[LAP] FLC Language for Life Award

Tue Jan 29 01:30:18 UTC 2019

Thanks Nadia! Would be an honour to add Mewati. Do you think you can send me a translation of the Award info; I will add that to the website too. Best, Ahmar

From: Nadia Fareed <nadiafareed1111 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, 28 January 2019 at 16:36
To: Ahmar Mahboob <ahmar.mahboob at sydney.edu.au>
Cc: Zubair Torwali <ztorwali at gmail.com>, "LAP at listserv.linguistlist.org" <LAP at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [LAP] FLC Language for Life Award

Assalamo Alaikum Dear Sir!
I am Nadia Fareed from Lahore, Pakistan, I wanna add Mewati language among mentioned languages in the list. I'm working on this language since 2016 and have presented 11 articles in national and international conferences, so I will love to submit a video on Mewati language. please, include this language too and guide me about further processes.
                                                          Thanks in anticipation

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:55 AM Ahmar Mahboob <ahmar.mahboob at sydney.edu.au<mailto:ahmar.mahboob at sydney.edu.au>> wrote:

FLC Language for Life Award

The FLC Language for Life Award will be given to individuals, groups, communities, or organizations
who can demonstrate that they are doing work that uses understandings of language and/or linguistics to benefit others.

The purpose of the Language for Life Award is to recognise and encourage projects in Subaltern Linguistics<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/mtH7ClxwB5CRyy31uGW4SI?domain=wemountains.com> that empower people by using understandings of socio-semiotics.

In addition to recognition of their work, up to 5 Awardees will be given a cash award of AUD $200 each.

The 2019 Language for Life Award winners will be announced at FLC 2019<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/t29aCmOxDQtyZZ7piOu781?domain=flcgroup.net>.

Language for Life Award winners do not have to attend the FLC conference to win; however, they will be asked to submit a 10 minute video for publication by FLC. This video will document their project in more detail and will be shared with the general public. Additional guidelines and support will be provided to the Award winners.

To apply for this award, follow these simple directions:

-          Record a 2 minute video telling us about your project

-          Post the video on YouTube or any other video sharing website

-          Send us a link to the video using the form available at: http://www.flcgroup.net/flc-language-for-life-award/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vXb4CnxyErC9zz1XCNdKFM?domain=flcgroup.net>

-          Last date for submission: July 31, 2019

Eligibility:

-          Anyone can submit: there are no restrictions on age, education, gender, location, job, training etc.

-          You may, with permission, submit a project on behalf of someone else

-          You may apply for the award as an individual, group, community, or organization

Essential criteria:

-          The project that you submit should document how you or someone in your community used language/linguistics to benefit the community

-          FLC should be able to independently verify any claims made in the submission

-          At this time, we have colleagues who can help us evaluate submissions in the following languages: Bahasa Malay, English, Filipino, Hindi, Portuguese, Putonghua, Pushto, Sindhi, Torwali, Urdu, Vietnamese…

-          Please contact us if you want to submit a video in a different language. We will try our best to support your request

Request:

-          Please translate and share this with others

-          If you are able to help us evaluate submissions in a language other than English, please contact us and we will add your language to the list

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