<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>email, chat, online community, and linguistic
anthropo</title></head><body>
<div><font color="#000000">Dear linganth listserve
participants,</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">This is a summary of responses I received
to my query about email, chat, online community, and linguistic
anthropology, augmented by a tiny bit of research on my own. I must
say that it still seems to me there is no linguistic anthropology per
se being done, but good ground work is being laid for us to build out
on a foundation of discourse analysis and ethnography that IS being
done.<br>
<br>
Best,</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Jim<br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Dear linganth listserve participants,<br>
<br>
This is a summary of responses I received to my query about email,
chat, online community, and linguistic anthropology, augmented by a
tiny bit of research on my own. I must say that it still seems to me
there is no linguistic anthropology per se being done, but good ground
work is being laid for us to build out on a foundation of discourse
analysis and ethnography that IS being done.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
<br>
Maggie Ronkin refers us to Georgetown's new program in Culture,
Communication, and Technology. The program is Communication,
Culture, and Technology, and here is the URL:<u>
http://cct.georgetown.edu/<br>
</u>From there, click on "Thesis Database" on the menu to
the left.<br>
Maggie also mentions:<br>
Hakken, David<br>
1999<u> Cyborgs@Cyberspace?:</u> An anthropologist looks to the
future. <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>New York:
Routledge Press.<br>
<br>
She recommends "Also try David Hakken's webpages, etc. Or even email
him."<br>
<br>
Maggie points us to Susan Herring's publications, (some of which are
listed on a page by Ellen Spertus,<font size="+1"> assistant professor
of Computer Science at Mills College</font>:<br>
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/glc/refs.html<br>
And see Herring's own page:<u>
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/herring/publications_no.html<br>
</u>But note that her publication titles do not indicate an
ethnographic or linguistic anthropological approach. Lots is being
written from a discourse analysis perspective, and that's what
Herring gives.-Jim)<br>
<br>
Karl Reisman sent this poetic response:<br>
What strikes me is the question<br>
Is there a culture of virtual discourse<br>
or cultures<br>
In what ways does this culture emerge and get
transmitted<br>
and what kind of social/cultural controls exist on it or
them?<br>
In what ways are these "speech communities"
different from<br>
natural human speech communities<br>
and from such communities as sign among
various deaf groups<br>
and other perhaps more artificial or
international speech communities.<br>
Pidgin cross language
speakers, diplomatic language<br>
etc etc etc<br>
<br>
Karl Reisman<br>
<u>Bryllars@concentric.net<br>
<br>
</u>Francis Hult recommended<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Crystal, D.
(2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: CUP.<br>
<br>
<br>
Anita Pucket recommends<br>
both Crystal and The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach by
Daniel Miller and Don Slater, Oxford 2000. Necessarily
semiotic/linguistic rather than directly linguistic anthropological,
but useful.<br>
<br>
Liz Coville nailed my original question, pointing me back to the
article I had found and lost:<br>
"The Anthropology of Online Communities" by Samuel Wilson
and Leighton Peterson in _Annual Review of Anthro_, 2002,
31:449-67?<br>
<br>
Rudi Gaudio recommends two books:<br>
Lori Kendall's _Hanging Out in<br>
the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online_ (U Calif
2002) &<br>
Lyn Cherny's _Conversation & Community_ (CSLI 1998?).<br>
<br>
Jack Sidnell suggests:<br>
Not linguistic anthropology but otherwise excellent is Ian
Hutchby's<br>
Conversation and Technology.<br>
<br>
Rachel (<u>rrr28@drexel.edu</u>) at Drexel referred me to this online
article in West Africa Review (1999) ISSN: 1525-4488, Nationalism in a
Virtual Space: Immigrant Nigerians on the Internet<u>
http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.1/bastian.html<br>
</u><x-tab> </x-tab>Rachel also mentioned
Jennifer Cohen's recent UIC dissertation, "Mexican American High
School Girls: Language, Identity, and Academic Achievement</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<x-sigsep><pre>--
</pre></x-sigsep>
<div><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000DD">Jim Wilce, Associate
Professor of Anthropology<br>
Northern Arizona University<br>
PO Box 15200<br>
Flagstaff AZ 86011-5200<br>
Office phone: 928-523-2729<br>
email:</font><font face="Helvetica" color="#1A1AFF"><u>
jim.wilce@nau.edu</u></font><font face="Helvetica"
color="#0000DD"></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000DD">Home page:</font><font
face="Helvetica" color="#1A1AFF"><u>
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22</u></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica" color="#0000DD"></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000DD">New! You can now order
Jim's 2003 edited volume, Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems,
from Routledge. See</font><font face="Helvetica" color="#1A1AFF"><u>
http://www.routledge-ny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415310040.</u></font></div
>
</body>
</html>