Anna Marie Trester on her book, Employing Linguistics
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/employing-linguistics-9781350137950/ Ilana Gershon: In writing a book about how linguists get jobs outside of the academy, what kind…
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Danko Šipka on his book, Lexical Layers of Identity
Author Interview by Nikolina Zenovic Nikolina Zenovic: You have written extensively on lexicography, lexicology, and lexical conflict, particularly in the context of Slavic languages. How does…
Bonnie Urciuoli reflects on her new co-edited volume, The Spanish Language in the United States
https://www.routledge.com/The-Spanish-Language-in-the-United-States-Rootedness-Racialization-and/Cobas-Urciuoli-Feagin-Delgado/p/book/9781032190556 The Spanish Language in the United States: R…
Mark Sicoli on his book, Saying and Doing in Zapotec
Interview by Grace East https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/saying-and-doing-in-zapotec-9781350142169/ Grace East: Your book takes us on an immersive journey through the complex and varied social…
Juan del Nido on his book, Taxis vs. Uber
Interview by Diego Valdivieso https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31529 Diego Valdivieso: For those who have not had the opportunity to read your book and have a glimpse of the viciss…
Noah Aromand on his book, Fixing Stories
Interview by Susan Seizer https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fixing-stories/3A0E3C4880CBDC00252AEC4EBE11B9E2 Susan Seizer: Please briefly explain your choice of the term “fixers” and desc…
David Sutton on his book, Bigger Fish to Fry
Interview by Ariana Gunderson https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SuttonBigger Ariana Gunderson: You write that “cooking involves a code and its instantiations,” (Sutton 2021, 15). Do you c…
Cheryl Yin takes the page 99 test
Growing up in Long Beach, CA, surrounded by the Cambodian diaspora, Khmer (Cambodian) honorific registers were the bane of my existence. As a child, I could not differentiate…
Russel Kaschula on his book, Language, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa
Interview by Jennifer Cox https://www.routledge.com/Languages-Identities-and-Intercultural-Communication-in-South-Africa-and/Kaschula/p/book/9780367364359 Jennifer Cox: Your book fo…
Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit
Christine Chalifoux: By focusing your ethnographic attention on the hip hop artist Juliani, you were able to weave together so many important facets of life in Kenya: socioeconomic…
Julia Ticona on her book, Left to Our Own Devices
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/left-to-our-own-devices-9780190691288 Ilana Gershon: If you found yourself talking to a voice actor in a coffee shop about your book, how would you expl…
Ana Croegaert on her book, Bosnian Refugees in Chicago
Interview by Dejan Duric https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793623065/Bosnian-Refugees-in-Chicago-Gender-Performance-and-Post-War-Economies Dejan Duric: Your book sheds light on the many ways in w…
Jennifer Mack on her book, The Construction of Equality
Interview by Lynda Chubak https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-construction-of-equality Lynda Chubak: Bringing together architecture, urban planning and anthropology, you trac…
Ori Schwarz on his book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sociological+Theory+for+Digital+Society%3A+The+Codes+that+Bind+Us+Together-p-9781509542963 Interview by: Dan M. Kotliar Dan Kotliar: There is something very conv…
Tamar Katriel on her book, Defiant Discourse
Interview by Irit Dekel Irit Dekel: Your recent book Defiant Discourse helps readers understand the relations between speech and action, revisiting important questions concerning the performat…
Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae Yeon-Ju Bae: Now that the Trump presidency ended, what can we still learn from the past years, during which responsibiliti…
Aneil Tripathy takes the Page 99 Test
I began my study of climate finance, financial markets purportedly geared towards investing in climate change solutions such as public transit and renewable energy, back in 2014. From…
Justin Richland on his book, Cooperation without Submission
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34191322.html Interview by Hannah McElGunn Hannah McElGunn: Cooperation Without Submission brings together cases drawn from a wide…
Shireen Walton discusses her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy Interview by Rachel Howard Rachel Howard: As you note, active aging agendas “aim to encourage people to exercise control over the aging…
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115767/ Interview by Rusty Barrett Rusty Barrett: First, for those unfamiliar with Venezuela, coul…
Anya Peterson Royce reflects on her career
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I am turning your question around because I have had two professions each of which I have…
Hannah Carlan takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
As it so happens, page 99 of my dissertation is the conclusion of my first body chapter following the introduction. My dissertation, “Producing Prosperity: Language and the Labor…
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Papers, Status
Interview by Dodom Kim https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29781 Dodom Kim: Rules, Papers, Status examines migration, legal citizenship, and the question of belonging in contemporary Italy….
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money
Interview by Amy Garey https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-for-love-and-money-9780190877316 Amy Garey: How does migration influence literacy practices? Kate Vieira: Unfortuna…