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Webinar: Mastering the Art of the Linguistics Podcast
Are you enthusiastic about linguistics and eager to share your enthusiasm with a wider audience, but not sure how to get started? Our panel of veteran podcasters will share their experience, including technical, journalistic and promotional best practices.
Webinar: Linguistics and Human Rights
"Linguistics and Human Rights", a live video presentation organized by the LSA and the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, is now freely available to watch online.
The webinar, co-hosted by the LSA's Michel DeGraff and the AAAS' Jessica Wyndham, discusses linguistics' role in advancing human rights in locations including Haiti, Hawai'i, Mexico and China, different areas of linguistics that are relevant to human rights, and what linguists and scientists in general can do to become informed and active on human rights issues. The video also includes questions from the audience.
Subtitle podcast
Language unites and divides us. It amuses and mystifies us. We care deeply about it, whether it’s apostrophe abuse, speech discrimination, or the sweetness of a mother tongue. Subtitle tells stories of our obsessions with language, from comedians, writers, and researchers; from speakers of endangered languages; from speakers of multiple languages; from anyone who shares these obsessions.
Subtitle is a production of Quiet Juice and the Linguistic Society of America.
Webinar: Publishing in the Language and Public Policy Section of Language
Join the editor of Language, Andries Coetzee, and the associate editors of the Language and Public Policy (LPP) section, Patricia Cukor-Avila and Vaidehi Ramanathan, for a discussion about LPP issues and its place in the journal. The overall aim of this section is to raise awareness of the role that linguistics plays in our collective understanding of public issues that have strong policy implications.
In some ways, this area of investigation extends an already established domain in applied and sociolinguistics, namely language policy. In simple terms, language policy has been defined as deliberate choices that governments, institutions, and programs make with regard to the relationship between language and social life. Within this space, areas such as education and courts of law have received a lot of attention since national, regional, or institutional policies impact everything within these domains, including concerns around teacher-education, curriculum development, language/s used in courts, and translation services for speakers of minority languages, or language/s used in health/medical settings. More recently, though, language policy research has been exploring enactments of policies to openly address spaces for transformative interventions. A general aim with this orientation is to focus on human engagements in public domains, whether they be regarding middle-school teachers in rural South Africa who prefer to teach in Xhosa instead of Zulu or English or ensuring that court transcribers in California can ‘hear’ Spanglish and African American English so as to provide accurate transcriptions.
The webinar will begin with a short introduction by the editor and co-editors on language and public policy as a developing area of research for Language. After this there will be 3 short presentations that exemplify how linguistic analyses aid in our understanding of public concerns and policy issues. This will be followed by a panel discussion between the editor and co-editors about the kinds of paper the journal wishes to attract, and the 'ideal' LPP paper. Finally, the panelists will take audience questions in the remaining minutes of the webinar.
Webinar: Linguistics in the News How to Own It!
Are you frustrated by the lack of informed coverage about linguistics by the popular news media? Are you curious about how to garner greater interest by the news media in reporting on your research? Then this webinar is for you! Learn from a panel of experts across the career span about how to begin (or enhance) your media relations work. The webinar will cover topics such as:
Determining the most newsworthy aspects of your research
Translating your research for a journalistic audience
Best practices for conducting interviews with the news media
Working with the public affairs office at your home institution
Participating in the LSA’s media relations program
Featured Panelists:
Anne Curzan (University of Michigan), Co-Host, That's What They Say (Michigan Radio)
Michelle McSweeney, Host of Subtext
Daniel Midgley (University of Western Australia), Presenter, Talk the Talk
Geoff Nunberg (University of California, Berkeley), Commentator, Fresh Air (National Public Radio)
Moderator:
John McWhorter (Columbia University), Chair, LSA Public Relations Committee
Webinar: Linguistics in the Public Sphere: an Advocacy
The intersection between linguistics and public policy is manifold. There are at least three corners of the intersection: 1) government funding for linguistics research; 2) public policies that are informed (or should be) by the findings of linguistics research; 3) public policies that affect the context in which linguistics operates as a discipline. This webinar provides a basic overview of all three “corners” and also includes practical guidance on the most effective strategies for influencing public policy in today’s political environment.
This webinar will be of interest to linguistics scholars, students, and enthusiasts who may be looking to engage in advocacy for the first time or seasoned advocates interested in hearing about the latest strategies for effectively talking about research to policy makers.
Webinar: Being a Linguist on Social Media
This 75-minute webinar provides a brief introduction to social media, with a particular focus on Linguist Twitter. Attendees will come away with an overview of some of the benefits and pitfalls of social media, as well as pointers for social media etiquette. We discuss how social media can benefit your research, teaching, networking, and community building.