John Gumperz dedicated his life to language. A UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology, he died at the age of 91 on Friday in Santa Barbara. Gumperz was an intellectual and adventurer — a ...

The SLA 2022 Spring Conference was jointly organized by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) and the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) at the University of Colorado ...

People make meaning in and through language. We collaboratively produce narrative accounts of experience with those around us, according to—or in resistance to—normative frameworks for communication.

Introduction: Directions in the anthropology of Language / N.J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell -- Basics of a language / R.M.W. Dixo -- The item/system problem / N.J. Enfield -- Language and ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...