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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">--- Please circulate widely ---<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">SPECIAL ISSUE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
<b>of <i>Gender and Language</i> on “<i>Gender, language, communication and the media”</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gender and Language</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> invite papers on the topic of gender, language, communication and the media for a forthcoming special issue in 2014.
We invite papers that deploy various methods (e.g., linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, content analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and sociolinguistics) to explore the relationship(s) between gender and
related topics (e.g. sexism, sexuality, sexualisation, post-feminism) and the media as broadly conceived (e.g. newspapers, television, radio, online environments).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Over recent years, issues to do with ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ have become increasingly visible across various forms of contemporary media. But how are we to understand the
varied ways in which such phenomena are unpacked, reformulated, constructed, deleted, and so on, in and through these media? This special issue aims to pull together a diverse range of papers that all coalesce around the following sorts of questions:
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">How are contemporary
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">media representations, stereotypes and accounts of gender constructed in the media?
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What, if anything, is new, unique and distinct about the ways in which gender is constructed in and through such media representations?
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">How is it possible, methodologically, to capture something like gender, and how can we know when we have found “it”?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please send a 750 word summary of your proposed paper, detailing *<b>provisional</b>* title, topic, methods, and findings. We will let you know at this outline stage whether or not your paper looks
to be a ‘good fit’ for the special issue. Authors of papers that fit with the issue’s aims will then be invited to submit a full length paper of between 5000-7000 words (including abstract, data and references). Papers will be subject to the usual peer review
process. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In the event that we end up with more accepted papers than the special issue allows space for, papers may be accepted for future issues of
<i>Gender and Language</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The deadline for submitting 750 word summaries is November 30th 2012. Please submit your summary to the special issue editor, Dr Frederick Attenborough (</span><a href="mailto:f.t.attenborough@lboro.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">f.t.attenborough@lboro.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The deadline for full length papers is May 15<sup>th</sup> 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gender and Language</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> is about to head into its 7<sup>th</sup> year. To promote the journal and establish its impact, the editors – Elizabeth
Stokoe and Ann Weatherall – have recently moved to three issues per year, introduced ‘early view’ papers published online first with DOIs, and applied for an impact factor ranking. Special issues are part of our strategy for increasing the journal’s profile.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Elizabeth Stokoe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Professor of Social Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Room U3.02<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Department of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssehs/index.htm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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