-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
Rajvir Rai, UCSB This case study examines language education at the University Basic School (UBS) in Accra, Ghana. A linguistic anthropological perspective is used to address… Read More »GLOBALIZING LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND PRESERVING MOTHER TONGUE: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BASIC SCHOOL
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)
Recommendations from the Media Team: Alim, H.S. (2023). Inventing “the White voice”: Racial capitalism, raciolinguistics & culturally sustaining pedagogies. Daedalus,152(3), 147–166. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_02023 Arnold, L. (2024). National heroes… Read More »Summer Reading
Joshua Babcock, Maureen Kosse, and Wee Yang Soh During the spring of 2023, students and early-career scholars at the University of Chicago and the University… Read More »Talking Politics 2023: Conversations and Public Pedagogies Beyond the Webinar
On the streets of Liestal in Switzerland, a former elementary school teacher gathers signatures to launch a cantonal initiative to teach “clear, linguistically correct, understandable… Read More »Gender Gaga vs Normal German: language, gender and education in Switzerland
Joshua Babcock and Jay Ke-Schutte In two recent special issues in Signs and Society and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, we outlined how we see… Read More »The “both-and,” non-binary semiotics of intersectionality