Tag: Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Chelsea Horton , March 26th, 2021
A post-COVID-19 “return to normal” implies a continuation of the very cultural, linguistic, and economic practices that precipitated the pandemic. Scholars of language and communication must do better…
Steven Black , October 26th, 2020
Our AAA Annual Meeting and section meetings should be spaces for graduate training. We must do more to include graduate students in our events and produce programming to…
Summerson Carr , August 16th, 2019
October 16, 2017, begins as a normal day at your New Jersey high school. You are chatting with friends in Spanish, the second most-spoken language in the United…
Adam Hodges , June 6th, 2018
Collins Dictionary named “fake news” its 2017 word of the year, an easy choice given the word’s “unprecedented usage increase” of 365 percent over the previous year. Collins…
Ilana Gershon , April 2nd, 2018
[pquote]It is a word apt for the state of social adulthood in the US, where a long-eroding set of markers from the twentieth century are collapsing into a…
Anna Babel , November 7th, 2017
Puerto Rican Aftermath Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Puerto Rico is a colony. The tensions encompassed by these two facts were extremely clear in the federal response to…
Ilana Gershon , October 18th, 2017
The latest rendition of “sorry, not sorry” is not just topping the Billboard charts. It is also a public relations anthem about “missing the mark.” This time, Dove…
Alexandra Frankel , December 19th, 2016
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Alexandra Frankel , December 19th, 2016
In the run-up to the holiday season we invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy some of our most popular content this year. You can catch up…
Alexandra Frankel , December 19th, 2016
In the run-up to the holiday season we invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy some of our most popular content this year. You can catch up…
Anna Babel , December 9th, 2016
On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my house when my phone buzzed. I…
Anna Babel , August 24th, 2016
An Anthropolitical Critique of the “Language Gap” Is language responsible for poverty? If poor and minority parents spoke like rich white parents, would they too become rich and…
Anna Babel , June 30th, 2016
The Intersection of Language and Geography When most people think about linguistic geography, if they think of it at all, they think of dialect atlases such as the…
Anna Babel , November 11th, 2015
In Greater New Orleans, there is an enregistered (Agha 2003) dialect of English that sounds similar to New York City English, making it stand out within the linguistic…