International Gender & Language Association Group Travel to New Zealand

该奖项将帮助支持美国研究生和年轻的博士后学者前往IGALA 5，这是国际性别和语言协会（IGALA）第五届两年一度的会议，明年夏天在维多利亚大学惠灵顿，新西兰。IGALA是一个跨学科的国际组织，致力于促进和支持语言与性别和性的相互作用的研究。 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，否则他们甚至可能永远无法接触到彼此？研究性别和性身份如何与社会语言学身份相联系，已经促使学者们更仔细地研究社会实践--人们在相互交谈时所做的事情--如何影响人们的语言风格的发展，影响他们对他人如何交谈的评价，以及他们对交谈应该如何进行的看法。对于继续取得进展来说，特别重要的是来自不同国家、使用不同语言和不同社会文化背景的学者之间的持续交流。谈话和关于谈话的谈话总是社会生活和社会变革的中心组成部分，从来没有完整的故事，但总是非常重要。了解性别和语言的问题，特别是不同文化、社会和历史背景下的特殊情况，对于更公平的性别安排和关系以及更全面地了解语言在社会生活中的作用非常重要。

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.