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Comment on Toyota and Japanese orthography by Arjan

Arjan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:23:48 +0000

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Logo Contest (Deadline: May 1, 2010) – Society for Linguistic Anthropology — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:27:26 +0000

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Scriptocentrism and the Freedom to Think « Disparate — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:57:06 +0000

[...] on) have an elaborate model based on knowledge. Several linguistic anthropologists (including yours truly but also Judith Irvine, Richard Bauman, and Dell Hymes) have a model which gives more than [...]

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:22:41 +0000

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SLA Call for Invited Sessions – Society for Linguistic Anthropology — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:07:37 +0000

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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00:31 +0000

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Comment on A quick overview of sign languages by Leila Monaghan

Leila Monaghan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:20:09 +0000

You are right in that tioedong, thanks for the note. Have added a little on Martha’s Vineyard.

Comment on A quick overview of sign languages by tioedong

tioedong — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:57:00 +0000

wasn’t some of the ASL also influenced by the deaf community in Martha’s vinyard?

Comment on Constructed languages on film by Avatar | Savage Minds

Avatar | Savage Minds — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:54:16 +0000

[...] second issue of interest is that of the Na’vi language the SLA blog has a post about the work which went into creating this langauge. It is also worth repeating the observation [...]

Comment on Constructed languages on film by Ben Zimmer

Ben Zimmer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:35:17 +0000

For an earlier consideration of language use in sci-fi movies, see: “Linguists in Hollywood” by Jim Wilce, Anthropology News, Oct. 1999, pp. 9-10. The article summarizes discussion appearing on the LINGANTH listserv from May-June 1999. (Sadly, the online LINGANTH archive only extends back to Nov. 1999.) Hal Schiffman’s quote about how alien languages are designed to “confuse and amuse” (specifically in reference to the Star Wars pseudo-languages) first appeared in that discussion.