The Linguistic Anthropology Lab hosts speakers and students for informal discussions of works-in-progress and work process in research on language/signs in social contexts. The lab is organized around three main functions:
- Data Sessions and Presentations: we host speakers (students and faculty) for informal discussions of works-in-progress regarding language/signs in social contexts. This includes the review of multimodal/video data, preliminary transcripts,
practice job talks, and test-run conference presentations, among other (exciting!) things.
- Seminar Room and Workspace: our seminar room and a workroom are available for collaborative and independent work. The rooms are located on the third floor of Haskell Hall, Rooms 301 and 302.
- Equipment and Software: the lab holds a collection of equipment and software for recording, transcribing, coding, and annotating data in a range of formats (video, audio, photographic, etc.).
Contact
Emily Kuret
kuret@uchicago.edu
2025-26 Lab Coordinator
2025-26 Event Schedule
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Friday, October 24, 6:00 pm Friday, October 24, 11-1pm Friday, October 31, 11-1pm Friday, November 7, 11-1pm Friday, November 14, 11-1pm Friday, December 5, 11-1pm TBD |
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Meeting recordings from sessions since Fall 2024 are located here for your reference. Readings from the 2024-25 methods reading group are located here in pdf format.
Grammar Club
The Grammar reading group meets on Fridays, 4:30–6 pm, in the seminar room and on zoom.
- Summer 2025 topic: evidentiality
- Fall 2025: morphosyntactic alignment, beginning with the classic works on ergativity.
- Future reading topics: information structure, event structure, clause linking.
Also Relevant: Semiotics Workshop
The Semiotics Workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. Presentations will come from a variety of fields including but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, literary theory, and anthropology. By not limiting the topic of research by area, period or discipline, the workshop encourages discussion to center on how to study social and cultural phenomena as embedded in a meaningful context. By building on many seminal studies that have used semiotic approaches, the goal of the workshop is to continue to develop the rigorous analytic framework that provides the method for clearly defining linkages between the object of analysis and its context.
for more information, please visit: https://voices.uchicago.edu/semiotics/