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Bonnie McElhinny
Department of Anthropology Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
Sara Mills
English Department, Sheffield Hallam University, English/Linguistics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Book Review Editor
Chantal Tetreault
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Gender and Language is the new journal of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA).The journal appears twice a year.

There are many journals focused on gender and many devoted to language. Most of these sometimes publish articles on language and gender. There is, however, currently no single scholarly journal to which those interested in gender and language can turn as contributors looking for an audience sharing their focus or as readers seeking a reliable source for on-going discussions in the field. Gender and Language fills the gap by offering an international forum for research on and debates about feminist research on gender and language.Gender and Language showcases research on femininities and masculinities, on heterosexual and queer identities, on gender at the level of individual performance or perception and on gender at the level of institutions and ideologies.

As a point of departure, Gender and Language defines gender along two key dimensions. First, gender is a key element of social relationships often loosely linked to perceived differences between the sexes. Gender relations are encoded in linguistic and symbolic representations, normative concepts, social practices, institutions and social identities. Second, gender is a primary arena for articulating power, intersecting in complex ways with other axes of inequality, like class, race, and sexuality. Gender is understood as multi-faceted, always changing, and often contested: the editors welcome discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of competing definitions of gender and of new analytical perspectives.

The journal encourages discussion and debate about the implications of different definitions of gender and different approaches to analyzing the production and interpretation of texts and speech. It welcomes research employing a range of linguistic approaches (e.g. conversation analysis, discourse and text analysis, ethnography of communication, pragmatics, variationist sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, stylistics) and from a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, women and gender studies, education, philosophy, psychology, folklore, sociology, communication studies, queer studies, literary and cultural studies, as it aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion and dialogue among these disciplines.

Contents of Next Issue

Articles:
Communities of practice in sociolinguistic description: Analyzing langauge and identity practices among Black women in Appalachia
Christine Mallinson and Becky Childs
Contradictions in gendered discourses: Feminist readings of sexist jokes?
Jane Sutherland
";But her language skill shifted the family dynamics dramatically";: Language, gender and the construction of publics in two British newspapers
Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin
Research Notes:
Feminist psychology, conversation analysis and empirical research: An illustration using identity categories
Anne Weatherall
Plus Reviews 

About IGALA Learn more about the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) by going to IGALA or download the IGALA Membership Application. You can also join IGALA as a regular member from the Equinox website by going to the subscription pages and chosing IGALA membership. Membership includes a subscription to the journal.

Abstracting & Indexing The journal is covered by:
Linguistics Abstracts
Educational Research Abstracts Online
MLA Bibliography
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature
EBSCO SocIndex with FullTEXT
ProQuest, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts,

Publication Frequency: twice a year: January and June
ISSN: 1747-6321 (print)
ISSN: 1747-633X (online)
First issue: Volume 1.1 (January 2007)