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[Sunderland, Jane]

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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. As we all know well, gender and language is a diverse and popular field of linguistic research and a UK-based forum for discussion and debate would be very useful here.
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).



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