International Gender & Language Association Group Travel to New Zealand

该奖项将资助美国研究生和年轻博士后学者参加明年夏天在新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学举行的第五届国际性别与语言协会（IGALA）两年一次的会议IGALA5。IGALA是一个国际性的跨学科组织，致力于促进和支持语言与性别和性行为相互作用的研究。演讲者来自世界各地，这些会议促进了人们之间富有成效的面对面对话，否则这些人甚至可能永远无法相互接触。S研究和思考。研究性别和性身份如何与社会语言学身份联系在一起，已经促使学者们更密切地研究社会实践——人们在彼此交谈时所做的各种事情——如何影响人们语言风格的发展，影响他们对他人说话方式的评价，以及他们对谈话应该如何进行的看法。对于持续进步尤为关键的是来自不同国家的学者之间的持续交流，他们使用不同的语言，在不同的社会和文化背景下工作。谈话一直是社会生活和社会变革的核心组成部分，虽然不是全部，但总是非常重要的。理解性别和语言的问题，尤其是在不同文化、社会和历史背景下的特殊情况，对于促进更公平的性别安排和关系，以及对语言在社会生活中的作用有更全面的了解，都是很重要的。

This award will help support travel for US graduate students and young postdoctoral scholars to IGALA5, the fifth biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), next summer at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. IGALA is an international interdisciplinary organization committed to the promotion and support of research on the interactions of language with both gender and sexuality. Presenters come from all over the world, and these meetings foster productive face-to-face conversations among people who might otherwise never even have had access to one another?s research and thinking.Looking at how gender and sexual identities connect to sociolinguistic identities has already pushed scholars to examine more closely how social practice - the kinds of things people do as they talk with one another - figures in people's development of linguistic styles, in their evaluations of how others talk, and in what they think about how talk should proceed. What is especially critical for continuing progress is sustained exchange between scholars from different countries, working with different languages and different social and cultural settings. Talk and talk about talk is always a central component of social life and social change, never the whole story but always very significant. Understanding issues of gender and language - and especially the extraordinary range of situations across different cultural, social, and historical settings - is important for working for more equitable gender arrangements and relations as well as for more general insight into how language works in social life.