philosophy vote

[Mary Bucholtz]

Please vote yes or no on whether the organization should adopt the
following as the official statement of its philosophy. Send votes to
bucholtz at tamu.edu by Wed., August 4.

The statement as it currently stands reads as follows:

GALA (or whatever name we come up with) is an organization that seeks to
promote research on the interaction of gender and language.  This field of
scholarly inquiry began developing in response to feminist concerns about
the ways in which sex, power, and language connect to one another. Queer
theorists have brought the linguistic dimensions of sexualities and
heterosexism into the picture.  Critical studies of language and racial
identities, ethnicities, and masculinities have also expanded the field far
beyond what was included under the early "women and language" rubric.  GALA
aims to foster regular productive exchange among scholars of language and
gender with many different research emphases and orientations and from
diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

Mary