<html><body><div dir="ltr">Hi, all. The American Dialect Society has a "media queries" page to help provide experts for the press and other professional inquirers. <div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.999999px"><a href="https://americandialect.org/contact/media-queries-and-public-speakers/">https://americandialect.org/contact/media-queries-and-public-speakers/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>It's one of the ways ADS tries to help keep public discourse about language in line with professional linguistic consensus and to crowd out those who claim to have expertise in the linguistic disciplines but don't. <div><br></div><div dir="ltr">It's time to revise that page. </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li><span style="font-size:13px">To be listed, <b>you must be an American Dialect Society member</b>. Membership is very inexpensive! </span><font size="2"><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society">https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society</a>. Being on this list is one of the perks of being a member. </font></li><li>The<b> volume of calls and queries is quite low</b>. But more than zero, especially if your topics are evergreen press topics.</li></ul><ul style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li>Each listing includes name, affiliation, areas of expertise, phone number, and email address. <b>New</b>: <b>We will add a link on your name</b> to your homepage, website, blog, faculty page, etc. </li><li><b>New: </b>If you prefer to<b> list an organization's department </b>that can field whatever resident linguists are on hand without having to list them all, then please submit the same information. But the department listing should include a regularly monitored email inbox and a regularly monitored phone number and not be casually attended black holes. Simply linking to the contact page on your own website is not enough.</li><li>You must have <b>at least one way to be contacted</b> on your listing, meaning you can't just have a link to your preferred page. Journalists are impatient people and often will not wait for email to go back and forth, so I encourage you to include at the very least a phone number or WhatsApp number.</li><li>We <b>encourage our non-US members</b> to be listed, as the website receives hits from around the world, especially at word-of-the-year time.</li><li>If you know you are <b>already on the page, check your listing</b> to make sure your details are correct. If not, send me corrections. Be sure to send the webpage URL that will link from your name.</li><li>Even though the page says it is not for non-press public information queries, <b>you may sometimes hear from a student </b>(usually high school) who is tasked with talking to an expert on a topic. I, personally, encourage you to accept these queries! I've done four in the last year. They are harmless to you, helpful to the student, and may push a student towards study in one of the linguistic disciplines. The poor souls.</li><li>You may also sometimes hear from <b>legal teams seeking professional experts </b>to testify. That is up to you and not an irredeemable misuse of the page.</li></ul><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">There is no deadline to add your name or to change your current listing. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please forward this to anyone who may also want to be listed. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best wishes, </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Grant Barrett</div><div dir="ltr">American Dialect Society</div><div dir="ltr">Vice President of Communications and Technology</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://americandialect.org">https://americandialect.org</a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:grant@grantbarrett.com">grant@grantbarrett.com</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>