James Slotta

Listening Acts: The Creativity & Consequentiality of Reception
For The Total Linguistic Fact: Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Michael Silverstein [PDF]  

Ways of Listening Across Contexts and Cultures
In the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition [LINK] [PDF]

Intelligibility as a Sociolinguistic Variable: The Entanglement of the Social and the Semantic in Multilingual Practice
Language in Society [LINK] [PDF]

Sociocultural Contexts of Papuan Language Diversification
For The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages [PDF]

Global Languages & Communicative Inequality in the 'Last Place' on Earth
In Language and Social Justice: Global Perspectives. (with C. Handman) [PDF] 

Anarchy and the Art of Listening: The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea
Cornell University Press [PURCHASE] [PDF] 

Anarchy and the Art of Listening: The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea
Cornell University Press [PURCHASE] [PDF] 

Listening Acts: The Creativity & Consequentiality of Reception
For The Total Linguistic Fact: Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Michael Silverstein [PDF]  

Ways of Listening Across Contexts and Cultures
In the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition [LINK] [PDF]

Can the subaltern listen? Self-determination and the provisioning of expertise in Papua New Guinea
American Ethnologist [LINK] [PDF] 

The perlocutionary is political: Listening as self-determination in Papua New Guinea
Language in Society [LINK] [PDF] 

Revelations of the world: Transnationalism and the politics of perception in Papua New Guinea
American Anthropologist [LINK] [PDF] 

Phatic rituals of the liberal democratic polity: Hearing voices in the hearings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Comparative Studies in Society and History [LINK] [PDF] 

The annotated Donald Trump: Signs of circulation in a time of bubbles
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology [LINK] [PDF] 

The annotated Donald Trump: Signs of circulation in a time of bubbles
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology [LINK] [PDF] 

The significance of Trump’s incoherence
In Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies [LINK] [PDF]

Phatic rituals of the liberal democratic polity: Hearing voices in the hearings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Comparative Studies in Society and History [LINK] [PDF] 

Anarchy and the Art of Listening: The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea
Cornell University Press [PURCHASE] [PDF] 

Can the subaltern listen? Self-determination and the provisioning of expertise in Papua New Guinea
American Ethnologist [LINK] [PDF] 

The perlocutionary is political: Listening as self-determination in Papua New Guinea
Language in Society [LINK] [PDF] 

Revelations of the world: Transnationalism and the politics of perception in Papua New Guinea
American Anthropologist [LINK] [PDF] 

Intelligibility as a Sociolinguistic Variable: The Entanglement of the Social and the Semantic in Multilingual Practice
Language in Society [LINK] [PDF]

Sociocultural Contexts of Papuan Language Diversification
For The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages [PDF]

Global Languages & Communicative Inequality in the 'Last Place' on Earth
In Language and Social Justice: Global Perspectives. (with C. Handman) [PDF] 

Endangered languages and porous selves. Comment on Don Kulick’s A Death in the Rainforest
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [LINK] [PDF] 

Dialect, trope, and enregisterment in a Melanesian speech community
Language & Communication [LINK] [PDF] 

The pragmatics of kin address: A sociolinguistic universal and its semantic affordances
with L. Fleming. Journal of Sociolinguistics [LINK] [PDF]

Slang and the semantic sense of identity
Texas Linguistic Forum [LINK] [PDF] 

The ups and downs of space and time: Topography in Yupno language, culture, and cognition
with K. Cooperrider & R. Núñez. Language and Cognition [LINK] [PDF]

The preference for pointing with the hand is not universal.
with K. Cooperrider & R. Núñez. Cognitive Science [LINK] [PDF]

Uphill and downhill in a flat world: The conceptual topography of the Yupno house
with K. Cooperrider & R. Núñez. Cognitive Science [LINK] [PDF]

Singing the individual: Name tunes in Oyda and Yopno
with A. Amha & H. S. Sarvasy. Frontiers in Psychology [LINK] [PDF]

Distinguishing 'gene lines' from 'affines': The troubled genealogy of Yopno & other New Guinea languages
In The Ideal of the Slightly Bent Person of the Yupno in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

Pragmatics
In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology [LINK] [PDF]