Luke Fleming, Université de Montréal

Research

culture context ritual language discourse textuality translation ethnography

Latest funding

Context and Culture: Linguistic Anthropology and the Legacy of Michael Silverstein
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$8,019
The Sociolinguistics of Small-Scale Societies: A Pilot Study on Honorific Pronouns
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$41,984

Context and Culture: Linguistic Anthropology and the Legacy of Michael Silverstein

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Fleming, Luke

Keywords: culture; context; ritual; language; discourse; textuality; translation; ethnography; pragmatics; performativity; indexicality

$8,019

The Sociolinguistics of Small-Scale Societies: A Pilot Study on Honorific Pronouns

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Fleming, Luke

Keywords: (1) sociolinguistics of small-scale societies; (2) social pragmatics; (3) social organization; (4) social networks; (5) honorifics; (6) kinship; (7) ethnography; (8) comparative ethnolinguistics; (9) linguistic anthropology; (10) linguistic typology

$41,984

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: culture Dear Professor Fleming, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on culture connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Context and Culture: Linguistic Anthropology and the Legacy of Michael Silverstein" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]