Special Issue: Discourse Analysts: Are you ready? Plus, Robert Lew

Fri Apr 17 14:11:51 UTC 2009

To: linglite at listserv.linguistlist.org
Subject: Special Issue: Discourse Analysts: Are you ready? Plus, Robert Lew
         is the new Linguist of the Day!

--------------------- Message 1 ----------------------------
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:51:06
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Helen Aristar-Dry Challenges all Discourse Analysts!

Dear Discourse and Text Analysts,

Anthony and I have already donated $300 but we'll
make it $100 more if 10 Discourse Analysts or Text
Linguists will contribute at least $500 in
the next 4 hours.  We'll make it $200 more if
you will contribute a total of $1000.

The formal syntacticians, cognitive linguists,
historical linguists, and 2nd language acquisitionists
have all met their Fund Drive challenges.  
So far we have had

- 16 Formal Syntacticians donate $955 in 4 hours,
in response to Andrew Carnie's
challenge.

- 14 Cognitive Linguists donate $850 in 5 hours,
in response to Geoff Nathan's challenge.

- 13 Historical Linguists donate $924 in 8 hours,
in response to Anthony Aristar's challenge

- 24 2nd Language Acquisitionists donate $1040 in
10 hours, in response to Bill VanPatten's challenge.

Can't Discourse Analysts equal the other disciplines'
generosity?  

After all there are 1049 Discourse Analysts registered
in the LINGUIST List Directory (1048, if you don't
count me).  If each of those 1048 donated only $10,
we could close Fund Drive tomorrow.  

Sadly, only  about 2% of LINGUIST's 26,000 subscribers
ever donate to the Fund Drive that keeps LINGUIST going.  
But I would like my sub-discipline to be well-represented
among that generous 2%.

After all, LINGUIST does a lot to support Discourse
Analysis.  The LINGUIST web pages display quite a lot
of information on our field.  For example, we list
the following resources on Discourse Analysis:

156  Academic Papers
693  Books
203  Book Reviews
536  Calls/Confs
157  Dissertation Abstracts
85   Jobs
10   Journals
51   Linguistic Programs
7    Mailing Lists
24   Support Announcements
75   Web Resources

LINGUIST supports your professional activities.  
Please help LINGUIST support its student crew and
keep going to serve you another year!

Donate now at:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

With sincere thanks to all who have already donated
--or who will donate to meet this challenge.

-Helen Aristar-Dry

--------------------- Message 2 ----------------------------
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:01:12
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Which LINGUIST Crew Member Will Be Funded This Year?

Dear Subscribers,

Which LINGUIST Crew member will be funded this year?
We would like to support them all, but if we do not
make the Fund Drive goal, we won't be able to.

Less graduate students funded means less people
to work on the different areas that are most
important to YOU!

What if we can not fund our Jobs editor? Who will
be able to send out all those job postings so you
can find out where you will be getting your next job?

If we do not get enough donations, we may not be
able to fund the student who takes care of the
new book and journal TOCs that are published. If
that is the case, how are you going to get the
information on new releases or research sources?

Your brand new dissertation (which you have worked
so hard for) will not be able to be available to
thousands of linguists around the world if we can
not afford to fund the editor who takes care of these.

If you need help finding a linguist working in the
same languages you are, getting help on some
specific questions, reading book reviews, finding
information on linguistic programs around the world,
researching languages and the resources available
for them, or even trying to get a roommate at a
conference, who will be there if LINGUIST can not
support the editors?

See how many of our editors we are able to support
so far with the donations that we have received
this year at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/group/

If you would like to have all the other editors
supported too so that LINGUIST can continue to
provide all these great services to YOU, donate
now!

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

We want to continue working for the Linguistics
community. Do you?

The LINGUIST Crew

--------------------- Message 3 ----------------------------
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:22:13
From:  linguist [[log in to unmask]]
Subject:  Fund Drive Friday is Here!

Dear Subscribers,

It is Friday again and we know how tired we all are after
a week of work and studies. Come to the LINGUIST site and
relax! Enjoy yourself while you:

- Read about how Robert Lew became a linguist:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/linguist-of-the-day/lew.cfm

- Nominate your favourite linguist to be a linguist of the day
in 2010!
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/email1.cfm

- Go over the LINGUIST Crew Hometown tours!
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/hometown-tour/

- Play any of our games: Cryptogram, MultiTree, IPA transcription,
Spectrogram, Lexicon, etc.
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/games/

- View Dan Slobin, Keith Slater, E. Wayler Browne, Steve Moran,
Adam C. Schembri, Mai Kuha and others wearing their LINGUIST
shirts and supporting LINGUIST around the world!
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/User-pics/

- Close your eyes and listen to the LINGUIST Fund Drive songs
for the past few years!
http://www.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/2009-song/

We have not yet given you many options? Come to the LINGUIST
site and see what else is in stock for today!

While you are having fun, do not forget to stop by our
donation pages and show us how much you appreciate the work
the LINGUIST does for you every day!

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

The LINGUIST Crew