguistic Anthropology
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
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
Please join the Society for Linguistic Anthropology for this important conversation, the first installment of its SLA Online programming. What Does Free Speech Discourse Do?… Read More »What Does Free Speech Discourse Do? An SLA Online Discussion
We’re just under a month from the submission deadline for proposals to the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s 2025 Conference: Imagination, Creation, Critique. As you work to… Read More »SLA Conference 2025: Panel Matchmaker Forum, Program Committee Office Hours, and more
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31,… Read More »2025 SLA Conference!
Check out the Demystifying Language Project’s (DLP) new site for high school teachers, students, and academics: https://demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/ This week features a great article, “Speech or Silence,”… Read More »Demystifying Language Project
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
May 29–31, 2025 | The University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago What does it mean to imagine today? The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites… Read More »Announcing the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference: Imagination, Creation, Critique
The 3rd Biennial Society of Linguistic Anthropology Conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025, at the University of Chicago/Hyde Park. Watch out for a… Read More »Save the Date: 3rd Biennial SLA Conference (2025)