[Linganth] Linganth Digest, Vol 78, Issue 11

Sat Mar 27 14:52:15 UTC 2021

This is great, Steve. Thank you!
(Sorry to be so late on the draw, here, but for anyone still compiling
language-and-COVID-19 pieces, I did a blog on Trump's language and covid
back in May 2020:)
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/05/the-invisible-enemy-language-trump-and-covid-19/

Best to all!
Janet McIntosh

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>    1. CALL: SLA Book Prizes 2021 (Kira Hall)
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> SLA Book Prizes 2021: Edward Sapir Book Prize, New Voices Book Prize
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> Submission Deadline: May 31, 2021
>
> The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces two book prize
> competitions in 2021.
>
> The Edward Sapir Book Prize, established in 2001, is a biennial prize
> awarded to a book that makes a significant contribution to our
> understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language
> mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes.
>
> The New Voices Book Prize, to be given the first time this year, is a
> biennial prize awarded to a book by a junior scholar (published within
> twelve years of the PhD) that makes a pathbreaking contribution to the
> field of linguistic anthropology.
>
> Submissions are now open for the 2021 prizes. The SLA invites books with
> conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as ethnographic and descriptive
> works. Single-or multi-author books – but not edited collections– are
> eligible. Books must be written in English and have been published between
> January 2018 and December 31, 2020 to be eligible for the 2021 awards. Any
> given book is eligible in only one biennial round of competition.
>
> Four copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to the
> address below by May 31, 2021. (Publishers will often send them at the
> author’s request.) Authors or publishers must clearly specify which
> competition the book should be considered for: The Edward Sapir Book Prize
> or The New Voices Book Prize. The same book cannot be submitted to both
> competitions. Two committees appointed by the president of the SLA will
> evaluate the submissions. The winners will be determined by November 2021
> and the authors will be notified in advance of the AAA annual meeting and
> assume responsibility for notifying the publisher.
>
> The Edward Sapir Prize and the New Voices Book Prize will be formally
> awarded at the SLA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in 2021.
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> Authors must be members of the SLA at the time of submission. To submit
> your book for one of the two prizes, please fill out the submission form at
> https://forms.gle/ypyxee2Rr479jjgY8. Questions about the prizes can be
> addressed to slabookprizes at gmail.com<mailto:slabookprizes at gmail.com>.
> Four copies of the book should be sent to the following address and must
> arrive by May 31, 2021.
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> Kira Hall
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> Department of Linguistics
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> Hi Ignasi and all,
> Here is my promised Anthropology News summary/commentary on linguistic
> anthropology and COVID-19. I hope some find it useful!
>
>
> https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/03/26/linguistic-anthropology-and-covid-19/
>
> Take care,
> Steve
>
> Steven P. Black
> Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies/ Department of
> Anthropology / Georgia State University
> National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022)
> Co-Editor / Society for Linguistic Anthropology Column / Anthropology News
> Senior Editor / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
> The Global Health Discourse Project<http://sites.gsu.edu/sblack/> / GSU
> Anthropology<https://anthropology.gsu.edu/> / Book: Speech and Song at
> the Margins of Global Health<
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> From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Blommaert and colleagues, students on covid
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> Thank you everybody! Keep them coming. I will compile them together and
> share them in one email. I’m going to wait a few days, I’m sure there are
> still more out there.
>
>
> Ignasi
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> On Feb 3, 2021, at 7:31 PM, Nevins, Marybeth E. <mnevins at middlebury.edu
> <mailto:mnevins at middlebury.edu>> wrote:
>
> The late Jan Blommaert and students penned a number of short pieces on
> covid-19 within his linguistic anthropologically informed sociolinguistics
> of globalization:
>
> https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture
> [Image removed by sender.]<
> https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture>
> Coronavirus and digital culture | Diggit Magazine<
> https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture>
> The coronavirus has devastating effects around the world: it has stopped
> or at least seriously diminished offline social life. At the same time, the
> coronavirus produces enormous social activity online.
> www.diggitmagazine.com<http://www.diggitmagazine.com/>
>
> He self-published a stand-alone piece here:
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization
>
> I can attest to these being great resources for engaging students.
>
> best,
> Marybeth
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> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization
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> (PDF) COVID19 and Globalization - ResearchGate<
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization
> >
> The COVID19 crisis of early 2020 reveals some of the key features of
> contemporary globalization processes. It is driven by global mobility
> patterns, and control over these patterns is the central ...
> www.researchgate.net<http://www.researchgate.net/>
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> M. Eleanor Nevins
> Director, Linguistics Program
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Anthropology
> 75 Shannon Street
> Middlebury College
> Middlebury, VT 05753
> E-mail: mnevins at middlebury.edu<mailto:mnevins at middlebury.edu>
> Skype:marybeth.nevins
>
> Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance.
> Blackwell Series in Discourse and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. 2013.
>
> Worldmaking Stories: Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared
> California Landscape. University of Nebraska Press. 2017.
>
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>    1. New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
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>    2. Re: New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> As the pandemic continues, I was wondering if we could share updates on
> references/publication/ research available on COVID-19 or SARS from a
> linguistic anthropology perspective and more generally from a
> language-focused perspective (conversation analysis, discourse analysis,
> and scholars sensitive to language from any discipline).
>
> A few months ago, a few references already circulated, I can only remember
> two. I’m sure more were circulated back then and that more will have been
> published by now.
>
> Briggs, C. L. (2020). Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide:
> Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19. Medical Anthropology, 39(7),
> 563-572.
> Pritzker, S. E. (2020). Language, Emotion, and the Politics of
> Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology, 49(1), 241-256.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Ignasi Clemente
>
> Ignasi Clemente PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> Hunter College, City University of New York
> 707 Hunter North Building
> 695 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10065
> US
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> Hi Ignasi and all,
> Ignasi, great idea! I am actually just finishing up an Anthropology News
> SLA section news piece on just this topic, which should be available online
> by March maybe? (I’ll be sure to share when it becomes available). In the
> meantime, here are some of the pieces I’ve collected that appear in the
> section news piece, in addition to the two you mention. Some of these are
> pre-pandemic pieces that are relevant, and then there have been a few other
> pieces published specifically about COVID-19.
>
> - Brada (2017). “Exemplary or Exceptional? The Production and Dismantling
> of Global Health in Botswana.” In Herrick and Reubi (eds.), Global Health
> and Geographical Imaginaries. New York: Routledge: 40-53.
> - Briggs (2017). “Toward Communicative Justice in Health.” Medical
> Anthropology 36(4): 287-304.
> - Briggs (2005). “Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease.” Annual
> Review of Anthropology 34: 269-291.
> - Katila, Gan, and Goodwin (2020). “Interaction Rituals and ‘Social
> Distancing’: New Haptic Trajectories and Touching from a Distance in the
> Time of COVID-19.” Discourse Studies 22(4): 418-440.
> - Zhang and Li (eds.) (2020) Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis:
> Language Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Special issue of
> Multilingua 39:5 (with 12 articles in it).
> - 4 commentaries (one by Black [that’s me], one by Chun, and one by Du,
> plus one by the journal editors) in a special forum for Language, Culture,
> and Society 2(2).
>
>
>
> From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:
> linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>> on behalf of Ignasi Clemente
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> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 3:05 PM
> To: "LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:
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> Subject: [Linganth] New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
> perspective
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> As the pandemic continues, I was wondering if we could share updates on
> references/publication/ research available on COVID-19 or SARS from a
> linguistic anthropology perspective and more generally from a
> language-focused perspective (conversation analysis, discourse analysis,
> and scholars sensitive to language from any discipline).
>
> A few months ago, a few references already circulated, I can only remember
> two. I’m sure more were circulated back then and that more will have been
> published by now.
>
> Briggs, C. L. (2020). Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide:
> Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19. Medical Anthropology, 39(7),
> 563-572.
> Pritzker, S. E. (2020). Language, Emotion, and the Politics of
> Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology, 49(1), 241-256.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Ignasi Clemente
>
> Ignasi Clemente PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> Hunter College, City University of New York
> 707 Hunter North Building
> 695 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10065
> US
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