[Linganth] Gumperz Prize 2019

[SLA Online]

*The 2019 John Gumperz Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize*

*Deadline: February 10, 2019*

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) announces the John Gumperz
Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition.  Each year the Society for
Linguistic Anthropology confers an award for a distinguished graduate
research paper.  The winner receives a cash prize, travel funds to attend
the annual American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting, and an
invitation to submit the paper for publication consideration with our
signature journal*, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology*.  Runners up also
receive a modest cash prize. In addition, the winner and runners up are
invited to participate in an SLA-sponsored panel at the annual AAA meeting,
with the competition judges serving as discussants.  The *next annual AAA
meeting will be held in Vancouver, BC Canada from November 20-24, 2019*.
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. Include an abstract of no more than 250 words. The
paper must be submitted electronically in either .pdf, .doc or .docx format
by the February 10thdeadline. It should be sent to: slagrad2019 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 third week of March.*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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Digital Media Director: Elizabeth Falconi  (University of West Georgia)
SLA Social Media Manager: Diego Arispe-Bazan (University of Pennsylvania)
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