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Membership

Benefits of membership include:

  • A subscription to American Speech, the society’s quarterly journal.
  • Access to the American Speech online archive dating back to 1925.
  • One book in the PADS (Publication of the American Dialect Society) monograph series each year.
  • The society’s annual conference, held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America.
  • The annual word-of-the-year vote.
  • Access to the society’s member list.
  • Access to the members-only ADS-M email list.
  • Access to the ADS-L email list (also open to non-members).
  • Being a part of an organization that supports the Dictionary of American Regional English.

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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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