<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">Dear List Members,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">I am in the middle of writing something about the discipline of linguistic anthropology, which is practically nonexistent here in Taiwan. I would like to share some statistics to highlight how widespread and popular it is in the US (and perhaps elsewhere?). Has anyone already written something like that which I could cite? Or, failing that, are there some handy statistics available on things like growth in SLA membership, number of departments or dedicated faculty positions, books published, etc. that might help to show Taiwanese that this is a growing discipline? The final piece will be translated into Chinese but I hope to make the English version available somewhere. (It is due in week's time...)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">Thanks!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">Kerim</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:16.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:16.0px Arial"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"></span></p><div><i><a href="http://kerim.oxus.net/" target="_blank">P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩</a></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif">Associate Professor</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures</font><br></div><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif">College of Indigenous Studies</font></div><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif">National DongHwa University, TAIWAN<br></font></div><font color="#3c3c3c" face="helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:19px">副</span></font><span style="color:rgb(60,60,60);font-family:helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:19px">教授</span><font color="#3c3c3c" face="helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:19px">國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系</span></font></blockquote><p></p><p></p>





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