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Public Outreach in Linguistics: Engaging Broader Audiences[Note 1. This paper benefited from discussion with Dick Demers (U ...]
Author(s) -
McKee Cecile,
Zimmer Elly,
Fountain Amy,
Huang HuiYu,
Vento Mia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12153
Subject(s) - outreach , subject (documents) , applied linguistics , sociology , linguistics , work (physics) , media linguistics , pedagogy , media studies , public relations , library science , political science , computer science , quantitative linguistics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , law
Linguistics is traditionally a university subject. We describe here comprehensive efforts that the University of Arizona's Linguistics Department makes to engage with additional audiences: K–12 and community college students, lifelong learners, and festival‐goers. Our coordination of these efforts is relatively recent, and this article emphasizes what we are learning in areas like adjustment to different audiences and efficient use of resources. While many individual linguists and some departments are engaged in outreach activities such as those described here, our work is unusual in its breadth, in terms of both external contacts and department‐internal participants.