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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Published by the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Edited by:
Paul Manning


The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology explores the many ways in which language shapes social life. Published with the journal's pages are articles on the anthropological study of language, including analysis of discourse, language in society, language and cognition, and language acquisition of socialization. The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology is published semiannually.

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TopHighlights

Read the most downloaded articles in 2009 from Journal of Linguistic Anthropology:

Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments
Laura Miller

Urban Princesses: Performance and "Women's Language" in Japan's Gothic/Lolita Subculture
Isaac Gagne

Speaking like a Model Minority: "FOB" Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley
Shalini Shankar

Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power
Charles L. Briggs, Richard Bautnan

Language Choice as a Means of Shaping Identity
Janet M. Fuller

Justifying Race Talk: Indexicality and the Social Construction of Race and Linguistic Value
Kate T. Anderson

The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities
Debra Spitulnik

The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness
Mary Bucholtz

The Construction of White, Black, and Korean American Identities through African American Vernacular English
Elaine W. Chun

How Niqula Nasrallah Became John Jacob Astor: Syrian Emigrants Aboard the Titanic and the Materiality of Language
Jess Bier