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

The second International Conference on Linguistics Communication, LingComm23, will take place online, the week of February 6-10, 2023.

LingComm23 will once again bring together lingcommers from a variety of backgrounds, including linguists communicating with public audiences and communicators with a “beat” related to language.

Bookmark the LingComm23 websiteorfollow us on Twitter on so that you don’t miss the call for participation, invited speaker announcements, the release of conference schedule details, and more:https://lingcomm.org/conference

I’m very excited to be joining an all-new organising committee to make LingComm23 happen!

LingComm23 Organizing Committee

• Laura Wagner
• Keeta Jones
• Lauren Gawne
• Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag
• Daniel Midgley
• Sadie Ryan

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.

January 2022: LSA, LingComm Grants, and spectrograms

My monthly newsletter for January 2022: LSA, LingComm Grants, and spectrograms

I started the year at a rather surreal LSA 2022, the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, which I’d hoped to attend in person in Washington DC but moved online at the last minute, along with what seemed to be most of the other attendees. It was nonetheless nice to see people virtually as well as help judge the Five Minute Linguist competition again.

This month we also announced…

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