[ADS-M] Get listed on the American Dialect Society media queries page

[Grant Barrett]

Hi, all. The American Dialect Society has a "media queries" page to help
provide experts for the press and other professional inquirers.

https://americandialect.org/contact/media-queries-and-public-speakers/

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.

It's time to revise that page.


   - To be listed, *you must be an American Dialect Society member*.
   Membership is very inexpensive!
   https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society. Being on this list
   is one of the perks of being a member.
   - The* volume of calls and queries is quite low*. But more than zero,
   especially if your topics are evergreen press topics.


   - Each listing includes name, affiliation, areas of expertise, phone
   number, and email address. *New*: *We will add a link on your name* to
   your homepage, website, blog, faculty page, etc.
   - *New: *If you prefer to* list an organization's department *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.
   - You must have *at least one way to be contacted* 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.
   - We *encourage our non-US members* to be listed, as the website
   receives hits from around the world, especially at word-of-the-year time.
   - If you know you are *already on the page, check your listing* 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.
   - Even though the page says it is not for non-press public information
   queries, *you may sometimes hear from a student *(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.
   - You may also sometimes hear from *legal teams seeking professional
   experts *to testify. That is up to you and not an irredeemable misuse of
   the page.


There is no deadline to add your name or to change your current listing.

Please forward this to anyone who may also want to be listed.

Best wishes,

Grant Barrett
American Dialect Society
Vice President of Communications and Technology
https://americandialect.org
grant at grantbarrett.com
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