[Linganth] resources on COVID for teaching Language and Health

[Netta Avineri]

Hi again,

One other piece that may be useful, which complements the webinar from
Glenn Martinez and colleagues:
https://www.aaal.org/news/language-as-a-social-determinant-of-health-an-applied-linguistics-perspective-on-health-equity

Thanks,
Netta

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:50 AM Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Lynnette. Great to have this space to share resources/ideas.
>
> A few things that might be useful...
>
> My colleagues and I are co-teaching an interdisciplinary course on
> COVID-19 this semester, and this week we are having the students watch this
> great webinar from colleagues (and Glenn Martinez is speaking with the
> class tomorrow):
> https://u.osu.edu/languageaccessresearch/ (“Reclaiming Language access in
> US Latino communities during COVID-19”)
>
> Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein and colleague John Voiklis from Knology did an
> awesome guest video/lecture about numeracy, and these sources are very
> useful in that regard:
>
> https://knology.org/article/numbers-in-the-news/ (Links to an external
> site.) <https://knology.org/article/numbers-in-the-news/>
>
> https://knology.org/article/who-counts-the-politics-of-covid-19-data/ (Links
> to an external site.)
> <https://knology.org/article/who-counts-the-politics-of-covid-19-data/>
>
> https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol13/iss2/art4/ (Links to an
> external site.) <https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol13/iss2/art4/>
>
> Eric Johnson also did a really great video/lecture about metaphor analysis
> and public discourse, including drawing from COVID-19 sources about
> education.
>
> A few other sources that might be useful as well:
>
>    1. From HIV to COVID-19: Anthropology, urgency, and the politics of
>    engagement (Links to an external site.)
>    <http://somatosphere.net/2020/from-hiv-to-covid19-anthropology-urgency-and-the-politics-of-engagement.html/>
>    2. Imagining Rural Immunity (Links to an external site.)
>    <https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2020/06/19/imagining-rural-immunity/>
>    3. Social Distancing and the Culture of Semiotics of Contact (Links to
>    an external site.)
>    <https://linguisticanthropology.org/social-distancing-cultural-semiotics-contact/>
>    <https://linguisticanthropology.org/social-distancing-cultural-semiotics-contact/>
>    <https://linguisticanthropology.org/social-distancing-cultural-semiotics-contact/>
>
> Best,
> Netta
>
> On Oct 14, 2020, at 8:56 AM, Lynnette Arnold <larnold at anthro.umass.edu>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Dear colleagues -
>
> This year, I am adding a week on Language and Health to my Intro to Ling
> Anthro course and hoping to assign materials that look at this intersection
> in the case of COVID.
>
> I have found some resources already (see short list below), but want to
> make sure I'm not missing anything fantastic since this is an emerging area
> of research!
>
> Short news or popular articles are welcome in addition to more academic
> fare (that is still accessible), and any video resources would be
> especially useful.
>
> I am happy to compile resources to share with the list. Here's what I have
> so far:
> -Language on the Move blog <https://www.languageonthemove.com/blogpage/>
> - many posts
> -Special issue of Multilingua
> <https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mult/39/5/mult.39.issue-5.xml>
> -Special section of Language, Culture, and Society (volume 2:2 - should be
> out soon!)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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