Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which language shapes social life.

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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

https://t.co/MZXZOJEeEG

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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Marissa Smith Morgan

https://t.co/PXC18EJPmH

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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology holds an annual student essay competition at the undergraduate level. Submissions are due June 15, 2026. https://t.co/BBQN7Gb56L

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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

https://t.co/Zmpvwo8OAL

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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

https://t.co/EsmqmvJRPl

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Vernacular infrastructuring: Rethinking linguistic agency of minority-language speakers in multilingual digital environment

Udiana Puspa Dewi

https://t.co/CCnYQB9Nxo

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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories

Vincent Pak

https://t.co/pUMUefzlpx

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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."

Please RSVP to help us plan attendance: https://t.co/AyeBNMVO39

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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!

https://t.co/ArqM0CawCg

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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)

Register for the Zoom meeting at: https://t.co/NsER6g5ChR

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Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT

Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva

https://t.co/Gl4e6NbuDO

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The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology

Zachary Sheldon

https://t.co/yMXANVVW5d

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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

https://t.co/mLTyx0gKZt

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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas

Courtney Handman

https://t.co/w4T4c3GY7C

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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun

https://t.co/gyk56bK2h9

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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”? by Noya Kohavi & Anna Weichselbraun

https://t.co/uj7MP1FK90.

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An exploration of Cuba’s emerging digital culture and Cubans’ creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debate.

https://t.co/rPvqO3zDGJ

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The Society for Linguistic Anthropology holds an annual student essay competition at the undergraduate level. Submissions are due June 15, 2026. https://t.co/BBQN7Gb56L