Elizabeth L. Keating
Professor — Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Contact
- E-mail: elizabeth.keating@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-8518
- Office: WCP 4.156
- Campus Mail Code: C3200
Interests
Linguistic anthropology, language and status, American Sign Language, new communication technologies, computer-mediated interaction, multimodal communication, visual anthropology; Oceania, Micronesia, US
Biography
I am a linguistic anthropologist who studies culture and communication. I am especially interested in investigating the impacts of technology on language and the role of language in maintaining social inequality. I completed my Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. I am currently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the past have been Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program in Liberal Arts.
I just published a new book: Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
University of California Press (co-authored with Sirkka Jarvenpaa)
http://www.ucpress.edu/go/words
See more about the book at elizabeth-keating.com
Research Interests:
I have a wide range of research interests in linguistic anthropology, including language and social hierarchy, virtual environments, societal impacts of technologies, visual language, multimodality, and language practices in the cross-cultural work place. I am currently conducting research on (1) cross- cultural misunderstandings among engineers collaborating virtually from four continents, (2) computer gamers’ emerging skills and use of language as they participate in multiple environments, and (3) language, culture and identity.
One major part of my research focuses on the impacts of technology on language practices. This research is important to anthropology because it answers questions about how and why cultures change over time due to innovations and how new cultural practices emerge and are disseminated through communities of people. Integrating anthropological analysis of how participants actually use technology can provide those designing and using new technology with information that can influence its effectiveness. I started researching impacts of technology on language practices with the help of members of the Austin Deaf community, who in 1999 began innovating with webcameras to communicate using their native language, sign language. Sign language had to be adapted from use in three dimensional space to the more constrained (but ultimately more powerful in terms of distance communication) two-dimensional webcam space. I have also researched computer gamers and engineers who are adapting to new technologically-mediated interactional spaces for play and work, and most of all for communicating, and the linguistic work they do to connect very different environments together.
A second major part of my research focuses on the way language is used to maintain social hierarchies and social inequalities. Between 1990 and 1997, I conducted fieldwork in Pohnpei, Micronesia, a society with a complex hierarchical ranking system that is maintained through a process common to many languages—the grammatical marking of relative social status in language, and through marking social distinctions in space, on the body, and through gestures. Human systems of social status marking are highly complex and dynamic processes and are quite context- and situation- dependent, but people often think of social status as something that is static and transcends social situations.
Additional affiliations: STS
Courses taught:
Culture and Communication, Language in Culture and Society, Introduction to Graduate Linguistic Anthropology
Conversation Analysis and Narrative, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender in Interaction, Language and Power, e-Society, Knowledge, Power and Practice in Science Technology and Society
Courses
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
32315-32345 • Fall 2021
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:00PM GSB 2.124
CDGC
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
ANT 393 • Conversation Analysis
32620 • Fall 2021
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM WCP 5.118
ANT 307 • Cul And Communication-Hon-Wb
31969 • Spring 2021
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
SB
ANT 393 • Conversation Analysis-Wb
32259 • Spring 2021
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication-Wb
30985-31010 • Fall 2020
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
CDGC
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
S S 302E • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology-Wb
41020 • Fall 2020
Meets MW 4:00PM-5:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
SB
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
31015-31040 • Fall 2019
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:00PM PAI 3.02
CDGC
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
S S 302E • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
41220 • Fall 2019
Meets MW 11:30AM-1:00PM WCP 5.102
SB
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
31835 • Spring 2019
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM RLP 3.106
S S 302E • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
42175 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM SAC 5.102
SB
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
31622-31629 • Fall 2018
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:00PM GSB 2.124
CDGC
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
ANT 393 • Conversation Analysis
31920 • Fall 2018
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM SAC 5.118
(also listed as LIN 392)
ANT 393 • Language And Institutions
31035 • Spring 2018
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM SAC 4.114
S S 301 • Honors Social Science
42370 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM SAC 5.102
SB
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
31360 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM JGB 2.216
CD
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
ANT 393 • Language And Power
31660 • Fall 2017
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM SAC 5.124
(also listed as LIN 396)
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
30595 • Spring 2016
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 4.116
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
41960 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM SAC 5.102
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30475 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CLA 0.112
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
30825 • Spring 2015
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 4.116
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
42285 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM SAC 5.102
GC
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
31420 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 0.112
SB
(also listed as LIN 312C)
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
31910 • Spring 2014
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 4.116
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
43645 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM SAC 5.102
GC
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
31265 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 0.112
SB
(also listed as LIN 312)
ANT 393 • Language And Power
31635 • Fall 2013
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 4.116
ANT 393 • Anthropology Of Lang & Gender
31520 • Spring 2012
Meets TH 2:00PM-5:00PM SAC 4.116
(also listed as LIN 392, WGS 393)
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
42845 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WEL 2.256
GC
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30940 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 216
SB
ANT 393 • Esociety: Cul, Tech And Comm
31210 • Fall 2011
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM SAC 4.116
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
31520 • Spring 2011
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM SAC 4.116
(also listed as LIN 396)
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
43335 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WEL 2.256
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30030 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 116
SB
(also listed as LIN 312)
ANT 393 • Anthropology Of Lang & Gender
30365 • Fall 2010
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM EPS 1.128
(also listed as LIN 392, WGS 393)
ANT 393 • Language And Power
30635 • Spring 2010
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM EPS 1.130KA
(also listed as LIN 396)
S S 301 • Hon Soc Sci: Anthropology
43465 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WEL 2.256
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30365 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WEL 2.308
SB
(also listed as LIN 312)
LIN 392 • Conversation Analysis
41595 • Fall 2009
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM EPS 1.128
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30500 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WEL 2.308
SB
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
30225 • Spring 2008
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 3.116
SB
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
30200 • Spring 2007
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM EPS 1.128
LIN 392 • Conversation Analysis
42035 • Fall 2006
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM EPS 1.130KA
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
27980 • Spring 2005
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM EPS 1.128
LIN 392 • Discourse Analysis
39850 • Fall 2004
Meets TH 9:30AM-12:30PM EPS 1.128
LIN 392 • Conversation Anly & Narrative
37270 • Spring 2004
Meets W 9:30AM-12:30PM EPS 1.128
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
26030-26045 • Spring 2003
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:00PM UTC 3.134
SB
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
26445 • Spring 2003
Meets W 9:30AM-12:30PM EPS 1.128
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
26325-26340 • Spring 2002
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:00PM UTC 3.132
SB
ANT 324L • Visual Anth/Tech Of Vis Repres
27110 • Fall 2001
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GSB 2.122
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
26613-26620 • Spring 2001
Meets MW 4:00PM-5:00PM UTC 3.124
SB
ANT 392N • Intro To Grad Ling Anthropol
26995 • Spring 2001
Meets F 9:30AM-12:30PM EPS 1.130KA
ANT 325M • Lang In Culture And Society
27285 • Fall 2000
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 3.122
(also listed as LIN 373)
ANT 307 • Culture And Communication
26265 • Spring 2000
Meets MWF 4:00PM-5:00PM UTC 3.124
SB
Publications
Books
Keating, Elizabeth and Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa. Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the NewGlobal Office. University of California Press, 2016.
Keating, Elizabeth. Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei,Micronesia. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Articles and Book Chapters (*denotes refereed publication)
2018* Keating, Elizabeth. Technologically-Mediated Sociality: Negotiating Culture, Communication and Access. Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Mobile Phones. Joshua A Bell and Joel C Kuipers, eds. Routledge
2017 Keating, Elizabeth. Challenges of Contextualization in Technologically-Mediated, Cross-Cultural Work Settings, SUM Conference Proceedings, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă Publishing House, Romania.
2017* Keating, Elizabeth. “They Blame, They Complain but They Don’t Understand”: Identity Clashes In Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaborations, in Revisiting Identity, eds. Aase Hansen, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg, Springer.
2017* Keating, Elizabeth. Challenges of Conducting Interaction with Technologically-Mediated Bodies, in Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction. Christian Meyer, Jürgen Streeck & J. Scott Jordan, eds. Oxford University Press.
2015 Keating, Elizabeth. The Role of the Body and Space in Digital Multimodality, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication, Edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, pages 259-272. Routledge.
2015 Keating, Elizabeth. Space and Place. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, eds. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
2013 Keating, Elizabeth. “Duranti, Alessandro,” entry in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle. Wiley Blackwell, p. 1788-1790.
2012* Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. The Eyes Have It: Technomobility and Sign Language Innovations. Semiotica, Volume 2012, Issue 191, pages 287–308.
2012 Keating, Elizabeth and Pirkko Raudaskoski. Theoretical framework: communicative technology for augmented interaction within the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS), in Maria Egbert and Arnulf Deppermann, eds. Hearing Aids Communication: Integrating Social Interaction, Audiology and User Centered Design to Improve Communication with Hearing Loss and Hearing Technologies. Mannheim: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung, pages 35-39.
2012* Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L. and Elizabeth Keating. Global Offshoring Engineering Project Teams: Trust Asymmetries across Cultural Borders. Engineering Project Organization Journal, 2:1-2, 71-83
2011* Keating, Elizabeth and Sirkka Jarvenpaa. Interspatial Subjectivities: Engineering in Virtual Environments, Social Semiotics, Volume 21(2) 219-237.
2011* Jarvenpaa, Sirkka and Elizabeth Keating. Hallowed Grounds: The Role of Cultural Values, Practices, and Institutions in TMS in an Offshored Complex Engineering Services Project, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 99:1-13
2011 Keating, Elizabeth and Chiho Sunakawa. A Full Inspiration Tray: Multimodality across Real and Computer-Mediated Spaces. In Goodwin, Charles, Curtis LeBaron, and Jurgen Streeck, eds. Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge University Press, 194-206.
2011 Keating, Elizabeth and Alessandro Duranti. Discourse and Culture. In Discourse Studies, Teun van Dijk, ed., London: Sage Publications, 331-356.
2010 Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. American Sign Language in virtual space: Interactions between Deaf Users of Computer-Mediated Video Communication and the Impact of Technology on Language Practices. Reprint in: B. Schieffelin and P. Garrett (eds.), Anthropological Linguistics: Theories and Practices. Routledge. Reprint of Language in Society 32, 693-714, 2003.
2010 Toprac, Paul, Melissa Ossian, Elizabeth Keating, and Joe Sanchez. Leslie Jarmon—1952-2009. Simulation & Gaming, August 2010; vol. 41, 4: pp. 457-460.
2010* Keating, Elizabeth and R. Neill Hadder. Sensory Impairment. Annual Reviews of Anthropology, Vol. 39: 115-129.
2010* Keating, Elizabeth and Chiho Sunakawa. Participation Cues: Coordinating Activity and Collaboration in Complex Online Gaming Worlds, Language in Society, 39 (3):331-356.
2009 Keating, Elizabeth. Societal Impacts of Nanomanufacturing. In Nanomanufacturing, Shaochen Chen, ed., Los Angeles: American Scientific Publishers, 263-275.
2009 Keating, Elizabeth. Pragmatics and Technology. Language in Life, and a Life in Language,Studies in Pragmatics. Bruce Fraser and Ken Turner, eds. Emerald Publishing, 231-238.
2009* Monteiro, Marko and Elizabeth Keating. Managing Misunderstandings: The Role of Language in Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration. Science Communication, Vol. 31, No. 1, 6-28.
2009* Keating Elizabeth. Language and Power. Language and Linguistic Compass, Ken Turner, ed. Blackwell Publishing, 3/4: 996–1009
2008 Keating, Elizabeth. Space Shifting: New Technologies, New Opportunities. Proceedings of the Symposium about Language and Society, Austin. Texas Linguistic Forum, 52: 70-79
2008* Keating, Elizabeth, Terra Edwards and Gene Mirus. Cybersign: Impacts of New Communication Technologies on Space and Language, Journal of Pragmatics, Volume40, Issue 6: 1067-1081.
2008* Jarmon, Leslie, Elizabeth Keating, and Paul Toprac. NANO SCENARIO: An Open-ended Issue-Based Role-Play Simulation for Appreciating Societal Impacts of Nanotechnology. Simulation & Gaming (Sage Publications), 39: 168-181.
2008* Jarmon, Leslie and Elizabeth Keating. NANO SCENARIO: Role-playing to appreciate the societal effects of nanotechnology. Simulation & Gaming, Vol. 39, No. 2, 282-301.
2006* Keating, Elizabeth. Habits and Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated Sociality. In Roots of Human Sociality. S. Levinson and N. Enfield, eds, Berg Publishers, pp. 332-350.
2006* Keating, Elizabeth and Leslie Jarmon. What is Nanotechnology: New Properties of Words as Territories in a Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Border Flow. Practicing Anthropology, 28:2, 6-10.
2006 Keating, Elizabeth. Language and Spatiality Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Keith Brown, ed. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
2006* Keating, Elizabeth and Alessandro Duranti. Honorific Resources for the Construction of Hierarchy. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 115(2): 145-172.
2005 Keating, Elizabeth Language and Culture. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford, UK: UNESCO Eolss Publishers Co Ltd.
2005* Keating, Elizabeth. Homo Prostheticus: Problematizing the Notions of Activity and Computer-Mediated Interaction. In Models of Language, Interaction, and Culture, Alessandro Duranti, ed. (special issue of Discourse Studies, 2005, vol. 7(4-5): 527-545)
2005* Keating, Elizabeth. The Sociolinguistics of Status in Pohnpei. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language 172:7-30.
2004 Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. Signing in the Car: Some Issues in Language and Context. Deaf Worlds 20: 3, pp. 264-273.
2004 Keating, Elizabeth and Maria Egbert. Conversation as a Cultural Activity. In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. A. Duranti, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, p. 169-196.
2003* Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. American Sign Language in Virtual Space: Interactions between Deaf Users of Computer-Mediated Video Communication and the Impact of Technology on Language Practices. Language in Society 32, 693-714.
2003* Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. Examining Interactions across Language Modalities: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 34(2):115-135.
2003 Keating, Elizabeth. Introduction. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Issue on Visual Communication, 13,1:3-6.
2003 Keating, Elizabeth. Language Purism and American Sign Language. Purism in Minor Languages, Endangered Languages, Regional Languages, Mixed Languages. Joseph Brincat, Winfried Boeder, and Thomas Stolz, eds. Bochum: Universitatsverlag, 349-365.
2003 Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. New Technologies and Minority Language Communities: The Deaf Community, Visual Virtual Language and Computer-Mediated Communication. In Thomas Stolz and Joel Sherzer, eds. MINOR LANGUAGES Approaches, Definitions, Controversies. Bochum: Universitatsverlag Dr. N. Brochmeyer, pp. 103-120.
2003. Keating, Elizabeth and Joel Sherzer. The Ethnography of Communication. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Frawley, ed.
2002* Keating, Elizabeth. Everyday Interactions and the Domestication of Social Inequality IPRA Pragmatics 12:3.347-359.
2002 Keating, Elizabeth. Space and its Role in Social Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia. In Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Bennardo, Giovanni, ed., 201-213.
2001 Keating, Elizabeth Anthropological Linguistics. Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Raj Mesthrie, ed. Pergamon Press, 5-6.
2001 Keating, Elizabeth. Spanish and the Missionization Effort on Pohnpei: Language and Cultural Influences. Lo propio y lo ajeno en las lenguas austronesicas y amerindias. Klaus Zimmerman and Thomas Stolz, eds., Frankfort am Main: Vervuert, Madrid: Iberoamericana, 295-312.
2001* Keating, Elizabeth. Language, Identity, and the Production of Authority in New Discursive Contests in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Journal de la Société des Océaniste, 112, pp. 73-80.
2001 Keating, Elizabeth. The Ethnography of Communication, in Handbook of Ethnography, Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, Lyn Lofland, and John Lofland, eds. London: Sage Publications, 285-301.
2001 Keating, Elizabeth. Space. In Duranti Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell (reprint of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 9), 234-237.
2001 Keating, Elizabeth. Spazio / Space. In Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Culture e Discorso. Un lessico per le scienze sociali. Roma: Meltemi, pp. 357-361 (translation of ‘Space’).
2000* Keating, Elizabeth. Moments of Hierarchy: Constructing Social Stratification by means of Language, Food, Space, and the Body in Pohnpei, Micronesia. American Anthropologist 102(2):303-320.
2000 Keating, Elizabeth. How Culture and Technology Together Shape New Communicative Practices: Investigating Interactions Between Deaf and Hearing Callers with Computer‑mediated Videotelephone, Texas Linguistic Forum 43, 2000:99-116.
2000 Keating, Elizabeth. Current Issues in Linguistic Anthropology. Teaching Anthropology: SAAC Notes. American Anthropolog. Assn and Soc. for Anthropology in Community Colleges Publication, 20-23.
2000 Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus. Cross Modal Conversations: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School. Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture Conference Proceedings, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL UCLA, 73-90.
1999* Keating, Elizabeth. Contesting Representations of Gender Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia, Ethnos 64:3, pp. 350-371.
1999 Keating, Elizabeth. Space. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Special Issue, Language Matters in Anthropology, A Lexicon for the Millenium, 9(1-2):234-237.
1998* Keating, Elizabeth. Honor and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia. American Ethnologist, 25(3):399-411.
1998* Keating, Elizabeth. A woman's role in constructing status hierarchies: Using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 129:103-115.
1997* Keating, Elizabeth. Honorific Possession: Power and Language in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Language in Society, 26(2): 247-268.
1995 Keating, Elizabeth. Spatial Conceptions of Hierarchy in Pohnpei Micronesia. In Spatial Information Theory, A. Frank and W. Kuhn, eds., pp. 463-474. Berlin: Springer, pp. 463-474.
1994 Keating, Elizabeth. Rank, Language, Gender, and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, pp. 367-377.
1993* Keating, Elizabeth. Correction/Repair as a Resource for Co-construction of Group Competence. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association, pp. 411-423.
1991* He, Agnes and Elizabeth Keating. Constituting Expertise and Power through Talk: A Case Study of an Academic Counseling Encounter. Issues in Applied Linguistics, Vol II, No. 2: 183-209.
Online Publications
2006 Keating, Elizabeth with Emi Nagai. “The role of the mobile phone in the welfare of aged and handicapped people,” NTT Docomo Website, http://www.moba-ken.jp/english/research/research2006/r06-05.html
2005 Keating, Elizabeth with Emi Nagai. Current Societal Problems with Mobile Phone Usage in 15 Countries, NTT Docomo, Japan, website, http://www.moba-ken.jp/english/research/research2005/r05-12.html
Book Reviews
2003 Review of Pujolar, Joan. Gender, Heteroglossia and Power: A Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Culture. Discourse & Society 14(4): 529-532.
2001 Review of Schieffelin, B., Woolard, K., and Kroskrity, P. Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11:1, 152-156.
2000 Review of Linell, Per. Approaching Dialogue: Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives. Language in Society 29:4, 586-589.
1997 Review of Farnell, Brenda. Do You See What I Mean: Plains Indians Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7:2, 226-227.