The Origins of Language

• Curtiss, S. (1990). “What Happens If You’re Raised Without a Language?” The Five Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages. 97-101. Oakville, CT: Equinox.
• Corballis, MC. (2010). “The Gestural Origins of Language.” WIREs Cognitive Science 1:2-7.

Sign Language

• LeMaster, B and L Monaghan. (2004). “Variation in Sign Language.” In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Pp. 141-165. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 
• Ishaare: Gestures and Signs in Mumbai

Language and Identity

• Anzaldua, G. (1987). How to Tame a Wild Tongue. In Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Pp. 53-64. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.
• Snyder-Frey. A. (2013). “He kuleana kō kākou: Hawaiian-language Learners and the Construction of (Alter)Native Identities.” Current Issues in Language Planning 14(2):231-243.
• Goodwin, M. H. and H. Samy Alim (2010). “Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck)”: The Situated Coproduction of Social Categories and Identities through Stancetaking and Transmodal Stylization. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20(1):179-194.
• Pagliai, V. (2011). Unmarked Racializing Discourse, Facework, and Identity in Talk about Immigrants in Italy. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 21, Issue 1 (August 2011) Pages: E94-E112.
• Bailey, B. (2000). The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10(2), 190–223.

Language Contact and Contact Languages

• DeGraff, M. (2003). “Against Creole Exceptionalism.” Language 79(2):391-410.
• Jourdan, C. (2007). “Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Postcolonial Solomon Islands.” In Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies, edited by Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Pp. 30-48. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Makihara, M. (2004). “Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).” American Anthropologist, 106(3), 529-540.

Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Translanguaging

• Reynolds, J, M Orellana, and I García-Sánchez (2015). “In the Service of Surveillance: Immigrant Child Language Brokers in Parent-Teacher Conferences.” Langage et société 153(3): 91-108.
• Rosa, J. (2019). “They’re Bilingual…That Means They Don’t Know the Language”: The Ideology of Languagelessness in Practice, Policy, and Theory. In Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad. 1-19.
• On Translanguaging with Ofelia García

Language and Thought

• Hinton, L. (1994). “Language and the Structure of Thought.” In Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages, 61-70. Berkeley: Heyday Books.
• Conklin, HC. (1955). “Hanunóo Color Categories.” Journal of Anthropological Research 42(3): 441-446.
• Briggs, JL. (2000). “Emotions Have Many Faces: Inuit Lessons.” Anthropologica 42(2): 157-164.

Language Socialization

• Ochs, E and BB Schieffelin. (1984). “Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and their Implications.” In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. Pp. 276-320. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Basso, K. H. (1970). ‘To Give Up on Words’: Silence in Western Apache Culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 26(3), 213–230.

Language and Media

• Gershon, I. (2010). Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Media Switching and Media Ideologies. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20( 2): 389–405.
• Bonilla, Y. and Rosa J. (2015). #Ferguson: Digital Protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist 42(1): 4-17.
• Backhaus, B., & Melkote, S. (2019). Community Radio as Amplification of Rural Knowledge Sharing. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 29(2), 137-150.

Language and Race

• Alim, H. Samy, & Smitherman, Geneva (2012). “‘Nah, We Straight’: Black Language and America’s First Black President.” In Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. 1-30. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 3 Ways To Speak English by Jamila Lyiscott
• Sutirelu, Nicholas (2013). “Hearing Skin Color: The connections between language and race.” Linguistic Pulse Blog.
• Hill, J. (1998). “Language, Race, and White Public Space.” American Anthropologist 100(3):680-689.
• Bailey, B. (2000). The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10(2), 190–223.
• Gaudio, R. P. (2001). White men do it too: Racialized (homo)sexualities in postcolonial Hausaland. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1), 36–51.

Language, Gender, and Sexuality

• Ochs, Elinor. (1993). “Indexing Gender.” Rethinking context: Language as an interactive phenomenon. Cambridge University Press. 335-358. 
• Hall, Kira. (1995). “Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines.” In Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. London: Routledge, pp. 183-216.
• Martin, Emily. (1991). “Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” Signs 16(3): 485-501.
• Gaudio, R. P. (2001). White men do it too: Racialized (homo)sexualities in postcolonial Hausaland. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1), 36–51.

Language and Age

• Eckert, P. and McConnell-Ginet, S. (1995). Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender and class from Belten High. Routledge, 469-507.
• Eckert, P. (n.d.) “Why Ethnography?” https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/whyethnography.pdf. 

Language and Capital

• Gaudio, R. P. (2003). Coffeetalk: StarbucksTM and the Commercialization of Casual Conversation. Language in Society, 32(5), 659–691.
• Irvine, J. T. (1989). When talk isn’t cheap: Language and political economy. American Ethnologist, 16(2), 248–267.
• Coombe, R. J. (2016). The knowledge economy and its cultures: Neoliberal technologies and Latin American reterritorializations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(3), 247–275. 
• Gershon, Ilana. 2016. “‘I’m Not a Businessman, I’m a Business, Man’: Typing the Neoliberal Self into a Branded Existence.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (3): 223–46. 

Discourse, Nations, and Institutions

• Blommaert, J. (2009). Language, Asylum, and the National Order. Current Anthropology, 50(4), 415–441.
• Shipton, Parker. 2003. “Legalism and Loyalism: European, African, and Human ‘Rights.’” In At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial States, edited by Bartholomew Dean and Jerome M. Levi, 45–79. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Siskind, Janet. 2002. “The Invention of Thanksgiving: A Ritual of American Nationality.” In Food in the USA: A Reader, edited by Carole Counihan, 41–58. New York: Routledge.
• Stevens, S. M. (2018). Tomahawk: Materiality and depictions of the Haudenosaunee. Early American Literature, 53(2), 475–511.