All: LINGUIST List Fund-Drive 2014 2nd Last Call

[Linguist]

Dear colleagues,

 

we are grateful for all the donations that we got so far from our supporters from all over the planet. We are proud of having supporters on all continents. Every donation counts and shows us that there are people out there who appreciate the effort that our student editors, volunteers, interns and other supporters put into The LINGUIST List service. We do our best to provide the LINGUIST information and services in the best possible way, to all linguists worldwide. We will update you soon in a regular posting with all the news, new developments, sites, services.

 

As I explained yesterday, we have to get through the fund-drive. We still need your support to reach our budget goal. You might consider going straight to our donations page:

 

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

 

but you might also want to have a look at the nice traveLING website that the students developed, and for example also have a look, where your linguistic subfield is standing in the Fund-Drive Subfield Challenge, or see which Grad-School is leading the race, which country, or what businesses support The LINGUIST List with matching donations of their employees:

 

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/business-challenge.cfm

 

 

Richard Hudson, an Advisory Board member of The LINGUIST List, has this message that I would like to forward to you:

 

At one time, not that long ago, linguistics was a national activity, which only some countries did, and did on their own, in their own way. Nowadays, globalisation has happened - almost every country does linguistics in some way, and more and more activity takes place on the world stage rather than a local national one. We have international conferences, international journals, international research projects and international theories and ideas. More and more students are moving around the globe to learn linguistics, and more departments boast an international collection of staff members. Globalisation has its causes, which we all understand to at least some extent, but it also has consequences, and one consequence is that we desperately need reliable global infrastructure to support the globalisation - to make sure that it benefits everyone, and not just the wealthy few; that it works efficiently, so that worthy aims can be achieved; and above all, that information flows freely. Which means, of course, that we need a global postbox and noticeboard remarkably like the Linguist List, so if LL didn't exist, someone would have to create it. And if we can have all sorts of useful facilities thrown in for good measure, we should rejoice. But global infrastructure needs to be reliable and permanent - think of the UN or your favourite global charity. It's no good expecting a handful of enthusiastic volunteers to provide it. Ultimately, infrastructure costs money. And this particular bit of infrastructure actually comes very, very cheap - at UK prices, it's the cost of about two cups of coffee per subscriber per year. I'm convinced that LL is one of the most important institutions in our academic world, and I believe that by supporting it I'm helping to give the next generation of linguists the global infrastructure they need. I'm also convinced that if we don't support it, we shall lose it and the next generation will have to create it from scratch.

Dick Hudson (dickhudson.com)

 

 

Thank you all for your support!

 

Sincerely

 

Damir

(Moderator of The LINGUIST List)

 

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