Socialité et co-opération dans l’œuvre de Charles Goodwin. Ou comment penser les passerelles entre linguistique, anthropologie et sociologie by Chloé Mondémé

“…As a linguistic anthropologist, Goodwin elaborates a conceptual and methodological framework to describe the organization of human activities and conducts. …”
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Documenting Practices: The indexical centering of medical records by Carsten Østerlund

“…Specifically, the paper highlights the notion of indexical centering as formulated by the linguistic anthropologist William Hanks and demonstrates its analytical power in studying documenting as a communicative practice. …”
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - By Arika Okrent by Jones, Graham M.

“…While it is not a scholarly work, Arika Okrent’s In the Land of Invented Languages recommends itself to linguistic anthropologists on a variety of counts. An intellectual picaresque describing the author’s historical and ethnographic forays into the imaginative worlds of language inventors and their followers, it offers engaging examination of shifting motivations behind the production and promotion of constructed languages (conlangs). …”
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Hultgren, Anna Kristina, Frans Gregersen, & Jacob Thøgersen (eds.): En-glish in Nordic universities: Ideologies and practices. by Tran Truong

“…This work should prove enlightening to a wide spectrum of read-ers, be they specifically interested in language (e.g., sociolinguists, contact linguists, linguistic anthropologists) or more generally in the supra-economic consequences of globalisation on the university in late modernity.…”
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