[Linganth] resources on COVID for teaching Language and Health

[Steve Black]

Hi Lynnette, Netta, and all,
Lynnette, in our previous exchanges on this topic, I neglected to mention that I have also started a blog about COVID and ling/med anth. Unfortunately I’ve only written one piece so far, but here it is: http://sites.gsu.edu/sblack/2020/09/23/the-u-s-a-goes-all-in-with-techno-optimism/
Take care,
Steve

Steven P. Black
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Senior Editor / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 12:56 PM
To: Lynnette Arnold <larnold at anthro.umass.edu>
Cc: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Linganth] resources on COVID for teaching Language and Health

Hi again,

One other piece that may be useful, which complements the webinar from Glenn Martinez and colleagues:
https://www.aaal.org/news/language-as-a-social-determinant-of-health-an-applied-linguistics-perspective-on-health-equity

Thanks,
Netta

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:50 AM Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com<mailto:navineri at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks Lynnette. Great to have this space to share resources/ideas.

A few things that might be useful...

My colleagues and I are co-teaching an interdisciplinary course on COVID-19 this semester, and this week we are having the students watch this great webinar from colleagues (and Glenn Martinez is speaking with the class tomorrow):
https://u.osu.edu/languageaccessresearch/ (“Reclaiming Language access in US Latino communities during COVID-19”)

Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein and colleague John Voiklis from Knology did an awesome guest video/lecture about numeracy, and these sources are very useful in that regard:

https://knology.org/article/numbers-in-the-news/ (Links to an external site.)<https://knology.org/article/numbers-in-the-news/>

https://knology.org/article/who-counts-the-politics-of-covid-19-data/ (Links to an external site.)<https://knology.org/article/who-counts-the-politics-of-covid-19-data/>

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol13/iss2/art4/ (Links to an external site.)<https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol13/iss2/art4/>

Eric Johnson also did a really great video/lecture about metaphor analysis and public discourse, including drawing from COVID-19 sources about education.

A few other sources that might be useful as well:

  1.  From HIV to COVID-19: Anthropology, urgency, and the politics of engagement (Links to an external site.)<http://somatosphere.net/2020/from-hiv-to-covid19-anthropology-urgency-and-the-politics-of-engagement.html/>
  2.  Imagining Rural Immunity (Links to an external site.)<https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2020/06/19/imagining-rural-immunity/>
  3.  Social Distancing and the Culture of Semiotics of Contact (Links to an external site.)<https://linguisticanthropology.org/social-distancing-cultural-semiotics-contact/>
Best,
Netta


On Oct 14, 2020, at 8:56 AM, Lynnette Arnold <larnold at anthro.umass.edu<mailto:larnold at anthro.umass.edu>> wrote:

Dear colleagues -

This year, I am adding a week on Language and Health to my Intro to Ling Anthro course and hoping to assign materials that look at this intersection in the case of COVID.

I have found some resources already (see short list below), but want to make sure I'm not missing anything fantastic since this is an emerging area of research!

Short news or popular articles are welcome in addition to more academic fare (that is still accessible), and any video resources would be especially useful.

I am happy to compile resources to share with the list. Here's what I have so far:
-Language on the Move blog<https://www.languageonthemove.com/blogpage/> - many posts
-Special issue of Multilingua<https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mult/39/5/mult.39.issue-5.xml>
-Special section of Language, Culture, and Society (volume 2:2 - should be out soon!)

Thanks in advance,

--
Lynnette Arnold
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts Amherst

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