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The FOXP2 Molecular Network Begins Taking Shape - Babel's Dawn
Here’s a link to a brief article by Edmund Blair Bolles regarding the current research into FOXP2, from which this is the introduction: A letter to the current issue of Nature has caused a stir … more →
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The FOXP2 Molecular Network Begins Taking Shape - Babel's Dawn
Tim Jones wrote 5 days ago: Here’s a link to a brief article by Edmund Blair Bolles regarding the current research into FO … more →
Dell Hymes' Passing
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Jason Baird Jackson wrote 6 days ago: While no obituary has appeared yet, there seems to be conclusive understanding via the moccasin tele … more →
Michael McIntyre on indexical order
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Tom Van Hout wrote 1 month ago: I have written about this before, but Michael Silverstein’s concept of indexical order is so g … more →
DiO Workshop day III: final plenaries
Tom Van Hout wrote 2 months ago: Four, yes four, plenary presentations were scheduled on the Friday afternoon. Two corpus linguistic … more →
Having a language is like having access
Tom Van Hout wrote 2 months ago: to a very large canvas and to hundreds or even thousands of colors. But the canvas and the colors co … more →
Four Stone Hearth 72 - Call for Submissions
Tim Jones wrote 3 months ago: The 72nd edition of the Four Stone Hearth anthropology blog carnival is due to appear this coming We … more →
A sound sociolinguistics of globalization
Tom Van Hout wrote 4 months ago: I am still jetlagged and so I read everything from movie reviews to working papers on language diver … more →
Language is Culture and Culture is Language
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skunen1 wrote 5 months ago: Argue either for or against the statement that Language is Culture and Culture is Language. Use spec … more →
1.2 Theoretical orientation
Tom Van Hout wrote 6 months ago: ***This is an outdated version. Please do not cite or reproduce in any way.*** This study of journal … more →
Linguistics and Nerd Cadence
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colleenmorgan wrote 6 months ago: "Geek Girl Blogger" - normalized nerd performance? I’ve always been a little curious … more →
Pseudo-FAQ: Informal Ethnographer?
iethnographer wrote 6 months ago: Hello All! I’ll flesh out Informal Ethnographer as time goes on, but let’s get a few thi … more →
Computer analysis yields clues to Indus script
Leonard wrote 7 months ago: Via Wired: An ancient script that’s defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of i … more →
Anthropological Linguist Mary Linn Named DaVinci Fellow
Jason Baird Jackson wrote 7 months ago: I am so pleased to note that my friend and collaborator Mary Linn (Associate Curator of Native Ameri … more →
Sex differences in the use of indirect aggression in adult Canadians
Leonard wrote 7 months ago: This is actually evolutionary psychology, but the subject is sort-of related to both cultural and li … more →
Neely and Palmer on Kiowa Language Ideology
Jason Baird Jackson wrote 7 months ago: I am happy to note the publication of a book chapter by my friends Amber A. Neely and Gus Palmer, Jr … more →
Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology
Jason Baird Jackson wrote 8 months ago: Not long after the publication of Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and … more →
Languages are rapidly disappearing | Speaking in fewer tongues | The Economist
Leonard wrote 8 months ago: via Languages are rapidly disappearing | Speaking in fewer tongues | The Economist. AROUND a quarter … more →
'Fantabulous', 'homo textual' and 'metro textual'
Bree wrote 8 months ago: English is a language that we can easily create new words by taking two words and clipping and compo … more →
2500-year-old script puzzles experts
Leonard wrote 8 months ago: From MSNBC: ALMODOVAR, Portugal – When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year … more →
