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Contact the American Dialect Society

Journalists, reporters, and other media representatives should pick an expert from our media queries page.

  • For general language-related questions, join our public email list and post your questions there.
  • To submit books for review, manuscripts to American Speech, or studies of monograph length for PADS, contact the American Speech Managing Editor.
  • For questions about membership to the society or about the society itself, contact the Executive Director, Julie Roberts.
  • To join the society, see our membership page. For questions about the ADS-L email list, check the ADS-L how-to first, then, if necessary, contact the list administrator.

If all else fails, contact the general-purpose business email biz@americandialect.org.

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The mission of the American Dialect Society, a not-for-profit organization, is to encourage the study of any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare.

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