[One last attempt to get this out to digest subscribers as a plain text
message; it keeps being sent as HTML and being refused. Apologies for
repetition.]
Dear colleagues, friends, associates, acquaintances, and people who I
inadvertently annoy with overly verbose salutations,
There are in our midsts a number of sociolinguists who, for one reason
or another, are not employed within academic institutions. This could
include people who have finished their PhD but not yet found academic
employment (like me!), or people who engage in paid sociolinguistic
research but not through an academic institution (for example Pamela
McKensie's excellent work on mother tongue based education in India and
Bangladesh, for the International Network for Development).
Are any of you aware of any organisations or associations (or groups
within those) dedicated to bringing together sociolinguists outside
academia? An example of this in another discipline is the British
Sociological Association's "Sociologists Outside Academia" study group:
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/SOA.htm.
Any and all pointers on this subject are welcome.
Jokes are welcome too, I like jokes.
DS
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