Alexandra St. Tellien African-derived religions are often demonized and discriminated against; thus, by studying African-derived ritual languages, we can help combat Eurocentrism and dismantle these harmful stereotypes and notions of Africans and African-descended peoples worldwide. My aim to do this is part of my work as an anthropology graduate student...

Joshua Babcock and Jay Ke-Schutte In two recent special issues in Signs and Society and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, we outlined how we see intersectionality contributing to a raciolinguistic perspective. As we and the special issues’ contributors demonstrated, intersectionality offers two key interventions for linguistic anthropologists...

Among the four primary subfields of American anthropology, linguistic anthropology is arguably the least widely recognized and practiced globally (even as it overlaps in significant ways with fields such as applied sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography that are more commonly practiced outside the United States). That said, scholars around the...

SLA is in an exciting moment!  Recent changes at AAA are prompting important conversations that give us opportunities to imagine how our collective future might develop.  Please join us at SLA Futures on Tuesday, Oct 17 at 6 pm Eastern. At this virtual event, we will discuss how recent developments in the financial landscape are impacting the organization...

The Executive Board of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. The editorship is a three-year term, beginning January 15, 2024. Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae including names of two referees to Summerson Carr at ...

Nominations are now open. The submission deadline is October 15, 2023. This award honors an SLA member or members for work that effectively impacts public awareness of social issues involving language and communication and/or represents a significant service to a particular community outside of the academy.  Such work may be in any medium including...