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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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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow
College of Arts & Humanities
and Language Research Centre
Swansea University
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