Society for Linguistic Anthropology https://linguisticanthropology.org/ Official Homepage of the SLA Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:16:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Language & Social Justice Committee Fall General Meeting – Friday, October 30, 2026 https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/10/05/language-social-justice-committee-fall-general-meeting-friday-october-30-2026/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:35:22 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8664 Shared on behalf of the LSJ steering committee. The Language and Social Justice Committee (LSJ) of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) will hold its Fall General Meeting on Friday, October 30, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) / 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PT). Meeting is online. Contact Katherine R. Morales Lugo, PhD (katherineravenna@gmail.com)… Read More »Language & Social Justice Committee Fall General Meeting – Friday, October 30, 2026

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]]> SLA Call for Nominations – Deadlines December 15, 2026 & January 15, 2027 https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/10/05/sla-call-for-nominations-deadlines-december-15-2026-january-15-2027/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:04:58 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8660 Posted on behalf of the SLA Nominations Committee: Charles Zuckerman (zuckermc@bc.edu)Elaine Chun (chune@mailbox.sc.edu)Cheryl Yin (cyin@carleton.edu) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for seven positions this fall. Both self-nominations and nominations of other qualified members are encouraged. If you want to nominate yourself, just email us your name and the position you are interested in.… Read More »SLA Call for Nominations – Deadlines December 15, 2026 & January 15, 2027

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]]> SLA Members Awarded by AAA for Work Advancing the Field of Anthropology https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/08/28/sla-members-awarded-by-aaa-for-work-advancing-the-field-of-anthropology/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:27:24 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8547 On August 12, AAA announced the 2026 award recipients. Two recipients, Alejandro Ivan Paz and Michael Min-Torresday, are SLA members! Awards will be presented to honorees at the 2026 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. Honorees will also be featured in the Annual Report. We are so proud and excited to celebrate their achievements in St.… Read More »SLA Members Awarded by AAA for Work Advancing the Field of Anthropology

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]]> Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology – Deadline October 15, 2026 https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/08/28/call-for-applications-editors-in-chief-of-the-journal-of-linguistic-anthropology-deadline-october-15-2026/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:29:45 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8514 The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is a three-year term, beginning January 15, 2027. EIC(s) must be members of the SLA. Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae including names of two referees… Read More »Call for applications: Editor(s)-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology – Deadline October 15, 2026

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]]> There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/08/25/8509/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:13:40 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8509 There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self What happens when the tools designed to protect research participants end up either 1) obscuring their facial expressions or 2) preserving their features but making them appear ghastly? Are there other options? By María José Peláez, Kai Blevins, and Joel KuipersJuly 9,… Read More »There are Ghosts in this Machine: AI Anonymization and the Identification of Self

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]]> Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025 https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2026/06/08/marcyliena-morgan-1950-2025/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:07:54 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8406 Marvin Sterling Prof. Marcy Morgan was co-chair of my MA and PhD committees in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. My MA thesis explored the experiences of African American military personnel at a naval base in Japan.   As part of my graduate coursework, I took Prof. Morgan’s seminar in African American linguistics.  At some… Read More »Marcyliena Morgan, 1950-2025

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]]> SLA Call for Nominations https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/10/21/sla-call-for-nominations/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:56:46 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8306 The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for four positions this fall. We encourage you to consider nominating yourself or another member. Each position has a three-year term. Two positions will be appointed by the SLA Executive Board and will begin in November 2025 after the AAA Annual Meeting.   •  Nominations Committee Member (November 2025-2028)   •  Social Media Manager (November 2025-2028) Two… Read More »SLA Call for Nominations

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]]> 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 https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/they-dont-see-a-problem-we-dont-see-the-desire-for-connection-indifference-to-language-loss-in-papua-new-guinea-and-its-challenge-for-research/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:33:46 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8263 -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 languages are being lost?  Discomfiting comments are sometimes tucked into descriptions of Papua New Guinea (PNG) languages. Consider the following examples:  “Kuot speakers do not seem to be emotionally attached… 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

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]]> A Navajo Poetry of Place https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/a-navajo-poetry-of-place/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:57:27 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8247 -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 to assert that the Native toponomy is amorphous and ever-changing. (Kari 1989: 139) We create trust by hanging out with people in their own environment. We become more humane and… Read More »A Navajo Poetry of Place

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]]> “Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/nobody-wants-their-doomscroll-to-be-interrupted/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:44:24 +0000 https://linguisticanthropology.org/?p=8241 -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” was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2023– it refers to an excessive amount of scrolling through online content and it seems to be uniquely related to these short-form… Read More »“Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression

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