Conference on Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research

国家科学基金会支持“语言与性别研究中的感知与实现”会议。本次会议将在密歇根州立大学举行的2003年美国语言学会暑期学院的间歇期间举行。会议将结合邀请论文，小组讨论，海报会议和研讨会。我们的目标是提高人们对语言和性别这一迅速扩大的语言学子领域的国际视野的认识，并通过提供多个机会来关注一个单一的问题，从而在美国和其他国家的研究人员之间建立联系：语言和性别之间的关系是如何被说话者和研究人员自己感知和实现的？这个主题认识到语言和性别之间的任何关系的经验有效性问题日益受到关注。直到最近，这种关系被认为或多或少地固定在性别差异中，并在许多语言使用环境中得到体现。语言和性别研究通过记录语言使用中特定的性别差异和基于文化或权力的解释来强调这种关系。在过去的15年里，研究人员对男女说话者的研究较少关注差异，而是更多地关注语境的作用。这一领域的重构产生了一系列新的研究问题，涉及性别与特定语言特征之间的关联，以及这种关联在语言使用的特定语境中的实现。这些问题包括：如何确定一种语言现象与性别有关？性别认同如何以及何时突出？对性别化语言使用的认知在多大程度上与性别认同的语言表现相对应？该项目将通过汇集不同理论、方法和学科观点的代表来解决该领域的新核心问题，从而推动语言和性别研究的科学进步。此外，这次会议提供了一个难得的机会，将语言和性别的当前关注带到整个语言学界，并为研究生在其研究生生涯的早期阶段提供教育和培训。会议还将支持本科生的教育，以及将语言和性别研究成果应用于现实世界的问题，例如法律、医学和教育等制度背景下的性别和语言问题。会议的结果将以电子方式作为工作文件以及以传统的出版形式提供。为了使尽可能多的听众可以获得会议结果，而且费用低廉，将特别促进网上出版。

The National Science Foundation supports the Conference on Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research. This conference will held during the intersession of the 2003 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Michigan State University. The conference will combine invited papers, panel discussions, poster sessions, and workshops. The goal is to increase awareness of international perspectives on the rapidly expanding linguistic subfield of language and gender and to forge ties between researchers in the U.S. and other countries by providing multiple opportunities for focus on a single question: How is the relationship between language and gender perceived and realized, both by speakers and by researchers themselves? This theme recognizes growing attention to the question of the empirical validity of any relationship between language and gender. Until recently, such a relationship was thought to be more or less fixed in gender difference and to obtain across many contexts of language use. Language and gender research emphasized this relationship by documenting specific gender differences in language use and developing explanations based on culture or power. In the past 15 years, researchers have focused less on differences and more on the role of context in the study of female and male speakers. This reframing of the field has produced a new set of research questions regarding perceived associations between gender and particular linguistic features as well as the realization of such associations in specific contexts of language use. These questions include: How can one be sure that a linguistic phenomenon is associated with gender? How and when are gender identities salient? To what extent do perceptions of gendered language use correspond to linguistic manifestations of gender identity?The project will lead to scientific advancement in language and gender research by bringing together representatives of various theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives to address newly central issues in the field. In addition, the conference provides a rare opportunity to bring current concerns in language and gender to the linguistics community at large, and to provide education and training to graduate students at the early stages of their graduate careers. The conference will also support the education of undergraduates and the application of language and gender research findings to real-world problems, such as issues of gender and language in institutional contexts like the law, medicine, and education. Results of the conference will made available electronically as working papers as well as in traditional published form. To make conference results accessible and inexpensive for the widest possible audience, online publication will be especially promoted.