Society for Linguistic Anthropology Business Meeting AAA 2016 Minneapolis MN

Reports – President’s reports : Bonnie Urciuoli – Treasurer: Kristina Wirtz – JLA/ SLA Publication Plan: Misty Jaffe – Program Chair: Judy Pine – Language and Social Justice: Hilary Parsons Dick – AN SLA Section News: Anna Babel – SLA Digital Content/Website: Chad Nilep (in absentia) – Nominations: Brigittine French

Announcement of Awards SLA Student Paper Prizes •Undergraduate Paper Prize presented by Debra Vidali

•Graduate Paper Prize presented by Shalini Shankar

SLA Sapir Book Award presented by Kristina Wirtz

SLA Award for Public Outreach/Community Service presented by Paul Kroskrity

President’s Report

Report on SLA Collaboration and Outreach Initiative, now established as SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award

Fund conference submissions beyond AAAs (Travel reimbursement up

to $500 per person/$4,000 annually; 2-3 year trial) Goals: • to promote the dissemination of activist linguistic anthropology work

that enhances public understanding of language in relation to social equality;

• to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration

CFP: Keep an eye out early next year for the 2017 Call for Proposals , for 2018 conferences.

Past support: American Association of Applied Linguistics (Orlando FL 4/16)

Invited Colloquium:

“Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, and

Social Justice:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic and

Social Change”

•Co-Organizers: Jonathan D. Rosa & Netta Avineri

•Panelists: Netta Avineri, Susan D. Blum, Eric J. Johnson,

Bernard Perley, Jonathan D. Rosa,

Kathleen Riley, Ana Celia Zentella

SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award (cntd.) Call for proposals went out 2016 for funding in 2017. Awards for 2017 were made to support two panels: --“Language and Educational Justice: Critiquing Deficit Approaches to the Education of Linguistically and Racially Marginalized Students” to be presented at the 1/17 LSA by Mary Bucholtz, Anne Charity Hudley, Anna Bax, Emiliana Cruz, Michael DeGraff, Kris Guttiérez, Joseph Hill, Katie Lateef-Jan, Wesley Leonard, Jessica Love-Nichols, Christine Mallinson, Jonathan Rosa, and Ana Celia Zentella. -- “Raciolinguistic Approaches to the Analysis of Language and Social Life” to be presented at the 6/17 International Association of Applied Linguistics World Congress of Applied Linguistics by Jonathan Rosa, H. Samy Alim, Mary Bucholtz, Angela Reyes, Nelson Flores, Adrienne Lo, and Ramón Martínez.

Report from Section Assembly •Restructuring AAA EB/SAEC with new role of immediate past convenor; make EB/SAEC more proactive. •Discussion of Section and Interest Group futures •New format for Anthropology News •Community Engagement Grants (to bring community people to AAA, covers honoraria and space rental in non-AAA venue) •Mentoring grants available to sections.

• Presidential Conversations for 2016: MENTORING III: ENTERING THE MARKET L&SJ: MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

•Gumperz Award: Progress to date

•2018 spring meetings: Progress to date •Amend bylaws to specify terms for members-at-large (3 years) which will also facilitate spring meeting planning.

Recently filled appointed positions SLA media: JLA Editor: Paul Kockelman SLA Digital Content Editor: Mariam Durrani SLA Web Assistant: Diego Arispe-Bazán SLA-AN incoming column co-editor: Ilana Gershon Nominations Committee: Brigittine French (chair), Jillian Cavanaugh, Anthony Webster Program Chair: Jennifer Roth-Gordon

2016 Treasurer’s Report Society for Linguistic

Anthropology

Kristina Wirtz

(Outgoing) SLA Treasurer

Net assets

Past:

• January 1, 2014: $175,485.09

• January 1, 2015: $189,457.09

• January 1, 2016: $198,016.38

Future (projection):

• January 1, 2017: $215,000

• January 1, 2018: $230,000

Main Revenue in 2016

• Membership dues: around $20,000.00

• Journal of Linguistic Anthropology: around $15,000.00

Main Expenditures in 2016

• Awards: $4,400.00

• Website: $3,200.00

• Conference travel award: $3,500

• Meeting food (SLA cash bar): $3,100.00

• Meeting equipment rental: $1,600.00

• Course release support for JLA Editor: $10,000.00

JLA/Wiley-Blackwell

• AAA’s extension of its journals’ current publishing agreement with WB continues through 2017

• JLA will participate in the post-2017 AAA journal portfolio and new contract

Membership Report

• As of September 2016, we have 562 active members (405 professional; 151 student; 6 life).

• We had 589 members in September 2015 (compared to an average of 548 in September 2014).

• Our current numbers reflect a small decline of about 5% from last year.

Thank you and

Welcome:

Erika Hoffman-Dilloway

Incoming SLA Treasurer

Journal of

Linguistic Anthropology

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Overview of Volume 26 (2016)

17

Volume 26 contents

18

Publication totals for Volume 26 (2016)

19

Open Anthropology “A public journal of the American Anthropological Association”

20

Déjà Lu “An initiative of the World Council of Anthropological Associations”

21

Impact factor and rankings

22

12-month submission numbers 18 Nov. 2015 – 18 Nov. 2016

Acceptance rates since 2012

Average days from submission

to final decision: 93

Six-year totals (2011–2016)

24

Initiatives

25

Thanks!

26

Slides for report

Judy Pine, Program Committee chair

Thanks to the committee

• Netta Avineri

• Joyce Bennett

• Laura Brown

• Colleen Cotter

• Christina Davis

• Jennifer Dickinson

• Sherina Feliciano-Santos

• Jennifer Guzman

• Sarah Hillewaert

• Harriet Klein

• Barbara LeMaster

• Jennifer Schlegel

The statistics

• Four invited sessions, with two co-sponsored • 2 Presidential Conversations • 29 panels submitted • 45 individually submitted papers

– Paper submissions evaluated, 4 transferred for poor fit for SLA

– Poster session, multi-media focus, 9 presentations – Remaining papers formed into 5 panels to submit to

AAA

• 33 panels accepted by AAA

AAA 2017

• Jennifer Roth-Gordon incoming Program Committee chair

• November 29-December 3 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel & Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC

Society for Linguistic Anthropology:

Committee on

Language & Social Justice

(LSJ)

November 19, 2016

Minneapolis

LSJ Overview

History & Mission The SLA’s Committee on Language and Social Justice (LSJ) was created

in 2009 out of the Task Group on Language and Social Justice. The LSJ works to increase awareness--both within the AAA and among the general public--of the ways language is implicated in social discrimination and, where appropriate, to respond to specific instances of language-related discrimination and injustice.

Website http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/category/language-and-social-justice/

LSJ Current Core Members

Netta Avineri (chair) Robin Conley Riner (chair) Susan D. Blum Hilary Parsons Dick

LSJ Recent, Ongoing, & Proposed Initiatives

Changing mascot names (Bernard Perley and Netta Avineri presented at the AAAL)

Eliminate the I-word (Jonathan Rosa presented at the AAAL)

US Census language questions, categories, and labels (Ana Celia Zentella presented at AAAL)

Dialogue on the word/language gap

California Senate Bill 1174/ Bilingual education

Language and refugees

University building names

Language and health care; discourses of doctors; access

Engaging more students; young people; student projects

Interpreters and translators as related to bilingual/global economies

Gender and women; culture of assault

Know your rights and police training

LSJ Publications Netta Avineri, Susan D. Blum, Eric J. Johnson, Kathleen Riley, Ana Celia

Zentella. The gap that won’t be filled: an anthropological critique of the

language gap. Anthropology News

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/08/24/the-gap-that-wont-

be-filled/

Avineri, N., Blum, Susan D., Garcia-Mateus, S. and Zentella, A.C. (August

2016). Save CA Residents from a Language Drought: Vote ‘Yes’ This Fall.

Huffington Post Blog

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/american-anthropological-association/save-ca-

residents-from-a_b_11387726.html

Avineri, N. and Rosa, J.D. (July 2016). “Interdisciplinary Collaborations

around Language and Social Justice”. Anthropology News

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/07/07/interdisciplinary-

collaborations-around-language-and-social-justice/

LSJ_Publications (continued)

International Multilingual Research Journal special issue on the

Language Gap, edited by Eric J. Johnson

• Eric J. Johnson and Ana Celia Zentella, Introducing the

Language Gap

• Susan D. Blum, Unseen WEIRD Assumptions: The So-Called

Language Gap Discourse and Ideologies of Language,

Childhood, and Learning

• Eric J. Johnson, Netta Avineri & David Cassels Johnson,

Exposing Gaps in/between Discourses of Linguistic Deficits

In progress: Netta Avineri, Laura Graham, Eric Johnson, Robin

Conley Riner, and Jonathan Rosa. Language & Social Justice:

Case Studies on Communication & the Creation of Just

Societies.

LSJ Conference Activity: AAA & AAAL 2016

SLA Presidential Conversation on Multilingual Education and Social Justice. Thursday Nov 17, 12:15-1:30

Patricia Baquedano Lopez, Ted Everhart, Magaly Lavandez, Krystal Smalls, Netta Avineri, Shawna Shapiro, Rodney Hopson

AAA Committee for Human Rights Roundtable: Human Rights, the Academy, and Beyond: How Anthropologists Engage Saturday, Nov. 19, 1:45-3:30 pm

Includes discussion of LSJ initiatives by Kate Riley Intersectional Perspectives on the Unethical Reliance on Contingent Labor in Academia Friday, Nov. 18, 8-9:45 am

Organized by LSJ member & Committee on Ethics Chair Steve Black and co-chaired by Netta Avineri and Kate Riley.

Tweet-and-Storify about Language and Social Justice at AAA 2016 Curated by Netta Avineri, Susan D. Blum, Hilary Parsons Dick, Mariam Durrani, and Kate Riley

2016 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS; ORLANDO, FL (APRIL 2016) Invited Colloquium: “Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic and Social Change”

Co-Organized by Jonathan D. Rosa & Netta Avineri Supported by Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Panelists: Netta Avineri, Susan D. Blum, Eric J. Johnson, Bernard Perley, Jonathan D. Rosa, Kathleen Riley, Ana Celia Zentella

LSJ Needs/Involvement/Actions

1. Netta Avineri & Robin Conley Riner will be finishing their tenures as LSJ

Core Members at the end of December. So, we need nominations for two

new core members.

Send to Brigittine French (frenchb@grinnell.edu) or

Jillian Cavanaugh (jcavanaugh@brooklyn.cuny.edu) by

November 28.

2. To join the LSJ, please email Hilary Parsons Dick

(dickh@arcadia.edu).

3. Ideas for new initiatives or to connect with ongoing initiatives, email

Susan Blum (sblum@nd.edu) or Hilary (dickh@arcadia.edu).

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2016 SLA Nominations Committee Report

Current committee:

• Brigittine French, chair

• frenchb@grinnell.edu

• Jillian Cavanaugh

• jcavanaugh@brooklyn.edu

• Tony Webster

• awebster@utexas.edu

Note: if interested in rotating onto the nominations committee at the close of the 2017 meetings, contact Brigittine French

SLA Secretary-Treasurer

(2016-2018)

Erika Hoffman-Dilloway

SLA 2016 Election Results

SLA Member-at-Large

(2016-2018)

Jennifer Reynolds

SLA 2016 Election Results

Open Seats for 2017

President-Elect

(replacing Asif Agha)

Appointed Positions:

Seeking Volunteers

Language and Social Justice Task Force

(2 members to start Jan. 2017)

Student representative (to start after the 2017 AAAs)

2016 SLA Undergraduate Essay Contest report by Debra Spitulnik Vidali, SLA Executive Board Member-at-Large

Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology

confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate

research paper.

Judges’ criteria

“Essays are judged on the basis of research contributions to the field of

linguistic anthropology, clarity, organization, and engagement with

existing scholarship.”

Winner receives

cash award

certificate of accomplishment

modest grant to support travel to AAA annual meeting

encouragement to submit winning essay to Journal of Linguistic

Anthropology, for consideration via peer review process.

2016 SLA Undergraduate Essay Contest

HONORABLE MENTIONS Emily Corvi (Hunter College)

“China, The Source of Fantasy.”: Material (in)Authenticity and the Emergence of the Racialized Other

Alice Frederick (Princeton U)

Language Ideologies and Esperanto: Identity, Neutrality, and Universalism in a Planned Language

Carla Nieves (University of Puerto Rico)

Cooperation through Translingual and Transmodal Practice: A Case Study of a Deaf–Hearing Family in Puerto Rico

Congratulations Winners & Honorable Mentions!

Thank you judges!

Thank you SLA Board for supporting this year’s

recommendation!

2016 SLA Undergraduate Essay Contest

CO-WINNERS Jack LaViolette (UPenn)

“Cyber-Metapragmatics” and Alterity on reddit.com Alessandra Rosen (Hunter College)

“Yoga is Made for You”: Meta-Voicing Yoga Brand and Type

Graduate Essay Contest: Honorable Mention

Crystal Sheedy

University at Albany (SUNY)

Advisor: Dr. James P. Collins

Graduate Essay Contest: Honorable Mention

Nora Tyeklar

The University of Texas Austin

Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth L. Keating

& Dr. Anthony K. Webster

Graduate Essay Contest: Co-Winner

Molly Bloom

University of California, Los Angeles

Advisor: Norma Mendoza Denton

Graduate Essay Contest: Co-Winner

Janet E. Connor

University of Chicago

Advisors: Susan Gal and Julie Chu

2016 Sapir Prize Committee:

• Joe Errington

• Joel Kuipers

• Kristina Wirtz

Edward Sapir Book Prize

Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes

Co-authors of:

Discourse Analysis

Beyond the Speech Event

SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service

2016 Selection Committee: • Paul Kroskrity (chair) • Mary Bucholtz • Ariana Mangual Figueroa

2016 winner

Ana Celia Zentella

In recognition for work that effectively impacts public awareness of social issues involving

language and communication and represents a significant service to a particular community

outside of the academy

Remembering our late colleagues

John Bernard (Barney) Bate

1960-2016

Dennis Tedlock

1939-2016

Paul Friedrich

1927-2016

Finally…

• Don’t forget to check out the SLA recent publication “DIY” exhibit table in the cash bar!

• If you have something to say about the way the election went, Language and Social Justice might be the place to say it.

Announcement LSA Summer Linguistic Institute (July 5-August 1, 2017 at the University of Kentucky) Courses of interest to linguistic anthropologists, including: English in Appalachia – Kirk Hazen (ADS professor) Genetic Creolistics and Genetic Linguistics – Salikoko Mufwene GIS Mapping for Linguistic Research – Jennifer Cramer Intonation and Social Identity – Nicole Holiday and Paul Reed Introduction to Discourse Analysis – Barbara Johnstone Introduction to Sociolinguistics – Penny Eckert Language and Education – Anne Charity Hudley Language and Race - Elaine Chun Language in Culture – Michael Silverstein Language, Gender, and Sexuality – Lal Zimman Linguistic Landscapes – Tommaso Milani Perceptual Dialectology – Dennis Preston Sociolinguistics of the Arab World – Keith Walters Speech Play and Verbal Art – Anthony Webster The Origins of Language – Jim Hurford Typology of Spatial Representation – Jurgen Bohnemeyer Visual-Linguistic Ethnography – Norma Mendoza-Denton and Ashley Stinnett The website is https://lsa2017.uky.edu/