importance of affirmative action policies and urging for their retention. Awards The LSA presents a series of awards during its Annual Meeting. The list of awards, their descriptions, and selected holders are listed below: 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. Early Career Award: awarded to a member who has made "outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics" early in their career. Excellence in Community Linguistics Award: awarded to members of language communities (typically outside the academic sphere of professional linguists) who make "outstanding contributions" for the benefit of their community's language. Kenneth L. Hale Award: named after linguist Kenneth Hale, this award is given to a member who has done "outstanding work" on the documentation of a particular language or family of languages that is endangered or no longer spoken. Leonard Bloomfield Book Award: named after linguist Leonard Bloomfield, this award is given to a book that has made an "outstanding contribution of enduring value" to our understanding of language and linguistics. Linguistics Service Award: awarded to a member who has performed "distinguished service" for the society 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. Student Abstract Award: awarded to a student who has submitted an abstract to the Annual Meeting. 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 Linguistics Journalism Award: First awarded in 2014, this award is given to "the journalist whose work best represents linguistics" in the prior year. Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award recipients Past winners of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award include: Anne Curzan Michael Erard Leanne Hinton Anne H. Charity Hudley Language Log Gretchen McCulloch John McWhorter Donna Jo Napoli North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition Geoffrey Nunberg Steven Pinker John R. Rickford Deborah Tannen Walt Wolfram See also SIL International References External links Past Linguistic Institutes (conferences) eLanguage, an LSA-affiliated platform for online, open-access linguistics journals Organizations established in 1924 1924 establishments in New York City