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Media articulations of gender and sexuality

Issue: Vol 11 No. 4 (2017) Special issue: Globalisation, modernity and enregisterment in contemporary East Asia

Journal: Gender and Language

Subject Areas: Gender Studies Linguistics

DOI: 10.1558/genl.33342

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Acknowledgements

This special issue presents articles based on presentations at the Sociolinguistics of Globalization conference that was held in Hong Kong in June of 2015. The conference was hosted by the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. We thank the conference participants for useful feedback. Our sincere thanks also go to Tommaso Milani and Michelle Lazar for their invaluable assistance.

Author: Mie Hiramoto, M. Agnes Kang

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