Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement

by Hazel Price (Editor), Dan McIntyre (Editor)

Overview

Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of the wide range of public engagement activities currently being undertaken in linguistics, as well as practically focused advice aimed at helping linguists to do public engagement well. From podcasts to popular writing, from competitions to consultancy, from language creation to community projects, there are many ways in which linguists can share their research with the public. Bringing together insights from leading linguists working in academia as well as non-university professions, this unique collection:

• Provides a forum for the discussion of challenges and opportunities of public engagement in linguistics in order to shape best practice
• Documents best practice through a summary of some of the many excellent public engagement projects currently taking place internationally
• Celebrates the long tradition of public engagement in linguistics, a discipline which is often misunderstood despite its direct and fundamental importance to everyday life

Breaking down long-standing divisions between universities and the wider community, this book will be of significant value to academics in linguistics but also teachers, policy makers and anyone interested in better understanding the nature and use of language in society.

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367560119
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/2023
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hazel Price is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Salford, UK.

Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1. Public linguistics

Hazel Price and Dan McIntyre

Part 1: Popularising linguistics

2. Principles of good research communication

Hannah Little

3. Podcasting: The Vocal Fries Pod

Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa

4. Blogging and microblogging linguistics for the lay reader

M. Lynne Murphy

5. Engaging the public and enriching language education through Babel: The Language Magazine

Dan McIntyre and Lesley Jeffries

6. On engaging the radio listener

Laura Wright

7. Writing a ‘popular science’ book

Jane Setter

8. Linguistics for schools

Richard Hudson

9. Linguists in schools

Billy Clark

Part 2: Communicating linguistics

10. Communicating lexicography

Danica Salazar

11. Exploring the impact of figurative communication and advertising: reflections on a collaboration between linguistics researchers and a Midlands-based marketing agency

Samantha Ford and Jeanette Littlemore

12. Community projects

Natalie Braber

13. Communicating research on metaphor and illness

Elena Semino

14. Public engagement via consultancy: communicating the language of mental illness

Hazel Price

15. Developing resources for Modern South Arabian languages

Janet C. E. Watson and Abdullah al-Mahri

16. Public engagement in audiovisual translation: the case of respeaking

Zoe Moores

17. Dialect coaching and linguistics

Brendan Gunn

18. Language creation and engagement: a how-to guide

Christine Schreyer

19. Engaging with public engagement: a personal retrospective

David Crystal

References

Index