Welcome!

Our Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory is a dynamic research space which provides faculty, graduate students and undergraduates with:

  • state-of-the-art multimedia recording equipment,
  • private experimental facilities,
  • data storage,
  • analytical software,
  • digitization capability,
  • Web access, and
  • a venue for meetings and interactive encounters including kitchenette and lounge area, library resources, jobs and more.

Ongoing research works with, inter alia, semiotic, performative, interactionist, grammatical, variationist, pedagogic and evolutionary models, and models of exemplars, populations, language shift, language socialization, desire and more.

Field sites range from Spain to Chile, drag culture to Deaf culture, Tucson to Tonga, and data types include discourses of ideology and identity, language contact, language revitalization, public health, new media, modernity and adolescence.

Two Pacific scholars (Rupert Stasch (UCSD) and Mary Good (UA)) have an impromptu intellectual exchange just before Sandrizona! (October 2009)

Personnel

Norma Mendoza-Denton, Director
Chen-chun E, Research Assistant
Priscilla Liu, Research Assistant
Bryan James Gordon, Webmaster

Directions

We are located in the Emil Haury Anthropology Building, at the corner of N. Park Avenue, E. 4th Street and E. South Campus Drive.

Contact information

Telephone

(520) 626-5546

Mailing address

Department of Anthropology
PO Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030

Email

n m d at email dot arizona dot edu