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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><strong><b><u><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)</span></font></u></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><u><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Advisory Council elections</span></font></u></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><u><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></u></b>The call for nominations for IGALA Advisory Council
membership (7 ordinary members and 1 Graduate <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Student
Rep</st1:PersonName>resentative member) is now closed. Thank you for your
nominations (15 in total). Paid up IGALA members can vote for 1 ordinary member
and 1 graduate student representative member between September 29<sup>th</sup>
and October 28<sup>th</sup>. Information on how to do this is given below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some
useful reminders:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>1.<br>
</span></font></b><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>-</span></font> <strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman">Ordinary members</font></b></strong> take responsibility
for a key task (to be agreed at the next committee meeting). To date, such
tasks have included liaising with the Association's journal (<em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Gender and Language</font></i></em>), organising local<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>IGALA branches/ events/ book
prize, communicating with the media, running elections etc; they may also
include supporting members and the Association with conference/ travel grant
applications for members to attend IGALA conferences, participating in student
bursaries allocation committees, and other tasks that may become necessary as
the Association grows.<br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>-</span></font> The <strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman">Graduate <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Student Rep</st1:PersonName>resentative</font></b></strong>
is responsible for<br>
* bringing issues to IGALA that are of concern and importance to graduate
students<br>
* working with other IGALA members and the Executive Committee to make graduate
students an active and visible presence within IGALA<br>
* facilitating graduate contributions to and representation at the IGALA
conferences and their involvement in other professional activities<br>
* in coordination with the conference organizers and other members of the IGALA
executive committee and membership, developing one graduate student workshop at
each IGALA conference on a topic or topics relevant to the professional and
intellectual development of graduate students and junior academic staff/faculty<br>
* being a member of the committee in charge of the IGALA Graduate Student Essay
Competition<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>2.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'>- </span></font>Information on IGALA can be<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>found at <a
href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html</a> or
via the Secretary. In addition to being able to be elected/ involved in the
association's activities, being a member of IGALA includes a subscription
to the <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Gender and Language</font></i></em>
journal, and allows you to submit abstracts and present at IGALA conferences,
so we would encourage colleagues and graduate students to
become members if not already. <br>
Information on the next IGALA conference (20-22 June 2012) can be found at <a
href="http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/">http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>HOW TO VOTE:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1. Read
the candidates’ statements (found at the bottom of this message)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2. Visit </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://doodle.com/4g9dtgfhe63uc5f5">http://doodle.com/4g9dtgfhe63uc5f5</a>
</span></font>to vote for your preferred Ordinary member<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>3. Visit </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://doodle.com/tec43fss87e3s88a">http://doodle.com/tec43fss87e3s88a</a>
</span></font>to vote for your preferred Graduate <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Student
Rep</st1:PersonName>resentative member<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Each
member can vote once for each of the above two roles, between September 29<sup>th</sup>
and October 28<sup>th</sup>. In the unlikely event that you have problems with
the electronic voting system, please contact <strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Michelle Lazar, IGALA
Secretary</span></font></b> </strong>(<a href="mailto:ellmml@nus.edu.sg">ellmml@nus.edu.sg</a>)
using email subject header 'IGALA AC Voting'.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lia
Litosseliti<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>IGALA
Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'>+++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Candidates’ statements<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:
none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:
none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>(1) Ordinary Members<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>1. Fabienne Baider<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I was granted in 1999 the first PhD in Gender Studies and Linguistics
at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Toronto</st1:PlaceName> and have been teaching linguistic courses,
feminist theory and language and gender at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
since the year 2000. Being the Vice-President of the Modern Languages
department since 2010, and the Graduate coordinator since 2010, I also
undertook the position of convenor in Cyprus for the French speaking Graduate
School in the Near and Middle-East (CODFRAMO) since April 2010 (Syria,
Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>My work (such as my
thesis <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Hommes galants, femmes faciles</span></i>
2004) uses discourse analysis and semantic theory (Rastier) to show from a
lexical semantic point of view how the signifier <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>homme</span></i> (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>man</span></i>)
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>femme</span></i> (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>woman</span></i>) had been constructed in the
dominant discourse (mainly literary and lexicographical discourses) from the
time we have access to written texts (Middle Ages). I use in some of my
research computerized data analysed with software to expose patterns of
discriminatory discourse (see 2009 my chapters in <i><font color=black><span
style='color:black;font-style:italic'>Language Variation European Perspectives
II</span></font></i> and in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Feminism,
Femininity and Gendered Discourse</span></i> 2010 as well as my article in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Modern and contemporary France</span></i> 2010). My
work has been published in top French feminist journals such as <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Nouvelles questions feminists</span></i> (founded by
Beauvoir and now based in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region>)
and I am a regular reviewer for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Recherches
féministes</span></i> (based in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Quebec</st1:State></st1:place>).
Lately I have been working on Interactions within language classes in the
context of Cypriot schools and power relation in institutional settings (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Cahiers pédagogiques</span></i> 2011).<br>
<br>
Involved in the Minor in Gender Studies at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
since its approval in 2008, I co-organised two international and
interdisciplinary conferences in Language and Gender (among the four
international conferences I organized since 2001). These are <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Languages
of Gender</span></i>, 2003 (with Jennifer Coates and Sara Ahmed as keynote
speakers) and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>InterSexion</span></i>, 2009,
focusing on Language and Gender in Romance languages (with Elizabeth Burr as
keynote speaker), the proceedings of which will appear in December 2011. I was
also on the organising committees of a week-long celebration of Gender Studies
within <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region> in October
2010 (which included 12 different speakers in Greek and in English), and a one
day event to happen in October 2011 (with Karen Offen from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have been participating in the IGALA conferences since IGALA started
and actually was a graduate student at UC Berkeley when the Berkeley Women and
Language Conference started in the 90’s (the ancestor of IGALA). I would
gladly contribute to the advertising in the Romance - speaking world of IGALA;
and make Romance languages an active and visible presence within IGALA
(possibly to have a session or a workshop focusing on issues specific to
Romance Languages or cultures at each IGALA conference). Based in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and in regular contact with the Near / Middle-East, I would also promote IGALA
issues and events in that region, especially via the CODFRAMO graduate school.
I work well in a team and look forward to learning from other Executive members
and as well sharing my professional experience such as organizing events and
publications. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>2. Mercedes Bengoechea<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;punctuation-wrap:simple;
text-autospace:none;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.15pt'>I am Professor of </span>Sociolinguistics
and have been Dean of the Faculty of Filosofía y Letras (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Universidad de Alcalá</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>)
for six years.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;punctuation-wrap:simple;
text-autospace:none;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;punctuation-wrap:simple;
text-autospace:none;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have been member of the IGALA Advisory Council;
member of the Advisory Language Committee of the <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Instituto de la Mujer</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>NOMBRA</span></i>
(Ministry of Social Affairs); member of the Experts Committee on Gender and
Childhood for the Institute of the National Spanish Televisión (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Instituto Oficial de Radio Televisión Española</span></i>);
and member of the National Committee for the Modernization of Legal Language. I
was also the first co-ordinator of the Annual Report of the Spanish National
Observatory on Gender Violence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;punctuation-wrap:simple;
text-autospace:none;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;punctuation-wrap:simple;
text-autospace:none;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>My research on language and gender has focused mainly
on denouncing, on the one hand, the sexist usage of the language in the Spanish
media and, on the other hand, normative linguistic policies and dictionaries of
Spanish. I have also led proposals for non-sexist use of Spanish and analysed
media discourse. I am now interested in feminist translation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>3. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I have been an active
member of the IGALA Board, participating actively in most of the events
promoted by the association. I have a long career in the areas of Critical
Discourse Analysis, with particular emphasis on the issues of Language and
Gender. Given my present role in the next IGALA conference (as the Book Prize
manager and as part of the local team in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>), I think my continuation as
a member of the Advisory Council is appropriate and I am very willing to run
for re-election. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>4. Holly R. Cashman<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I am an Assistant
Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New Hampshire</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>. My research focuses on Spanish
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
bilingual discourse, impoliteness, and gender & sexuality in interaction.
My work has been published in journals including Multilingua, Journal of
Politeness Research, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and
Spanish in Context. I am currently preparing to begin a new data collection
project funded by the National Science Foundation (USA) to examine language,
identity and community among gay and lesbian Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.
Southwest (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Arizona</st1:State></st1:place>). I am enthusiastic about getting
involved with IGALA, and I would happily contribute to any of the key tasks of
the Advisory Council. I am particularly interested in participating in review
committees or grant writing to support conferences and travel, liaising with
other entities and any other tasks that will help the association to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>5. Grace Diabah (nee Bota) <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>I am a Lecturer at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Ghana</st1:PlaceName>, but currently finishing my
PhD in Applied Linguistics (Gender and Language) at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
My PhD research has been on 'constructions of gender identities in the
discourses of Ghanaians in the UK Diaspora', through the application of FCDA,
DP and cognitive linguistics approaches to discourse. I therefore work in a
wide range of linguistic fields, including Gender and Language, Critical
Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology, Sociolinguistics and Cognitive
linguistics. As part of my research interests, I have also worked on gender,
media and politics (see publications below). For future research, I plan to
work on Ghanaian media discourses on domestic violence and sexual assault, and
constructions of gender identity in the classroom. With my interest in research
in non-dominant and under-represented contexts (Ghanaian/African), I hope to
contribute to the international nature of IGALA.<br>
<br>
Regarding my experience with conference planning and organisation, I worked as
an Abstract Co-ordinator and a Reviewer for the Linguistics and English
Language (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>) Postgraduate
Conference in 2009. I also worked as a co-editor for the conference
proceedings. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Selected publications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>Anderson</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>, J., Diabah, G. and hMensa, P. A. (2011). Powerful women in
powerless language: Media representation of African women in politics; The case
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Journal of Pragmatics, 43(10), 2509-2518.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Diabah, G. (2011).
Gendered discourses: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s
'Iron Lady' vs. George Weah. In Majstorovic, D. and Inger, L. (eds.), Living
with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures
(pp. 169-194). <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City></st1:place>:
John Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Diabah, G.
(forthcoming). 'I cannot be blamed for my own assault': Ghanaian media
discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel's sexual assaults. In Atanga, L.,
Ellece, S., Litosseliti, L. and <st1:place w:st="on">Sunderland</st1:place>, J.
(eds.), Gender and language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and
change. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City></st1:place>:
John Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Diabah, G. (accepted for
publication). SEX FOR GENDER metonymy?: A consideration of three expressions
from Akan. Metaphor and the Social World.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br>
<b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'> 6. Allyson Jule <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Currently Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Gender Studies
Institute at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Western</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:City w:st="on">Langley</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">BC</st1:State>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, I spent many years
of study in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
I earned my PhD in <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City> at the Roehampton
Institute/Froebel College and then taught in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region>
at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Glamorgan</st1:PlaceName> for several years before returning home to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
in 2008. My particular research interests are in the area of gender in the
classroom and gender alongside religious identity. My publications include <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender</span></i>
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gender, Participation and Silence in the
Language Classroom:</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sh-shushing
the Girls</span></i>. As editor, I have produced of two collections of
sociolinguistic research: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gender and the
Language of Religion</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Language
and Religious Identity. </span></i>Along with Bettina Tate Pedersen, I also
edited <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Being Feminist, Being Christian</span></i>:
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Essays from Academia, </span></i>and am the
current media reviews editor for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Women and
Language</span></i> journal. I have served on the advisory council for IGALA
since 2008 and am also the conference organizer for IGALA 2014 in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>7. Laurel Kamada<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have been
working in the field of gender and language for much of my career, producing
such publications as “Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls”
(Multilingual Matters, 2010) about mixed-race and gender in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>. I have also examined
masculinity in mixed-ethnic adolescent boys (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Discourse
Studies</span></i>, 2009, 11:3) and have numerous book chapters on topics such
as </span></font>theoretical and methodological approaches to gender research
(2008), the ethno-gendered position of English in Japan for a new sector of
society (2011) and ‘<font color=black><span style='color:black'>glocal’
hybrid and gendered identities in Japan (forthcoming). Having served on the
Advisory Council since 2008 and having attended and participated in IGALA
conferences in <st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
I have made contacts, gained experience, learned how IGALA functions and
undertaken responsibilities required of the AC members. Living in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, I helped with the IGALA event in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tokyo</st1:City></st1:place> particularly by
preparing local web information, organizing a Japan-based panel, recruiting
local participants, and helping coordinate the book prize. If re-elected to the
AC, I would like to further contribute by helping again with elections,
‘communicating with the world’ and stimulating more local
participation in IGALA. Laurel Kamada (<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tohoku</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sendai</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>8. Brian King <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>My research interests are centred on
language and gender/sexuality. My MA dissertation project investigated the
gendered use of language in online chat-rooms for gay men, and my PhD
dissertation focused on language, gender and sexuality in a secondary school
sexuality education classroom. I have presented conference papers on the
subject at numerous important international conferences, and published articles
and book reviews in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gender and Language</span></i>,
the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journal of Language, Identity and
Education</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Discourse and Society</span></i>,
and in an edited collection. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have made a contribution to the field of
Gender and Language, both within the field and in the community of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wellington</st1:City></st1:place>, where I livs
and wors. For example, I played a key role in assisting with the
organisation of the IGALA 5 conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wellington</st1:City></st1:place>
in 2008 and acted as a peer reviewer of abstracts for both the IGALA 5 &
IGALA 6 conferences. I have also frequently been a blind reviewer for the
journal <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gender and Language</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>In the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Wellington</st1:City></st1:place> community I have taken an active
role in representing the field of Gender and Language in diverse settings. For
example, I am a trustee of the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Intersex
Trust Aotearoa New Zealand</span></i> (ITANZ), acting as a consultant in
relation to gender and language, and in that capacity aim to support the
organisation’s goal of increasing awareness in broader society of the existence
of intersex people. In addition to this, I founded the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sexuality Education Roundtable of New Zealand</span></i>
in 2009, with the aim of fostering research into sexuality education by
bringing together researchers, educators, government policy makers, and activists
to engage in discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>9. Joanne McDowell<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I am extremely interested and excited in undertaking this role for
several reasons. First and foremost is my passion for the study of gender
and language. This is my specialist area, and I have been deeply involved
in researching this area for over 9 years now, undertaking my PhD in the area
of gendered language and workplace discourse (male nurses), from which I am
working on several research papers and a monograph of my thesis (to be
published with Cambridge in 2013), and am currently examining male and female
primary school teachers’ teaching methods and classroom discourse. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>My main interests concern, but are certainly not limited to,
sociolinguistics; the notion of ‘gendered’ language; discourse analysis;
workplace discourse; community of practice and the expression of one’s
group identity; pragmatics; and the ethnographic study of communication.
I have lectured in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading and the
University of Ulster in areas such as interactional and variationist
sociolinguistics, research methods, and analytical techniques in linguistics,
providing me with a great amount of knowledge of the many different areas of
linguistics outside that of my own special interest. My role at
Queen’s involves research on gender and language focusing on educational
linguistics and classroom discourse using discourse analysis and corpus
linguistics. So as well as writing my own book and journal articles on
language and gender, I am still actively involved in researching this area.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have experience in organizing a variety of conferences to disseminate
both my own and others’ research findings, have chaired several
conference sessions, and helped to organize key streams in several conferences
over the last 5 years. I also ran the sociolinguistic working group at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Reading</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, which involved
organizing speakers to come and talk about their linguistic research, and
recruiting new members. This has enabled me to create a large network
with fellow linguists across the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> within various Universities,
with which I have regular communication. I understand the time
commitment necessary to dedicating oneself to a role such as this, but I have
so much enthusiasm, passion and excitement about all aspects of the field of
gender and language and where it is going, so I would really love to be
involved in the advisory council to help bring the IGALA association to the
general public as well as an academic audience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>10. Bróna Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;background:white'>My name is Dr Bróna Murphy and I have worked as a
lecturer, in English language education and linguistics, at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Edinburgh</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> since 2008. My research,
to-date, has used small corpora to explore gender alongside other
sociolinguistic variables such as age (Murphy, 2010; Murphy, 2011, forthcoming)
and across a variety of contexts from intimate casual conversation, business
discourse, educational talk as well as soap opera discourse (Farr and Murphy,
2009; Murphy and Farr, 2011, forthcoming). In particular, I have focused on the
construction of gender identities in an Irish English context, a context which
has been investigated to a lesser extent than other varieties (British and
American English, for instance). More recently, my work has involved me
in the exploration of discourse collected from young and middle-aged Muslim men
and women living in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Funded by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">British</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> (2010-2012) and
using corpus-based tools and methodologies combined with insights from critical
discourse analysis, the study aims to uncover insights into the gender
identities which surround the groups.</span></font><span style='background:
white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;background:white'>If I were to be elected on to the IGALA advisory
committee which works with the executive committee, I would bring to the table
knowledge and understanding of my gender-related work which is informed by a
mixed methods approach and spans a range of areas. I would bring my interest in
the gender issues which surround ethnic group identity, especially groups
residing in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
I would bring my experience of working on committees and research groups as
well as my involvement in the organisation of small and larger research events
over the past ten years. Finally, I would bring plans for the future which
encourages gender-related research on minority groups as well as lesser-known
language varieties. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>References<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Murphy, B. 2011 (forthcoming, expected in December 2011). Gender,
Discourse and Identity. In: <span class=apple-style-span><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>Aijmer, K. and Andersen, G. (eds), <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Pragmatics of Society</span></i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place>: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Murphy, B.
and Farr, F. 2011 (forthcoming, expected in December 2011). </span></font></span><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>“<i><span style='font-style:italic'>I’m
fine girl, and how are you?</span></i>”<i><span style='font-style:italic'>:
</span></i>The Use of Vocatives in Spoken Irish-English. English World Wide
(Special Issue). <span class=apple-style-span><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Murphy, B. 2010. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Corpus and
Sociolinguistics: Examining Age in All-female Talk</span></i>. <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City></st1:place>: John Benjamins.
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Farr, F. and Murphy, B., 2009. Religious references in contemporary
Irish English: ‘for the love of God almighty….I’m a holy
terror for turf’. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journal of
Intercultural Pragmatics</span></i> <span class=style24><font color="#000033"><span
style='color:#000033'>6 (4): 535-559. </span></font></span></span></font><font
size=2><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>11. </span></font><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Joana</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Plaza</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
Pinto<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I am currently an
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Goiás, in central <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
I took a Master’s degree (1998) and a Ph.D. (2002) in Linguistics at
Unicamp (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Campinas</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>). I also took
part of my doctoral studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
(Paris, 1999-2000), under the supervision of Jacques Derrida. I conduct
research in pragmatics, gender and feminism, with a multidisciplinary approach,
mainly in the following issues: speech acts, body, performativity, linguistic
theory and epistemic decolonization. My interest in these issues started early
(1993) when I joined a feminist group in Goiás, founded in 1987 and still
active, Grupo Transas do Corpo (<a href="http://www.transadocorpo.org.br">www.transadocorpo.org.br</a>).
Recently, I represented my faculty at the Workshop “Gender,
Multiculturalism and Human Rights”, organized by the Brazil-Europe
Studies Institute, a partnership between Brazilian and European universities,
funded by European Union. Currently, I coordinate the research group
"Identities Practices in Applied Linguistics" in the National
Association of Literature and Linguistics Postgraduate Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>As an IGALA member, I
hope I can contribute to increase interested in local language and gender issues
and to stimulate local IGALA branches or events, especially in <st1:place
w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>. I have a strong interest in the political
and research interrelation between language and gender studies and postcolonial
studies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
bold'>12. Denise Troutman<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have attended the plurality of IGALA conferences and have introduced
graduate students to the organization. It would be my pleasure to serve in the
capacity of an AC member. Below, I have outlined my research interests, key
publications, and the contribution that I could make to the executive
committee.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;background:white'>Research interests: discourse analysis;
linguistic politeness; African American women and language practices,
linguistic politeness in the African American speech community; Ebonics</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;background:white'>Some publications that function as earmarks in my
career:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Attitude and Its Situatedness in Linguistic Politeness. <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poznan</span></i></st1:City></st1:place><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. </span></i>46(1),
2010, pp. 85–109. [<span style='background:white'>entrée</span> into
linguistic politeness as displayed in some contexts within African American
women's speech communities]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>“’They Say It’s a Man’s World, but You
Can’t Prove that by Me’: African American Comediennes’
Construction of Voice in Public Space.” In Judith Baxter, ed., <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts</span></i>.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hampshire</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Palgrave Macmillan,
2006: 217-239. [coining & interrogation of "bawdy language"
as a vehicle to broadening constructions of language and woman's place]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Culturally Toned Diminutives within the Speech Community of African
American Women. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journal of Commonwealth and
Postcolonial Studies</span></i>. Vol. 4 No. 1, Fall 1996: 65-76. [coining
& description of culturally toned diminutives, a common practice in various
contexts] <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>"Tongue and Sword: Which is to be Master?" In <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City></st1:place> Smitherman, ed., <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>African American Women Speak Out on Anita
Hill-Clarence Thomas</span></i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wayne</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Press, 1995, 208-223. [a contribution to the bravery & historic struggle of
Anita Hill through discourse analysis of Hill and Arlen Spector exchanges]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Contribution to IGALA:<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>I
am willing to serve the organization in the capacity most needed, for example,
as a liaison to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gender and Language</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>(2) Graduate <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Student
Rep</st1:PersonName>resentative<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>1. Clare Anderson <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have a strong academic and personal interest in language and gender.
Inspired by my experience of being a women working in business, often
navigating traditionally male interactional environments, in 2009 I completed a
Master’s degree at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> in Applied
Linguistics, specialising in a comparative analysis of the spoken discourse of
women and men. I am now in the second year of my PhD, looking at public
discourses of ageing and their impact on female identity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In addition I am working with Dr. Caldas-Coulthard to organise the 2012
IGALA Book Prize. This role has entailed mobilising, coordinating and
organising resources both within the IGALA organisation and externally. I feel
that this has given me a good understanding of the workings of IGALA and an
insight into the principles and philosophy upon which it is based. My
business background means that I have a broad range of experience to offer in
terms of working effectively and sensitively with different communities of
stakeholders within an organisation, and in dealing with the challenges of
deadlines and complex logistics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On a personal level I feel passionately about the importance of
language and gender as an academic, professional and social area of focus and
study and I enthusiastically support the prominence the IGALA organisation is
trying to bring to this sometimes neglected area. I am actively involved in
various gender -related networks and discussion groups, and I believe I have a
good sense of the issues which are a focus of debate in this area. I am most
interested in working with other graduates and members of IGALA to continue to
raise the presence of these issues both in the academic and wider communities.
I believe I have much to contribute in terms of energy, creativity and
commitment and I would relish the opportunity to be further involved with
IGALA.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>2. Ksenija Bogetic<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:normal'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:
normal'>I obtained a BA in English at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Currently, I am a PhD student in English and Applied Linguistics at the same
university, funded by the Serbian Ministry of Culture. My research interests
concern language, gender and sexuality, with a focus on sexually marginalized
youth. I am especially interested in the negotiation of hegemonic masculinity
within gay male youth groups, and how the tensions between the culturally
prescribed and the intimately erotic are played out in their language use. My
most recent work explores the construction of masculinity in personal ads of
Serbian gay teenagers, showing how their representations of desire intersect
with the cultural norms of manhood in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region></st1:place> (initial part presented at
IGALA 2010). I completed some of this work during my stay as a Visiting Scholar
at the linguistics department at UC Santa Barbara in the past winter/spring
term. Given my interests and familiarity with IGALA's activities, I would be
happy to serve as the student representative, and also bring forward issues
concerning the academic study of gender in parts of the world where this area
is grossly underrepresented. I can also assist with the development of IGALA's
gender and language blog, as I feel this could increase IGALA's visibility and
engage more contributors in the discussions regardless of geographical
location.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>3. Kristine KØhler Mortensen<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m a Ph.D. student in the Department of Scandinavian Research at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. My research interests
lie within the fields of feminist linguistics and sociocultural linguistics,
focusing on gendering as a performative process that emerges in the interface
between micro-level interactional practices and macro-level structures of
community ideologies. By studying interactional and linguistic strategies, my
research sets out to problematize and destabilize essentialized discourses
about gender and sexuality. With a focus on the interplay between gender and
sexuality and an ongoing critical study of heternormativity, my research
further connects to the rather new field of queer linguistics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>During my undergraduate studies, I worked on the use of sexist language
and face-threatening-acts among young women, developing an analysis which
demonstrated how this particular community of practice subversively created a
new system of interpretation in which a word like ’hooker’ was
given an empowering social meaning rather than the common derogatory meaning
(Mortensen 2010a). Through the demonstration of how derogatory terms are
interactively invested with positive meanings, this study connects up with
previous language and gender studies on the reclaiming of negatively connoted
words by women and other minority groups. Building on third wave feminist
linguistics, the study focuses on the community of practice and thereby shows
how global gender stereotypes are conflicted and managed at a local level.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>For my M.A. research, I studied flirtatious interaction among young
heterosexuals in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
With a unique collection of intimate face-to-face interactions, my research
examined how flirtation and desire are commonly established and negotiated in
interaction, with both women and men constructing their gender identities
strategically and agentively. This project contributed to the expansion of
studies of sexuality within language and gender studies by focusing on
heterosexuality as an object of analytic concern rather than a
taken-for-granted norm. In addition, I presented my work at conferences in <st1:City
w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:State></st1:place> and published an
article on developmental structures and teasing practices in flirtatious
interaction (Mortensen 2010b). With a focus on the refusal of sexual
invitations, my work links up with feminist research on sexual violence and
rape – a field which has drawn attention to the way in which a widespread
discourse of ‘gender difference’ and ‘miscommunication’
enables and justifies the ignorance of female responses to aggressive male
sexual behavior. Previous work within the field has primarily been based on
reported data and my work therefore adds a refreshing new aspect through the
use of naturally occurring data. By carefully analyzing the turn-by-turn
interaction, I draw attention to the agency of the female participant,
expressed through the deployment of multiple and subtle interactive strategies.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Following up on my thesis work, I was a visiting scholar in the
Department of Linguistics at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Santa Barbara</st1:City></st1:place>. Working with Professor Mary
Bucholtz, I focused on the negotiation of sexual invitations in heterosexual
interaction and presented my findings at IGALA 6 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Tokyo</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>My present Ph.D. research builds on my M.A. project but also moves in a
new direction. The project, an ethnographic sociolinguistic study of heterosexual
dating interaction, both online and face-to-face, will add to my exciting
findings and also introduce the role of the Internet – a key social
context for young people seeking a romantic partner – in shaping dating
discourse between heterosexuals. This aspect of the project works to add to the
field of sociocultural linguistics’ understanding of online discourse and
its relation to offline practices. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In an activist sense, my work on flirtatious interaction and the
refusal of sexual invitations has the potential to help reduce sexual violence
and rape. I’m actively seeking to share my findings, most recently
through collaboration with Danish high school teachers. By illustrating and
discussing micro-level intimate interaction in class, I hope to make young men
and women reflect upon their own flirtatious and sexual behavior and facilitate
a shared cross-gendered discussion of what is acceptable intimate behavior in
the young people’s own everyday life.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Furthermore, I’ve decided to create a simple website to publicize
the findings of my Ph.D. research in a non-academic way. With a potential
audience of students and media journalists, I hope to be able to disseminate
information generally about the field of critical language and gender studies
and more specifically about how gender stereotypes are both strategically
reproduced and challenged in heterosexual dating discourse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As a professional service I’m beginning an interdisciplinary
group of researchers at the Faculty of Humanities who will work on a set of
common ethical guidelines for graduate research on intimate data. Working
within the field of language and sexuality, I’ve experienced the
extensive challenges of collecting and handling sensitive data and I’m
eager to engage fellow researchers in an ethical and methodological discussion.
Moreover, my professional engagement in language and gender studies shows in my
involvement in the Nordic Conference on Language and Gender where I’m
eager to engage a young generation of Scandinavian graduate students in the
development and organization.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m convinced that I could make a valuable contribution to the
executive committee of IGALA in several ways. Living in a small European
country, I have unique access to the Scandinavian community, and I’m
passionate about drawing attention to the field of language and gender studies
in this local area. Not only will I help to expand the international profile of
IGALA, I’ve also built a strong international network of graduate
students working in the field, and will thus readily be able to gather their
interests and bring them to IGALA. Alongside pushing forward the boundaries of
the field in my own work, I’m energetic about furthering other cutting
edge work done by a new generation of language and gender scholars that builds
on the work of previous generations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>References<br>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mortensen, Kristine
Køhler (2010a): ”<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Kan</st1:State></st1:place>
I kende dem drenge?”: Sexistisk sprogbrug og kønsidentitet blandt fire
unge kvinder. Koebenhavnerstudier i Tosprogethed 56:61-81. </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Mortensen, Kristine Køhler (2010b): Seductive Conversations. In: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Love Ya Hate Ya: The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth
Language and Youth Identities</span></i>. Normann Jørgensen, J. (ed.).
Newcastle upon Tyne: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City></st1:place>
Scholars Publishing. 151-170.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>+++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <br>
Dr Lia Litosseliti<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech
and Language Therapy<br>
Department of Language and Communication Science<br>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Northampton Square</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place> EC1V 0HB<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><br>
<br>
l.litosseliti@city.ac.uk<br>
<a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html">http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
For the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), see <a
href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For the
Gender and Language journal (details and subscriptions), see <a
href="http://www.equinoxjournals.com/GL/index">http://www.equinoxjournals.com/GL/index</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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