L Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 43670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1143-0490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Abortion, incommunicability, and semiotic labor: Policing disciplinary boundaries through language ideological work among emergency nurses in a post‐Roe environment
Nurses working in emergency departments in the United States are increasingly managing obstetric emergencies, yet they receive no guidance from hospital administrators about how to adapt this care to the abortion bans that have recently become law in many states. Our interview‐based study explores reports of workplace communication about abortion among emergency nurses, which is constrained by an institutional language ideology prohibiting “polit…
Reconciling dependency and agency: The essential role of respect in birth - Swiss birthing people's understandings of and attitudes towards decision-making in birth
Decision-making interactions between birthing people and providers frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. It is argued that decision-making frameworks often do not prioritize birthing people's needs and preferences but, for example, fetal interests, institutional needs, or providers' preferences. As a consequence, autonomy in birth is only an illusion. However, research syntheses highlight the crucial role of choice, control, a…
Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Living Together Across Borders: Separated Salvadoran Families and the Power of Everyday Conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices—such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together—that are central to family life across borders. It underscores the consequentia…
Central Coast Joint Strategic Needs Assessment - A Collaborative Approach to Improving Health and Social Care Outcomes at a Local Level
5: Central Coast Research Institute for Integrated Care, Gosford, NSW, Australia Background: The Central Coast is a region north of Sydney, Australia with a population of approximately 340,000. Health and public services in the region continue to move towards integrated planning and service delivery to avoid organisational silos, disjointed or duplicative service planning and delivery. As part of this, The Central Coast Health Local Health Distri…
Mobilising language, gender and sexuality studies
This introduction frames the special issue ‘Mobilising Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies’, situating the contributions in relation to interdisciplinary scholarship on migration, gender, sexuality and language. In particular, this introduction draws attention to Global South theorisations of migration as resistance, suggesting that scholars of language, gender and sexuality can build on such approaches to trace forms of agency that otherwise …
National heroes or dangerous failures
This article centres the Global South in studies of language and mobility by focusing on migration discourse in El Salvador, a Central American country with four decades of widespread emigration. The analysis examines state-endorsed discourses, tracing how entextualised figures of migrant personhood shift over time in response to changing political-economic conditions. Gender is central to these dominant depictions, which rely on a consistent con…
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co-Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Recent scholarship on care urges close ethnographic attention to specific care practices rather than to the reflexive, meaning-making accounts that dominated previous work, setting up a distinction between enacting and signifying care. However, as transnational Salvadoran families care through cross-border communication, they produce and enact imaginaries of relational obligation that constitute asymmetrical care roles for migrants and nonmigrant…
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care
Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo
Cross-border Communication and the Enregisterment of Collective Frameworks for Care
Communication plays an important role in the non-copresent care that is increasingly prevalent today. Drawing on long-term research with transnational Salvadoran families, I explore how one multigenerational kin network managed a health crisis: a family member had been diagnosed with a new form of chronic kidney disease that is epidemic in rural Central American communities. The family used cross-border communication to simultaneously enact care …
Language socialization across borders: Producing scalar subjectivities through material-affective semiosis
Recent scholarship on language use has developed a resurgent interest in the complex interrelationship of language and materiality; given its longstanding investigation of both non-verbal communication and political economy, language socialization research is well-positioned to make important contributions to this investigation of language materiality. This paper advances such a project by demonstrating how the discursive processes of language so…
Language and Social Justice
Accompanying as accomplices: Pedagogies for community engaged learning in sociocultural linguistics
As a field, sociocultural linguistics has a long legacy of public scholarship that has worked to counter linguistic prejudices and inequalities perpetuated through language. Today, current community engagement within sociocultural linguistics increasingly takes a collaborative approach that includes students. In this article, I therefore explore how the field prepares both students and faculty for this work. In particular, I focus on courses with…
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
Multisited ethnography and language in the study of migration
This chapter focuses on the intersection of multisited ethnography and studies of language and migration, especially as it has developed in anthropology and sociolinguistics – the fields that have spearheaded language-based studies of globalization. It addresses some of the ongoing debates that inform the current practice of multisited ethnography, addressing in particular the place of the nation-state in a so-called globalized world. The chapter…
Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language
The reconceptualization of agency through ambiguity and contradiction: Salvadoran women narrating unauthorized migration
Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): New paleomagnetic results
Dialogic Embodied Action: Using Gesture to Organize Sequence and Participation in Instructional Interaction
Interactional analysts have long argued for the importance of tying techniques, which function to connect the current speaker's utterance to the actions of a previous speaker, in the organization of turns at talk (M. H. Goodwin, 1990 Goodwin, M. H. 1990. He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among Black children, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar]; Sacks, 1992c Sacks, H. 1992c. "Tying rules". In L…
Reproducing Actions, Reproducing Power: Local Ideologies and Everyday Practices of Participation at a California Community Bike Shop
The study of participation within linguistic anthropology has developed a nuanced understanding of participant roles and examined the process by which such roles are enacted in participation frameworks. This paper examines what I call modes of engagement, that is, role-based differential use of forms of embodied and linguistic participation. I argue that such engagement modes are central in defining and differentiating participant roles themselve…
On Taking Local Language Practices Seriously in Linguistic Inquiry: Language as a Local Practice
Review Article| May 01 2011 ON TAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY IN LINGUISTIC Inquiry:language as a Local Practice ON TAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY IN LINGUISTIC INQUIRY:Language as a Local Practice By Pennycook, AlastairNew York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. vii + 167. ISBN 978-0-415-54750-5; $115.00 ($44.95 pbk) Lynnette Arnold Lynnette Arnold Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2):…
Friends of Radiocarbon
This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between Radiocarbon and the University of Arizona Libraries
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
A guide to the literature on aggressive behavior
Articles relating t o the general problem area of aggression are scattered throughout the whole range of specialized journals in fields from "A for anatomy" t o "Z for Zoology." It is virtually impossible for a single individual to find all the articles which may bear on his particular interest. Information overload is, of course, a problem. However, an even greater problem is matching the interesting article with the interested reader. Aggressiv…
Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): New paleomagnetic results
Dialogic Embodied Action: Using Gesture to Organize Sequence and Participation in Instructional Interaction
Interactional analysts have long argued for the importance of tying techniques, which function to connect the current speaker's utterance to the actions of a previous speaker, in the organization of turns at talk (M. H. Goodwin, 1990 Goodwin, M. H. 1990. He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among Black children, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar]; Sacks, 1992c Sacks, H. 1992c. "Tying rules". In L…
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co-Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Recent scholarship on care urges close ethnographic attention to specific care practices rather than to the reflexive, meaning-making accounts that dominated previous work, setting up a distinction between enacting and signifying care. However, as transnational Salvadoran families care through cross-border communication, they produce and enact imaginaries of relational obligation that constitute asymmetrical care roles for migrants and nonmigrant…
The reconceptualization of agency through ambiguity and contradiction: Salvadoran women narrating unauthorized migration
Reproducing Actions, Reproducing Power: Local Ideologies and Everyday Practices of Participation at a California Community Bike Shop
The study of participation within linguistic anthropology has developed a nuanced understanding of participant roles and examined the process by which such roles are enacted in participation frameworks. This paper examines what I call modes of engagement, that is, role-based differential use of forms of embodied and linguistic participation. I argue that such engagement modes are central in defining and differentiating participant roles themselve…
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care
Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo
Cross-border Communication and the Enregisterment of Collective Frameworks for Care
Communication plays an important role in the non-copresent care that is increasingly prevalent today. Drawing on long-term research with transnational Salvadoran families, I explore how one multigenerational kin network managed a health crisis: a family member had been diagnosed with a new form of chronic kidney disease that is epidemic in rural Central American communities. The family used cross-border communication to simultaneously enact care …
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
Accompanying as accomplices: Pedagogies for community engaged learning in sociocultural linguistics
As a field, sociocultural linguistics has a long legacy of public scholarship that has worked to counter linguistic prejudices and inequalities perpetuated through language. Today, current community engagement within sociocultural linguistics increasingly takes a collaborative approach that includes students. In this article, I therefore explore how the field prepares both students and faculty for this work. In particular, I focus on courses with…
National heroes or dangerous failures
This article centres the Global South in studies of language and mobility by focusing on migration discourse in El Salvador, a Central American country with four decades of widespread emigration. The analysis examines state-endorsed discourses, tracing how entextualised figures of migrant personhood shift over time in response to changing political-economic conditions. Gender is central to these dominant depictions, which rely on a consistent con…
Language and Social Justice
Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language
A guide to the literature on aggressive behavior
Articles relating t o the general problem area of aggression are scattered throughout the whole range of specialized journals in fields from "A for anatomy" t o "Z for Zoology." It is virtually impossible for a single individual to find all the articles which may bear on his particular interest. Information overload is, of course, a problem. However, an even greater problem is matching the interesting article with the interested reader. Aggressiv…
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
Friends of Radiocarbon
This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between Radiocarbon and the University of Arizona Libraries
On Taking Local Language Practices Seriously in Linguistic Inquiry: Language as a Local Practice
Review Article| May 01 2011 ON TAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY IN LINGUISTIC Inquiry:language as a Local Practice ON TAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES SERIOUSLY IN LINGUISTIC INQUIRY:Language as a Local Practice By Pennycook, AlastairNew York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. vii + 167. ISBN 978-0-415-54750-5; $115.00 ($44.95 pbk) Lynnette Arnold Lynnette Arnold Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2):…
Dialogic Embodied Action: Using Gesture to Organize Sequence and Participation in Instructional Interaction
Interactional analysts have long argued for the importance of tying techniques, which function to connect the current speaker's utterance to the actions of a previous speaker, in the organization of turns at talk (M. H. Goodwin, 1990 Goodwin, M. H. 1990. He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among Black children, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar]; Sacks, 1992c Sacks, H. 1992c. "Tying rules". In L…
Reproducing Actions, Reproducing Power: Local Ideologies and Everyday Practices of Participation at a California Community Bike Shop
The study of participation within linguistic anthropology has developed a nuanced understanding of participant roles and examined the process by which such roles are enacted in participation frameworks. This paper examines what I call modes of engagement, that is, role-based differential use of forms of embodied and linguistic participation. I argue that such engagement modes are central in defining and differentiating participant roles themselve…
Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): New paleomagnetic results
The reconceptualization of agency through ambiguity and contradiction: Salvadoran women narrating unauthorized migration
Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language
Multisited ethnography and language in the study of migration
This chapter focuses on the intersection of multisited ethnography and studies of language and migration, especially as it has developed in anthropology and sociolinguistics – the fields that have spearheaded language-based studies of globalization. It addresses some of the ongoing debates that inform the current practice of multisited ethnography, addressing in particular the place of the nation-state in a so-called globalized world. The chapter…
From South to North and back again: Making and blurring boundaries in conversations across borders
Language socialization across borders: Producing scalar subjectivities through material-affective semiosis
Recent scholarship on language use has developed a resurgent interest in the complex interrelationship of language and materiality; given its longstanding investigation of both non-verbal communication and political economy, language socialization research is well-positioned to make important contributions to this investigation of language materiality. This paper advances such a project by demonstrating how the discursive processes of language so…
Language and Social Justice
Accompanying as accomplices: Pedagogies for community engaged learning in sociocultural linguistics
As a field, sociocultural linguistics has a long legacy of public scholarship that has worked to counter linguistic prejudices and inequalities perpetuated through language. Today, current community engagement within sociocultural linguistics increasingly takes a collaborative approach that includes students. In this article, I therefore explore how the field prepares both students and faculty for this work. In particular, I focus on courses with…
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care
Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo Video Abstract English Version Read the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo
Cross-border Communication and the Enregisterment of Collective Frameworks for Care
Communication plays an important role in the non-copresent care that is increasingly prevalent today. Drawing on long-term research with transnational Salvadoran families, I explore how one multigenerational kin network managed a health crisis: a family member had been diagnosed with a new form of chronic kidney disease that is epidemic in rural Central American communities. The family used cross-border communication to simultaneously enact care …
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co-Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Recent scholarship on care urges close ethnographic attention to specific care practices rather than to the reflexive, meaning-making accounts that dominated previous work, setting up a distinction between enacting and signifying care. However, as transnational Salvadoran families care through cross-border communication, they produce and enact imaginaries of relational obligation that constitute asymmetrical care roles for migrants and nonmigrant…
Mobilising language, gender and sexuality studies
This introduction frames the special issue ‘Mobilising Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies’, situating the contributions in relation to interdisciplinary scholarship on migration, gender, sexuality and language. In particular, this introduction draws attention to Global South theorisations of migration as resistance, suggesting that scholars of language, gender and sexuality can build on such approaches to trace forms of agency that otherwise …
National heroes or dangerous failures
This article centres the Global South in studies of language and mobility by focusing on migration discourse in El Salvador, a Central American country with four decades of widespread emigration. The analysis examines state-endorsed discourses, tracing how entextualised figures of migrant personhood shift over time in response to changing political-economic conditions. Gender is central to these dominant depictions, which rely on a consistent con…
Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families
Living Together Across Borders: Separated Salvadoran Families and the Power of Everyday Conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices—such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together—that are central to family life across borders. It underscores the consequentia…
Central Coast Joint Strategic Needs Assessment - A Collaborative Approach to Improving Health and Social Care Outcomes at a Local Level
5: Central Coast Research Institute for Integrated Care, Gosford, NSW, Australia Background: The Central Coast is a region north of Sydney, Australia with a population of approximately 340,000. Health and public services in the region continue to move towards integrated planning and service delivery to avoid organisational silos, disjointed or duplicative service planning and delivery. As part of this, The Central Coast Health Local Health Distri…
Reconciling dependency and agency: The essential role of respect in birth - Swiss birthing people's understandings of and attitudes towards decision-making in birth
Decision-making interactions between birthing people and providers frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. It is argued that decision-making frameworks often do not prioritize birthing people's needs and preferences but, for example, fetal interests, institutional needs, or providers' preferences. As a consequence, autonomy in birth is only an illusion. However, research syntheses highlight the crucial role of choice, control, a…
Abortion, incommunicability, and semiotic labor: Policing disciplinary boundaries through language ideological work among emergency nurses in a post‐Roe environment
Nurses working in emergency departments in the United States are increasingly managing obstetric emergencies, yet they receive no guidance from hospital administrators about how to adapt this care to the abortion bans that have recently become law in many states. Our interview‐based study explores reports of workplace communication about abortion among emergency nurses, which is constrained by an institutional language ideology prohibiting “polit…
Sociology (11 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Politics (5 works)