no news from the LSA...

[phil cash cash]

Just to add further, I recall a media analysis was done on news articles
relating to language endangerment and, on the average, they tended to
appear at least 1.5 times a month.  After scouring the news for ILAT in
the past year, this seems to be right on (though I am in no way an
expert news monger, I just "google" like everybody else on the planet).
   But for the most part, to make the news, one usually needs a
"percipitating action or event" such as a conference, project being
funded, etc.

I've noticed though that when the news articles specifically focus on
the language dissappearing, usually it is portrayed in one of two ways:
as a dire state of affairs or as an "against all odds" kind of affairs
where the community is attempting to beat the odds, win the race
against time, etc.

FYI, here is the link to the media analysis summary.
http://www.aiic.net/ViewPage.cfm/page1512.htm

Phil
UofA ILAT

Quoting Terry Langendoen <langendt at U.ARIZONA.EDU>:

> Press coverage of LSA meetings has historically been nearly
> nonexistent, except when some language issue was in the news
> around our meeting time, most notably the Ebonics controversy in
> the late 90s. We might want to encourage LSA to put out press
> releases about topics of interest about the annual meeting (e.g.
> workshops and symposia on endangered languages) in the future.
>
> Coverage of the Word of the Year has been going on for about a
> decade -- but that's the doing of the American Dialect Society
> that meets together with LSA.
>
> Terry
>
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, phil cash cash wrote:
>
>> it wasn't me that was left out, it was our endangered languages and i
>> am sorry too.  glad to hear you all had a good time though.
>>
>> Philcc
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Mia Kalish wrote:
>>
>> > We were having too much fun going to presentations, giving
>> > presentations,
>> > recovering from presentations, meeting new friends,  . . . And, in my
>> > case.
>> > . . . talking about revitalization software and who wants to build it
>> > :-)
>> >
>> > A good time was had by all. Sorry we left you out. . . we apologize.
>> > <Hangs
>> > head humbly>
>> >
>> > Mia
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology
>> > [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
>> > On Behalf Of phil cash cash
>> > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:36 AM
>> > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>> > Subject: [ILAT] no news from the LSA...
>> >
>> > Greetings ILAT,
>> >
>> > I am a bit surprised that there is virually no news coming out from the
>> > LSA conference this past week.  The only news item I saw today was the
>> > "word of the year" which seems a bit trivial but particularly news
>> > worthy.  Nevertheless, we should continue to draw attention to the
>> > plight of the world's endangered languages.
>> >
>> > Phil Cash Cash
>> > UofA, ILAT
>> >
>>
>
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