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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Reminder, posted on behalf of the organisers (see below):</font></span></b></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">6th BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group Event (GaLSig)

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Language, Gender and Sexuality

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><font face="Arial"><b><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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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><font face="Arial"><b><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.</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Talks will include:</font></span></b></p>

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><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)</font></span></p>

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<i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Language and masculinities in queer discourse</font></span></i></p>

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><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><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">'I wish there didn't have to be gay people': Logics of homophobia</font></span></i></p>

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><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)</font></span></p>

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<i><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 style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><font face="Arial">4.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">   

</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Lucy Jones (University of Hull)

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<i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Dealing with 'community' in queer linguistics research</font></span></i></p>

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><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)</font></span></p>

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<i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Title – TBC</font></span></i></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></b></font></span></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Early bird rates before 1<sup>st</sup> March 2013</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: Ł30 non-BAAL members; Ł25 BAAL members;

 Ł15 full-time students</span></font></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">After March 1<sup>st</sup></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: Ł35 non-BAAL members; Ł30 BAAL members: Ł20: full-time students.</span></font></p>

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<font face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Registration opens on Friday 1<sup>st</sup> February 2013</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">.<b></b></span></font></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">For further information, please contact the organisers:</font></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Helen Sauntson (York St John University) –

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Linda McLoughlin (Liverpool Hope University) -

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Arial">Judith Baxter (Aston University) –

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" lang="EN-GB">Dr Lia Litosseliti</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black" lang="EN-GB"><br>

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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy<br>

Department of Language and Communication Science<br>

City University London<br>

Northampton Square<br>

London EC1V 0HB<br>

UK<br>

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