Publications

Articles

(2018) Information-seeking behavior and information providers in a K’iche’ Maya community: An ethnographic study of Nahualá, Guatemala. (Co-authored with Steven Hunt). Information Development.

(2017) Directives, deontic stance taking and moral authority in Sakapultek. Anthropological Linguistics 59.1:1-47.

(2009) Ritual and (im)moral voices: Locating the Testament of Judas in Sakapultek communicative ecology. American Ethnologist 36(3): 459-477.

(2002) “Pray earnestly:” the textual construction of personal involvement in Pentecostal prayer and song. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12(1):34-71. (2002)

(1999) The many voices of Rush Limbaugh: the use of transposition in constructing a rhetoric of common sense. Text 19(3): 399-437.

Book Chapters

(2016) “Don’t say drones”:Hits and misses in a rhetorical project of naming. (Co-authored with Sarah Stanley) In S. Medzerian Vanguri, ed., Rhetorics of Names and Naming, pp. 102-117. Routledge.

(2009) Moral irony and moral personhood in Sakapultek discourse and culture. In A. Jaffee, ed., Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, pp. 155-201. Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

(2017) Language and Ethnicity among the K'ichee’ Maya by Sergio Romero, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2015. 123 pp. American Anthropologist 118 (1):168-169.

forthcoming Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors by Mallory E. Matsumoto, Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2017, 424 pp. To appear in Journal of Anthropological Research.

Other

(2014) Rush Limbaugh’s Club G’itmo and semiotic claims to minority status. Anthropology News, Society for Linguistic Anthropology blog column. (1100 words)

(1997) The dueling voices of Rush Limbaugh. In A. Chu, A. Guerra and C. Tetreault, eds., Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium about Language and Society, pp. 256-265. Austin, TX: Texas Linguistics Forum.