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<div>Those of you attending the Annual Meeting whether virtually or in person — please do not miss this celebration of Joe’s work on Thursday!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><u>2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting Virtual Roundtable/Town Hall</u><br>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Language and Nationalism: Celebrating the Work of Joseph Errington</b></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Spanning several decades, several monographs, and several islands in the Indonesian archipelago, Joseph Errington’s ethnographic work has long anticipated and animated transitioning concerns in
global anthropology. Former president of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology and one of the first doctoral advisees of the late Michael Silverstein, Errington’s initial research examined the semiotics of linguistic etiquette in Javanese, analyzing in fine-grained
detail the famous structural complexity of courtly </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">priyayi </i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">registers and register usage. He would later move beyond the
exemplary centers of Javanese royal etiquette to consider wider and rapidly shifting patterns of everyday talk in Suharto’s New Order regime. An advocate for centering postcolonial concerns in American linguistic anthropology, he described how the work of
colonial linguists was instrumental to colonial projects of knowledge production and subjugation, while touching on the reverberations of colonial linguistics in contemporary sociolinguistic life. Most recently, amid renewed and resurging interest in the problem
of nationalism, he has written on the paradox of “Indonesian,” a language spoken by two hundred forty million citizens in the world’s fourth most populous nation, yet “native” to no one. In this roundtable discussion, we — his students and colleagues — gather
to discuss and celebrate his body of work, and the ways in which its shifting foci highlight transitioning concerns in American, Indonesian, and </span></p>
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