- Nominations are now open for many LSA Awards and for 2013 LSA Fellows.
- Read the Call for Abstracts for the 2013 Annual Meeting (Boston, January 3-6).
- View the Call for Workshop Proposals for the 2013 Linguistic Institute.
LSA Bulletin
No. 192 June 2006
Bulletin Board
"The Last Speakers"
Supported by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP) and directed by Seth Kramer and Daniel Miller, this documentary film on endangered languages was previewed by many who attended the 2006 LSA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque in January. Mr. Kramer shared an earlier version of this work at the 2004 LSA Annual Meeting in Boston. The film officially premiered at SOAS on 17 May 2006. See the website ( http://www.hrelp.org/events/thelastspeakers) for more information about HRELP. To view a slide show version, go to: http://www.ironboundfilms.com/lastslides.html.
New Linguistics Journal
Language and Gender. Journal of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA).
Two issues/year: ISSN 1747-6321 (print)/ ISSN 1747-633x (online).
Send contributions of no more than 10,000 words to: Bonnie McElhinny,
bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca or Sara Mills,
s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk.
Contact: subscriptions@turpin-distribution.com.
Take a Look at AAAS
Do something for yourself and for linguistics! Join the American Association for the Advancement of
Science!
The steering committee of the Linguistics and Language Sciences Section of AAAS (this year, we're
B. Abbott, M. F. Garrett, S. Goldin-Meadow, J. Kegl, P. Kuhl, L. Menn, L.-A. Petitto, and S. Pinker)
thinks most linguists and language science researchers are missing out on a good thing: Fewer than
10% of LSA members participate in AAAS, yet being active in AAAS is one of the most important ways
that we can show the public and our colleagues in the sciences what linguistics has to contribute to
the world.
Last year, our active AAAS members reached out to colleagues in other fields and to the general
public at the annual meeting by presenting symposia on topics that 'real people' care about, including
language preservation, computer-aided communication systems for people with speech or language
handicaps, language evolution, genetic influences on language ability, nonverbal communication,
autism, and on-line communication patterns.
Take a minute to go to
http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/ for an overview of the whole organization, and e-mail
lise.menn@colorado.edu for more information. I'll be
happy to tell you about the great articles you get (and can share with your students & colleagues)
in the weekly journal, Science, the annual meetings (San Francisco in February 2007), and the
opportunities you would have to contribute to public understanding of what linguists do and why if
you joined us. Membership costs for US residents are: regular, $135; students, $75; postdoctoral
students, $99; $110, if requested, for retired members). Membership includes your subscription to
Science and also brings you full archival electronic access plus pod-casts; $99 for on-line only
access.
About AAAS: The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest scientific
organization and the national umbrella organization for all the sciences. Their main mission is to
bring the sciences together and to present science to the public via the media. They also have been
vitally important in supporting the work of science teachers in the schools in the face of political
pressures. Joining AAAS supports all their good work, as well as advancing linguistics.
Lise Menn
U CO-Boulder
Summer Institutes
Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. 17-28 July 2006 at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne University, UK. Contact: ALinfo@newcastle.ac.uk; http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/summerschools/index.htm.
Australian Linguistics Institute. 10-14 July 2006 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Contact: andrea.schalley@une.edu.au or go to: http://www.ali2006.une.edu.au.
DeXus-Discourse Nexus. 14-19 August 2006 at Centre for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Contact: cds@hum.aau.dk; http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/english/Dexus4/index.htm.
Language Revitalization Principles and Practices. 4-28 July 2006 at En'owkin Centre, Penticton, BC, Canada. Contact: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr.
Language Learning and Teaching in Situations of Language Loss. 2-28 August 2006 at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Contact: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr.
Processability Theory and Second Language Acquisition. 19-22 September 2006 at the University of Malta. Contact: processabilitysummerschool@upb.de; http://groups.uni-paderborn.de/processability/.
Terminology Management: Theory, Practice, and Application. 10-14 July 2006 at the University of Vienna, Austria. Contact: adrame@termnet.org; http://www.iim.fh-koeln.de/tss2006.
Bloomfield Book Award Nominations
The Leonard Bloomfield Award was established to recognize the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. The award is given biennially in even-numbered years. The next deadline for nominations is March 1, 2007.
In Memoriam
David Swinney (UC-San Diego)
