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Figures 1.1 Fractal patterns 17 8.1 Girl wearing GoPro with chest harness in conversation with her friend 230 8.2 Full spherical video still image from footage of a dinner table conversation filmed with a 360-degree . camera. Courtesy Didem Ikizoğlu 232 8.3 A zoomed-in section of the same still. Courtesy . Didem Ikizoğlu 233 8.4 Screenshot of folder structure on computer hard drive. Each folder contains a video file, an extracted audio file, an ELAN transcription file, a file for ELAN settings, and a subtitles file 239 8.5 Screenshot of a section of an Excel spreadsheet formatted as data table with multiple columns for different categories of metadata. Each entry (row) refers to one “session,” i.e., a video file with its respective transcription and subtitle files 241 9.1 A funnel–spiral illustrates the recursive nature of collecting, selecting, transcribing, and analyzing data 263 xii Figures 9.2 Excerpt from the CELF study’s activity logs 265 9.3 Excerpt from the CELF study’s code definitions of activity logs 266 9.4 A funerary inscription coded for its placement (indoor or outdoor); material (paper or cloth); color (black and white or colorful); medium (printed or embroidered); script (Traditional Chinese, Romanized Vietnamese, or Sino- Romanized script); and audience (close family and friends or broader public) 275 9.5 Example of how images can supplement a written transcript 286 Tables 10.1 Types and examples of new media characterized by participation structure 306 11.1 Selected Methods 333 11.2 Designs for mixed methods studies (adapted from Fetters et al. 2013, 2136–7) 346 11.3 Strategies for triangulating data in mixed methods studies (adapted from Fetters et al. 2013, 2139–41) 348 11.4 Approaches for reporting data in mixed methods studies (adapted from Fetters et al. 2013, 2142–3) 350 Contributors Steven P. Black is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University. He has conducted research on global health discourses since 2008 with a focus on ethics, speech play, and performance. He is the author of Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa (Rutgers, 2019), is coeditor of a special issue of Medical Anthropology titled, “Communicating Care,” and has also published articles in numerous edited volumes and in journals including American Anthropologist, Annual Review of Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language in Society, and Medical Anthropology. His current research project, funded by National Geographic, is a collaborative multimedia ethnography based on fieldwork in Boruca Indigenous Territory, Costa Rica, and on indigenous knowledge, planetary health, and cultural sustainability. Lydia Catedral is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. She is a sociolinguist whose research focuses on the intersections between language, identity, and morality across time and space, and the implications for marginalized groups including transnational migrants, domestic workers, and LGBTQ Christians. She has published in Language and Communication, Language Policy, and Discourse and Society. Her recent coauthored book, Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, published by Routledge, presents a chronotopic and scalar approach to sociolinguistic behavior in general and to the issues of migration and marginality more specifically. Elaine Chun is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Her linguistic anthropological research examines ideologies of language, race, and racism in the United States and transnational social media spaces. Drawing on methods of interactional analysis and ethnography, she has investigated language parody among multiethnic youth, representations of Asian speakers in popular media, and linguistic hybridity in transnational youth spaces. Her work has appeared Contributors xv in Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics, Language & Communication, American Speech, and Discourse & Society. Robin Conley Riner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Her book, Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases (Oxford, 2015), investigates how language shapes jurors’ experiences during capital trials and impacts their life and death decisions. She also has a coedited book, Language and Social Justice in Practice (Routledge, 2018), which addresses the relationship between communicative practices and the creation of more just societies. Her most recent research project uses video ethnography to explore yoga and embodied communication as therapy for moral injury among military veterans. She teaches courses in cultural, linguistic, and legal anthropology. Archie Crowley is a Linguistics doctoral student at the University of South Carolina. Their research focuses on language practices, ideologies, and activism within online and offline trans communities. Crowley is involved in various projects and organizations that facilitate greater affirmation of trans, nonbinary, and queer communities, including UofSC’s LBGTQ+ Grad Student Affinity Group, the Harriet Hancock Center’s Nonbinary Peer Support Group, and the Committee for LGBTQ+ [Z] Issues in Linguistics (COZIL) for the Linguistic Society of America. Sonia Neela Das is Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at New York University. Combining ethnographic, linguistic, bibliographical, and archival methods, she investigates how linguistic forms and ideologies interface with communicative practices to contribute to social inequality in Canada, the United States, and South Asia. Her current research analyzes the institutional, interactional, and ideological factors producing escalation, violence, and unfair legal outcomes ensuing from racially charged police-civilian interactions in the US South. She also investigates technocratic ideologies about unsociability among commercial seafarers. Her first monograph, Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts, won Honorable Mention for the Sapir Book Prize by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. She is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and Wenner-Gren Foundation. She is coeditor-in-chief of the flagship Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and a Junior Fellow in the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. xvi Contributors Ilana Gershon is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and studies how people use new media to accomplish complicated social tasks such as breaking up with lovers and hiring new employees. She has published books such as The Breakup 2.0, Down and Out in the New Economy and edited A World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs, and Living with Animals. She has been a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study, and is presently a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki. She is currently studying how working in person during a pandemic sheds light on the ways workplaces function as private governments. Jan David Hauck is British Academy Newton International Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has used video extensively in his research, recording verbal art, narratives, and cultural practices in a project to document the indigenous Aché language in Paraguay, as well as in a video-based socialization study of Aché children, recording interactions in children’s peer groups, with caregivers, and with a variety of nonhumans in a village and on forest hunting treks. His theoretical interests are on the perception of language and linguistic difference, the ontological underpinnings of conceptions of language, language ideologies, ethics and morality, cooperation, child development, the perception of the environment, and human-nonhuman interactions. Deborah A. Jones is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany, where she specializes in the study of language, ethics, and political economy. She is currently preparing a monograph on language and violence in Ukraine, where linguistic differences are often cited as a factor in the war in the country’s east, but suppositions about the sort of speech that incites, prevents, or facilitates healing from conflict have proven much more varied. Another project, pursued as part of the Max Planck—Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy, and Social Change, focuses on ghostwriting and the relinquishment of authorship in the digital age. Farzad Karimzad is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Salisbury University. His research focuses on theorizing context and semiosis in relation to issues of normativity, mobility, and marginality, and the implications of these theories for sociolinguistic and anthropological studies of discourse and behavior. His recent work has been published in the Journal Contributors xvii of Sociolinguistics, Language and Communication, and Applied Linguistics. His recent coauthored book, Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, published by Routledge presents a chronotopic and scalar approach to sociolinguistic behavior in general and to the issues of migration and marginality more specifically. Gregory Kohler is an AAAS American Science & Technology Policy Fellow with USAID. His PhD dissertation, “Accounting for Modernity: Calculative Infrastructures of Sardinian Dairy Production,” is based on twenty-four months of ethnographic fieldwork in Sardinia, Italy, and was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright IIE. His research is rooted in a critical dialogue between linguistic anthropology, ethics, and critical food studies and explores the growth of audit cultures in governing global food chains. Heather Loyd Heather Loyd consults as a business anthropologist and user experience researcher and is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her work lies at the intersection of linguistic anthropology and cultural studies of urban youth, gender, morality, and the family in Italy and the U.S. As a consultant, she helps businesses understand and connect with customers. At UCLA, she teaches students anthropological field methods, as well as how to apply anthropological concepts, research methods, and analytical skills to a wide range of careers. As a business anthropologist, she conducts ethnographic research that helps businesses understand and connect with people, improving both customers’ experiences and clients’ businesses. Teruko Vida Mitsuhara recently completed her dissertation, “Moving toward Utopia: Language, Empathy, and Chastity among Mobile Mothers and Children in Mayapur, West Bengal” at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include utopian and world-building movements in India and the United States. She is a linguistic anthropologist who has used video ethnography to document women and children in a religious utopian community in Mayapur, West Bengal, in northern India. She also works as a freelance entertainment market researcher carrying out remote, video-based ethnography. Keith M. Murphy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research explores design and designing from the xviii Contributors perspective of face-to-face interaction. He is the author of Swedish Design: An Ethnography (Cornell) and coeditor of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (Stanford), and Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities (SAR Press). Sabina M. Perrino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Binghamton University. She has conducted research in Senegal, Northern Italy, and the United States. Her research examines racialized language in discursive practices, offline and online narratives, intimacy in interaction, language and migration, language revitalization, transnationalism, language use in ethnomedical encounters and in political discourse, and research methods in linguistic anthropology. She is author of Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy (Routledge) and Storytelling in the Digital World (with Anna De Fina; John Benjamins). She has numerous publications on a wide range of linguistic anthropological topics. She has coedited eight special issues for journals including Language in Society, Language & Communication, Narrative Inquiry, Multilingua, and Applied Linguistics. She is the coeditor of the series Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology. Sonya E. Pritzker is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, where she teaches theory and method in linguistic anthropology and directs the UA Open Laboratory on Embodiment, Communication, and Health (ECHO). Her research focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated notions of health, social justice, intimacy, and well-being in the United States and China. As a linguistic and medical anthropologist as well as licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine and former clinical researcher in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, she is committed to multidisciplinary, collaborative research. She is the author of Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine (Berghahn Books, 2014) and the coeditor (with Janina Fenigsen and James Wilce) of The Handbook of Language and Emotion (Routledge, 2020). She has also published widely in journals across psychological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and integrative medicine. Justin Richland is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on Native American law and politics in the contemporary moment, particularly the Contributors xix interface between tribal nations in the United States and the US federal and state governments. Merav Shohet is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2021). Her work integrates linguistic, psychological, medical, and sociocultural anthropology to examine care, affect, ethics, gender, and the end of life in North America, Vietnam, and most recently, Israel/Palestine. She has published articles on morality and language socialization; care, social change, and the semiotics of funerary ritual; narrative and eating disorders; love, family, and gender politics; and hierarchy and forms of address/self-reference in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Ethos, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, among others. Two of her current projects include an SSRC-funded study of stigma syndemics and end-stage kidney disease in disenfranchised urban communities fighting COVID-19 and a longitudinal study of practices of elder care and inequality in Israel’s transforming kibbutzim. Acknowledgments This book began to take shape during a vibrant conversation with Andrew Wardell at the 2018 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) meetings, in Chicago. We would like to thank him and Becky Holland of Bloomsbury Academic for their support and guidance throughout the development of our book. Likewise, we are very thankful to the reviewers of the book proposal and of the book manuscript for their advice and support. Special thanks go to the contributors of this volume who accepted our invitation to be part of this collection. We would like to acknowledge the enthusiasm and great care each of them took in writing and revising their chapters. Without their dedication and unique expertise in linguistic anthropology, this volume would have never materialized. We both thank our students and colleagues in the Departments of Anthropology at Binghamton University and the University of Alabama for their continuous intellectual and social support throughout the course of this book’s preparation. Taking place within conversations about research methodology over coffee, in the hallways, and via Zoom, their contributions to this volume are immeasurable. Finally, we would both like to offer our immense gratitude to our advisors, mentors, and colleagues in linguistic anthropology who have supported us in our studies and careers: the reality that there are too many of you to name individually is a reminder to us of just how lucky we have been. We hope that this volume contributes, in whatever small way, to furthering the enormous legacy of innovative methodologies that you have developed, refined, and shared with so many students over the years. Sabina M. Perrino and Sonya E. Pritzker

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