<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Deadline: June 24, 2019<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! <span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Do you have a stellar research paper that you would like to share with the wider professional community of linguistic anthropologists? </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest!</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper.  </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">The selected winner will be </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">awarded</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">$500</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">, a </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">certificate of accomplishment</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">, and a </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">$300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica">in Vancouver, BC<span style="color:rgb(52,52,52)">November 20 – 24, 2019.  In addition, the winning essay will be considered for publication in our signature journal, <i>Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</i>.<b>  </b>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.<span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Deadline June 24, 2019<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 25pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Guidelines:<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit an original, single-authored paper based on your own research while in an undergraduate degree-granting program.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submissions cannot be no more than 2 years old.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submissions cannot be previously published or currently under review/submitted for publication elsewhere.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(39,39,39)">Students may only win this award and recognition once. Past winners and honorable mentions may not submit revised papers or new papers for consideration.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit one document only.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">          </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Maximum 25 double-spaced pages [inclusive of footnotes and citations]<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 11pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"><span> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">The first page of your essay should include the following information:<span></span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s name<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s email address<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Title of the paper<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s college or university when the paper was written<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s current university, college, and/or place of employment<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·<span style="font-stretch:n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