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<font size="4"><strong>IGALA ‘Media Communications’ Policy - Reminder<br>
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</strong></font>Are you a paid up member of IGALA?<br>
Have you thought about writing, as a member of IGALA, to your local/national or international press or other organisations on issues pertaining to language, gender and sexuality (e.g. responding to potentially sexist use of language/ image/ policy; contributing
to a gender, language and sexuality debate, etc.)?<br>
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This is just a reminder (especially following some of the discussions we have had with members during our last IGALA conference in Japan) that there is a procedure in our organisation for doing this. You will find it on the IGALA website, and also pasted below.<br>
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<p><font face="times new roman">Lia Litosseliti (on behalf of the Advisory Board)</font></p>
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<font size="4">IGALA ‘Media Communications’ Policy<br>
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</font><strong>Background</strong></p>
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One of the goals of IGALA is to establish a visible political role and a public voice on issues pertaining to language, gender and sexuality, outside the borders of the organisation.</p>
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Achieving this goal is likely to:<br>
• increase public interest in both the language and gender field and the organisation<br>
• allow the organisation to contribute to public debates on these issues (outside IGALA web-lists and conferences)<br>
• increase the ‘internationalisation’ of IGALA and allow members who cannot attend IGALA conferences play an active role in the organisation, but from within their own geographical/linguistic/sociocultural contexts<br>
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<strong>Our policy</strong><br>
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A. IGALA members are invited to: <br>
(1) write to their local/national or international press on issues pertaining to language, gender and sexuality, and to sign themselves ‘Member of International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)’
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or<br>
(2) direct their letters on such issues via the representatives for Media Communications (see below), if they so prefer<br>
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Caveat: <br>
copies of such letters (hard or electronic) should first be<br>
a) approved by the IGALA President and the IGALA Secretary <br>
b) seen by the IGALA Executive/Advisory Committee, including at least one of the representatives for Media Communications<br>
Following the above<br>
a) the IGALA webweaver will include such letters on the IGALA website<br>
b) the Secretary will report on these communications, and any related responses or outcomes, at each Executive/Advisory committee meeting
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(3) be alert to debates surrounding language, gender and sexuality to which we could provide a considered submission, for which views of the entire membership would be solicited, and which would need to be approved by the Executive/Advisory committee (by vote
if necessary)<br>
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For information on becoming a member of IGALA, if you are not already, please go to:<br>
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html<br>
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Dr Lia Litosseliti<br>
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics<br>
Department of Language and Communication Science<br>
City University<br>
Northampton Square<br>
London EC1V 0HB<br>
UK<br>
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l.litosseliti@city.ac.uk<br>
http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html<br>
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For the Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref</p>
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