[Interview 18/08/1998 // Interview 26/07/1999]
*Interview of August 18, 1998
= Is The Linguist List multilingual?
The Linguist List, which I moderate, has a policy of posting in any language, since it is a list for linguists. However, we discourage posting the same message in several languages, simply because of the burden extra messages put on our editorial staff. (We are not a bounce-back list, but a moderated one. So each message is organized into an issue with like messages by our student editors before it is posted.) Our experience has been that almost everyone chooses to post in English. But we do link to a translation facility that will present our pages in any of 5 languages; so a subscriber need not read Linguist in English unless s/he wishes to. We also try to have at least one student editor who is genuinely multilingual, so that readers can correspond with us in languages other than English.
*Interview of July 26, 1999
= What has happened since our last interview?
We are beginning to collect some primary data. For example, we have searchable databases of dissertation abstracts relevant to linguistics, of information on graduate and undergraduate linguistics programs, and of professional information about individual linguists. The dissertation abstracts collection is, to my knowledge, the only freely available electronic compilation in existence.
[FR] Helen Dry (Michigan)
#Modératrice de The Linguist List
Le site de la Linguist List donne une série complète de liens sur la profession de linguiste (conférences, associations linguistiques, programmes, etc.), la recherche (articles, résumés de mémoires, projets, bibliographies, dossiers, textes), les publications, la pédagogie, les ressources linguistiques (langues, familles linguistiques, dictionnaires, information régionale) et les ressources informatiques (polices de caractères et logiciels).