On socialism, liberalism, and neo-liberalism
Back in January “Johnson”, the language blog from The Economist, featured a post on the (mis)use of the words socialist and liberal in American political discourse. Socialism is not “the government...
View Article“Club G’itmo” and semiotic status claims. Anthropology News
Linguistic anthropologist Robin Shoaps examines how American conservatives outside of media punditry engage with the American Right’s claims of embattled minority status in this month’s Society for...
View ArticleGuns in America: Simple solutions are not easy
The following is an opinion article by Chad Nilep. It does not represent the position of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, its officers, or its members. Here are the opening paragraphs of a post...
View ArticleWhen Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam...
Book information from Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that cries out...
View ArticleAdam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News
Link to Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/opinion/words-and-power/ The post Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power”...
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