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Jessica López-Espino. 2024. Re-hearing parents as risks to children: Institutional listening practices in a California child welfare court. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (early view).

Jillian Cavanaugh. 2021. Transcription as Embodied Entextualization: Process, Transformation, Authority. Language, Culture and Society 3(2):154-179.

Jessica López-Espino. 2021. "Raciolinguistic ideologies of Spanish speakers in a California child welfare court," in Metalinguistic Communities: Case STudies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language, ed. Avineri and Harasta. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Danilyn Rutherford. 2021. Becoming an Operating System: Disability, Difference, and the Ethics of Communication in the United States. American Ethnologist 48(2):139-152.

Marisa Casillas, The University of Chicago
Daylong Recordings as a Method for Naturalistically Observing Child Home Environments

Chip Zuckerman, Boston College
ELAN skill sharing session

Eitan Wilf at CaMP
We attended Wilf’s presentation for the Communication, Media and Performance Anthropology reading group.

Drew Kerr, UCSD
"A Moment Inside/Outside of the Bayaabaan": Field Discussants' Comments About Seeking Quiet Amid Old Delhi's "Wilderness" in the Museum-House and Poetry of Mirza Ghalib
Kitchen Session

Chip Zuckerman, Boston College
Where the Action Is (introduction to book manuscript)

Paja Faudree, Brown
Of Turtles and Solid Ground: “Mazatec Whistle Speech” in Social and Historical Context

Spring reading session
Introductions to special issues as a genre.

Vincent Pak
The Lines and Curves of Neo-Homophobia in Singapore

Rihan Yeh, UCSD
Two People Pointing at a Map: Indexicality, Iconicity, and Narrative (or, Ghost Deixis and the Public Secret)
Kitchen Session

Georgia Ennis, Western Carolina University
Does Kichwa Information Really Want to Be Free? Ideologies of Access and Value in the Praxis of Language Reclamation

Andrew Carruthers, Penn
Thick[-ER] Description: On the Arts of Comparison in an Archipelagic World

Jonathan Rosa, Stanford
Indexical Disorder and the Diacritics of Raciolinguistic Life

Quichi Patlan, UT Austin
“In Love with the Wolf”: Beading an Otavalan Runa Art Form with Bivalency and Hemispheric Indigeneity

John Haviland, UCSD
ELAN Demonstration and Skill Sharing Workshop
Besides ELAN, John discussed the subtitling of video clips and introduced software to that purpose. For links to free downloads, see the flyer here.

Francis Cody at CaMP
We attended Cody’s presentation for the Communication, Media and Performance Anthropology reading group.

Fall reading session
Discussion of recent articles in linguistic anthropology.

Chip Zuckerman, UCSD
ELAN skill sharing session

Jessica Pouchet, Bucknell University
Trees Worth More Than Gold: Debates in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Alicia Wright, UCSD
ASL Interpreting, Identity, and Access (dissertation outline and chapter section)

Grant Leuning (Comm), The Face of the Haenyeo
and
Paul Sheppard (Anth), “The Mountain Will Teach You Through Your Body”: An Invitation to Theorise Multi-Sensory/Multi-Species Communication in Japanese Mountain Asceticism
Kitchen Session

Jillian Cavanaugh, CUNY
Master class on transcription
presenters:
- Michael Hillyer on Kumiai negotiations of memory and place
- Alicia Wright on accessibility, race, interpreting, and community
- Rachel Hicks on Pijin/English codeswitching in Solomon Islands schools

Sonia Das, NYU
Racial Optics of Escalation

Francis Cody, University of Toronto
Law at Large: Notes on the Public Mediation of Community in the Juridical Field
(session organized jointly with the South Asia Initiative)

Drew Kerr, Anthropology, UCSD
Feeling (in) the Indian Public Sphere: Circulations of Urdu Poetry and Emotions (position paper for PhD candidacy qualifying exam)
Discussant: Ryan Perkins, Stanford

Rihan Yeh, Anthropology, UCSD
Introduction to Scopic Subjectivities: Spectacle and Surveillance in a Mexican Border City (book manuscript)
Discussant: Constantine Nakassis, The University of Chicago

Juan Luis Rodríguez, Queens College, CUNY
Linguistic Intimacy and Semiotic Conjectures: Venezuelan Diasporic Sociolinguistic Imaginaries

Michael Hillyer, Anthropology, UCSD
Grant proposal materials
and
Rachel Hicks, Anthropology, UCSD
AAA conference presentation run-through

Michael Berman, UCSD
Circulating Silence: Gossip, Cancel Culture, and the Fracturing of Communities

Rachel Hicks, UCSD
Teaching English in Solomon Islands: Claiming a Colonial Language
Discussant: Hannah Foster, UT Austin
(Workshop)

Ryo Morimoto, Princeton
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and the Half-life Politics of Nuclear Things in Coastal Fukushima

Virginia Escobedo Aguirre, Independent scholar
Silences to Survive: What Do Journalists in Mexico Avoid Talking About?
Discussant: Alicia Wright, UCSD
(Workshop)

Jillian Cavanaugh, CUNY
Transcription as Embodied Entextualization: Process, Transformation, Authority

John Haviland, UCSD
Unspoken Speech: Modality and Mobility

Alicia Wright, UCSD
Sociocultural and Linguistic Negotiations between Black Deaf Signers and Hearing American Sign Language-English Interpreters
(PhD qualifying exam practice)
Discussant: Sara Goico, Sociology, UCLA

Jacob Hellman (Communication), Investing and Investing Oneself Into
and
Maya Azarova, Discussion in Slack #software Channel
(Grad student data session)

Sandhya Narayanan, University of Nevada, Reno
‘Ni Paisana; Ni Jacinta’: Language and the Interstices of Indigenous Femininity in Peru

Anita Chang, CSU, East Bay
Book talk and workshop on Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Digital Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics (on indigenous language revitalization in Taiwan and Hawai'i)
co-hosted by the Linguistic Field Research Lab

Reading session on transcription (prequel to Feb 2022 transcription masterclass with Jillian Cavanaugh, CUNY)

Michael Berman, UCSD
Introduction, Heart of a Heartless World: Alienation, Compassion, and Listening in the Making of Secularist Japan
(workshop)
Discussant: Shunsuke Nozawa, Hokkaido University

Duncan Wheeler (Scripps Institute of Oceanography), Identifying Cultural Conflicts in Physical Oceanography
and
Magdalena Donea (Comm), #HowToEscapeAFire
Kitchen Session

Alejandro Paz, UToronto
Book talk on Latinos in Israel: Language and Unexpected Citizenship

Francisco Cruces, UNED (Spain)
The Poetics of Intimacy: On Displacement, Closure, Signature, and Resonance
plus
A showing of his film El orden que habito. Una sinfonía de interiores (sponsored by CILAS)

Sara Goico, UCLA
"Bring the Plantains": Adult-Child Directive Routines in Iquitos, Peru (Data session)

Danilyn Rutherford, UCSC
Becoming an Operating System
Discussant: Louise Hickman, Communication
(Workshop)

Ninna Villavicencio, “We Are Empowered Women”: Self-Narratives and the Discourse of Human Rights in Guatemala’s Western Highlands
and
Sofía Lana, The Rhythms of Melting Glaciers in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia: Temporal Cosmos and Governance in the Altiplano
(Grad student data session)

Leanne Williams Green, UCSD
“Deep Shona,” “Lazy Shona”: Language and Authority beyond Biblical Literalism
Discussant: Rihan Yeh
(Workshop)

Kathryn Woolard, UCSD
What's Wrong With This Picture? The Reception and Production of the Sociolinguistic Self

Alicia Wright, UCSD
Teaching, Learning, Interpreting, and Rapping: An Analysis and Discussion of an Interpreter-Mediated Multimodal Interaction
Discussant: Sarah Hankins, Music
(Workshop)

Miranda Wu, Expressed Emotion during the Healing Process
and
Rachel Hicks, “Yu from wea?” Maintenance of Kastom and Identity among Solomon Islands Urban Youth
(Grad student data session)

Courtney Handman, UT Austin
The Materiality of Circulation: Mountains, Languages, and the Decolonization of New Guinea

Jessica López-Espino, NYU
Circulating Stereotypes: Raciolinguistic Ideologies of “Spanish Speakers” in a California Child Welfare Court

Cécile Evers, Pomona
“We Pay Attention to What Comes Out of Our Mouths”: Exploring Social Mobility among French-Muslim Youth from Marseille through Language

Erin Debenport, UCLA
Informal conversation in the Lab
plus
The Language of Secrecy and Exposure in the Pueblo Borderlands
(Colloquium lecture in Anthropology)

In the fall, we held several closed-door sessions with the Linguistic Anthropology Working Group: one to discuss a published text, another to workshop a dissertation chapter, and a third to prep for a dissertation defense.

Rihan Yeh, El Colegio de Michoacán (Mexico)
States of Exception and the Formulation of Collectivity in Tijuana

Dredge Byung'chu Kang, UCSD
What’s in a Name? Re-Articulating the “Transsexual Lady” amid a Proliferation of Genders and Sexualities in Thailand

Lynn Hou, UCSD
Language Ideologies About the Uses of an Emerging Sign Language in the San Juan Quiahije Chatino Municipality
(with ASL interpreters present)

Norma Mendoza-Denton, UCLA
The Interpretation of Non-Native Speakers in U.S. Police Encounters

Barbara LeMaster, CSU Long Beach
The Commodification of Deafness
(with ASL interpreters present)

Herb Clark, Stanford
How Do We Depict Things in Everyday Discourse, and Why

Hyejin Nah, UC Riverside
Bridging Old and New Terrains: Urban Mapuche Sovereignty Practices on Facebook

Victor Corona, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Discourse Practices in the Process of Becoming a Mechanic: Field Data from Vocational Schools in Lyon and Barcelona

Chuck Goodwin, UCLA
Special guest seminar presenting work on a new book in preparation

Federico Rossano, UCSD
The Order of Gaze Behavior in Face-to-Face Interaction

Mara Green, UCSD
At the Edge of Language: Nepal's Deaf Society, Natural Sign, and the Ethics of Interaction

John Haviland, UCSD
Signs, Interaction, & Coordination: The Interactive Foundations of “Z”—An Emerging (Sign) Language

Constantine V. Nakassis, University of Chicago
The Style of Tamil Youth Linguistic Practice, On and Off the Screen

Elise Kramer, UCSD
Of LOLCats and Doge: Textual Materiality and the Embodiment of Computer-Mediated “Voices”

Inmaculada García Sánchez, Temple University
Moroccan Immigrant Childhoods in Spain: The Everyday Politics of Belonging

Juan Díez Medrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Patricia Baquedano-López, UC Berkeley
Of Angels and Spirits: The Socialization of Religious Belief and Sensation in Children's Catholic Education

Francisco Cruces, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
My Life in a Tweet: Narratives and the Poetics of the Intimate Sphere in Madrid City

Mary Bucholtz, UC Santa Barbara
SKILLS Outreach Program: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society

James Slotta, UCSD
"Talk" is Good to Think and Good to Talk: Fashions of Speaking about "Talk" (gen) and Fashioning a Polity through Talk about "Talk" (gen) in Melanesia

Daniela Veronesi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Formulating Music, Laminating Action: Instruction and Correction in Ensemble Music Workshops

Niko Besnier, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Humor and Humiliation: Narratives of Modernity on Nukulaelae Atoll

Judith Irvine, University of Michigan
Going Upscale? From French in Senegal to Senegalese in France, 1975-2010

Kit Woolard, UCSD
Language Politics and Politicians’ Language in the Contact Zone: On Analyzing Parodies of a Catalan President’s Non-Native Catalan

Jennifer Jackson, UCLA
Encoding Agentive Publics: The Political and Moral Economy of Syntax, Register, and Context as Conditions of Rule in Madagascar

Jocelyn Ahlers, CSU San Marcos
Native California Languages as Semiotic Resources in the Performance of Identity

Kate Miller, UCSD
Performing the Moral Community in Northern Pakistan

Angela Nonaka, UT Austin
Ban Khor Sign Language: Life Cycle of a Thai Speech/Sign Community
(plus informal talk about research trajectories)

Begoña Echeverria, UC Riverside
The Lamina, the Witch and the Pronoun: Speaking Basque to the ‘Feminine’ in Catholic Texts and Legends

Pedro Mateo Pedro, Harvard
Classifier ix: A Case of Code Switching in Q’anjob’al Maya

John Haviland, UCSD
From 'Gesturecraft' to Grammar: Action, Gesture, and Sign in Zinacantec Family Homesign

Elizabeth Peacock, UCSD
Stance-Taking in a Social Minefield: Ukrainian Youth and Emigration Discourses
and
Shane McClain, UCSD
Grammatical Indexing of Home Base in Travel Narratives of Migrant P'urhepecha
(combined session)

Francis Zimmermann, EHESS Paris (France)
Tramping Up the Road in Silence on His Way to Benares: Anthropological Remarks on Silence, Voice-Over, and Iconicity

Sara Goico, UCSD
Marginalized Populations in Educational Contexts: Microanalysis of a Deaf Student’s Communication System in an Inclusion Classroom in Iquitos, Peru

Gregory Thompson, UCSD
Discourse as Pareidolia: Seeing "Things" in the Talk of Others

Justin Richland, UC Irvine
Perpetuities Against Rules: Law-Time, Life-Time and the Irresolution of Inheritance

Miyako Inoue, Stanford
From Text to Inscription: The Japanese Steno-Typewriter and its Turning of Speech into a Forensic Object

Nate Dumas, UC Santa Barbara
Rethinking Transcription in Contemporary Studies of Speakers of Stuttering Varieties

Ana Celia Zentella, UCSD
Bilinguals and Borders: Transfronterizos' Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism

Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco
What's in a Name? Referential Accuracy and Credibility in Asylum Hearings
(co-sponsored by the European Studies Speaker Series of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies)

Laura Graham, University of Iowa
Quoting Mario Juruna: Linguistic Imagery and the Transformation of Indigenous Voice in the Brazilian Print Press
(co-sponsored by the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies)

Gabriella Caballero, UCSD
Documenting Word Prosody in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)

Natalie Schenker, UCSD
Broca’s Area: A Perspective from the Digital Brain Library

Thomas Flamson, UCLA
The Encryption Theory: Relevance and the Evolution of Humor

Melanie McComsey, UCSD
Route Descriptions in Spanish and Juchitán Zapotec
and
Sara Goico, UCSD
Language Functionality in Deaf Classrooms in Iquitos, Peru
(combined session)

Ben Bergen, UCSD
Perspective in Language Comprehension

David Pedersen, UCSD
Face Value: Expressions of Want and Wealth in El Salvador and the United States

Margarita Valdovinos, UT Austin
Actions, Words and Relations: Ritual Speech Among the Cora of West Mexico (Nayarit)

Steve Black, UCLA/UCSD
Toward an Ethics of Interaction: Living with HIV/ AIDS Amid Stigma in South Africa

Pep Soler, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
Linguistic Ideologies in Estonia and Catalonia: A Comparison of Speakers’ Evaluations and Beliefs About Their Languages

Rihan Yeh, UCSD
Two Traffickers in Public

Melanie McComsey, UCSD

Kit Woolard, UCSD
Changing Lives, Changing Language in Catalonia

Elizabeth Peacock, UCSD
On Language Ideologies Among Adolescents in Ukraine

John McGraw, UCSD
Kinds of Signs: Determining the Indexical Meaning of Tz’ite’ Seeds in a Form of Mayan Divination

Alicia Snyder-Frey, UCSD
He Kuleana Kō Kākou: Language Learning and the Construction of (alter)Native Identities among College Students in Honolulu

Janis Jenkins, UCSD

Joe Hankins, UCSD
The Sound of Public Scrutiny

Mary Bucholz, UC Santa Barbara
Gender, Stance, and Expertise in Scientific Problem Solving Among High-Achieving Undergraduates

Keith M. Murphy, UC Irvine
Projects and Places: Reality and Reason in Architectural Critique

Shane McClain, UCSD
Deictic Motion in P’urhépecha

Minerva Oropeza, CIESAS Golfo (Mexico)
Electronic Corpus of Mexican Folktales Project

Josep Soler Carbonell, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
Linguistic Ideologies in Estonia: Speakers’ Evaluations and Perceptions of the Estonian and the Russian Languages

Rupert Stasch, UCSD
Some Everyday Language of White Primitivism: Textual Features and Textual Effects in Travel Writing About Korowai of West Papua

Fred Erickson, UCLA
Microethnography of Social Interaction: Finding and Using Evidence from Video and Fieldwork

Tom Csordas, UCSD
Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling

Candler Hallman, UCSD
‘Conflict by Other Means’: Language in the Northern Irish Victims’ Rights Movement

John B. Haviland, UCSD
Meta-Iconic Regimentation: Portability and Two Clines of Semiotic Motivation in an Emerging Manual Communication System in a Mayan Community

Candy Goodwin, UCLA
Constructing Inequality as Situated Practice

Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Do You Bleed Salsa or Sofrito?”: Racializations and Linguistic Identity Performances Among “MexiRicans”

Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant Language in the New Latino Diaspora

Jack DuBois, UC Santa Barbara
Emerging Emotions: When Affect is a Stance

José del Valle, CUNY Grad Center
Everybody’s Usage: The Politics of Grammar in the ‘Hispanofonía’

Adam Kendon

Sonya Pritzker, UCLA
Language Socialization and Ideologies of Translation in American Chinese Medical Education

Isabel Galhano Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
Micro-Analyzing Face-to-Face Interaction: About Some Ways Body Movements Accompany Speech

Clara Saraiva, Instituto de Investigação Cientifica Tropical/Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)Possessed by Brazilian Spirits in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Cults in Lisbon

Saúl Mercado, UC Berkeley
Linguistic Citizenship: Immigration, Social Cohesion, and Education in Barcelona, Spain

Geoffrey T. Raymond, UC Santa Barbara
Data session

Rafael Nuñez, UCSD
Facing the Sunrise: Mind, World, and Culture in the Bodily-Based Lexicalization of East-West Absolute Frames of Reference in Aymara

Simeon Floyd, UT Austin
Gesture and Time in the Amazonian Language Nheengatú
(Data session)

Alexandra Jaffe, CSU Long Beach
Cooperation and New Models of Bilingual Education on Corsica

Carol Padden, UCSD
Data session

Claire Ramsey, UCSD
Language Origin and Extinction: Narratives of Elderly Deaf Signers in Mexico City

Barry Brown, UCSD
Data session

Susan U. Philips, University of Arizona
How Tongans Make Sense of Variation in the Use of Lexical Honorifics

Alessandra Fasulo, University of Rome (Italy)
Narrative and Gesture in a Southern Italy Clothing Factory

Joel Kuipers, Georgetown University
Material Witnesses: Language, Objects & Participation in Middle School

Keith McNeil, UCSD
Performing Divinity with a Difference: Iconopraxis and Dual-Embodiment in African and Hindu Traditions of Spirit Mediumship in the Southern Caribbean

Kensy Cooperider, UCSD
Adult Pointing Gestures

Chuck Goodwin, UCLA
All day seminar