<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent"><img src="cid:ii_154235b4d9e3f386" alt="Inline image 1" width="444" height="224"><br></strong></h2><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2016 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest</strong></h2><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 13px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:21px;border-style:none none none solid;border-left-width:5px;border-color:rgb(223,223,223);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:21px;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Deadline:   <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">June 30, 2016</span></strong></h3><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! </strong></h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the wider professional community of linguistic anthropologists?</strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent"> </strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest!</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper.  </strong>Selected winner will be awarded $500, a certificate of accomplishment, and a $300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, November 16-20, 2016.  In addition, the winning essay will be considered for publication in our signature journal,<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</em>.<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">  </strong>Essays will be judged on the basis of research contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology, clarity, organization, and engagement with existing scholarship.  If this sounds like a paper you have, and it has been written within the last two years, and has not previously been published, then considering submitting your essay to the SLA contest!</p><h2 style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">D</strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">eadline <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">June 30, 2016</span></strong>.</h2><p style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Specific guidelines are below:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-weight:normal;border:none;background:transparent">Guidelines</span></strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">:</strong></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 25px 2.5em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:16px;border:none;list-style:square;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submit an original sole-author work based on your own research while in an undergraduate degree-granting program.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submissions must be submitted no more than 2 years since they were written.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submissions cannot be previously published or currently under review/submitted for publication elsewhere.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submit one document only.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Maximum 25 double-spaced pages</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">The first page of your essay should have this information:</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Title of the paper</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Author’s name</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Author’s email address</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Author’s college or university when the paper was written</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">The date that the paper was written</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">The course that the paper was written for (if it was written for a course)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Name of the faculty instructor/advisor for the paper</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Author’s undergraduate degree and date of degree</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Author’s current university, college, and/or place of employment</li></ul><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Deadline:  <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">June 30, 2016</span></strong></h2><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px 0px 0px 14px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;font-size:23px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,153,0);line-height:23px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border:none;background:transparent">Submit to:  </strong><a href="mailto:slacontest2016ug@gmail.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;border-style:none none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