International Gender and Language Association

The International Gender and Language Association ( Igalą ), is an international interdisciplinary academic organization dat promotes research on language , gender , and sexuality . [1] Michelle M. Lazar is zijn current president. [2]

History

The association was formally in 1999, maintaining developed out of the graduate student-run Berkeley Women and Language Group. [3] Igalą holds a biannual conference . The society’s official affiliated academic journal is Gender and Language , launched in 2007 by Equinox Press. [4] Igalą ook publiceert volumes of selected proceedings. [5] Together synthesis projects port helped shepherd in the expansion of gender studies JSON a wider set of topics from a wider range of regions dan voordat, Expansion beyond the earlier focus on English speakers dat dominated work of earlier decades. [6]

Conferences

  • Igalą 1 – Stanford University , Stanford, California , May 5-7, 2000
  • Igalą 2 – Lancaster University , Lancaster , England, United Kingdom, May 12-14 2002
  • Igalą 3 – Cornell University , Ithaca, New York , United States, June 5-7, 2004
  • Igalą 4 – University of Valencia , Valencia , Spain, Nov. 8-10 2006
  • Igalą 5 – Victoria University of Wellington , Wellington, New Zealand , July 3-5, 2008
  • Igalą 6 – Tsuda College , Tokyo , Japan, September 18 to 20, 2010
  • Igalą 7 – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos , Sao Leopoldo , Brazil, June 20-22, 2012
  • Igalą 8 – Simon Fraser University , Vancouver , Canada, June 5-7, 2014
  • Igalą 9 – City University of Hong Kong, May 19-21, 2016 [7] [8]

References

  1. Jump up^ “Become a Member” . equinoxpub.com . Equinox . Retrieved 26 January 2015 .
  2. Jump up^ “Gender and sexuality: plenary speakers” . University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg . Retrieved 26 January 2015 .
  3. Jump up^ “Berkeley Women and Language Group Home Page” . linguistics.berkeley.edu . Retrieved 2016-01-23 .
  4. Jump up^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2012). An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000-2011) . John Benjamins. p. 4.
  5. Jump up^ Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra (2010). Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse: A Selected and Edited Collection of Papers from the Fifth International Language and Gender Association Conference (IGALA5) . Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  6. Jump up^ Coates, Jennifer (2016). Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language . Routledge. p. ix.
  7. Jump up^ “LinguistList” . Retrieved January 22, 2016 .
  8. Jump up^ Leung, Chris. “Igalą 9 | City University of Hong Kong” . www.english.cityu.edu.hk . Retrieved 2016-01-23 .