News & Announcements

Linguistic Anthropology Seminar

The Spring 2008 schedule for the Linguistic Anthropology Seminar is now available. The Linguistic Anthropology Seminar provides an informal, inter-disciplinary venue for presentations of work-in-progress by faculty, students, and visiting scholars.

Learning the lingo: the inner workings of the linguistics program

"What do J.R.R. Tolkien and Noam Chomsky have in common? It is not a trick question: Both were notably involved in linguistics, the systematic study of language."
Read more about the U.Va. Linguistics Program in the Cavalier Daily

Government Seeking to Preserve Dying Languages

"Thousands of languages are threatened with extinction, and a U.S. government project is trying to help save some of them..." Among the institutions awarded grants was the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, which received $225,000. Lise Dobrin, a linguist in the anthropology department, will lead a study of Arapesh, which is spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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At a loss for words Linguists use 21st-century technology to preserve an ancient language.

Read more about Lise Dobrin's work on Arapesh in Oscar, a U.Va. publication focusing on scholarship, creativity, and research.