[Linganth] New books in Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language + SLA discount

[KEFFER, Meredith]

Ahead of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology meeting this week, we're pleased to announce two new books in the Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language<https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-studies-in-the-anthropology-of-language-osantl/?cc=us&lang=en&prevNumResPerPage=20&prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&start=0> series!

Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869?cc=us&lang=en&>, edited by Alessandro Duranti, presents the first English translation of a little-known essay by Henri Bergson, Discours sur la politesse, and critically engages with the ideas in Bergson's text through a series of essays from leading scholars in the study of language practices. Collectively, the essays untangle the ideological, socio-historical, and material conditions that shape notions of the ideal social agent, and propose a rethinking of politeness that serves as a bridge to larger issues of civility, citizenship, and democracy.

The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-language-on-earth-9780197509920>, by Piers Kelly, is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. Marshalling theories of nationalism, authenticity, and language ideology, along with comparisons to events across highland Southeast Asia, Kelly offers a convincing account of this linguistic mystery and also shows its broader relevance to linguistic anthropology.

These books and others in the series will be featured at the Oxford University Press both at the book exhibit (in the Royal Arch at the Hilton Garden Inn) Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, and available for purchase online with the 30% off discount code EXSLING22<http://www.oup.com/conf/EXSLING22>, along with selected other OUP titles in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics.

If you are interested in submitting to the series, contact series editor Alessandro Duranti at aduranti at anthro.ucla.edu<mailto:aduranti at anthro.ucla.edu> and Oxford University Press editor Meredith Keffer at meredith.keffer at oup.com<mailto:meredith.keffer at oup.com> with a prospectus and sample chapter. Meredith will also be at the SLA booth and available to discuss book ideas and answer questions.

The series Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language<https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-studies-in-the-anthropology-of-language-osantl/?cc=us&lang=en&prevNumResPerPage=20&prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&start=0> is devoted to works from a wide array of scholarly traditions that treat linguistic practices as forms of social action. The series publishes two types of books: (1) those in which language itself is the main object of inquiry; and (2) those in which linguistic analysis is used as a method to shed light on other objects of inquiry. Books in this series are ethnographically rich and innovative in form and content, focusing on such issues as: linguistic inequality, old and new literacies, linguistic relativity, the contexts of linguistic change, language socialization, gendered language use, institutional discourse, agency and language, language contact, language endangerment and revitalization, poetics and performance, language ideologies, narrative analysis, and the aesthetics of language use.

Alessandro Duranti, Series Editor

Editorial Board: Patricia Baquedano-López, Donald Brenneis, Paul Garrett, Janet McIntosh, and Justin Richland

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Meredith Keffer
Acquisitions Editor | Research Editorial
Oxford University Press

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