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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">6th BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group Event (GaLSig)
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Language, Gender and Sexuality
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<font face="Arial"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Date:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Wednesday 10th April 2013; 10.00am to 4.00pm
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<font face="Arial"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Place:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Language and Diversity (InterLand), Aston University, Birmingham, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Talks will include:<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Arial">1.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Veronika Koller (Lancaster University)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Language and masculinities in queer discourse<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Arial">2.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Jodie Clark (Sheffield Hallam University)
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">'I wish there didn't have to be gay people': Logics of homophobia<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Arial">3.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Liz Morrish (Nottingham Trent University) and Helen Sauntson (York St John University)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">‘How gay is football this year?’ Identity and intersubjectivity in a women’s university sports team
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Lucy Jones (University of Hull)
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Dealing with 'community' in queer linguistics research<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Arial">5.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Deborah Chirrey (Edge Hill University)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">A plenary session in which some of the key issues raised in the talks will be discussed by attendees.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></b></font></span></p>
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£30 non-BAAL members; £25 BAAL members; £15 full-time students<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><font face="Arial"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">After March 1<sup>st</sup></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: £35 non-BAAL members;
£30 BAAL members: £20: full-time students.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Registration opens on Friday 1<sup>st</sup> February 2013</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Helen Sauntson (York St John University) –
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