appointment of new co-editor, GENDER AND LANGUAGE

[Bonnie McElhinny]

I am pleased to announce that Ann Weatherall has agreed to accept the  
position of co-editor of GENDER AND LANGUAGE, effective Sept. 1.   We  
have already begun the work involved with the editorial transition.

Ann Weatherall is a Reader in Social Psychology at Victoria University  
of Wellington, New Zealand where she has worked since 1994.  Her  
research areas are conversation analysis (CA), discursive psychology  
and feminist psychology.    She has a long standing interest in gender  
and language issues.  One of her first studies reported an  
experimental study of the semantic derogation of words for women  
(1993, Journal Language and Social Psychology).  Her PhD (1994)  
examined gender and language in popular culture.  One of her most  
significant works is a solo-authored book (2002, Gender, language and  
discourse).  Her empirical investigations have included quantitative  
and qualitative studies.  My current research passion is Conversation  
Analysis, which offers both insights and challenges to the gender and  
language field.  She hopes her broad research and publishing history  
will be a valuable asset to Gender and Language.  She notes that she  
is looking forward to her editorial role and the opportunity it  
affords to support feminist gender and language research and further  
develop Gender and Language as a key journal for feminist language  
research.

My thanks to those of you on the board who agreed to serve on the  
search committee for this position!

And, again, another warm thanks to Sara Mill for her intensive work on  
the journal, and for the field.  We all look forward to reading the  
results of some of her current research projects!  She has just  
published  Language and Sexism (2008), and  is currently working on a  
book on discursive models of politeness, an edited book with Kadar on  
East Asian Politeness, an edited book with the Linguistic Politeness  
Research group on post-Brown and Levinson appraoches to politeness,  
and a book with Grainger on indirectness.

Best,
Bonnie
-- 
Bonnie McElhinny
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies

Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute

Co-editor, GENDER AND LANGUAGE

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