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ABSTRACT Purpose Methods Results Conclusion Clinical trials play a large role in oncological. Many barriers to participation in cancer clinical trials exist, including a patient's status as “culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)”. Globally, it is thought that CALD patients experience lower rates of trial participation, although very few studies quantify rates of cancer clinical trial participation in this group. Our study therefore aims to characterize CALD participation in cancer clinical trials in an Australian setting.We conducted a retrospective analysis of data from the Cancer Clinical Trials Centre at Austin Health, a large tertiary metropolitan cancer center in Melbourne, Australia. Participation in cancer clinical trials between groups was compared using simple descriptive analysis, Chi‐squared analysis, and logistic regression.Of 2568 patients (mean age 57.9 years, 37% female) offered entry into a cancer clinical trial between 2018 and 2023, 26% were from a CALD background (n = 678), and 9% had a preferred language other than English (n = 219). A greater proportion of non‐CALD patients participated in a cancer clinical trial compared with CALD patients (37% versus 33% respectively, p = 0.04). In logistic regression models, Arabic (OR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.21–0.93 [univariate]) and Greek (OR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.31–0.91 [multivariate]) language groups, along with overall CALD status (OR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.67–0.99 [univariate]) were associated with lower cancer clinical trial participation.We found that CALD patients, those born in non‐English speaking countries, and specific language groups, were associated with lower cancer clinical trial participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article revisits threatening discourses from the perspectives of anthropological linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, speech act theory and pragmatics. On the basis of linguistic data from 11th‐century Britain (Old English), 14th‐century Norway (Old Norse), 19th‐century Ireland (Early Modern Irish English and Modern Irish), 20th‐century Hong Kong (Hong Kong English) as well as 21st century South Africa (Black South African English), the discussion establishes verbal threats as socio‐pragmatic modes of action, that is, commissives that come as both illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. The main aim of the article is to elaborate on the central role that sociocultural norms and conventions play in the enregisterment of threat in a speech community at a given point in time. The article contributes to the development of forensic–linguistic threat assessment through a stronger focus on the sociocultural embeddedness of threatening discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2020, North Dakota reported a higher number of cases and deaths per capita from COVID‐19 than any other state in the United States. Several months later, it reported one of the country's highest rates of vaccine hesitancy, leading to the development and implementation of the state‐funded and physician‐led "Vaccine Champion" ("VaxChamp") program. Glossing the primary problem as one of "provider confidence," the VaxChamp program emphasized a standardized, scalable intervention that targeted healthcare providers directly, and patients only indirectly. Although the program hit its quantitative benchmarks, a qualitative inquiry into the program's history and context reveals multiple crises of confidence, many beyond the bioscientific domain of the program's focus. Drawing from work in medical and linguistic anthropology, we describe and analyze the "multiple levers of vaccine confidence" at play in the intervention and its surrounding context, as well as how these crises of confidence emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of how to understand the relation between language and action lies at the heart of both philosophical pragmatics and linguistic anthropology. This same question, although framed in a very different way, also emerged as a basic concern for communist revolutionaries in Vietnam in the mid 1940s and, I contend, continues to exercise the imagination of party members and others up until the present day. Drawing inspiration from Asif Agha's definition of a (semiotic) register as a "cultural model of action," in this essay, I consider the ways in which Hồ Chí Minh along with other high‐ranking party members sought to reform Vietnamese through a project of register formation, and thereby to transform the language into an effective instrument of mass mobilization. I suggest that this project centrally involved reconceptualizing the relationship between language and action and was pursued by, on the one hand, identifying and proscribing ways of speaking in which the connection with action was seen to be broken such that speech amounted to "mere words" and, on the other, by promoting a way of speaking in which, as the frequently used Vietnamese expression has it, "speaking goes hand‐in‐hand with doing" (nói đi đôi với làm). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, a scarcity of comprehensive longitudinal microdata has affected comparative research on the interplay between self‐identified race, immigrant status, and educational attainment. Thus, this study utilizes ethnic capital theory and harmonized data from Toronto, Canada, and Sydney, Australia, to scrutinize the success of ethnolinguistically diverse immigrants in accessing university education. While students from certain East Asian countries enter universities at higher rates in both cities, dissecting the intricacies of ethnic capital's operation proves challenging. Notably, first‐ and second‐generation migrants who speak Chinese, Japanese, or Korean outdo their peers in university admissions by a larger margin in Toronto than in Sydney. However, the shortcomings of the administrative data in Toronto and the survey data in Sydney limit how we can interpret this finding. We postulate expanding existing data collections to enable insightful research on how the educational trajectories of Canadian students compare to those elsewhere with respect to immigration experiences, race, and ethnicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the "Limits of Awareness," set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' "awareness" of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential "awareness" of aspects of language has since been foundational to linguistic‐anthropological understandings of language ideologies. Here we consider Silverstein's argument with reference to our research in Laos, exploring the limits of metalinguistic discourse. We argue that the apparent constraints on our capacity to talk about aspects of language do not evidence limits of awareness of elements of language, but rather constraints on our ability to thematize those elements, that is, to bring them into joint attention. The central issue is thematization, and the relation of interest is a relation of joint attention between speakers. Metalanguage is thus constrained not (only) by psychological limits but by the social and semiotic limits on what people can bring into mutual focus within interactions. To present our framing of the issue and show what it helps us see, we distinguish two kinds of thematization and describe their subtypes, affordances, and constraints. We then demonstrate how social conventions—broadly understood—can circumvent these constraints, allowing people to thematize otherwise difficult to thematize forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" is an edited volume that challenges the traditional understanding of accent as a phonological index of identity. The book aims to shift the focus of thinking about accent to the encounter implied by listening and emphasizes the role of power in shaping perceptions of accent. Divided into three sections, the book explores the stigma and expertise associated with accent, the social meaning and consequences of accent, and the relationship between accent and affect. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including literature, call centers, vocal recognition software, and asylum claims. The book offers diverse perspectives and methods for understanding the significance of accent in various contexts. [Extracted from the article]

Como argumentan Flores y Rosa, les sociolingüistes desempeñan un papel importante para descubrir cómo las percepciones del lenguaje son centrales en las expresiones específicas del racismo en la sociedad británica contemporánea, lo cual nos empuja a desuniversalizar formas de ser y saber que tienen sus raíces en nociones de la blancura idealizada y que han dado forma al estudio de la sociolingüística durante mucho tiempo. A la vez, Flores y Rosa advierten que estos esfuerzos no se realicen en aislamiento disciplinario por les académiques considerades "raciolingüistes", y nos instan a todes a considerar las lógicas coloniales que se sitúan justo en el núcleo de los estudios sociolingüísticos en el Reino Unido. Como han demostrado Flores y Rosa, nuestros esfuerzos colectivos no deben radicar en buscar modificar actitudes individuales sino en cuestionar los fundamentos y legados coloniales que han dado forma a las narraciones normativas, metodologías y suposiciones teóricas sobre las cuales se diseña la sociolingüística basada en el Reino Unido. Si bien les proponentes de la conciencia crítica del lenguaje en el Reino Unido por general afirman que rechazan los modelos de la educación de lenguas basados en niveles artificiales de adecuación lingüística, como los critican Flores y Rosa, no han prestado atención - o por lo menos muy poca - a la raza (p. ej., Fairclough, [6]). [Extracted from the article]

"Translating in the Local Community" by Peter Flynn is an interdisciplinary book that explores the experiences of multilingual migrants in the diverse city of Ghent, Belgium. The book examines the role of translation and interpreting in the everyday interactions of migrants and highlights the impact of sociolinguistic features and socio-political stereotypes on language and migration. Through ethnographic research and empirical findings, the book broadens our understanding of the intersectionality of city, migration, and language translation. It is intended for readers interested in migration studies, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and translation and interpreting studies. [Extracted from the article]

This special issue proposes a non‐binary semiotics of intersectionality to both draw attention to and unsettle binary participation frameworks of "the‐West‐and‐its‐others." Contributors demonstrate how intersectionality can reconfigure scholarly approaches to the semiotic analysis of social life, expanding the bounds of the ethnographic as both genre and site of ideological work while also suggesting new stakes for conceptualizations of the personal beyond static, neoliberal presuppositions of the identity‐bearing individual. This proposed reorientation has stakes for the study of race–language co‐naturalizations in locations reflexively cast as beyond white settler‐colonial contexts. We place the study of intersectionality within the historical socius of the colonial and its prefixes (de‐, post‐, and anti‐) by engaging with the historical and material conditions of human capital and land enclosure out of which Kimberlé Crenshaw's micro‐interactional observations emerged as originary reflections on the concept of intersectionality. Together, we consider linguistic and co(n)textual phenomena that are left out of most contemporary intersectional and critical race analyses. The authors demonstrate an array of modalities through which we can analytically separate intersectionality‐as‐method, while not assuming American monolingual racial experiences as universal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Ethnic and racial disparities have recently been observed both in treatment‐related toxicities and rates of long‐lasting cure in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (ALLy), the most common pediatric malignancy. Despite significant improvements in overall survival in the recent past, a large number of children die from aggressive disease. Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of 274 pediatric ALL/ALLy patients within Montefiore Health System from 2004 to 2021 to determine differences in all‐cause mortality within the Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies Cohort using Cox Proportional Hazard regression modeling, adjusted for age at diagnosis, race/ethnicity, administration of intensive chemotherapy, preferred language, maximum glucose, and hypertension. Results: Among our 274 patients, 132 were Hispanic, 54 Non‐Hispanic Black, and 25 Non‐Hispanic White, with 25 identified as "Non‐Hispanic Other," including Asian, Arabic, and Other. Hispanic patients were 78% less likely to die (HR 0.22; 95% CI 0.07, 0.73) when compared with Non‐Hispanic Black individuals. Spanish speakers were 2.91 times more likely to die compared with those who spoke English (HR 2.91; 95% CI 1.08, 7.82). Among those English speakers, the diagnosis of hypertension and Hispanic ethnicity significantly impacted the risk of death, while these factors did not impact survival in Spanish speakers. High‐risk cytogenetics did not impact survival. Conclusions: Hispanic children with ALL/ALLy have improved survival outcomes compared with Non‐Hispanic Blacks. Additionally, Spanish language preference was strongly associated with poorer survival, a novel finding that should be validated in future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of relationships in the world of editing, particularly between authors, editors, and the editorial team. The Editor-in-Chief highlights the valuable contributions of associate editors in various fields of anthropology and expresses gratitude for their dedication. The author reflects on leaving an academic job but finding fulfillment in running the journal, emphasizing the meaningful change that can be achieved through collaborative work in anthropology. Elizabeth Chin expresses gratitude for the relationships that underpin the journal's success and drive its potential for impactful contributions to the discipline. [Extracted from the article]

Grounded on nearly two decades of fieldwork in Tamil Nadu, India, with film producers and fan viewers, Constantine Nakassis's I Onscreen/Offscreen i ambitiously - and quite successfully - works to bridge the theoretical and disciplinary divisions between linguistic anthropology, film studies, and visual and media anthropology in their approaches to visuality, or more specifically, "performative presence" and "realist representation." These image-texts are realist not because they are inherently so (although they may very well be) but because they bear an image politics that is "at one and the same time, an ontological politics of image and a class and caste politics of spectatorship" (p. 22). Readers might find it beneficial to also engage with Nakassis's earlier monograph, I Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India i (University of California Press, 2016), as they work to expand and develop a linguistic anthropology of cinema. [Extracted from the article]

The study of pronominal address in European languages is enriched by a comparative linguistic anthropology of honorific registers of person deixis. In European speech communities, token‐sourced interdiscursivity plays a crucial role in framing the meaning of honorific (V) and nonhonorific (T) pronouns; the pronouns exchanged between members of an interlocutor dyad in a given discursive event presuppose the use of those same pronouns in sequentially prior events of interaction between that dyad. The shift from V to T within a serially ordered speech chain of discursive events ‐ sanctified in the interaction ritual of 'dispensation' ‐ is the pivot of the system, emblematizing a mutual incorporation of alter into the relatively 'intimate' sphere of interpersonal relationality. Beyond Europe, T‐V systems typically rely more heavily on type‐sourced interdiscursivity. In these cases, use of T or V stereotypically indexes particular social categories of person or relationship. There are profound formal‐functional convergences in honorific person deixis cross‐linguistically, like the use of nonsingular number to index deference. Nevertheless, there are important differences too. The pragmatic structures characterizing honorific registers of person deixis are shown to co‐vary in important ways with this distinction between token‐sourced and type‐sourced social meaningfulness of pronominal alternants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating the two, interrogating what language is from ethnographic perspectives and extending the analytic focus to ontologies of language or linguistic natures. This article discusses such efforts and compares them to previous critical engagements with the concept of language. Calling into question the ontological equivalence of language within and across cultures, communities, and regions, it explores understandings of what language is that go against the grain of existing theoretical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north‐east border, has a long history of research on pœrapœral kulal: powerful stones. Pœrapœral kulal contain vital power from site‐of‐origin and therefore their movement across the Coral‐Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004). With few exceptions Western models draw on anthropological, linguistic and site origin research collated by a Cambridge University field team over 100 years ago, with little detailed reassessment of stone raw material and distribution or geological and archaeological surveys conducted within the intervening period. It is also unclear how TS Islanders engage with this literature, particularly the many communities poorly represented by 19th‐century studies. In this paper, we test several assumptions influencing recent literature from contemporary islander and non‐indigenous perspectives. This includes assessing whether: (a) western scholarship models oversimplify terminology and discussion; (b) early geological assessments of substantive movement of stones is correct; and (c) movement of exotic stones was a common feature across TS. Finally, using detailed cultural, archaeology, geology, and language data sets we reinterpret the regionally‐varying role and antiquity of pœrapœral kulal within this animate cosmo‐political land and seascape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has been published so far. A total of 289 journal articles published in 95 journals were identified and used to provide a bibliometric mapping of research in CFL over three decades. Data from the sampled articles reveals a great diversity of focus in CFL research that has been conducted in more than 24 countries. The included articles also reflect an upsurge in research intensity across several key areas of focus, some of which are related to the distinctive linguistic features of the Chinese language. We also report on the research methods employed by the studies in our sample and the characteristics of their participants. Our mapping of the field identifies gaps in the existing literature which may subsequently inform any focused or comprehensive reviews. We conclude by setting out some implications for future CFL research, both in terms of substantive areas of focus and methodological approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Challenge: Translanguaging, as a sociolinguistic practice, has been curricularized as a pedagogical tool for bilingual teachers. Despite its essential principle regarding the fluidity and dynamic nature of language use, translanguaging is inadvertently used by bilingual teachers as a proxy for translation and racialization rather than cultivating culturally and linguistically sustaining practices. This qualitative case study of one teacher preparation program uses Asian critical race theory to examine Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' (N = 102) raciolinguistic ideology discourse in their reflections on using translanguaging pedagogy. Thematic analysis in daily logs, lesson reflection papers, and exit tickets indicated two contrasting findings: (1) When the exchange value for (White) English language is privileged, translanguaging pedagogy is used for differentiated translations and to seek affirmations shaped by raciolinguistic ideology. (2) When the use value for Chinese languages and cultures is prioritized, translanguaging pedagogy is used for culturally and linguistically sustaining practices as well as the elicitation of ethnolinguistic funds of knowledge among participants and their emergent bilinguals. This study argues that if and when translanguaging pedagogy is used critically, bilingual teachers can promote culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, mitigating issues of inequity in the process of (trans)language curricularization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2020 National Education Policy (NEP) proposes a revision to the Indian education system. The document foregrounds "mother tongue," a concept that has been highly salient in India since the mid‐nineteenth century, by specifying that students should learn in it. But it makes little mention of English, despite its importance, and the desire for it, at every level of education. The construction of nation and language in the NEP begs a question: how do the constructions, foci, and relative silences of policy resonate with people's understandings and uses of languages? This article incorporates interviews at an engineering university in western India, the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, to examine graduate students' reflections on mother tongue in relation to their multilingual practices on campus and at home. The students exhibited a range of ideological perspectives on mother tongue and English that are not addressed in policy measures. Using the heuristic of postcolonial semiotics, we show that the students were unable to simultaneously identify with the nation (via mother tongue) and English. We contribute to linguistic anthropology and South Asian studies by foregrounding people's metadiscourse in how they make sense of, and ultimately problematize, constructions of colonial and postcolonial policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarship on publics has proliferated during the past two decades, especially in linguistic anthropology. Drawing on Michael Warner's famous formulation, publics are now routinely theorized as a social form predicated on the reflexive circulation of discourse. This article, however, identifies a tension within Warner's conception of publics. On the one hand, Warner levels a critique of liberal publicity, noting its exclusions and contradictions, but on the other hand, he models his own account of publics on the liberal public sphere and assumptions of voluntaristic, free speech. Working from ethnographic research on a government‐sponsored nation‐branding project undertaken in Macedonia, the article develops a different perspective on publics and their politics. It examines how practices of marketing and strategic communication now pervade public spheres and valorize not voluntaristic participation but discursive engineering, that is, concerted efforts to determine how discourse can and will circulate in some public. When tethered to projects of centralized political control, as happened in Macedonia during Nikola Gruevski's prime ministership (2006‐2016), practices of discursive engineering can result in enclosed public spheres. Ultimately, the article asks, what can attention to elite efforts to engineer and enclose public spheres teach about struggles over participation in contemporary contexts of mass publicity? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relative homogeneity in ethnicity and language of native Koreans and their highly competitive lifestyle, especially among adolescents preparing for college, have limited their solidarity with heterogeneous ethnic groups, which may cause problems in this global era. This study uses the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey to explore the relationships among multicultural receptivity, sense of community, and self‐esteem for Korean adolescents over three time points. For this purpose this study conducted an autoregressive cross‐lagged path analysis, controlling for covariates such as gender, parenting style, peer attachment, and satisfaction with academic achievement. The cross‐lagged effects on each other of self‐esteem and sense of community were positive over time. The cross‐lagged effects on each other of multicultural receptivity and self‐esteem were not statistically significant. The results were less symmetrical for the third pairing: the effects of multicultural receptivity on sense of community were consistently positive, but the effects of sense of community on multicultural receptivity were not statistically significant. To enhance the sense of community, promoting multicultural receptivity and self‐esteem would therefore show good results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2018, the Government of Catalonia redefined its educational language policy through a programmatic document entailing a relevant shift: instead of highlighting the protection of Catalan as the national language, it stressed multilingualism and interculturalism as educational pillars. In doing so, it widened the scope of linguistic rights and duties of immigrants (LRDI). The exceptional growth of international immigration in Catalonia over the last two decades is at the root of this change. This article addresses LRDI from a theoretical and empirical perspective. First, it contributes a categorisation of approaches to LRDI (adjustive, accommodative and transformative) based on a comprehensive analysis of contemporary linguistic justice theories. Second, it analyses the challenging position of minority nations in managing LRDI and suggests that their explicitness in language policies has often been misinterpreted as monist by the literature. Finally, it documents a trend in Catalonia, in terms of rationale and policies, towards a pluralist reframing of national identity and the recognition of immigrants' languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article puts forth 'discoursing sectarianism' as an approach helping overcome gaps in essentialism, instrumentalism and constructivism as the three main lines of analysing sectarianism. The approach takes language as a point of departure, showing how it can dually describe reality as a 'neutral' medium of communication and also create reality as constitutive component of practices sectarianisation. The approach also focuses on workings of ideology and power relations as part of linking language, texted in variable formats such as written speeches, monuments or images, with contexts shaping or being shaped with them. Thus, we have to study manifestations or articulations sectarianism, e.g. a speech or an image, within the broader process of their actualisation or materialisation (e.g. the context in which these articulations are enforced, transformed, challenged or falsified). This broader process of discoursing sectarianism within language and beyond can thus accommodate elements predominating analyses in the three other lines of enquiry such as religion and history. The final section of the paper maps a practical and analytical toolkit for researchers and analysts seeking to investigate sectarian discourses by offering the three mutually inclusive levels of textual practices, discursive practices and political practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kri people in central Laos traditionally engage in 'heavy' practices, including a stipulation that houses must be relocated and the flooring discarded upon a death in the family. Such 'heavy' practices are considered 'real Kri', and they are not adhered to by those who identify as Kri Phòòngq. This article examines the adoption of more enduring housing construction among the Kri, and the dynamics of ethnic identity implied by the dilemmas raised for individuals and families who must choose between (a) maintaining the heavy life of real Kri, (b) innovating new and less heavy solutions, or (c) changing identity entirely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Déléage's own words, the questions at stake are "about the delirious, raving, and phantasmagorical origins of linguistic anthropology in general and of [Déléage's] work in particular" (57) and about the "historical, epistemological, and psychiatric [limits] of scientific knowledge and its authorized institutions" (98). Subtitled I The Anthropology of a Delusion i , I Arctic Madness i is not so much about producing social scientific knowledge on mental health as it is about producing social scientific knowledge from a state of impaired mental health. The book, written by French anthropologist Pierre Déléage, is a short but dense exploration of the life and work of Émile Petitot, a late nineteenth-century French missionary and linguist, as he descends into "madness.". [Extracted from the article]

This form of autonomy, Choksi deftly argues, is not expressly linked with fights for sovereignty, self-rule, or even relations with the state, nor does it rely on homogenous visions of language and community. The reader is able to see the cacophony of scripts and languages that - as Choksi argues - do not index political differences but rather the possibilities for a shared autonomy. Nishaant Choksi's book, I Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy i , examines how difference and self-determination are expressed in densely multilingual - and crucially, multi-scriptural - West Bengal and the surrounding region. [Extracted from the article]

This qualitative study explored Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) for linguistically diverse Latinx preservice Teacher Candidates (TCs) at a tertiary institution in the southwest region of the United States. To provide an example of preparing TCs to engage in LRI by helping them reflect upon ideological orientations, we operationalized LRI as a series of three reflective tasks—language portraits, ideology trees, and utterance analysis—designed to pose linguistic ideological dilemmas (LIDs) for participants. Findings from multimodal thematic analysis suggest that during the study, engaging in LRI afforded teacher candidates space to explore tensions surrounding broader ideologies in circulation (ideological infrastructures), as well as personal ideological orientations towards themselves, their future learners, and society. These tensions generated dilemmas that caused participants to engage in language and ethnicity gatekeeping in ways that revealed the impact of institutionalized ideological stances toward linguistically and ethnically diverse speakers. Implications include (1) potential ways for faculty and students interested in LRI implementation to interrogate sociopolitical dimensions of language use across disciplines, (2) better understanding of whether and what type of ideological clarity may emerge from LRI in tertiary classrooms, and (3) how LRI might contribute to the disruption of less nuanced approaches to serving linguistically diverse learners in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This commentary discusses papers in a special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology in honor of Judith T. Irvine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the resonances between Judith T. Irvine's (1996) writings about "shadow conversations" and the broader linguistic anthropological literature on citational practices (Goodman et al. 2014; Nakassis 2013; Rhodes 2020), I explore how the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology has sought to and continues to engage with the politics of inclusion and diversity in the construction of disciplinary knowledge, focusing in particular on publishing in academic journals. Following an earlier attempt to include an inclusion criterion on the journal's Scholar One review portal, I now instead endorse the views of my colleagues to adopt a variety of strategies to showcase the work of underrepresented yet critical voices in the discipline. I conclude by highlighting the influential role that linguistic anthropologists play in promoting dialogue about the interdiscursive dimensions of knowledge production in the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brandon D. Lundy is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Economic Anthropology after six years. During his tenure, Lundy oversaw the publication of 130 research articles, 31 symposium essays, and the creation of a book review section. The journal has seen significant readership, with 35,380 downloads from January to September 2023. Moving forward, Economic Anthropology will undergo institutionalization and expansion, including the development of an editorial collective model of review, policies for grievance resolution and citation politics, and the creation of a short form venue/blog called "The Exchange." The current issue features an interactive symposium. [Extracted from the article]

A 'semantic approach' to nationalism might focus on how political actors use the word 'nation' to legitimate political demands, often contrasting that word with other similar words, such as 'ethnicity' or 'tribe', which might be generalized as 'not‐quite‐nations'. The semantic approach must also address the problem of linguistic diversity, and proposes that the word for 'nation' in languages other than English should be the word which bestows legitimacy. Applying this method to three case studies – Catalonia, Hungary, and Ethiopia – suggests that one particular word always emerges as the locus of sovereignty, and thus as the equivalent for 'nation'. The method is not compatible with all scholarly approaches to nationalism, but it is consistent with the approach of both Benedict Anderson and Rogers Brubaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction to this special issue frames White supremacy as a central concern within linguistic anthropology, both as a focus of analysis and as a power structure that has profoundly shaped the field's logics and demographics. We emphasize how carefully attending to language, discourse, and signs can productively illuminate White supremacy's slippery logics, organizing principles, dynamic infrastructures, and diverse practices. Centering the role of White supremacy in constituting modern sign relations can contribute significantly to linguistic anthropologists' efforts toward understanding historical and contemporary power structures that organize the dynamic yet systematic interplay between language and context. We hope that this special issue builds constructively on longstanding and more recent linguistic anthropological work that has led us to reconsider the fundamental relationship between language, race, and culture while also pushing our field in important new directions by reconsidering the fundamental relationship between language and racism as a strategy for understanding and contributing to efforts toward combating White supremacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, we call on linguistic anthropology to combat specific modes of White Supremacy (anti‐Blackness, anti‐Indigeneity, and anti‐Nativeness) by recognizing them as intimately central to the formations and formulations of our (sub)field in the US (and broader) context. We speak to and from particular legacies of dispossession and repossession engendered by two mated and enduring structural processes, settler colonialism (Simpson 2014) and racial slavery (Hartman 2008; Sharpe 2016; Mignolo 2006), which continue to animate the ubiquity of owning via the making of (linguistic) anthropological knowledge (owning through knowing and collecting) and via the knowing, collecting, and wearing of Black and Native people that helps make up everyday life in America (e.g., mascots, blackface, pop cultural caricatures, Halloween costumes, language appropriation, slave souvenirs, dream catchers and on and on (Meek 2006; 2020; Smalls and Davis forthcoming; Smalls forthcoming). Finally, we draw on Black and Native theorists to offer practices of solidarities and abolition (Byrd 2019; Harris 2019; Latty et. al 2016; Leroy 2016; King 2019; Tuck et. al 2014; Morrill et al. 2016). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from my lived experiences as an Indigenous linguist, this article exposes and responds to epistemological racism (Kubota 2020) in the discipline of Linguistic Anthropology, which I argue institutionalizes and reproduces white supremacy. I extend Rosa and Flores's (2017) raciolinguistic perspective, which examines the co‐naturalization of race and language, to the co‐naturalization of race and language scholars. Through a critical analysis of the hegemony of the "white linguistic anthropologist," I demonstrate how BIPOC linguistic anthropologists are expected to assimilate to a white normative culture of producing, disseminating, and evaluating anthropological knowledge. Employing ideas from Indigenous research methodologies such as the notion of relational accountability and related "R's" such as respect, responsibility, reciprocity, and rights; the framework of Radical Indigenism (Garroutte 2003), which argues for research praxis based on Indigenous philosophies of knowledge; and Felt Theory (Million 2009), which asserts the validity of knowledge emerging from experiences that are felt; I offer alternatives that are grounded in Indigenous research principles and protocols. I conclude by outlining a reimagined discipline, a linguistic anthropology built from Indigenous epistemologies and norms of relational knowledge production, and discuss the anti‐racist praxis that such a transformation could facilitate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disparities are prevalent in numerous areas of healthcare. We sought to investigate whether there were racial/ethnic disparities among pregnant women with the most severe form of alloimmunization who require intrauterine transfusions (IUT). We reviewed patients who underwent IUT for alloimmunization at a single fetal treatment center between 2015 and 2020. This "IUT cohort" was compared to an "Alloimmunization cohort": patients seen at our institution with a diagnosis of alloimmunization during pregnancy, who did not receive IUT. We collected maternal demographics including self‐identified race/ethnicity and primary language, transfusion, and antibody characteristics. The cohorts were compared using unpaired t‐tests, Mann‐Whitney tests, and Fischer's exact tests, as appropriate. The IUT cohort included 43 patients and the alloimmunization cohort included 1049 patients. Compared to the alloimmunization cohort, there were significantly more patients of Latina descent in the IUT cohort (23.3% vs. 3.4%, p <.0001), and more non‐English speakers (18.6% vs. 4.6%, p =.001). Twenty‐one percent (9/43) of patients had immigrated to the United States, all of whom had pregnancies or miscarriages in their country of origin. A third of patients had new antibodies identified on serial screens during the current pregnancy. Significantly more women of Latina ethnicity and non‐English speakers required IUTs compared to the cohort of women with alloimmunization. Insufficient access to care prior to arriving in the United States and among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States may contribute to these findings. Providers should be cognizant of potential, racial, and ethnic inequalities among women receiving intrauterine transfusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global hip-hop scenes are sometimes (quite accurately) described as translocal because they so often represent complex cultural, artistic, and political dialogues between local innovations of diverse hip-hop art forms; transcultural interactions between local hip-hop scenes in cities and nations outside of the United States; and exchanges between local scenes and U.S.-based hip-hop media. This is the project laid out by Franco-Chilean Ana Tijoux and British-Palestinian Shadia Mansour in their 2014 collaboration "Somos Sur", in Puerto Rican group Calle 13's 2014 song "Multi Viral" featuring Palestinian Kamilya Jubran, Tom Morello and a voice-over by Julian Assange, and in Franco-Congolese rapper Niska's 2017 track "Medellín." Rather than forming alliances based on shared language or ethnicity, the hip-hop work of Ana Tijoux and Shadia Mansour, Calle 13, and Niska propose a translocal project that elides national belongings and allows, indeed encourages, a rethinking of (de)colonial linkages filtered through the lens of Latin America as a site of production and enunciation. In their music video, Tijoux and Mansour prioritize colorful indigenous clothing (Mapuche for Tijoux, the kaftan and I keffiyeh i for Mansour). [Extracted from the article]

The northern half of the Andes--from Venezuela to Northern Peru--has seen dramatic losses of language diversity since the 16th century. Even so, the region's linguistic fabric is complex and multifaceted, and the impression of relatively low levels of diversity vis-à-vis Amazonia is to a perhaps considerable extent the result of different post-conquest trajectories rather than a reflection of pre-existing differences. As in Amazonia, branches of widespread families--Chibchan, Quechuan, but also far western outliers of Cariban--coexist with more local language families--principally Barbacoan and Chocoan--as well as a multitude of isolates, in particular on the eastern lowland-facing slopes of the Andes. Recent and ongoing projects of language documentation and description, as well as reconstitution of colonial sources, are contributing to profiling the linguistic diversity more sharply and more securely. Even at the present state of research, it is patent that the patchwork of languages of the Northern Andes, where evidence is available, evinces strong hallmarks of micro- and meso-level language contact, leading to the emergence of distinctive profiles on regional levels that call into question the idea of a reified 'Andean' language type. Furthermore, there is a striking signal of spatially structured typological variation throughout the Andes that is in need of explanation and interdisciplinary contextualization. This article surveys the state of the art on language classification and language contact studies for the Northern Andes, and also discusses how they may inform an interdisciplinary prehistory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By looking to the circulation of such language, whether for godly or worldly ends, Harkness draws attention to how both are figured in an ambiguous space between secrecy and sociality, concealment and transparency. These are two questions readers of Nicholas Harkness's new monograph are likely to ask upon seeing the title of this short yet ambitious and thoughtful book. Following a clearly pitched introduction, Harkness presents six chapters arranged in three dyads. [Extracted from the article]

Sometimes linguistic anthropology can feel like a very small field, with a relatively neatly delimited set of concerns and approaches; it may also sometimes feel isolated, as if it is operating on the margins of linguistics as well as anthropology. Sicoli takes as his challenge to find out what the use of video documentation has to offer to the study of language and interaction, and he effectively makes the case that it does indeed have a lot to offer to both the linguistic and the ethnographic toolbox. A linguistically disinclined reader may be overwhelmed by the somewhat unwieldy transcription, but because Sicoli also describes each interaction in detail, the arguments can be appreciated without reading the detailed transcriptions, though I would recommend watching the videos. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines the use of Hebrew and Yiddish in the linguistic landscape of Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Krakow, Poland. Specifically, I examine how the use of these languages in primarily symbolic modes as a part of the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire is a part of the creation of three different types of Jewish places in the quarter. These places present different stances towards whether or not Jewishness can exist in present‐day Poland, which are, in turn, reacted to by American Jewish visitors to the quarter. This work shows that nonvernacular and fragmented use of languages, while in some cases is a part of the construction of a purely commodified "Disneyfied" landscape in which users of those languages have been displaced, in others, it can be perceived as a sign of more authentic community revitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of "scales of space and time" (Lemke 2000) has been tremendously influential in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and scalar approaches have proved useful for illuminating connections between what used to be called "micro" and "macro" phenomena. This paper disrupts "rhetorics of discontinuity" (Darnell 2001) in present‐day work, arguing that many of the ideas in contemporary work on scales were already implicit in early Americanist anthropology. Through renewed engagement with the debate among the Boasians A.L. Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Ruth Benedict on questions of individuality, culture, and social action, we can rethink "scale" and bring forth both the useful and problematic aspects of scale as a heuristic. I argue that linguistic anthropologists' reliance on scalar metaphors should be examined carefully, since the apparent scalability or nonscalability of talk and social action is, itself, a cultural phenomenon that emerges from decisions to scale our analytic vision in particular ways. Revisiting Americanist arguments about the nature of culture reveals some of the limitations of "scale," as currently conceived, but also suggests that scalar analysis might be fruitfully integrated with linguistic anthropological understandings of agency, vis‐à‐vis voice, and temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethno‐racial and linguistic boundaries have major implications for socio‐economic well‐being throughout the world, yet their specific effects vary greatly across contexts. The countries that were once part of the Soviet Union have seen dramatic transformations yet also exhibited remarkable continuities from the socialist era. This article contributes to cross‐national evidence on the roots and expressions of ethno‐racial socio‐economic inequalities and on nation building and nationalism in the post‐Soviet context. It uses data from two identically designed nationally representative surveys conducted in Kyrgyzstan in 2011 and 2017 to investigate patterns and trends in ethnic and linguistic disparities in employment by occupational type and economic sector and in earnings among men and women. The authors find that despite government policies to promote the advancement of the nation's titular majority, Kyrgyz, and to encourage the use of its language, the ethno‐linguistic economic inequalities inherited from the Soviet era — privileged positions of the European‐origin minority and of Russian‐speaking Kyrgyz — were still potently present in the earlier survey. While variations in types of occupation and employment sectors tended to diminish between the two surveys, the ethno‐linguistic differences in earnings remained very pronounced, even after controlling for other factors. The authors relate these findings to the extant scholarship and reflect on their implications for our understanding of post‐socialist transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term social meaning identifies the constellation of traits that linguistic forms convey about the social identity of their users—for example, their demographics, personality and ideological orientation. A central topic of research in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, this category of meaning has traditionally escaped the scope of semantics and pragmatics; only in recent years have scholars begun to combine formal, experimental and computational methods to incorporate the investigation of this type of content into the study of meaning in linguistics. This article reviews recent work within this area, focusing on two domain of investigation: endeavors aimed at investigating how semantic and social meanings mutually inform one another; and endeavors directed at capturing both the communication and inference of social meanings with the tools of formal semantics and pragmatics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we present examples from four research projects in India that were influenced by the values and ethics of decolonized and participatory research, and shaped by engendered perspectives. Each project built on earlier experiences that forced us to critically examine the ways we engaged with participants, crafted our field identities, and formed relationships. Using insights from linguistic anthropology and attending to intersectional inequalities and the construction of epistemic authority, we showcase how conducting an ethnography of communication and employing tactics of intersubjectivity influenced archaeological outcomes. We argue that close attention to context of communication, identity expression, and intersectional inequality enhances intersubjectivity, a necessary ingredient for successful participatory archaeology projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews published work in this field in three parts: (1) the semiotic interplay of certainty and uncertainty, especially in relation to evidence and agency; (2) the remediation of semiosis across media technologies and infrastructures; and (3) the semiosis of the state‐citizen divide. More generally, this review considers how linguistic/semiotic anthropologists are renewing foundational concepts and approaches at the same time as they express a strong desire to turn their expertise into a more public form of political agency. This process of renewal is leading to the emergence of new agendas. [language, semiotics, uncertainty, media, state] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores the way the domain of what English‐speakers call the mind – believing, thinking, feeling, and other mental acts – is represented and mapped by Ghana's Akan ethno‐linguistic group. It uses several sources of evidence: mind and mind‐related words in Fante (an Akan language); the largest Akan (Twi) proverb compendium; longsemi‐structured interviews with forty adult Christians and African traditional religion practitioners; and short‐term ethnographic fieldwork by a Ghanaian scholar. The work finds four dimensions of what we might call an Akan theory of mind that seem to be shaped by local language and culture. First, the central function of the mind is planning – not identity. Second, one of the most salient qualities of the mind is its moral valence. The 'bad minds' of others are an ever‐present potential threat to social harmony and personal well‐being. Third, the mind is understood to be porous in nature. The minds of all people are vulnerable to supernatural influences, and some spiritually powerful people can exert supernatural power through mental action. Fourth and finally, some elements which English‐speakers would imagine as part of the mind (like feeling) are instead identified with the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]