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{"title":"A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek's Universal Translator","authors":"Sarah Shulist","doi":"10.1111/jola.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper uses <i>Star Trek</i>'s “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such a technology does not exist, taking its potentialities seriously as folkloric devices allows for an exploration of ideologies relating to translation and mediated communication. The UT represents the hypothetical ultimate achievement of a Euro-Western ideal of easy and clear interaction, in which direct brain-to-brain contact is possible and speaker intent can be manifested clearly and reliably to a listener, regardless of language differences. A mind–body duality is inherent to this possibility, and by rendering the translator/interpreter in a disembodied, mostly invisible form, the UT imagines the irrelevance of the body to the communicative process. Within both the narrative itself and fan responses to the UT, however, attempts to think about how it would have to work bring about contradictions, and in particular, the consistent resurgence of embodiment as a central semiotic component of communication. Using the mythical UT, I examine the ideological implications that an imagined techno-utopian future has for contemporary understandings of language and the body, including in themes of gender, race, modality, and labor.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to “Ghost deixis and the public secret in Tijuana, Mexico”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jola.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rihan Yeh. 2025. Ghost deixis and the public secret in Tijuana, Mexico. <i>Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</i> 35(2):e70010.</p><p>In the above-referenced article, Constantine Nakassis' essay in press at <i>Current Anthropology</i> is incorrectly titled “Looking, Seeing, Perspective.” In fact it is titled “Voicing, Looking, Perspective.”</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject","authors":"Anna-Marie Sprenger","doi":"10.1111/jola.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales. Drawing on Inoue's foundational work and subsequent research on enregisterment, mediatization, and indexical inversion, I show how experimental and ethnographic approaches each illuminate complementary dimensions of listening as both cognitive and sociohistorical. I advocate for a multiscalar model of listening that brings these traditions into closer dialogue, emphasizing how collaboration across methods can reveal the ideological conditions under which voices become audible, meaningful, and contested.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor","authors":"Patrick C. Lewis","doi":"10.1111/jola.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non-standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently situated Kurdish audiences, while also promoting alternative ideological perspectives through which the contrasts between standard and non-standard language can be evaluated. In developing this analysis, the article also considers how Kurdish language humor functions to both reproduce widely circulating language ideologies and subvert them, inviting Kurdish audiences in contemporary Turkey and North Kurdistan to be reflexive about language and the ideological processes through which value is ascribed to it. It argues that for many Kurds in Turkey, Kurdish linguistic revival and national unity are premised less on the accomplishment of Kurdish linguistic uniformity and more on the ongoing recognition and valorization of linguistic and social differences; Kurdish standard language can function in ways that not only minimize but also draw attention to linguistic variation in socially consequential ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"First Nations women in an Australian boarding school: A sociolinguistic ethnography","authors":"Lucía Fraiese","doi":"10.1111/jola.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This ethnographic account—the first stage of a variationist sociolinguistic study with First Nations youth in Australia—explores the stylistic practices of First Nations women at a boarding school in Western Australia. It shows how drawing on semiotic signs of racialized bodies, anti-mainstream practices, and orientations to language use, borders create a joint identity as an act of resistance. In displaying subtle distinctions at different levels of symbolic practice, students signal differentiation and give shape to fluid peer groups, or Constellations of Practice. Yet, ultimately, their stylistic practices point to a shared project: the articulation of Aboriginal identity in a settler-colonial context and, more specifically, within a white-led boarding school environment where enduring regimes of whiteness persist.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Languaging as time travel","authors":"Stephanie V. Love","doi":"10.1111/jola.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70024","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;“So do you hear me? And &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; do you hear me?” Miyako Inoue (&lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;) ends her seminal article with this jarring, even uncanny interpellation. A “me” addressing a “you”—such a mundane occurrence. Yet here it pops out of an academic text at the most unexpected moment. I look around. Is she talking to me? Inoue momentarily ripped open spacetime to tap me on the shoulder, ensuring the phatic connection remained intact. Indeed, this warping of spacetime is precisely what Inoue's work illuminates: how absent people act on present social worlds. I heard Inoue's voice more than two decades after her words were first written, allowing myself to be interpellated as the subject of her utterance; this is precisely the type of subjectivity that many early career scholars, like me, desire—that is, to be recognized, addressed, even cited. More importantly, Inoue reminds me that this is what it means to &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; language—languaging is time travel. Past, present, and future people are engaging in a mysterious conversation with no certainty that anyone is listening (Irvine, &lt;span&gt;1996&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such mysteries initially drew me to the theoretical power of the “listening subject.” In seeking to understand the socio-political afterlives of colonialism in postcolonial Algeria, I had to depart from the assumptions of a linear progression of time found in much discourse and conversation analysis (see Wortham &amp; Reyes, &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;, as a notable exception). Because, as Inoue's final interpellation (“So do you hear me?”) and my revoicing of it here show, conversations can jump back and forth across spatiotemporal junctures. In my &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt; article in the JLA, I conceptualized these time-traveling conversations as &lt;i&gt;echoes&lt;/i&gt;—“sounds and voices persisting and repeating after the source sound has stopped” (72)—practices that (tenuously) link temporally disconnected speakers and listeners by reflecting and refracting from the material surfaces/spaces they share.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Language's capacity to jump back and forth between spatiotemporal divides—possibly resounding as echoes—is manifested, for example, in the prefix “re-,” a recurring morpheme in linguistic anthropological studies of listening practices. Etymologically, “re-” signifies both “back” and “again,” implying a cyclical, non-linear temporal order of language use and social action. Building on what Inoue (&lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;: 165) described as “indexical inversions,” linguistic anthropological studies frame this back-and-again as &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;configurations, &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;-assemblies, and “downward &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;cursions” of social figures and colonial hierarchies (Reyes, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;: 210), the &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;-reading of signs as epistemes of antiblackness (Smalls, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;), or the &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;-channeling of language within the DeafBlind community (Edwards, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). All these scholars seek to understand the powerful yet paradoxical persistence of “&lt;i&gt;re&lt;/i&gt;cuperations, &lt;i&gt;re&lt;/","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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