<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Dear All,</span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">At the 2018 AAA meeting, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Board decided to open a space on SLA’s website to begin a blog project that could showcase pieces written by SLA members at any stage in their career. Given the proliferation of official blogs from other anthropological subdisciplines, it felt important to allow the conversations taking place amongst our membership to enter more public arenas. We intend this to become a space to encourage and facilitate dialogue amongst our members while bringing greater visibility to key issues in the field to a wider audience.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Blog posts shall be relatively brief—somewhere around 4-7</span><span lang="PT" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">paragraphs. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Entry topics have been organized into four categories, without barring any topics related to issues important to SLA that members might want to write about. The list below is by no means exhaustive, and meant only to provide a sketch of what might be featured.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">1. Methods and research (relationships with interlocutors, organization techniques and strategies, ethnographic methods, use of software for transcription/organization)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">2. Academic life (issues in teaching, challenges for writing, labor in tenure-track, adjunct, or grad student positions)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">3. Topics in the discipline (language ideologies, language revitalization, sign-i</span><span lang="PT" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">nterpretant</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">relationships, sociophonetics, etc.)*</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><i>*2019 has been declared Year of Indigenous Languages by some global institutions and SLA will be participating in this focus in ways yet undisclosed; a blog post on this topic would be fitting once we know more as to the initiatives.</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">4. Linguistic anthropology in practice (on work in the discipline that happens outside of academic institutions, beyond the classroom)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);border:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Any SLA members interested in having a piece featured on the SLA blog should contact Elizabeth Falconi, Digital Media Director and Diego Arispe-Bazán, Social Media Manager, via </span><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:soclinganth@gmail.com" style="color:fuchsia"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">soclinganth@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32)">, with a topic proposal, 3-4 sentences long.</span><span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="garamond, serif">Society for Linguistic Anthropology Online</font></b></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Digital Media Director: Elizabeth Falconi  (University of West Georgia)</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="garamond, serif">SLA Social Media Manager: Diego Arispe-Bazan (University of Pennsylvania)</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>