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Category Archives: SLA

1. Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #12

   Many things happening with SLA members…
2. Introducing Lindsay Bell, Graduate Student Representative

   Short bio for Lindsay Bell, the SLA’s graduate student representative
3. Deadline extended for SLA Annual Student Paper Prizes

   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 SLA Annual Student Paper Prize competition. In the hope of having more submissions and a more competitive field, she is extending the deadline until June 30. She would also like [...]
4. Letter to the Census Bureau

   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 AAA Challenges Questions on US Census and the AAA homepage. The letter was written by the newly constituted SLA Committee on Language and Social Justice, which partners with the AAA [...]
5. Join the Linganth List!

   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 was established in 1994 and has long been the main e-source for information and news in the linguistic anthropology community. You can join by clicking on the link for e-mail [...]
6. Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #4

   Fourth linguistic anthropology roundup, written by Alex Enkerli
7. Publisher Discounts on SLA Website

   Oxford and Elsevier offer discounts to SLA members.
8. Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #1

   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 the web. Three of us, Alex Enkerli (SLA Web Guru), Chad Nilep (a regular blogger on this site), and myself (Leila Monaghan, SLA Digital Content Editor), will share the duties [...]
9. Logo Contest (Deadline: May 1, 2010)

   
   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 anyone involved directly or indirectly with the SLA.

   The deadline for this contest is May 1, 2010, and we will award a prize of $100 for the winning design.
10. AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

    AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions
11. Web Guru Intro: Alex Enkerli

    Now that we’re getting deeper into 2010 and some dust has settled, it might be a good opportunity for me to introduce myself to you.

    My name is Alex Enkerli and I define myself as an “informal ethnographer.” My background is indeed in linguistic anthropology, at least in part, but I’ve been involved in a variety of other ethnographic fields including ethnomusicology and folkloristics.
12. Opening: Editor for Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (Deadline extended to Jan. 25)

    We are now seeking nominations and applications for a new editor (or editorial team) for JLA.
13. 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 [...]
14. Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2009)

    Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize
15. 15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization University of California, Santa Barbara May 14-16, 2009*

    Conference Announcement, Conference Registration Now Open 15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization University of California, Santa Barbara May 14-16, 2009* The annual conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the [...]
16. Student Paper Prizes in Linguistic Anthropology Competitions for both Graduate and Undergraduate Students

    The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces a competition for Outstanding Paper by a Student, one each at both undergraduate and graduate levels.  To be eligible for this award, an applicant must have been either a graduate or undergraduate (in a degree-granting program) when the paper was written, must be the sole author of the paper, [...]
17. AAA 2009: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

    Dear Linguistic Anthropologists, It’s that time of year again:  The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 108th Annual Meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, on December 2-6, 2009.  As this year’s SLA Section Program Editor, I am writing to encourage you to submit invited sessions, volunteered sessions, [...]
18. Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize

    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 [...]
19. Invited session deadline postponed

    Dear Linguistic Anthropologists, The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) has postponed the deadline for invited sessions from Monday, March 3, to Friday, March 7th. We hope that this will enable more of you to get sessions together for submission. The earlier post I sent out regarding the submission process is archived below, in case you missed [...]
20. AAA 2008 Panel Submissions

    Dear Linguistic Anthropologists,

    It’s that time of year again: The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 107th Annual Meeting, to be held in San Francisco, CA, on November
21. Resolution on Language Questions in the US Census

    Proposed by CfHR Task Group on Language and Social Justice Laura R. Graham, Chair, Ana Celia Zentella, Bonnie Uricioli (With assistance from Terry Turner) Whereas: Anthropology as a profession is committed to the promotion and protection of the right of peoples everywhere to the full realization of their humanity, which is to say their capacity [...]
22. Linguistic Anthropology Sessions at the AAA

    List of linguistic anthropology sessions at the 2007 AAA.
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