LINGUIST List 14.2694

Mon Oct 6 2003

Calls: Sociolinguistics/Discourse Analysis; NY, USA

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    Message 1: International Gender and Language Association

     Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:29:06 +0000
    From: smg9 <smg9cornell.edu>
    Subject: International Gender and Language Association


    International Gender and Language Association Short Title: IGALA 3

    Date: 05-Jun-2004 - 07-Jun-2004 Location: Ithaca, New York, United States of America Contact: Sally McConnell-Ginet Contact Email: igala3cornell.edu Meeting URL: http://ling.cornell.edu/igala3/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2004

    Meeting Description:

    IGALA 3 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

    The third biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association will be held 5-7 June, 2004 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

    IGALA 3 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

    The third biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association will be held 5-7 June, 2004 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

    The conference will open Saturday morning, 5 June, with a plenary presentation on media issues by Deborah Cameron, newly elected Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University. Two other individual plenary presentations are scheduled. Professor Norma Mendoza-Denton of the University of Arizona will speak about adolescents and adolescence, and Professor Niko Besnier, currently visiting at UCLA, will give the final individual plenary on issues of globalization.

    To emphasize the I in IGALA, there will also be a plenary panel featuring distinguished international language and gender scholars. Confirmed panelists at present are Professor Momoko Nakamura of Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan and Professor Fatima Sadiqi of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fes, Morocco.

    The conference will include an extensive poster session as well as oral presentations selected on the basis of abstracts submitted for receipt by 15 January, 2004. Contributions are strongly encouraged on any aspect of the interaction of language with gender and/or sexuality, and we welcome contributors from anywhere in the world. The conference closes at lunchtime, Monday, 7 June, 2004, but there will be several post-conference participatory workshops scheduled the afternoon of 7 June. Ithaca is located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of central New York State, a pleasant locale for those who might want to combine a trip to the conference with vacationing. Further information is available at http://ling.cornell.edu/igala3/ . The Call for Abstracts appears there as well as below.

    Call for Abstracts

    The International Gender and Language Association invites abstracts for IGALA 3, to be held 5-7 June, 2004. We seek presentations that deal with language in relation to gender and/or sexuality. Presentations will be in the form of 20-minute papers (followed by 5-minute discussion period) or posters (presented during plenary session with presenters available for discussion). All presenters, whether of 20 minute talks or posters, will be listed in the program, and all accepted abstracts will appear in the program abstract booklet. There will be limited time for oral presentations and posters are strongly encouraged. Guidelines for Abstracts, Guidelines for 20-minute Papers, and Guidelines for Posters are posted on the conference website, http://ling.cornell.edu/igala3/.

    The conference is interdisciplinary, and we invite work on diverse languages from a variety of fields, including not only linguistics but also such fields as anthropology, education, feminist studies, philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. The conference is also international, and we especially encourage submissions from scholars living or working outside North America and western Europe. Each person may submit at most one individual and one jointly authored abstract. Abstracts will beanonymously reviewed.

    Submissions should consist of the following:

    Name(s) of author(s) (should not appear in text of the abstract)

    Author affiliation(s), email, phone number, mailing address

    Indication of whether the presentation is to be considered as an oral paper, a poster, or either

    Equipment requests (e.g., overhead, TV/VCR, CD/cassette player - request only what you are sure is needed and contact organizers if you have additional needs)

    Two empty spaces

    Title

    Up to 3 key words identifying subject matter of the presentation (e.g., variation, adolescence, profanity)

    Abstract text (no longer than 500 words, include precise word count)

    Abstracts should present clearly and specifically the main points to be made in the presentation. No more than one individually authored presentation and one co-authored presentation may be submitted by the same person.

    Please submit your abstract as a regular, single email message and do not send any attachments or use any special formatting. See Guidelines for Abstracts at http://ling.cornell.edu/igala3/. Email abstracts to igala3cornell.edu. If you do not receive email confirmation within 2 days of emailing your submission, please resend. Faxed abstracts will not be accepted. If you do not have access to email, please send a message to the address below for alternative submission instructions.

    IGALA 3 Department of Linguistics Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

    Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15 January, 2004 Notification: 28 February, 2004