Linguistic Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which language shapes social life.
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Remembering Dr. Marcyliena Morgan
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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is excited to announce that our 2027 conference will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, June 3–5, 2027.
Additional information will be shared in the coming months.
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SLA AWARD FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
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The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.
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Abortion, incommunicability, and semiotic labor: Policing disciplinary boundaries through language ideological work among emergency nurses in a post-Roe environment
Lynnette Arnold, Hannah Noblewolf, Lisa Wolf
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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Marissa Smith Morgan
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology retweeted
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology holds an annual student essay competition at the undergraduate level. Submissions are due June 15, 2026. linguisticanthropology.org/a…
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Recruiting Mubai: Race turning into qualification in China's private English language education
招聘“母白”外教: 中国私立英语教育行业中的种族与资质
Shuling Wang, Raviv Litman
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“You keep the y'alls”: Multivocality and embodiment in college students' negotiations of academic English
Jocelyn Ahlers, Nicoleta Bateman, & Mary Stewart
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Vernacular infrastructuring: Rethinking linguistic agency of minority-language speakers in multilingual digital environment
Udiana Puspa Dewi
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories
Vincent Pak
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The SLA Mentoring Program virtual (Zoom) event on Friday, May 22, 2026 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST.
The theme for this event is “Building Successful Mentoring Relationships: Focus on Communication."
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Taylor Gilliam just published her piece entitled "Pigs, Pokes and Power: Sovereign Silence and Sustainable Futures in Central Appalachia" on the SLA column of Anthropology News!
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Language Machines: Sociotechnical Practices and Ideologies at Work in Large Language Models – An Online Launch
Friday, April 17, 2026
12pm to 1:30pm Eastern Time (UTC-4)
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Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
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The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology
Zachary Sheldon
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“It doesn't give a s*** about Arabic or English”: Semiotic ideologies and demarcation among LLM engineers in Amman, Jordan
Tariq Adely
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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas
Courtney Handman
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun
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