<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>On the behalf of IGALA, I am thrilled to announce that we'll be soon start a blog on the topic of language, gender and sexuality. The blog will be part of a bigger inter-related project that aims to reach all the scholars in these fields. You'll soon receive more info about this.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, we invite you to submit a post for our new blog. Before providing more information, the deadline for submission is on <b>30th September 2015</b>. What we are after is a 500-700 word text which, less scientifically than a paper, describes the relationship between language and gender and/or sexuality. It could be something you noticed in the news, somethings that you encounter everyday, something that struck your attention. You can include data as well as tables/graphs, but we are not looking for abstracts or full papers. The aim is to foster debate and to share ideas. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a column in an Italian portal where I write about language and gender in the Italian context (if you are interested you can find the link below, the page is in Italian) and just to give you some examples, I write about forms of address (Signora, Signorina, Signor and Signorino), sexist teaching materials, dictionary entries, grammatical and ideological gender. </div><div><br></div><div>We will contact those who have submitted a post in October and we will publish them in November. The posts must be in English and if you want they can be followed by a version in another language. </div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div><br></div><div>You can email your posts (or queries related to the blog) <a href="mailto:federicaformato@gmail.com">here</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please find below more details about the submissions:</div><div><p class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px"><font color="blue"><font color="#632423" face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span>Dr Federica Formato</span></font></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="blue"><font color="#632423" face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Researcher in Language and Gender</span><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Lancaster University</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Lead Mentor Corpus Linguistics MOOC </font></span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics">https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Member Advisory Council <i>IGALA</i> (International Gender and Language Association)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13.3333330154419px">RiGLS Coordinator</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">Columnist </font><i><font size="2" face="Calibri">Lingua di Genere</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/linguadigenere">http://tinyurl.com/linguadigenere</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="Calibri">Facebook: Lingua di Genere</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="Calibri">Twitter: @lingua_genere</font></span></p></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="blue"><font color="black" size="2"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10pt"><u><br><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"></font></u></span></font></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="blue"><font color="black" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></font></div></div></div>
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