[Linganth] Fwd: [sla-announce] 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition

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For people on Linganth but not the SLA list....Gumperz Prize information

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From: SLA Online <soclinganth at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:30 AM
Subject: [sla-announce] 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay
Prize Competition
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*The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces *

*The 2018 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize*

Deadline: *Wednesday March 21, 2018*

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) is delighted to announce the
inaugural John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition.  Each
year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology confers an award for a
distinguished graduate research paper.  Through a generous gift from Jenny
Cook-Gumperz, we have established an endowment fund in honor of
distinguished linguistic anthropologist John Gumperz (1922-2013) which
supports this annual award, now renamed the *John Gumperz Annual Graduate
Student Essay Prize*.

Awardees receive a cash prize, travel funds to attend the annual American
Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting, and an invitation to submit
their paper for publication consideration with our signature journal*,
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology*.  In addition, the winner and finalists
are invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored panel at the annual AAA
meeting, with the competition judges serving as discussants.  This
year the* annual
AAA meeting will be held in San Jose from November 14-18*.  Further details
on award eligibility, criteria, and submission process are below.

*Eligibility & Criteria*:  In order to be eligible for the award, the
applicant must have been a graduate student in a degree-granting program
when the paper was written; must be the sole author of the paper; must
submit the paper no more than two years after it was written; and must not
have received the first place award in a previous year, within the past 4
years.  Papers which were awarded honorable mentions in previous years are
not eligible for submission.  The paper must be an original work based on
original research conducted by the author.  Papers will be judged on the
basis of research contributions to the field of linguistic anthropology,
clarity, organization, and engagement with existing scholarship.  At the
time of submission for this competition, the paper must not have been
published, submitted for publication, or under review for publication.

*Submission Process*: The paper should follow the style and format
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/submissions> of the *Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology* and must not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, not
including bibliography. The paper must be submitted electronically in
either .pdf, .doc or .docx format by the March 21 deadline.  It should be
sent to: slagrad2018 at gmail.com.  The cover sheet should include the title
of the paper; the author’s name; the author’s email address; the author’s
college or university affiliation; and the name of the faculty member who
served as the student’s advisor for the paper.

*Decisions will be made during the first week of April.*  Applicants should
be aware of the 1 plus 1 rule for AAA meeting participation
<http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=21177>,
which limits meeting participants to one paper presentation only.

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*Society for Linguistic Anthropology Online*
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