<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues, apologies for the repost -- I forgot to include one of the articles. Updated and corrected post below. <div><br></div><div>The <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute </i>has just published, early view, a thematic cluster of articles edited by Webb Keane and myself, entitled "Linguistic Anthropology of AI." The cluster contains: </div><div>-- Webb Keane and Constantine Nakassis. "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131" target="_blank">Introduction: towards a linguistic anthropology of AI</a>.” <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131</a>.</div><div>-- Webb Keane. "From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots." <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70133">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70133</a></div><div>-- Courtney Handman. "Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non-human worlds." <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70132" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70132</a><br><div>-- Beth Semel. "‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language-oriented AI." <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70135" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70135</a></div><div>-- Ilana Gershon. "Linguistic anthropology of AI: an afterword." <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70134" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70134</a></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>(As an aside: <i>JRAI </i>is interested to publish more work in linguistic anthropology, so do consider the journal as one of the many available for linguistic anthropologists looking to publish their work for a wider anthropological audience.) </div><div><br></div><div>All best,</div><div>Costas</div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr">Constantine V. Nakassis<div>Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, </div><div>Faculty Associate, Department of Comparative Human Development,</div><div>Resource Faculty, Department of Cinema and Media Studies,</div><div><div>The University of Chicago</div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Co-editor-in-chief, <a href="http://semioticreview.com" target="_blank"><i>Semiotic Review</i></a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><a href="https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Constantine-V-Nakassis" target="_blank">https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Constantine-V-Nakassis</a><br></div><div><a href="http://nakassis.com/constantine" target="_blank">http://nakassis.com/constantine</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM Constantine Nakassis <<a href="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu">cnakassi@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>The <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute </i>has just published, early view, a thematic cluster of articles edited by Webb Keane and myself, entitled "Linguistic Anthropology of AI." The cluster contains: </div><div>-- Webb Keane and Constantine Nakassis. "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131" target="_blank">Introduction: towards a linguistic anthropology of AI</a>.” <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70131</a>.</div><div>-- Courtney Handman. "Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non-human worlds." <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70132" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70132 </a><br><div>-- Beth Semel. "‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language-oriented AI." <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70135" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70135</a></div><div>-- Ilana Gershon. "Linguistic anthropology of AI: an afterword." <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70134" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70134</a></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>(As an aside: <i>JRAI </i>is interested to publish more work in linguistic anthropology, so do consider the journal as one of the many available for linguistic anthropologists looking to publish their work for a wider anthropological audience.) </div><div><br></div><div>All best,</div><div>Costas</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr">Constantine V. Nakassis<div>Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, </div><div>Faculty Associate, Department of Comparative Human Development,</div><div>Resource Faculty, Department of Cinema and Media Studies,</div><div><div>The University of Chicago</div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Co-editor-in-chief, <a href="http://semioticreview.com" target="_blank"><i>Semiotic Review</i></a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><a href="https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Constantine-V-Nakassis" target="_blank">https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Constantine-V-Nakassis</a><br></div><div><a href="http://nakassis.com/constantine" target="_blank">http://nakassis.com/constantine</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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