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When Cream Is Not Cool

By Mark Allen Peterson (Miami University) When I taught linguistic anthropology in Egypt, I used to use the untranslatability of idioms as a way to draw student attention to problems of overreliance on...

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SLA Election Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the recent SLA elections. Bonnie Urciuoli was voted President-Elect, a two year term after which she will serve two years as President. James Wilce was elected...

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Newest issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology available online

      August 2013 Volume 23, Issue 2 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jola.2013.23.issue-2/issuetoc Table of Contents: Articles Thoroughly Mixed Yet Thoroughly Ethnic: Indexing Class with...

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New SLA Anthropology News Column

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s column in Anthropology News has been updated with an article by Christopher Ball, Alejandro Paz, and Michael Silverstein, entitled, “Teleologies of...

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UPDATE on SLA Edward Sapir Book Award

The following 16 books have been submitted and are now being considered for the Edward Sapir Book Award. Winner(s) will be announced to the SLA membership at the SLA Business Meeting on December 6,...

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“Club G’itmo” and semiotic status claims. Anthropology News

Linguistic anthropologist Robin Shoaps examines how American conservatives outside of media punditry engage with the American Right’s claims of embattled minority status in this month’s Society for...

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SLA Undergraduate Contest Update: Deadline extended to September 2.

(Via Jim Wilce) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of undergraduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest. The winner will receive a prize...

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SLA Anthro News August column now online!

“Linguistic Anthropology in the Current Professional Market,” by Steven P. Black is the latest SLA column in Anthropology News, and is now available on their website:...

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SLA October Column Now Online

The latest SLA column in Anthropology News is now available! “Scales of Repair,” authored by Eve Danziger, Mark Sicoli, and Brook Hefright...

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Anthropology News: Contact and Its Allure

The latest SLA column at Anthropology News is now available. Shusuke Nozawa’s “Contact and Its Allure” explores phatic communion, isolation and social relations, the role of technology, and more in...

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Announcing the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize

Announcing the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of graduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay...

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AN News: “Digital Counterpublics: Black Twitter in the Aftermath of Ferguson”...

Anthropology News Article On November 24, 2014, St Louis prosecutor McCulloch announced that the grand jury trial did not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown. As the news media...

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AN News: “Report on the 2014 SLA Business Meeting” by Aaron Ansell (Virginia...

The annual business meeting of the SLA in Washington DC was attended by about 150 people, and proved to be a lively and informative event. President Paul Kroskrity reported on two areas of general...

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AN News: “Anthropological Listening as a Genre” by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas...

Linguistic anthropologists are accustomed to exploring the way speakers create structures of relevance that provide directionality to social activity. Could we also say the same for listeners?...

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AN News: “(Not) Talking about Unmentionable Symptoms” by Christine Labuski...

How do I tell my health care provider about a pain that I can’t name? How are symptoms experienced when they emerge from a part of the body for which most sufferers literally have no words? These...

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AN News: “A Proposal to Initiate a Spring SLA Meeting” by Michael Silverstein...

At our recent SLA annual business meeting in Denver, I proposed to the Board and to the membership in attendance that we consider organizing a Spring meeting along the lines of the long-standing and...

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AN News: “Taking Full Accountability (but None of the Blame)” by Aaron Ansell...

Last year, in the midst of a campus mobilization led by Black students that rocked the U of Missouri (“Mizzou”), we caught a glimpse of a particular breed of non-apology, one anchored in Christian...

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AN News: “Communicating Bodies: New Juxtapositions of Linguistic and Medical...

Linguistic anthropology and medical anthropology are growth areas of anthropology, yet research across these two fields has been relatively limited. Recently medical and linguistic anthropologists have...

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AN News: “Interdisciplinary Collaborations around Language and Social...

In recent years, AAA’s Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) has generously supported a range of efforts intended to create interdisciplinary dialogues. In 2014, this support took the form of an...

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AN News: “SLA at the 2016 AAA Meeting” by Aaron Ansell and Anna Babel

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) panels and other events at the upcoming AAA Annual Meeting (November 16-20 in Minneapolis,MN) promise to be exciting ones. Below is a schedule of these...

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