#lingcomm grants

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2024 LingComm Grantees: New linguistics projects for you to follow

The 2024 LingComm Grants awarded six $500 (USD) grants, thanks to the support of Lingthusiasm, Rob Monarch, Wordnik, Claire Bowern, and Kirby Conrod and friends. Some of these projects are already producing content for you to enjoy right now!

LingComm Grants.

Emily Remirez, Linguistics Coloring Book

Adam Aleksic, Etymology Nerd videos

Sarah Wood, Pina Hare, Marcus Wilker, Get the Reference Podcast

Onyedikachi Augustine Okodo, English Parliament radio show

Irene Lami, Saussure e Grida podcast

Kirby Conrod LGBTQ+ LingComm Grant:

Montreal Benesch, trans*languaging art show

Commendations:

Talia Sherman, Tomayto Tomahto podcast

Franca Umasoye Igwe, Say No to Language Shaming Campaign

Marvin Nauendorff, Anthony Burger, Anna Sulaiman, Rebecca Hall, Alice Pol, Perla Camacho-Cedillo, Aline Vitaly, Yuka Kawasaki, Linguaphile Language Magazine

Grants were judged by Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch and also included a group mentoring meeting for advice and support. The 2024 LingComm Grants received 40 applications.

For more on the 2024 grants, the winners from previous years, and other lingcomm resources, check out the LingComm website.

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One week left to apply for the 2022 LingComm Grants

Do you have an idea for a linguistics communication project that could use a bit of money and support to help get off the ground? Are you working on a linguistics communication project that could use a bit of a boost to reach the next level?

Apply for a LingComm Grant!

The 2022 LingComm Grants consist of ten $100 (USD) LingComm Startup Grants and four $500 (USD) LingComm Project Grants to support linguistics communication projects that bring linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways. The grants also include a group mentoring meeting with Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne to refine your idea, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience.

Applications close: 31 March 2022, midnight (anywhere on Earth)

The grants are funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons, and other generous contributors, and judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. (Want to contribute to additional LingComm Grants existing? See our FAQ.)

For more details and to apply to the LingComm Grants, check out its website.

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2024 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences

The LingComm grants are running again in 2024! We have (at least) two $500 (USD) grants in 2024.

All of the info is on the LingComm website, including links for applying for a grant, or helping to fund additional grants, and an FAQ:

We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2024 LingComm Grants are $500 (USD) to support linguistics communication projects that bring pop linguistics to broader audiences in engaging ways. The grants also include a mentoring meeting with Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne to ask us your lingcomm process questions, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience.  The initial grants are funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons, and by Rob Monarch, and judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. You can help fund additional grants here. 

Applications and funding close: 30th of April, midnight 2024 (i.e. as long as it is still April anywhere in the world)

Winners announced: Winners and Lingthusiasm patrons will find out by Friday, May 17th, 2024. We will publically announce the winner on Monday, May 20th, 2024. All applicants will find out before these dates. 

Check out the LingComm website for more!

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2022 LingComm Grantees: New linguistics projects for you to follow

The 2022 LingComm Grants awarded twelve $100 (USD) Startup Grants and five $500 (USD) Project Grants to support linguistics communication projects bringing linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways. Each grant also included support in the form of a mentoring meeting. The 2022 LingComm Grants received more than 80 applications.

Ten Startup Grants and one Project Grant were funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of the show’s patrons. Two Startup Grants were funded by contributions from donors.  Four additional Project Grants were funded by Manish Goregaokar, Rob Monarch, friends of Kirby Conrod, and one anonymous donor. Grant applications were judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.

LingComm Project Grants

Carolina Rodriguez Alzza and Gesica Perez Rodriguez, Living voices: a podcast of endangered languages in the Amazon (podcast, in Spanish)

Christian Brickhouse, Language Lab (videos, in English)

Eleonora Marocchini, PragmaticaMente (videos, in Italian)

Joyeeta, Nidhi, Sayan, Sruthi, Teesta, and Vrinda, Aaina (images, in English)

Kirby Conrod LingComm Project Grant

Ben Papadopoulos, Gender in Language Project (website resources, in multiple languages)

LingComm Startup Grants

Ai Taniguchi, Introduction to linguistics: a graphic novel (graphic novel, in English)

Asociación Civil RELIF (Red de Lingüistas en Formación), Language: a roadtrip to our human nature (workshops in high schools, in Spanish)

Elen Le Foll and Verónica Lasarte Prieto, Corpora to the rescue! Bitesize corpus linguistics for language teachers and learners (podcast, in English)

Grace Elizabeth Dy and Ellen Perleberg, Yallah, Y’all: A Toolkit for LGBTQ-inclusive Jewish Language in the Synagogue and Beyond (resource sheets, in English)

Jackie Friedman Mighdoll, Linguistics! Around the World in Facts and Puzzles (children’s book, in English)

Kathleen Oppenheimer, Erika Exton, Craig Thorburn, and Lauren Salig, The Language Scientists (videos, in English)

Lisa Dücker, Ausgeschrieben – ein Podcast darüber, warum wir so schreiben, wie wir schreiben (podcast, in German)

Mike Mena, The Social Life of Language (videos, in English)

Nicky Macias, Trans Linguistics in ASL (videos, in ASL)

Rebekka Puderbaugh, Sound Bites (live show at festival, in English)

Renat Galeev and Deyanira Romano Álvarez, Se Lengua la Traba (podcast and blog, in Spanish)

Riva Quiroga, Chamullo (zine, in Spanish)

Commendations

Ashley McGraw

Daniella Simon

Danny Hieber, Linguistic Discovery

Luca Dinu, Some Stutter, Luh!

Saima Malik Moraleda

Wesley C. Robertson and Jess Birnie-Smith, Lingua Brutallica

Yenny Saldaña and Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo

You can learn more about the LingComm grants and other LingComm projects at lingcomm.org.

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2022 LingComm Grants

The 2022 LingComm Grants consist of ten $100 (USD) LingComm Startup Grants and one $500 (USD) LingComm Project Grant to support linguistics communication projects that bring linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways. The grants also include a group mentoring meeting with Gretchen and Lauren to refine your idea, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience. The grants are funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons, and judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.

Dates

Applications and funding close: 31 March 2022, midnight (i.e. as long as it is still March anywhere in the world). Any contributions to LingComm Grants made before this date will count towards more grants existing in 2022; after this date contributions will count towards future years.

Winners announced: By the end of April 2022.

Application form link on the Lingcomm website.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve posted answers to some frequently asked questions on the Lingcomm website.

We also have information in the FAQ if you’d like to support Lingcomm to give out more grants.

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Check out the 2020 LingComm Grant winners

In 2020 we gave out 4 LingComm Grants. The 2020 LingComm Grants were $500 (USD) to support a linguistics communication project that brings linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways. The grant also included a one-on-one mentoring meeting with Gretchen and Lauren. The grants were funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons.

We had over 75 applications from around the world and we’d like to thank all applicants for making the job of deciding extremely difficult! We plan to keep tweaking the structure of the LingComm Grants in future years based on what we’ve learned. If you’re thinking of starting a lingcomm project, or any scicomm project, check out the resources page on the LingComm Grants website.

Now that all four grantees have started posting (ahead of schedule, despite this incredibly stressful year), we’d like to encourage you to check them out! Here are the summaries of each project from the 4 grantees, including links to their projects and social media, so you can get a little more linguistics in your life.  

The Black Language Podcast

Anansa Benbow

I am creating a podcast to engage members of the African diaspora in dialogue surrounding our linguistic practices. The focus of my project is on the English language variations of Black people, specifically in the Americas and the Caribbean. The podcast will be a space to discuss topics in linguistics (politeness, pronouns, discourse markers, etc) as it relates to English language variations of Black people, as well as language discrimination faced by Black people. It is my goal to make issues in linguistics more accessible to my community. To my knowledge, there aren’t projects that expose Black people outside of academia to topics in linguistics. Additionally, while there are a handful of linguistics podcasts, many designate a few episodes to talking about Black English and other minoritized language variations, whereas, I plan to focus solely on English language varieties of Black people. See my 2019 TEDx talk Grammar Skool. Twitter: @AnansaBenbow

Follow The Black Language Podcast on various podcast platforms and @blacklangpod on Twitter and on Instagram.   

Nonbinary Linguistics youtube channel 

Nina Lorence-Ganong

I am interested in the intersection between linguistics and nonbinary gender identity. Nonbinary people are generally an understudied population, and we are underrepresented in linguistic research. I want to highlight the research done by, about, and for nonbinary people. This project helps people understand what it means to be nonbinary, and to develop an interest in linguistics. I want to make a series of videos that explore different topics in this area. So far, I made a video about nonbinary gender construction through voice. I use the study as an example to introduce and illustrate concepts, such as the framework of sociolinguistics. 

Follow Trundling Wombat on youtube. 

Jazicharnica (Јазичарница) blog

Nina Tunteva and Viktorija Blazheska

Our idea is to start a blog in Macedonian that will serve as an accessible introduction to linguistics. As young linguists from Macedonia, we are well aware that there are very few resources on linguistics in our native language, and even less on pop linguistics. We will attract readers by presenting engaging content related to language in general and the Macedonian language in particular. The Macedonian language community has never had a pop linguistics project that mediates between linguists and the general public. Language minorities and multilingualism in the country are frequently misrepresented. Our blog will inform speakers of all languages in the country that there’s no right or wrong when they’re speaking their mother tongue and empower them to think about language outside of the deeply entrenched standardist and prescriptivist limits. 

Check out the blog at Jazicharnica.com and follow them on social media Tumblr: @jazicharnica Twitter: @jazicharnica Facebook: jazicharnica Instagram: jazicharnica

War of Words podcast

Juana de los Santos, Angela Makeviciuz, Antonella Moschetti & Néstor Bermúdez

We propose the production and publication of the second season of War of Words, a Spanish linguistics podcast whose content will be about linguistic topics and related sciences which are connected with their construction for scientific knowledge. In the first season we have shown a general outlook of the discipline through interviews to students and professors of this career. But in this second season we feel the necessity of bringing the theoretical concepts back down to earth and show their applications, not only for a specialized audience but also for linguistic students and other professionals. 

Follow War of Words on various podcast platforms and on Facebook and Instagram.

Commendation

We had so many great applications that we’d also like to commend the following two projects and their proposers for their innovation and commitment to reaching new audiences:

Code-switching, language freedom realized (Photobook by Sarah F. Phillips) All Talk with Accentricity (Workshop by Sadie Ryan)