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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue'>Dear
IGALA members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>If
you have published a book on language and gender and would like to submit it
for consideration for the IGALA book prize 2010, please can you approach your
publisher and ask them to contact me s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk. Your book needs to
have been published in 2008/2009.  The publisher will need to be willing to
submit 3 copies of the book and pay a fee towards administrative charges.  All
suitable books received are reviewed by at least two reviewers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";
  color:blue'>Prof. Sara Mills, Linguistics, Sheffield Hallam University, Room
  103, Unit 1, Science Park, Sheffield S1 1 WB tel: 0114-225-3863,
  s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
  color:blue'>Please sponsor me for a half marathon which I am running in April
  2009 to raise funds for Practical Action, a charity which provides training
  and low tech resources (building latrines and wells, providing easily
  maintained sources of electricity) for people in developing countries. 
  You can donate on-line at :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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  color:blue'><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/saramills">http://www.justgiving.com/saramills</a></span><span
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    color:purple'>Linguistic Politeness Research Group: 
    http://politeness.lboro.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
    <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";
    color:purple'>Journal of Politeness Research:</span></b><span
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    style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue'><a
    href="http://www.degruyter.com/journals/jpr/detailEn.cfm">http://www.degruyter.com/journals/jpr/detailEn.cfm</a></span><span
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    color:purple'>Discourse Analysis OnLine</span></b><span style='font-size:
    11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:purple'>: </span><span
    style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'><a
    href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/daol"><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>www.shu.ac.uk/daol</span></a>
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    </span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";
    color:purple'>International Gender and Language Association: </span></b><span
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color:blue'><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html</a></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue'><br>
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color:purple'>Home page:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
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</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:purple'>Journal of Gender and Language:</span></b><b><span
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