<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><span id="m_768175571976203882gmail-docs-internal-guid-27dcfd96-7fff-46a7-4988-f3a1efe4cae3" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.2"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:10pt 0pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces th<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> submissions are now open for the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">SLA</span></span> New Voices Book Prize.  </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline: </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 15, 2023 </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The New Voices Book Prize, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">established in 2021,  is a biennial prize awarded to a book by a junior scholar (published within twelve years of the PhD) th<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> makes a p<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span>hbreaking contribution to the field of linguistic anthropology.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">SLA</span></span> invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as ethnographic and descriptive works. Single-or multi-author books – </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">but not edited collections</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">– are eligible. Books must be written in English and have been published between January 1,  2020 and December 31, 2022 to be eligible for the 2023 award. Any given book is eligible in only one biennial round of competition. The same book cannot be submitted to both the Sapir Prize and the New Voices book prize competitions. Authors must be <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">member</span></span>s of the <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">SLA</span></span> <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> the time of submission.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">A selection committee appointed by the president of the <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">SLA</span></span> will evalu<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span>e the submissions. The winner of the New Voices Book Prize will be determined in advance of the AAA annual meeting, and they assume responsibility for notifying their publisher. The formal announcement of the New Voices Book Prize award will take place during the AAA annual meeting in 2023.</span>  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions for the Edward Sapir prize will open in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Winter 2024.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Edward Sapir Book Prize,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> established in 2001, is a prize awarded to a book th<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> makes a significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language medi<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span>es historical or contemporary sociocultural processes.  In order to establish an altern<span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span>ing schedule for the book prizes, the Sapir prize will be awarded in 2024 and will cover books published between January 2020 and December 31, 2023. Thereafter, the prize will be awarded biennially. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Authors must be <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">member</span></span>s of the <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">SLA</span></span> <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> the time of submission.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2">The same book cannot be submitted to both the Sapir Prize and the New Voices book prize competitions.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><font size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To submit your book for the New Voices prize, please fill out the submission form <span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">at</span></span> </span><a href="https://forms.gle/ypyxee2Rr479jjgY8" target="_blank" title="https://forms.gle/ypyxee2Rr479jjgY8" style="color:rgb(0,120,215);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/ypyxee2Rr479jjgY8</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Questions about the prizes can be addressed to </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:slabookprizes@gmail.com" target="_blank" title="mailto:slabookprizes@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255,237,148);color:rgb(7,7,6)"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">sla</span></span>bookprizes@gmail.com</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></p></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:17.120001px"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:17.120001px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="line-height:1.2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:17.120001px"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:17.120001px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="line-height:1.2">Best,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:17.120001px"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:17.120001px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="line-height:1.2">Bernard Perley</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:17.120001px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.2">President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology</span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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><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: Katherine Christoffersen (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="garamond, serif">SLA Social Media Manager: Wee Yang Soh (University of Chicago)</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>