# Linguistic Anthropology

**Source**: https://anthro.ucla.edu/subfields/linguistic-anthropology/
**Parent**: https://anthro.ucla.edu/

[## [H. Samy Alim](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/h-samy-alim/)

Professor and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/h-samy-alim/)

**Research Interests:**

Hip Hop Culture(s) and Hip Hop Linguistics; The language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally; Language, power, and identities; Language, race, racism and racialization; Black Language and linguistics; Global youth cultures; Language, culture, and education; Culturally sustaining pedagogies; U.S., Spain, South Africa.

**Subfield:**

Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology

#### Contact Information

**Email:** [halim@ucla.edu](mailto:halim@ucla.edu "halim@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 318F Haines Hall
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[## [Erin Debenport](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/erin-debenport/)

Associate Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/erin-debenport/)

**Research Interests:**

Technologies of language circulation; secrecy; indigeneity; semiotics; critical language documentation; language ideologies; Kiowa-Tanoan languages.

**Subfield:**

Linguistic Anthropology

#### Contact Information

**Email:** [erindebenport@ucla.edu](mailto:erindebenport@ucla.edu "erindebenport@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 318B Haines Hall
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[## [Paul V. Kroskrity](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/paul-v-kroskrity/)

Distinguished Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/paul-v-kroskrity/)

**Research Interests:**

Language and culture; language contact, identity, and ideologies; anthropology and verbal art; ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California

**Subfield:**

Linguistic Anthropology

#### Contact Information

**Email:** [paulvk@ucla.edu](mailto:paulvk@ucla.edu "paulvk@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 329A Haines Hall
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[## [Norma Mendoza-Denton](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/norma-mendoza-denton/)

Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/norma-mendoza-denton/)

**Research Interests:**

Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology

**Subfield:**

Linguistic Anthropology

#### Contact Information

**Email:** [nmd@anthro.ucla.edu](mailto:nmd@anthro.ucla.edu "nmd@anthro.ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 382 Haines Hall
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[## [Zion Ariana Mengesha](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/zion-ariana-mengesha/)

Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/zion-ariana-mengesha/)

**Research Interests:**

Sociolinguistics, language and gender, African American English, California dialectology, ethnography, community-based participatory research, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, large language models

**Subfield:**

Lingustic Anthropology

#### Contact Information

**Email:** [zmengesh@ucla.edu](mailto:zmengesh@ucla.edu "zmengesh@ucla.edu")
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