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IGALA offers a range of information and resources about language and gender studies as an interdisciplinary field. This page is meant to help students, scholars, and interested laypersons orienting themselves to this large and ever-expanding body of work. The provided information is divided to following topics:

· What’s new

· Book reviews

· Online research papers

· Teaching materials

· Research materials

· Mailing list

· Journals

· Recent Books

 

 

 

 

What’s New

 

     

 

 

 

First IGALA Book Prize Competition

 

In July 2008, Prof. Sara Mills, on behalf of the Executive Committee of the International Gender and Language Association, organised the IGALA Book prize 2008.  The winner of this book prize for the most outstanding gender and language book for 2008 was: Marjorie Harness Goodwin's “The Hidden Life of Girls”, Blackwell, 2006.

This book, which is … (more …)

 

 

 



Launch of IGALA Blog 

IGALA Blog will be substituted in ‘Listservers’ page . The new page will provide a an interactive relationship between IGALA members.

 

http://igala.blogspot.com

 

 

FWSA Book Prize

 

The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) is delighted to announce the inaugural FWSA Book Prize, a competition for books published in the fields of feminist, women’s and gender studies. For more information click here.

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

 Coming soon ....

 

 

Online Research Papers

 

 

 

Rethinking Politeness, Impoliteness, and Gender Identity, Sara Mills, 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching materials

 

 

 

 

Teaching Language and Gender

 

http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=2827

 

 

Barbara Le Master and Amy Sheldon's Resource Archive for teaching Language and Gender

http://http://www.csulb.edu/~lemaster/lgarchive/

 

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory

 

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/modules/introduction.html   

 

 

 

 

 Syllabi for Courses in Language and Gender

 

Syllabi for Women- and Gender-Related Courses about Language and Linguistics  (last updated 2006)
Links to syllabi in linguistics, rhetoric, and related areas, compiled by the
Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

 

 

 

 

Research Materials

 

 

 

African American Female Communication

 

http://www.africanamericanfemalecommunication.com

 

 

Gender and Politeness Bibliography

 

http://www.linguisticpoliteness.eclipse.co.uk/Gender%20and%20Pol%20Bib.htm

 

 

The TEaGIRL Project

 

http://www.teagirl.arts.uwa.edu.au/

 

 



The Language and Gender Page

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng

 

 

 

Mailing List

 

 

Coming soon ….

 

 

Journals

 

 

“Linguistik online”, edited by Elke Hentschel

http://www.linguistik-online.de/index.html

 

 

Journals dedicated to research on language and gender

 

Women and Language The journal of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, edited by Anita Taylor (ataylor@gmu.edu).

 

Journals that publish research on language and gender

Critical Discourse Studies Editors: Norman Fairclough, Phil Graham, Jay Lemke, Ruth Wodak Contact editors at: editorial@cds-web.net

 

International Journal of the Sociology of Language Editor: Joshua Fishman (jfishman@aecom.yu.edu)

 

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Editors: Mary Bucholtz (jla@linguistics.ucsb.edu) and Elizabeth Keating (journla@uts.cc.utexas.edu)

 

Journal of Sociolinguistics Editors: Allan Bell (allan.bell@aut.ac.nz) and Nikolas Coupland (coupland@cardiff.ac.uk)

 

Language and Communication Editors: Roy Harris and Talbot Taylor (txtayl@mail.wm.edu)

 

Language and Literature Contact: Sara Mills, Editorial Board Member (s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk)

 

Language in Society Editor: Jane Hill (jhill@u.arizona.edu)

 

Research on Language and Social Interaction Editor: Karen Tracy (rolsi@colorado.edu)

Text Editors: Srikant Sarangi (text@cardiff.ac.uk) and John Wilson (j.wilson@ulster.ac.uk)

 

 

Book series

 

 

 

Oxford Studies in Language and Gender This interdisciplinary series publishes monographs, textbooks, and edited collections. Series editor: Mary Bucholtz (bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu).

 

Real Language Series A sociolinguistics series focusing on language, society, and social change. Series editors: Jennifer Coates (jenc@max.roehampton.ac.uk), Jenny Cheshire (J.L.Cheshire@qmw.ac.uk), and Euan Reid.

 

 

 

Recent Books

 

 

 

 

Gender and Language Research Methodologies

Eds. Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti, Helen Sauntson and Jane Sunderland. Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

 

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng

 

 

 

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The following organizations include language and gender as part of their mandate or include language and gender research in their activities:

· American Anthropological Association (AAA) (????)

· American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (????)

· (International Association of Applied Linguistics)

· Linguistic Society of America (LSA) (???)

· Modern Language Association (MLA) (???)

Symposium About Language and Society--Austin (SALSA) (????)