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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CFP: International Conference “Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective”(Friday 9.9.2022 online; deadline 22.4.2022)<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language is currently being discussed in the public sphere, and views on the subject have increasingly been voiced by individuals as well as organisations. These include
state institutions, private associations, subject specialists such as linguists, and private individuals / laypeople. Views of and attitudes towards gender-neutral language cover a abroad spectrum between extreme ends, and even subject specialists hold conflicting
views.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Some academic research on attitudes towards gender-neutral language has been conducted and published. However, a multinational/multilingual, comparative perspective is still missing. To address this shortcoming,
this international conference will bring together researchers studying attitudes towards gender-neutral language in different languages and countries.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Some examples of questions to be addressed and discussed are: How are attitudes towards gender-neutral language voiced in different countries and languages? What groups or individuals engage in the debate,
and what are their views and attitudes? What are the prevailing discourses? Are there clashes between proponents of different varieties of gender-fair language?<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The international conference <i>
“Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective” </i>will be held online on Friday, 9th September 2022.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Proposals of 500 to 1,000 words excluding references should be emailed to Falco Pfalzgraf <f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk> by Friday 22nd April 2022, 23:59 UK time.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">You will be notified of a decision by 28th April 2022.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">A selected number of contributions will be included in a high-quality edited volume on “<i>Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective”</i>, with a publisher of excellent standing.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Dr Falco Pfalzgraf<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">School of Languages, Linguistics and Film<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Queen Mary University of London<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">United Kingdom<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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