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Youth and Yoga in Lamu
Dr. Sarah Hillewaert, an associate professor of anthropology at UTM. works on African language and culture as an undergraduate student in Belgium. While learning Swahili, Hillewaert and a friend decided to apply their knowledge by travelling to Kenya for three weeks. In Nairobi, she encountered youth living in slums and a new slan. See more
A First Language: More than words
This International Mother Language Day (Feb. 21), Canadians celebrated their multilingual heritage by recognizing flexible uses of languages. According to UNESCO, “Mother tongue or mother language refers to a child’s first language, the language learned in the home from older family members.” As a linguistic anthropologist who studies language use in diverse communities, . See more
The Tweety Bird Test
One Saturday morning, perhaps as late as the fall of 1980, professor David McNeill met with graduate student Elena Levy at his University of Chicago linguistics lab to watch cartoons. They were selecting a stimulus for a study. It needed to appeal to both children and adults. And it needed to be mostly non-verbal. Saturday morning cartoons seemed like natural candidates. See more
Evolution of the Shrug Emoji
In today’s over-saturated media climate, the shruggie has taken on a more rueful tone. To understand how we got to the memoji present, it’s worth rewinding to the emoticon past. In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Scott Fahlman was the first to use the 🙂 and 🙁 in a posting to the university’s online bulletin board. See more
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The GLOCAL supports Linguistic Anthropology in academic and social sectors and provides grants for students with exceptional work, as well as assistance for research on multiple levels. GLOCAL was initially developed in 2010 through efforts to increase knowledge of Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, and Language and Society.
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CALA – official member of WCAA – World Council on Anthropological Associations
JALA Journal inaugural issue, June 2020
AFALA conference to behosted at The University of Nairobi, September 2021
CALA 2021 conference to be hosted at University of The Philippines Dilliman. See more
