[Linganth] State of the Discipline?

[Steven Black]

Hi,

 

I tried to include some similar information in an Anthro News piece a few years back but had trouble locating statistics. I did find a few things out, which are included in a short piece published in 2014 overviewing some of the history of the field and contemporary trends that can be accessed here:

 

http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Aug2014.Linguistic-Anthropology-in-the-Current-Professional-Marketpdf.pdf

 

There’s also a great article by Alan Rumsey that, if I remember correctly, has some statistics in it:

Rumsey, Alan (2013). “Anthropology, Linguistics, and the Vicissitudes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration.” Collaborative Anthropologies 6: 268-289.

 

And if you are interested in exploring some of the historical reasons for disciplinary distinctions in anthropology, linguistics, and linguistic anthropology, Elizabeth Falconi and I did some background research (including a bit of informl archival/ oral history work) and discussed this a bit in another piece:

Black, Steven P. and Elizabeth Falconi (2017). “Linguistic Anthropology and Ethnolinguistics.” In Mark Aronoff and Jaine Rees-Miller (eds.), The Handbook of Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 479-504.

 

Other than that, you might ask people on the SLA executive board. Good luck!

 

Take care,

Steve

 

 

Steven P. Black

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Georgia State University

P.O. Box 3998

Atlanta, GA 30302-3998

(404) 413-5168

 

 

From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Kerim Friedman <oxusnet at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 8:07 AM
To: "Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org)" <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: [Linganth] State of the Discipline?

 

Dear List Members,

 

I am in the middle of writing something about the discipline of linguistic anthropology, which is practically nonexistent here in Taiwan. I would like to share some statistics to highlight how widespread and popular it is in the US (and perhaps elsewhere?). Has anyone already written something like that which I could cite? Or, failing that, are there some handy statistics available on things like growth in SLA membership, number of departments or dedicated faculty positions, books published, etc. that might help to show Taiwanese that this is a growing discipline? The final piece will be translated into Chinese but I hope to make the English version available somewhere. (It is due in week's time...)

 

Thanks!

Kerim


 

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P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

 

Associate Professor

The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures

College of Indigenous Studies

National DongHwa University, TAIWAN

副教授國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系

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