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LSA Webinar: Journal Publication, Demystified
The process of journal publication can appear mysterious and can be difficult to navigate, both for those new to academic publication and often even for experienced researchers. This webinar is designed to demystify journal publication. Andries Coetzee and Megan Crowhurst, Editor and Co-Editor of Language, present practical advice on how to navigate journal publication, based on our experience as authors and editors. They cover topics such as the following: choosing the right journal for your paper, preparing your paper for submission, what happens after submission, how to handle reviews, how to communicate with the editor, and more.
Language Revitalization and Documentation The Newest Section of the LSA's Flagship Journal
Learn about the launch of Language Revitalization and Documentation, a new section of the LSA's flagship journal, Language. The new section will build upon the existing base of knowledge to serve as a new venue for peer-reviewed research articles in language revitalization and documentation. The significance of this vein of research in Language is exemplified by the collection of articles published by Ken Hale and colleagues in this journal in 1992 (Hale et al. 1992), outlining arguments for the importance of linguistic training and assessing language vitality and diversity, all with more relevance than ever nearly three decades later. The inauguration of the section reinforces the commitment of our disciplinary organization to language revitalization and documentation while also ensuring a diversity of voices and scholarship, including those from Indigenous scholars, will advance the language sciences. Join the Editor of Language, Andries Coetzee, and the founding Associate Editor of Language Revitalization and Documentation, Colleen Fitzgerald for a presentation and moderated information session as the LSA's introduces this new section.
The webinar is open to scholars of all levels and backgrounds to learn more about the new section and gain insight into the kinds of papers that are likely to fit into the section. Participants may also find this information in a paper by Fitzgerald* that appears in the March 2021 issue of Language, "A Framework for Language Revitalization and Documentation." The paper has been made open access to encourage wide readership to guide prospective authors as they develop manuscripts for submission.
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.
September 2022 Webinar: Tenure, promotion, and academic review in documentary linguistics
The September 2022 "Meet the Authors" Webinar was held September 28, at 3:30 p.m. EDT (12:30 p.m. PDT). Entitled “Tenure, promotion, and academic review in documentary linguistics,” this webinar featured a panel discussion of ways to approach the academic review process for linguists working on language documentation. The panel included two recently tenured linguists involved with language documentation, Kayla Begay (Cal Poly Humboldt) and Jorge Rosés Labrada (U Alberta), and the authors of a new paper in Language, "Assessing scholarship in documentary linguistics," Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) and Alice Harris (U Mass Amherst).
Webinar: Abstract Writing How to Convince in a Page
Presenting your peer-reviewed research at a conference is a signal achievement of any linguistic scholar, yet writing a successful abstract is not always self-evident. The goal of this webinar is to discuss successful abstract writing through reviewing a set of abstracts that were selected for presentation at the last two LSA meetings. Although there is no single formula for a successful abstract, since each reviewer brings their own scholarly perspective to the review process, we can identify the building blocks of a convincing argument of abstract length. We go through how successful abstracts gain the attention of the reviewer in the first few sentences, proceed by building the argument, and are then able to preview the abstract argument made in the work by using a few sentences. Participants are encouraged to apply the abstract points discussed to their own work. This webinar is expected to benefit first-time abstract submitters, as well as any others who feel that they may benefit from explicit discussion of this art.