Kathryn Woolard, SLA President The question of linguistic relativity is the topic of an August 29, 2010 New York Times magazine article, “You Are What… Read More »Linguistic Relativity, Whorf, Linguistic Anthropology
Comments by Michel DeGraff on responses to his petition on Haitian Kreyòl As it turns out, these responses echo age-old arguments about the (mis)use of… Read More »Michel DeGraff on Haitian Kreyòl
Stanley Fish notes that critics of the so-called ‘Ground Zero mosque’ see the terrorist attacks of September 11 as an act committed by Islam, for… Read More »They are them; we are me and others.
A lengthy excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book examines current evidence for linguistic relativity: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?src=me&ref=homepage
From: Leila Monaghan, University of Wyoming, 8/25/10 Interesting article in the New York Times on changing peer review process on articles. Makes me think about… Read More »Peer Previewing
Repost of an article by H. Samy Alim and Imani Perry originally written for the The Grio blog: http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/why-the-deas-embrace-of-ebonics-is-lost-in-translation.php When the headlines appeared this week… Read More »DEA and Ebonics
Reposted from Celso Alvarez Cáccamo 2010/08/24 at 3:13 am Catalonia’s educational system is one of immersion in Catalan. Catalan- and Spanish-speaking children alike (as well… Read More »Haitian Kreyòl and Catalan
Sometime in the early 17th century in Northern Peru, a Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later,… Read More »Traces of a Lost Language Discovered
Many things happening with SLA members…
Some interesting comments on the education system in general in a New York Times Editorial on Haitian Education These comments were posted in response to… Read More »More on Haitian Kreyòl and the education system
Posted for: Michel DeGraff, MIT Linguistics & Philosophy
Dear friends and colleagues,
We ask that you please take time to read, sign and distribute Professor… Read More »Petition on Haitian Kreyòl
Why I find “geek”, when used as a slur, more offensive than words which may commonly be viewed as quite foul and offensive.
This year’s AAA meetings have the highest number of registrants on record. As one of the student assistants on the Executive Program Committee, the level… Read More »The Making of the AAA Meetings
Rounding Up the Web It seems to be common practice among bloggers, at least among academic ones, to summarize interesting items from recent online texts.… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #10
Short bio for Lindsay Bell, the SLA’s graduate student representative
About the vuvuzela term: first, the suffix -ela is an “applicative” extension in isiZulu. The suffix “ela” means “an action… performed for, on behalf of,… Read More »South African languages
This week’s Roundup comes from the sports department.
Caster Semenya, gender tests, and bodies out of place
Sumo scandal
World Cup woo woo
From Claire Bowern:
Some colleagues at the University of Auckland and I are conducting a survey on North American English and trialling the use of… Read More »North American English Dialect Survey
Taping marriages One of the most frequent uses of linguistic anthropology is to help us understand how people in marriages communicate with each other. Article… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #8
Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP, has apparently upset some Americans with his reference to “the small people.” My first reaction when I heard Svanberg’s… Read More »Idioms are hard
Dear SLA Colleagues, I’m posting this message on behalf of my fellow SLA Executive Committee Member at Large, Jillian Cavanaugh, who is organizing this year’s… Read More »Deadline extended for SLA Annual Student Paper Prizes
Arizona on Our Minds Arizona lawmakers have been on our minds, recently. In Roundup #5, Leila talked about their ban on ethnic studies classes and… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #7
The Arizona Department of Education is asking school districts to remove teachers who speak “heavily accented or ungrammatical” English from classrooms where students are learning… Read More »University of Arizona Department of Linguistics’ letter to state lawmakers
On May 27, AAA President Virginia Dominguez sent a letter to the Census Bureau regarding its language questions and classifications, which you can find through… Read More »Letter to the Census Bureau
In this edition of our bi-weekly Roundup: the satirical journal Speculative Grammarian tackles fieldwork; the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is discussing a resolution condemning Arizona’s new… Read More »Linguistic anthropology roundup #6
All Society for Linguistic Anthropology members and anyone interested in language and culture issues is invited to join the Linganth E-mail list. The Linganth List… Read More »Join the Linganth List!
On behalf of the SLA Executive Committee and the JLA editorship, I’m very pleased to announce the appointment of the incoming JLA editorial team for… Read More »SLA President announces new JLA editors
Fifth linguistic anthropology roundup, by Leila Monaghan
Linguistic diversity has been in the news in the last few weeks in a couple of… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #5
This morning I received two separate emails from Nova Publishers inviting me to contribute to upcoming books.
After several minutes of reflection, I have decided… Read More »Nova Publishers
The word socialism seems to be much in vogue in the United States recently, primarily as an epithet for one’s political opponents, especially for representatives… Read More »Refreshingly careful definitions of “Socialism”
Fourth linguistic anthropology roundup, written by Alex Enkerli
The International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description will be held in July 2010 in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #3
The Boston Globe’s “The Word”, Conversations with Ron Scollon, Monkeys with Internet Access, Voting Osage, and more
In a followup to my post from last week about the language section in the Snopes database of online myths and hoaxes, I’d like to… Read More »Language Related TV Tropes
Oxford and Elsevier offer discounts to SLA members.
Celso Alvarez Caccamo had such an interesting response to my first roundup that I have pasted it in full so anyone seeing the blog will… Read More »Celso Alvarez Caccamo on Catalan Language Policies
A special edition of the Linguistic Anthropology Roundup to introduce, Ben Zimmer, a Chicago-trained linguistic anthropologist, linguist and lexicographer who was just appointed as the… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #2: Our Man at the Times, Ben Zimmer
NPR has a nice profile of the couple which runs Snopes.com. Having long ago convinced most of my contacts to stop forwarding chain e-mails, I… Read More »Language Myths in Your Inbox
Welcome to the inaugural Society for Linguistic Anthropology Roundup Blogpost that will briefly summarize some of the current interesting linguistic anthropology related materials available on… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #1
We got so many interesting paper proposals that we have extended the conference for an extra half day so we could fit them all in.… Read More »Wyoming Language, Culture and History Conference
A piece in Scientific American Mind called “Accents Trump Skin Color” reviews work by Katherine Kinzler and colleagues suggesting that, for young children, accent is… Read More »Accent, Race, and Social Preferences
The perfect cartoon for teaching Deborah Cameron and Berlin and Kay
Ethnographic Field School in Highlan Guatemala 6 undergraduate credits in anthropology May 25–July 8, 2010 (two days on-campus, six weeks abroad) Maury Hutcheson, Ph.D. [email protected]… Read More »Study the life and culture of the Highland Maya (Deadline: March 26, 2010)
CFP Volunteer Session AAA 2010: How We Formulate “Circulate-able” Selves: Introductions as a Social and Political Discourse Genre. Send to Nathaniel Dumas by March 15th,… Read More »CFP Volunteer Session AAA 2010: “Circulate-able” Selves
A radio quiz program suggested that Toyota uses a character written with eight strokes, while Toyoda uses one with ten, and that eight is a… Read More »Toyota and Japanese orthography
In order to form a more perfect Society for Linguistic Anthropology and provide the SLA with a recognizable visual identity, we would like to have… Read More »Logo Contest (Deadline: May 1, 2010)
History traditionally was part of linguistic anthropology but in more recent years much of the focus of the field has been on close analysis of… Read More »CFP AAA: Circulating Discourses of Past and Present: Linguistic Anthropology and History
I know very little about adoption practices in Haiti, and all I know about events in that country since the earthquake last January I have… Read More »An orphan by any other name…?
AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions
It’s that time of year again: The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting, to be… Read More »SLA Call for Invited Sessions