'Gender and language' Special Interest Group (SIG)

[Jane Sunderland]

BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Gender and Language
Special Interest Group

The BAAL Gender and Language Special Interest Group has been proposed to
provide a forum for enabling researchers to discuss issues and promote
development in this area. Gender and language is as we know a diverse and
popular field of linguistic research and a UK-based forum for discussion
and debate would be very useful.
The key aims of the group are:
· To bring together UK-based researchers interested in the area of
gender and language, outside a single institution
· To identify, engage with and further key issues in gender and
language study
· To explore a range of past and current work with a view to
contributing to prospective developments in the field, both in the UK and
abroad
· To promote gender and language study as a field which brings
together a range of theoretical approaches in ways which are productive for
applied linguistics as a whole
The group is interested in exploring gender and language issues from a
range of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Current
members are engaged in research within a number of different disciplinary
areas, and it is hoped that this will produce interesting and fruitful
discussion and development, and will result in seminars, conference
presentations and joint publications.
So far, the group has had one meeting in Birmingham, and will next meet at
the BAAL annual conference in September.

For further information, please contact Kate Segall
(kate.segall at btopenworld.com).