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Prizes
SLA Public Outreach and Community Service Award
SLA Public Outreach and Community Service Award
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Undergraduate Essay Prize
Undergraduate Essay Prize
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2026
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2026
Please submit your SLA Sapir Prize application by March 15, 2026. More information about the prize can be found here: https://linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/
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JLA: Volume 36, Issue 1
Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories
Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories
Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning-making. This article examines stories narrated by ex-gay m...
“You keep the y'alls”: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English
“You keep the y'alls”: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English
Throughout their education, students learn to use “academic English,” and to navigate associated language ideologies. In focus groups, college students discuss formal features of “academic English,” ...
Recruiting Mubai: Race turning into qualification in China's private English language education
Recruiting Mubai: Race turning into qualification in China's private English language education
Native speakerism in English language teaching (ELT) has become associated with Whiteness. However, how this association is sustained in everyday practices within China's unique socio-cultural-politi...
Kinship-based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment
Kinship-based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment
Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”? Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”? Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology
The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology
Co-textual dopes: How LLMs produce contextually appropriate text in chat interactions with humans without access to context
Co-textual dopes: How LLMs produce contextually appropriate text in chat interactions with humans without access to context
“It doesn't give a s*** about Arabic or English”: Semiotic ideologies and demarcation among LLM engineers in Amman, Jordan - Adely - 2026 - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
“It doesn't give a s*** about Arabic or English”: Semiotic ideologies and demarcation among LLM engineers in Amman, Jordan - Adely - 2026 - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas - Handman - 2026 - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas - Handman - 2026 - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Wiley Online Library
Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun
Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun
Anthropology News
Pigs, Pokes, and Power: Sovereign Silence and Sustainable Futures in Central Appalachia - Anthropology News
Pigs, Pokes, and Power: Sovereign Silence and Sustainable Futures in Central Appalachia - Anthropology News
In a southwestern Virginia county, yellow yard signs, bumper stickers, and billboards pepper lawns, cars, and roadsides. They read, “Don’t Nuke SWVA” and
How Zohran Mamdani Subverted America’s White Public Space with Uncles, Knafeh, and Arabic - Anthropology News
How Zohran Mamdani Subverted America’s White Public Space with Uncles, Knafeh, and Arabic - Anthropology News
Anthropological Quarterly
Project MUSE - Anthropological Quarterly-Volume 98, Number 4, Fall 2025
Project MUSE - Anthropological Quarterly-Volume 98, Number 4, Fall 2025
Events
Language Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language Models – An Online Launch
Language Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language Models – An Online Launch
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Creating Belonging: Ritual Recruitment of Hanoi Sign Language Interpreters A talk by Aron Marie (University of Virginia) Friday, February 13th 12pm EST. PASSWORD: drig
Creating Belonging: Ritual Recruitment of Hanoi Sign Language Interpreters A talk by Aron Marie (University of Virginia) Friday, February 13th 12pm EST. PASSWORD: drig
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
Job Opportunities
News Articles
GLOBALIZING LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND PRESERVING MOTHER TONGUE: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BASIC SCHOOL - Society for Linguistic Anthropology
GLOBALIZING LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND PRESERVING MOTHER TONGUE: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BASIC SCHOOL - Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history
Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history
Rosalía, Bad Bunny, and the Debate on Language and Identity in Music - HipLatina
Rosalía, Bad Bunny, and the Debate on Language and Identity in Music - HipLatina
Rosalía’s LUX and Bad Bunny’s Spanish only vision show the beauty of range in Latin music.
What is the Maine Accent? | Maine Explained
What is the Maine Accent? | Maine Explained
What is the Maine Accent? | Maine Explained
From A for algebra to T for tariffs: Arabic words used in English speech | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
From A for algebra to T for tariffs: Arabic words used in English speech | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
From A for algebra to T for tariffs: Arabic words used in English speech | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
Charles Briggs on his book, Incommunicable
Charles Briggs on his book, Incommunicable
A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity - Berkeley News
Making Sense Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
Making Sense Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
E-book | Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal by E. Mara Green
E-book | Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal by E. Mara Green
The Romani language is finally in Google Translate, one of 110 languages added in the biggest expansion of the program ever - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place
The Romani language is finally in Google Translate, one of 110 languages added in the biggest expansion of the program ever - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place
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