<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Linguistic Anthropologists</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I'm writing to you as the Book Review Editor of <i>Language in Society</i>. I need volunteers to write a Book Note for the books in the list below.</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For those who don't know, a book note is a 500-word summary of a book's <u>insights</u> (not merely its contents) with a brief evaluative comment at the end. </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Graduate students</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> are also welcome to write book notes, with a faculty member's supervision. Book notes will be due 6 months after a reviewer receives the book. </span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Priority will be given to those who have neither published a book note in the journal, nor been recruited to do so, since January 2023</u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">To volunteer, please email me at <a href="mailto:lsyreviewseditor@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">lsyreviewseditor@gmail.com</a>. You can indicate up to three choices, placed in order of preference.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Brian King</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Book Review Editor, <i>Language in Society</i></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><b>Arnold, Lynette

(2024)</b>. <i>Living together across borders: Communicative care in transnational

Salvadoran families</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 248. Pb. £8.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Barbosa, Mara R.

& Talia Bugel (eds.) (2024)</b>. <i>Language attitudes and the pursuit of

social justice: Identity, prejudice, and education. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pp. 318. Hb. £130.<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Brandi,

Lucia (2024). Tutunakú: Language, power and youth in central México.

Cambridge: Legenda. Pp. 258. Hb. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">£95.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><b>Bushnell, Cade & Stephen

J. Moody (eds.) (2024)</b>. <i>Navigating friendships in interaction: Discursive

and ethnographic perspectives</i>. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 280. Hb. €135.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Edwards, Terra

(2024)</b>. <i>Going tactile: Life at the limits of language</i>. Oxford: Oxford

University Press. Pp. 168. Pb. £20.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Fleming, Luke Owles

(2024)</b>. <i>On speaking terms: Avoidance registers and the sociolinguistics of

kinship</i>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 246. Hb. CA$60.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;letter-spacing:0.2pt"><b>Gorman,

Lillian (2024)</b>. <i>Zones of encuentro: Language and identities in northern New

Mexico</i>. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Pp. 242. Pb. $35.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><b>Hansen, Magnus

Pharao (2024)</b>. <i>Nahuatl nations: Language revitalization and semiotic

sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 328.

Pb. £23.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Jacobsen, Kristina

(2024)</b>. <i>Sing me back home: Ethnographic songwriting and Sardinian language

politics</i>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 290. Pb. CA$33.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica">Rhodes, Catherine R.

(2025)</b>. <i>Undoing modernity: Linguistics, higher education, and indigeneity in

Yucatan. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pp. 304. Pb. $35.<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Roche,

Gerald (2024). The politics of language oppression in Tibet. Ithica:

Cornell University Press. Pp. 264. Pb. $37.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:13.3333px">·</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt"><b>Ward, Shannon M. (2024)</b>. </span><i style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt">Amdo lullaby: An

ethnography of childhood and language shift on the Tibetan Plateau<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt">.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 278. Pb. CA$27.</span></p></div></div>