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 a logo that we can use as an avatar in diverse social media contexts (Twitter and Facebook, especially). To that end we are having a logo design competition, open to [...]
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Tell us about your program!
One of the new website features we are very excited about is the new Program Directory. We hope this will become the most reliable place on the internet to learn about colleges, graduate schools and summer programs offering courses in linguistic anthropology. But this directory won’t build itself! If you teach or study linguistic anthropology, [...]
Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2010)
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded in alternate years to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. The SLA invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as [...]
AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions
AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions
Basic Color Terms + Gender Stereotypes
This is the perfect cartoon for anyone who is teaching both Deborah Cameron and Berlin and Kay in the same class:
Study the life and culture of the Highland Maya (Deadline: March 26, 2010)
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. mhutcheson@vcu.edu
Program cost: $2,380 (includes roundtrip airfare) plus applicable VCU tuition[1]
Based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this six-week program will provide students with a comprehensive overview of Mayan indigenous life in Guatemala, past and present, including opportunities [...]
CFP Volunteer Session AAA 2010: “Circulate-able” Selves
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, 2010.
Toyota and Japanese orthography
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 more auspicious number. This is strange for at least two reasons.
It turns out that BBC News contributor Kathryn Westcott published an article last week addressing the question, “Why is the car giant Toyota not Toyoda?” which does a pretty good job explaining the apparent inconsistency.
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