<div dir="ltr">For people on Linganth but not the SLA list....Gumperz Prize information<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">SLA Online</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:soclinganth@gmail.com">soclinganth@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:30 AM<br>Subject: [sla-announce] 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition<br>To: <a href="mailto:sla-announce@googlegroups.com">sla-announce@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces </span></b></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><br></b></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">The 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize</span><br></b></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br><b></b></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt">Deadline: </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt"><span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aQJ">Wednesday March 21, 2018</span></span></span></b></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><br></b></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt">The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) is delighted to announce the inaugural John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Each year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology confers an award for a distinguished graduate research paper.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Through a generous gift from Jenny Cook-Gumperz, we have established an endowment fund in honor of distinguished linguistic anthropologist John Gumperz (1922-2013) which supports this annual award, now renamed the </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt">John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt">Awardees receive a cash prize, travel funds to attend the annual American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting, and an invitation to submit their paper for publication consideration with our signature journal</span><i><span style="font-size:11pt">, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">In addition, the winner and finalists are invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored panel at the annual AAA meeting, with the competition judges serving as discussants.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">This year the</span><b><span style="font-size:11pt"> annual AAA meeting will be held in San Jose from <span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aQJ">November 14-18</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Further details on award eligibility, criteria, and submission process are below.</span></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><u><span style="font-size:11pt">Eligibility & Criteria</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11pt">:</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">In order to be eligible for the award, the applicant must have been a graduate student in a degree-granting program when the paper was written; must be the sole author of the paper; must submit the paper no more than two years after it was written; and must not have received the first place award in a previous year, within the past 4 years.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Papers which were awarded honorable mentions in previous years are not eligible for submission.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">The paper must be an original work based on original research conducted by the author.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Papers will be judged on the basis of research contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology, clarity, organization, and engagement with existing scholarship.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">At the time of submission for this competition, the paper must not have been published, submitted for publication, or under review for publication. </span><br></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><u><span style="font-size:11pt">Submission Process</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11pt">: The paper should follow the </span><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/submissions" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">style and format</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"> of the </span><i><span style="font-size:11pt">Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt"> and must not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, not including bibliography. The paper must be submitted electronically in either .pdf, .doc or .docx format by the <span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-aQJ">March 21</span></span> deadline.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">It should be sent to: <a href="mailto:slagrad2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">slagrad2018@gmail.com</a>.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Th<wbr>e cover sheet should include the title of the paper; the author’s name; the author’s email address; the author’s college or university affiliation; and the name of the faculty member who served as the student’s advisor for the paper.</span></p><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="m_-730576499229623504gmail-m_-7061106501210544420x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Decisions will be made during the first week of April.</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Applicants should be aware of the 1 plus 1 rule for </span><a href="http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=21177" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">AAA meeting participation</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt">, which limits meeting participants to one paper presentation only.</span></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></div><br><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-730576499229623504gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="garamond, serif">Society for Linguistic Anthropology Online</font></b></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Digital Media Director: Mariam Durrani (Hamilton College)</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="garamond, serif">Web Assistant: Diego Arispe-Bazan (University of Pennsylvania)</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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