From robert.vann at wmich.edu  Mon Jun  1 01:59:57 2026
From: robert.vann at wmich.edu (Robert E Vann)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 01:59:57 +0000
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Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to spread the word about a new book I have published with Palgrave: Documenting Gen ?95er Voices from Catalonia: Globalizing Ideologies and Ways of Speaking. The book, which features a foreword by Dr. Josep Maria Pons Ra?fols, Professor Emeritus of la Universitat de Barcelona and the first Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations and Linguistic Policy in the history of Catalonia's universities, may be of interest to fields including linguistic anthropology, language documentation, sociolinguistics, sociology, communications, political science, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.
This book documents the globalization of linguistic practices and ideologies (towards language, identity and society) of thirty-five members of the first generation in Catalonia to grow up with democracy and the linguistic normalization of Catalan. Study participants came from naturally occurring social networks based in the Barcelona districts of Sant Andreu and Pedralbes in 1995. Written in English for an international English-speaking audience, the volume presents a longitudinal study of 13 chapters (477 pages) organized into 5 parts (Introduction, Part I, Part II, Part III, Conclusion). The tripartite analysis encompasses the sociology of language, the ethnography of communication, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Part I, which deals with the sociology of language, reproduces, translates, and analyzes artifacts (1975?1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and Europeanization, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and globalization in Catalonia. Part I includes 20 linguistic artifacts (in full color and high resolution) dating from the first two decades of the Catalan language normalization project (with extensive English translations in many cases). These artifacts have not circulated anywhere since last century and, with the exception of a single artifact, none has ever been reproduced, much less translated, in any English-language publication that I know of. The four chapters of Part I document how large-scale language planning in the late twentieth century opened the door to the transformation of Catalan society through the dissemination of cultural products infused with positive ideologies towards Catalan language and culture. These chapters demonstrate how the linguistic normalization of Catalan may have influenced members of the Generation of 1995 in Catalonia in terms of (trans)localization and globalization, thus contextualizing the oral history documentation to come in Part II.

Part II, which deals with the ethnography of communication, transcribes, translates, and analyzes oral histories from 2017 Barcelona Metro, detailing ways of speaking (about topics like identity, cultural malaise, politics, and self-determination) involving globalization processes. Part II presents 60 discursive illustrations (in the form of orthographic transcriptions with English translations) of conversational tropes that characterized the speech of the study?s participants. These tropes incorporated dynamic uses of both Spanish and Catalan, illustrating how forms of speech that reproduced contemporary social struggles linguistically indexed the shift from fer pa?s ?nation building? in 1995 to fer futur ?future-building? in 2017. In this way, Part II documents the discursive construction of sociocultural realities that contributed to ?doing being Catalan? just a few months before Catalonia?s declaration of independence proclaimed the ill-fated Republic of Catalonia. The discursive illustrations presented in Part II in fact represent excerpts from longer conversational interviews that are already on deposit in DARDOSIPCAT (https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dardosipcat/), the Digital ARchive to DOcument Spanish In the Pa?sos CATalans. Once the recordings and the corresponding transcriptions have been anonymized (a process expected to be completed some time in June 2026), any researcher who wishes to use the MP3 audios and/or the PDF transcripts in their research will be able to download them from the archive free of charge.

Part III, which deals with variationist sociolinguistics, analyzes variation in ideologies and ideological changes (1995?2017) based on childhood linguistic exposure and adult network ties, unpacking emergent lexical coding that indexes globalizing values and worldviews. Part III focuses on modeling (via multiple and hierarchical regression in SPSS) ideologies towards language, identity, and nationalism in 1995 and 2017 as well as longitudinal ideological changes from 1995 to 2017. Qualitative analyses complement quantitative analyses in documenting a striking longitudinal evolution in how research participants perceived and described their concepts of identity and country in 1995 and 2017. This evolution, rooted in local conceptualizations of related cultural categories registered in Part II, directly related to shifts in identitarian ways of speaking in 1995 and 2017. In this way, Part III documents the development of linguistic changes and emergent verbal repertoires indexical of globalized cultural practices in research participants? contemporary communicative ecologies.

The Springer Nature Link webpage for the book (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77167-5) provides more comprehensive book information, including the book's TOC, endorsements by Tony Woodbury and Carol Klee, and purchase options (hardcover and eBook). I have also attached a PDF of the official flyer for the book, which contains a code for a 20% discount off of the regular purchase prices.

I hope you find this information helpful. If so, please feel free to circulate widely. Many thanks!

Kind regards and all best,
Rob Vann
Western Michigan University



Robert E. Vann, PhD (he, him, his)

Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Founding Director, DARDOSIPCAT<https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dardosipcat/>

Department of Spanish<https://wmich.edu/spanish>
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
USA

E-mail: robert.vann at wmich.edu<mailto:robert.vann at wmich.edu>
Office Telephone: 269-387-3042
Department Fax: 269-387-3103

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From imgershon at gmail.com  Mon Jun  1 15:00:00 2026
From: imgershon at gmail.com (Ilana Gershon)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0700
Subject: [Linganth] Vita Peacock on her new book
Message-ID: <CAO8u+-OHP7HPb7f=KMevmrGDQ-TqUEdNnNw9jfOv=JrG+P28Jg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

Today on the blog, Vita Peacock discusses her book, *Digital Initiation
Rites: Joining Anonymous in Britain, *answering *Mikkel Kenni Bruun's
questions.*


*www.campanthropology.org <http://www.campanthropology.org>*


*Best,*

*Ilana*


*Press blurb: **Digital Initiation Rites* is an ethnography of Anonymous in
Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing
on testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom digital technologies
enabled and articulated a political transformation from being "asleep" to
being "awake," Vita Peacock narrates the process through which these
technologies have become implicated in profound subjective changes. The
book joins a wider return of the comparative method in anthropology by
placing these accounts in direct conversation with studies of traditional
initiation rites?ritual sequences of symbolic death and rebirth?that charge
the initiand with knowledge about a society to produce a moral
responsibility for it. Through this juxtaposition, Peacock conceptualizes
the historically novel form of digital initiation rites, in which digital
communication and information technologies play a substantive role in these
sequences.* Digital Initiation Rites *presents another angle to
contemporary debates around "conspiracy theorizing" and shows how the
consumption of digital media connects to the deep history of humankind.
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From anna.weichselbraun at univie.ac.at  Mon Jun  1 16:55:40 2026
From: anna.weichselbraun at univie.ac.at (Anna Weichselbraun)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 18:55:40 +0200
Subject: [Linganth] Fwd: Ling Anth & LLMs Reading Group - Zion Mengesha &
 Sharese King - June 15 - "Synthetic Selves"
References: <CAOgtJBagA4O+qVmduak3ZGPku6Cg9Om27CUdxwA2OZB4zDUUxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <666E51AB-6728-4FFD-A95E-C4DF3426BADF@univie.ac.at>

Dear Language Machines Network,

We are very excited to have Zion Mengesha (UCLA) and Sharese King (Chicago) join us on June 15, 2026 for our last session of the academic year to present their draft conference presentation "Synthetic Selves: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Language of AI Personas" from 18h-20h CEST (Paris/Vienna time).

Here's the abstract:
In 2023, Meta released AI ?personas?, user-generated large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots that carry humanlike conversations with users of its social media platforms. The proliferation of LLM-powered chatbots has led to the creation of hundreds of thousands of unique personae that millions of users interact with on a daily basis (Westfall 2025), ranging from celebrity characters like Paris Hilton and Snoop Dogg (Handman 2025) to occupational characters such as Black History Professor and Indian Nutritionist. Recent research has begun to show that anthropomorphism, or the tendency to ascribe human-like traits to chatbots (Epley et al. 2007; Waytz et al 2010), leads to higher rates of trust (Cohn et al 2024). Increased trust also increases opportunities for real harm, such as the spread of misinformation, misdiagnoses, and even suicide. However, little work has explored anthropomorphism from a sociolinguistic perspective. Using data from conversations with 25 African American AI personas and 25 white AI personas, balanced for gender, we examine patterns of variation in how differently racialized and gendered personas use features of African American Language (Rickford 1999), masculinized (Kiesling 2007) and feminized language (Lakoff 1973). We find that overall personae mirror raciolinguistic ideologies about African American speakers and gendered language ideologies about white speakers. Such results raise questions about how the parody of social types through linguistic variation reifies existing racialized and gendered stereotypes. 

Please RSVP by filling out this form <https://forms.gle/HtWKSHUH8oNggYGG7> to receive the Zoom link and a PDF of a recent article Sharese King co-authored in Nature which we have found very inspiring! We've streamlined our system so that you will receive an automatic response upon registering.

We?ll be starting up again in September and have some open slots. So please do write to us if you?d like to share a work in progress with the group. We are also continuing to accept submissions to the Special Issue in JLA! We hope to see some of you at the AI & Sociolinguistics Conference in Copenhagen in August or at 4S in Toronto in October. Siri and I will also be presenting at an AI and Knowledge Conference in T?bingen in September! 

We look forward to seeing you!

Siri and Anna


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From robert.vann at wmich.edu  Wed Jun  3 02:59:19 2026
From: robert.vann at wmich.edu (Robert E Vann)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 02:59:19 +0000
Subject: [Linganth] =?cp1258?q?Fw=3A_New_book_for_teaching_and_research_?=
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Dear Colleagues,

It has come to my attention that the listserv scrubbed the flyer with the discount code that I attached to my June 1st post about Documenting Gen ?95er Voices from Catalonia: Globalizing Ideologies and Ways of Speaking (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77167-5).

My apologies for any confusion this may have caused! The 20% discount code from the flyer is PALAUT.

Kind regards and all best,
Rob


Robert E. Vann, PhD (he, him, his)

Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Founding Director, DARDOSIPCAT<https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dardosipcat/>

Department of Spanish<https://wmich.edu/spanish>
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
USA

E-mail: robert.vann at wmich.edu<mailto:robert.vann at wmich.edu>
Office Telephone: 269-387-3042
Department Fax: 269-387-3103

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________________________________
From: Robert E Vann <robert.vann at wmich.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2026 9:59 PM
To: linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org <linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Cc: Robert E Vann <robert.vann at wmich.edu>
Subject: New book for teaching and research (Documenting Gen ?95er Voices from Catalonia: Globalizing Ideologies and Ways of Speaking)

Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to spread the word about a new book I have published with Palgrave: Documenting Gen ?95er Voices from Catalonia: Globalizing Ideologies and Ways of Speaking. The book, which features a foreword by Dr. Josep Maria Pons Ra?fols, Professor Emeritus of la Universitat de Barcelona and the first Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations and Linguistic Policy in the history of Catalonia's universities, may be of interest to fields including linguistic anthropology, language documentation, sociolinguistics, sociology, communications, political science, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.
This book documents the globalization of linguistic practices and ideologies (towards language, identity and society) of thirty-five members of the first generation in Catalonia to grow up with democracy and the linguistic normalization of Catalan. Study participants came from naturally occurring social networks based in the Barcelona districts of Sant Andreu and Pedralbes in 1995. Written in English for an international English-speaking audience, the volume presents a longitudinal study of 13 chapters (477 pages) organized into 5 parts (Introduction, Part I, Part II, Part III, Conclusion). The tripartite analysis encompasses the sociology of language, the ethnography of communication, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Part I, which deals with the sociology of language, reproduces, translates, and analyzes artifacts (1975?1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and Europeanization, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and globalization in Catalonia. Part I includes 20 linguistic artifacts (in full color and high resolution) dating from the first two decades of the Catalan language normalization project (with extensive English translations in many cases). These artifacts have not circulated anywhere since last century and, with the exception of a single artifact, none has ever been reproduced, much less translated, in any English-language publication that I know of. The four chapters of Part I document how large-scale language planning in the late twentieth century opened the door to the transformation of Catalan society through the dissemination of cultural products infused with positive ideologies towards Catalan language and culture. These chapters demonstrate how the linguistic normalization of Catalan may have influenced members of the Generation of 1995 in Catalonia in terms of (trans)localization and globalization, thus contextualizing the oral history documentation to come in Part II.

Part II, which deals with the ethnography of communication, transcribes, translates, and analyzes oral histories from 2017 Barcelona Metro, detailing ways of speaking (about topics like identity, cultural malaise, politics, and self-determination) involving globalization processes. Part II presents 60 discursive illustrations (in the form of orthographic transcriptions with English translations) of conversational tropes that characterized the speech of the study?s participants. These tropes incorporated dynamic uses of both Spanish and Catalan, illustrating how forms of speech that reproduced contemporary social struggles linguistically indexed the shift from fer pa?s ?nation building? in 1995 to fer futur ?future-building? in 2017. In this way, Part II documents the discursive construction of sociocultural realities that contributed to ?doing being Catalan? just a few months before Catalonia?s declaration of independence proclaimed the ill-fated Republic of Catalonia. The discursive illustrations presented in Part II in fact represent excerpts from longer conversational interviews that are already on deposit in DARDOSIPCAT (https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dardosipcat/), the Digital ARchive to DOcument Spanish In the Pa?sos CATalans. Once the recordings and the corresponding transcriptions have been anonymized (a process expected to be completed some time in June 2026), any researcher who wishes to use the MP3 audios and/or the PDF transcripts in their research will be able to download them from the archive free of charge.

Part III, which deals with variationist sociolinguistics, analyzes variation in ideologies and ideological changes (1995?2017) based on childhood linguistic exposure and adult network ties, unpacking emergent lexical coding that indexes globalizing values and worldviews. Part III focuses on modeling (via multiple and hierarchical regression in SPSS) ideologies towards language, identity, and nationalism in 1995 and 2017 as well as longitudinal ideological changes from 1995 to 2017. Qualitative analyses complement quantitative analyses in documenting a striking longitudinal evolution in how research participants perceived and described their concepts of identity and country in 1995 and 2017. This evolution, rooted in local conceptualizations of related cultural categories registered in Part II, directly related to shifts in identitarian ways of speaking in 1995 and 2017. In this way, Part III documents the development of linguistic changes and emergent verbal repertoires indexical of globalized cultural practices in research participants? contemporary communicative ecologies.

The Springer Nature Link webpage for the book (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77167-5) provides more comprehensive book information, including the book's TOC, endorsements by Tony Woodbury and Carol Klee, and purchase options (hardcover and eBook). I have also attached a PDF of the official flyer for the book, which contains a code for a 20% discount off of the regular purchase prices.

I hope you find this information helpful. If so, please feel free to circulate widely. Many thanks!

Kind regards and all best,
Rob Vann
Western Michigan University



Robert E. Vann, PhD (he, him, his)

Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Founding Director, DARDOSIPCAT<https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dardosipcat/>

Department of Spanish<https://wmich.edu/spanish>
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338
USA

E-mail: robert.vann at wmich.edu<mailto:robert.vann at wmich.edu>
Office Telephone: 269-387-3042
Department Fax: 269-387-3103

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From Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu  Wed Jun  3 14:27:33 2026
From: Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu (Jillian Cavanaugh)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 14:27:33 +0000
Subject: [Linganth] SLA Conference 2027--Save the date!
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Hi All,

The 2027 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference will be held on June 3-5, 2027, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. More information will be forthcoming, including a call for papers in the fall. For now, please just save those dates.

We look forward to welcoming you to a vibrant and engaging conference next summer!

Jillian


Jillian R. Cavanaugh
she/her/hers

President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Professor
Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11210
(718)951-5000 ex. 3803
Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5198-0430

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