Gender and Language in the Public Space

[Sunderland, Jane]

(Resending because of an error the first time round - apologies.)

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We  wish to give you advance notice of this year's annual Gender and
Language Special Interest (GAL SIG) Group Event, which is to be held on
Tuesday 20th September 2011 at Aston University, UK.

The working title of the event is: Gender and Language in the Public
Space, which will be interpreted quite broadly. This will include
theoretical and empirical research that examines gender in relation to
public and institutional discourse in domains such as Parliament,
government, business, leadership, the media, law, education, academia,
medicine, religion, and so on. We intend to devote a couple of sessions
to UK Research Council funded projects on this topic, and more broadly,
to what constitutes a successful grant application in our field.

The day will comprise 5 to 6 speakers who will present their work in
30-minute sessions followed by time for a brief discussion. At the end
of the day, we will hold a plenary to discuss some of the key issues
raised.

We welcome all members of the SIG to participate, and others who are not
members. As yet, we have not formally invited speakers. If you would be
interested in contributing a talk to our Event, please could you let us
know as soon as possible(addresses below; please do not respond to the
entire List), and give us an idea of the topic. Also, please feel free
to recommend scholars that we could invite to give a keynote paper.

We look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible, and we will
send out more specific details in due course.

Kind regards,

Judith Baxter
Paul Baker
Sylvia Shaw
Jane Sunderland

j.a.baxter at aston.ac.uk; p.baker at lancs.ac.uk; j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk;
s.k.shaw at mdx.ac.uk