<div><div><div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">Dear all,</span><br></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><div class="quoted-text" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(117,117,117);color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="border:1pt rgb(255,255,255);padding:0cm;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="border:1pt rgb(255,255,255);padding:0cm;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Please find below the 2nd call for proposals for the<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></span><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">international interdisciplinary conference</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">: "</span><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">What are your<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span>? And why does it matter?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">", to be held at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, </span><b style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">17</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">th</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">-18</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">th</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> October 2024.</span></span></b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals from a variety of disciplines including (but not restricted to) sociolinguistics, pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, philosophy, cultural, civilisation or literary studies that shed light on how these new<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronoun</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> </span>sharing practices matter. Communications can exploit various data (ethnographic data, interviews, surveys, online corpora, press articles, autobiographies, novels, TV series, films…) from any critical perspective. Comparative linguistics approaches are welcome, as long as the focus is on English.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> </span><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">The conference aims to answer some of (but not exclusively) the following questions:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><ul dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Who employs these new<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronoun</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>sharing practices and why?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">What do these practices index about a speaker? How does this practice relate to other political stances</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">?</span></span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">How have these new practices changed the indexical value of<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>over recent years?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Do people choose different<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>depending on the context (e.g., professional emai</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(68,68,68);color:rgb(68,68,68)">l dating site...)? How can we explain this?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:1px;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Do people choose different<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>depending on the context (e.g., professional email signature, bio on dating sites,<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronoun</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>rounds…)? If so, why?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Apart from</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">he/him</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">,</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">she/her</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">and</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">they/them</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="word-spacing:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">, what other<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>are used and why?</span></span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">What are people’s attitudes to these new practices? How are they perceived?</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(34,34,34);color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">If these new practices are the heir to past struggles for gender-neutral<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span>, to what extent are they the continuation of these struggles? In what ways is the debate about<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>today different from that of the 1960s and 70s? How does the use of non-binary singular</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">they</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">impact the use and perception of singular</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">they</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">as a generic gender-neutral<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronoun</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>(“somebody called but</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">they</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">didn’t leave a message”)?</span></span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">How can we explain the backlash against these practices? What role do these practices play in the current climate of the culture wars and moral panic about gender?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">To what extent do these practices open up a positive space for those questioning gender norms? Is the invitation to become<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span>pronominally<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">visible, and therefore to make public what might be private, a source of liberation or alternatively a source of potential anxiety? Does it generate opportunities for gender fluidity or simply reify gender divisions and therefore gender hierarchies?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">How does this phenomenon play out in different languages compared to English, or in different varieties of English?</span><br></li><li style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">What is the future of this new phenomenon? Will it become widespread, partly also because it helps recipients of an email to identify the gender of someone whose first name might not be marked for gender?</span></li></ul></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">Full details can be found on the website: </span><a href="https://pronouns.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgb(253,226,147);border-color:rgb(32,33,36);color:rgb(32,33,36)">pronouns</span>.sciencesconf.org/</a></div><div class="quoted-text" style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(117,117,117);color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)">A selection of papers will be considered for publication.</span><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-size:0.8125rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(25,25,25)">Proposals of around 300 words to be sent to</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> <span style="border:1pt rgb(0,0,0);padding:0cm;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;b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