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The '''Linguistic Society of America''' ('''LSA''') is a [[learned society]] for the field of linguistics. Founded
== History ==
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Before the foundation of the LSA, a number of other similar societies existed including the [[American Philological Society]] and the [[Modern Language Association]], and with the publication of [[Edward Sapir|Sapir]]'s ''Language'' and [[Ferdinand de Saussure|Saussure]]'s ''[[Course in General Linguistics]]'' in 1921 and 1922, the field of linguistics began to take shape as an independent discipline.<ref name=Andresen2006>{{cite book|first=Julie|last=Andresen|year=2006|title=Linguistics in America 1769 – 1924: A Critical History|publisher= Routledge}}</ref> Though an international discipline, the founders of the LSA had a growing feeling of an American linguistics different from the traditional European topics and methodologies popular at the time.<ref name=Andresen2006 /> One of the founding members, [[Leonard Bloomfield]], explained the need for and establishment of the society so that the science of language, similar to but separate from other sciences, could build a "professional consciousness.<ref name="BL">{{cite journal|last1=Bloomfield|first1= Leonard|date=1925|title= Why a Linguistic Society?|journal= Language|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–5|jstor=409544}}</ref>
[[File:1933 05 20 LSA delegates Felix Howland an Honorary Field-Worker to study the dialects spoken in the Persian Empire.jpg|thumb|right|LSA Letterhead listing officers in 1933, stating mission, and delegating a member to be an Honorary Field-Worker.]]
From the start the LSA focused on establishing the science of linguistics, separate from other fields such as [[philology]] and [[anthropology]].<ref name="BL" /> The founders were characterized as "scientific revolutionaries" as the early scholarship of the society's members contributed to the development of [[descriptive linguistics]] through their rejection of previous linguistic scholarship and methods in favor of new ones.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The first quarter century of the Linguistic Society of America, 1924–1949|last = Murray|first = Stephen O.|date = 1991|journal = Historiographia Linguistica |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=1–48|doi = 10.1075/hl.18.1.03mur}}</ref> Though when the views of the female members of the society are taken into account, the society was less revolutionary and more diverse in their scholarship.<ref name=Falk1994>{{Cite journal|jstor = 416482|title = The Women Foundation Members of the Linguistic Society of America|last = Falk|first = Julia S.|date = 1994|journal = Language |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=455–490|doi = 10.1353/lan.1994.0031|s2cid = 143631957}}</ref>
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*Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics (COZIL)
*Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group
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The first meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) took place on 28 December 1924, at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in New York City.<ref name=Sturtevant1925 /> The society met biannually until 1982, meeting once in the summer in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute and once in the winter. Since 1982, the LSA has met annually in the winter. The meetings took place in December until 1990 when the meetings were moved to early January.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Annual Meetings|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/annual-meetings/past|publisher=Linguistic Society of America|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>
The four-day Annual Meeting co-meets with a number of sister organizations such as the [[American Dialect Society]], the [http://www.americannamesociety.org/ American Name Society], the [[Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas]], the [[North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences]], North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, Society for Computation in Linguistics, and the [[Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting Handbook|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA%202016%20Annual%20Meeting%20Handbook.pdf |publisher=Linguistic Society of America|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref> Members of the LSA may submit abstracts to the Program Committee for consideration for talks and poster sessions at the
===Linguistic Institutes===
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In addition to the main Linguistic Institute, the LSA also sponsors the Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), which is held in alternate years from the main
==Publications==
{{see also|Language (journal)|label 1=''Language'' (journal)}}
The LSA publishes two journals of its own, as well as publishing conference proceedings for the Annual Meeting of Phonology, the Annual Meeting of Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT), the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS), and extended conference abstracts from its own Annual Meetings.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings|title = LSA Conference Proceedings|access-date = 15 January 2016 |publisher = Linguistic Society of America}}</ref>
The flagship journal of the LSA, ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]'', is ranked as one of the top journals in the field.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-journals-in-linguistics/413923.article |title=Top journals in Linguistics| date=21 October 2010 | publisher=Times Higher Education}}</ref> The journal is almost as old as the society itself. First published in March 1925 and edited by [[George Bolling|George Melville Bolling]], [[Aurelio Espinosa]], and [[Edward Sapir]], the journal published its 92nd volume in 2016 under the editorship of [[Gregory Carlson]].<ref>{{cite book|jstor=409543|title=Language|publisher=Linguistic Society of America|year=1925|volume=1|number=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Language|publisher=ProjectMUSE|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/|access-date=15 January 2016}}</ref> Dr. Carlson's successor, Andries Coetzee, was elected editor of language in 2016 and assumed office in 2017 for a term of seven years. The journal is partially [[open access]], allowing articles to be published open access after a year, or immediately for a fee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Why the editors of a top linguistic journal resigned en masse.|first=Scott |last=Jaschik|date=5 November 2015|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/11/lingua_editors_and_editorial_board_quit_the_journal_citing_lack_of_access.html|access-date=15 January 2016|publisher=Slate}}</ref>
Its sister publication, ''Semantics and Pragmatics'' is fully open access.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://semprag.org/about/editorialPolicies#openAccessPolicy |title = Semantics and Pragmatics|access-date = 15 January 2016|publisher = Semantics and Pragmatics}}</ref> It was founded in 2008 as a co-journal of the eLanguage publishing platform the LSA developed, but became a full journal in its own right in 2013 with the discontinuation of eLanguage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Semantics and Pragmatics| url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/semantics-and-pragmatics|access-date=15 January 2016|publisher=Linguistic Society of America}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://elanguage.net/|title = eLanguage|access-date = 15 January 2016|publisher=Linguistic Society of America}}</ref> The goal of the new publication was to not only publish articles, but also do so with the advances in open publishing including fast turnaround times and free and open access.<ref>{{cite journal|journal= Semantics and Pragmatics|title=Semantics and Pragmatics—A New Journal|first1=David|last1=Beaver|first2=Kai |last2=von Fintel|date=27 November 2007|url=http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/WI1MTUyM/beaver-fintel-sp-inaugural.pdf|doi=10.3765/sp.0.1|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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Advocacy efforts are not only limited to science funding, but larger issues of public policy as well. Over the years, the LSA membership have passed a number of resolutions regarding issues of public policy. In 1987, the LSA officially took a stand against the [[English-only movement]] in the United States stating that "English-only measures ... are based on misconceptions about the role of a common language in establishing political unity, and ... are inconsistent with basic American traditions of linguistic tolerance."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/resolution-english-only| title=Resolution: English Only|first=Geoff |last=Nunberg|date=1 July 1987|access-date=15 January 2015}}</ref> Furthering that stance, the membership ratified a statement on linguistic rights in 1996 declaring "the government and people of the United States have a special obligation to enable indigenous peoples to retain their languages and cultures" and declared 7 fundamental linguistic rights including the right "to have their children educated in a manner that affirmatively acknowledges their native language abilities..." which includes the possibility of education in a language other than English.<ref>{{cite web|title=Linguistic Society of America Statement on Language Rights|year=1996|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/lsa-stmt-language-rights.pdf}}</ref> 5 years later, the LSA lent its support for the recognition of sign languages as equal to that of other languages. The resolution, passed in 2001, "affirm[ed] that sign languages used by deaf communities are full-fledged languages with all the structural characteristics and range of expression of spoken languages" and urged that sign languages be given the same respect as other languages in academic and political life.<ref>{{cite web|last=Perlmutter|first=David|title=Resolution: Sign Languages|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/resolution-sign-languages|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref>
The society has also engaged in more targeted advocacy efforts. In 1997, an LSA resolution supported the Oakland school-board in its attempt to favor teaching that is sensitive to the distinctive characteristics of [[African American Vernacular English]]
==Awards==
The LSA presents a series of awards during its
*'''Best Paper in ''Language''''': awarded to the best paper published in the journal ''Language'' that year; all published papers written by at least one LSA author are eligible.<ref name="honors">{{Cite web|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards|title = LSA Honors and Awards}}</ref>
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*'''Linguistics Service Award''': awarded to a member who has performed "distinguished service" for the society<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Linguistics, Language and the Public Award''': awarded to a member for work that "effectively increases public awareness and understanding of linguistics and language" in the four years immediately preceding the nomination deadline; works in any medium are eligible and can be considered for multiple cycles.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Student Abstract Award''': awarded to a student who has submitted an abstract to the
*'''[[Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award]]''': named after linguist [[Victoria Fromkin]], this award is given to a member who has performed "extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society" throughout their career<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Linguistics Journalism Award''': First awarded in 2014, this award is given to "the journalist whose work best represents linguistics" in the prior year.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards#lja|title = LSA Honors and Awards: Journalism Award|access-date = March 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/ben-zimmer-wins-lsas-linguistics-journalism-award/|title = Ben Zimmer Wins LSA's Linguistics Journalism Award|date = October 29, 2014|access-date = July 18, 2015|website = Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus}}</ref>
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