<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Deadline: June 24, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Calling all linguistic anthropology undergraduates! </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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"><span style="color:red">$500</span><span style="color:rgb(52,52,52)">, a </span><span style="color:red">certificate of accomplishment</span><span style="color:rgb(52,52,52)">, and a </span><span style="color:red">$300 travel grant to the AAA Annual Meeting </span>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 style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red">Deadline June 24, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:25pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Guidelines:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </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:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Submit one document only.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:rgb(52,52,52)">▪</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">          </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s name</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s email address</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Title of the paper</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-2589905471114988708gmail-msolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(52,52,52)">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(52,52,52)">      </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(52,52,52)">Author’s undergraduate degree and date of degree</sp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