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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hello everyone and happy new year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In 2018, the University of Birmingham here in the UK hosted the first Sign CAFÉ workshop:
<a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2018/sign-cafe.aspx">
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2018/sign-cafe.aspx</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This workshop was the first international gathering of sign language researchers interested in cognitive/functional approaches to sign language linguistics, and was intended to start a new workshop
series for the international sign language linguistics community. The workshop was a success, and everyone agreed that we should organise a follow-up Sign CAFÉ 2 to be held in 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you attended Sign CAFÉ 1 and/or are interested in coming to Sign CAFÉ 2, please vote for the host country for Sign CAFÉ 2 by going to the following website (<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B56F9RD"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B56F9RD</span></a>)
and answering a short set of questions. We have three host countries that have put in bids to host Sign CAFÉ 2: Norway, Italy and The Netherlands. You will find a brief summary of the information provided for each bid on the survey page. I have tried to ensure
that similar amounts of information are provided in each summary so as to ensure a balance, but each bid includes different information about what each host can offer. Please vote for each host country in order of your preference by numbering each bid as 1,
2 or 3. Responses which do not vote for all three bids in order of preference may be excluded from the final count.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The survey ends on 20<sup>th</sup> January, 2019, so get your votes in as soon as possible!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you have any questions about this process, please contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Adam Schembri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Adam Schembri, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Reader in Linguistics,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Department of English Language & Linguistics,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">3 Elms Rd, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">a.schembri@bham.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Here’s the link to the survey again:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B56F9RD"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B56F9RD</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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