Support for student travel to international linguistics conference in Hong Kong

该奖项将为参加第九届国际性别与语言协会（IGALA 9）会议的研究生提供会议旅费。这是该会议首次在中国举行。参加会议将使学生有机会在国际论坛上分享他们的工作，并随着该领域在世界本地区的发展而对其产生影响。该奖项与NSF培养下一代科学家和促进国际科学合作的使命是一致的。IGALA大会的主题是“时代与转型”。会议将讨论以下问题：话语、性别和语言如何与快速变化交织在一起；意义是如何在不同的时间尺度上语篇建构的；短期表现如何随时间而持续；以及自我是如何在借鉴过去的同时被投射到未来的。

This award will provide funding for graduate student conference travel to the 9th International Gender and Language Association (IGALA 9) conference. This is the first time that the conference will be held in China. Participating in the conference will afford the students an opportunity to share their work in an international forum and to impact the field as it develops in this region of the world. The award is consistent with NSF's mission of developing the next generation of scientists and promoting international scientific collaborations. The IGALA 9 conference has taken as its theme, "Time and Transition." The conference will address such questions as: how discourse, gender, and language intersect with rapid change; how meanings are discursively constructed across various timescales; how short-term performances persist across time; and how self is projected discursively into the future while drawing on the past.