The SLA 2022 Spring Conference was jointly organized by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) and the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) at the University of Colorado ...

Introduction: Directions in the anthropology of Language / N.J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell -- Basics of a language / R.M.W. Dixo -- The item/system problem / N.J. Enfield -- Language and ...

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Anthropology, MSc in Anthropology and Development, MSc in Social Anthropology and MSc in Social Anthropology (Religion in the Contemporary World). This ...

John Gumperz dedicated his life to language. A UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology, he died at the age of 91 on Friday in Santa Barbara. Gumperz was an intellectual and adventurer — a ...

Ethnographic analysis of language socialization investigates how individuals acquire both linguistic competence and cultural norms through participation in everyday activities. Grounded in long-term ...

Fewer languages before agriculture: The researchers estimate that between approximately 4,500 and 6,200 languages were spoken at the beginning of the Holocene, around 12,000 years ago - probably fewer ...