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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>As the 6th IGALA conference is just a week and a bit away, I'd like to introduce a sociolinguistics website, <A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/" target=_blank><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Language on the Move</SPAN></EM></A>, to you all! Founded by <A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/ingrid-piller" target=_blank>Ingrid Piller</A> (one of the keynote speakers) and myself back in November 2009, <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/" target=_blank>Language on the Move</A></SPAN></EM> has been a vibrant discussion and open-resource site for researchers as well as the general public interested in issues including gender, race, social justice in multilingual and language learning contexts. In the lead up to IGALA in Tokyo, I have taken the liberty of sharing a little bit of advance commentary and tips in the latest blog post (see below). We hope you will find <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/" target=_blank>Language on the Move </A></SPAN></EM>useful for your L & G research! <BR> <BR>See you all in Tokyo soon!<BR><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/" target=_blank>Language and Gender on the Move!</A></SPAN></STRONG><BR>Next week, Tokyo will be the hottest hub of language and gender researchers! <SPAN style="COLOR: #999999"><A href="http://www.tsuda.ac.jp/en/" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999">Tsuda</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999"><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999"><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999"><SPAN class=squiggly title="To see spelling suggestions, click this word" splc="splc" state="new" word="Tsuda"><A href="http://www.tsuda.ac.jp/en/" target=_blank></SPAN> College</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> is hosting <A href="https://orc.tsuda.ac.jp/IGALA/ocs/index.php/IGALA6/IGALA6Conf" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999">the Sixth International Language and Gender Association Conference </SPAN></A>(IGALA) Sept 18 ¡V 20, attracting many cutting-edge L & G researchers. Since this is the first time IGALA comes to Tokyo in particular and to Asia in general, and as I am a Tokyo/Yokohama native, I thought I¡¦d share a bit of advance commentary and tips! To begin with, they couldn¡¦t have picked a better place than <A href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #999999">Continue reading </SPAN><SPAN class=ecxmeta-nav><SPAN lang=ZH-TW style="COLOR: #999999; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft JhengHei','sans-serif'">¡÷</SPAN></SPAN></A><BR><BR>---------------------------<BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Kimie Takahashi, PhD</SPAN></STRONG><BR>Postdoctoral Research Fellow<BR>Department of Linguistics<BR>Faculty of Human Sciences<BR>MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY <BR>NSW 2109 Australia<BR>Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 9939<BR>Fax: +61 (0)2 9850 7849<BR><A href="http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/" target=_blank>www.ameprc.mq.edu.au</A> <BR> <BR><STRONG><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Language on the Move</SPAN></I></STRONG><BR>[W] <A href="http://www.languageonthemove.org/" target=_blank>www.languageonthemove.org</A><BR>[Twitter] <A href="http://twitter.com/lg_on_the_move" target=_blank>http://twitter.com/lg_on_the_move</A><BR>[Facebook] <A href="http://www.facebook.com/languageonthemove" target=_blank>www.facebook.com/languageonthemove</A><BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: #a5a5a5"><SPAN style="COLOR: #a5a5a5">CRICOS</SPAN> Provider No 00002J<BR>This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University.</SPAN></SPAN><BR> </body>
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