2005 ADS Annual Meeting: Program! and Chairs?

Ed Finegan Finegan at USC.EDU
Mon Oct 4 18:46:45 UTC 2004


Hi Allan,

I'd be pleased to chair either session 1 or session 2.

Ed

AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

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> The program committee, chaired by ADS vice president Joan Hall and with=20
> members George
> Goebel and Luanne von Schneidemesser, has completed the difficult task of=20
> choosing from many excellent proposals. Here is the program they have arrang=
> ed.
>
> One thing they haven't arranged is chairs for our sessions. If you'd like to=
> =20
> chair one, please let me know (e-mail to AAllan at aol.com) right away - just=20
> tell me what session you're interested in.
>
> Delectable details on the luncheon and other matters will be announced soon.=
> =20
> Meanwhile, here's the menu of food for thought. - Allan Metcalf, ADS Executi=
> ve=20
> Secretary
>
> American Dialect Society Annual Meeting
>
> Thursday, January 6, 2005
>
> Session 1: Usage, Labeling, and Lexicons, 10:00-11:30 a.m.=20
> 1. =E2=80=9CToni Morrison=E2=80=99s Genius Puts Her in the Grammar/Usage Spo=
> tlight.=E2=80=9D Arnold=20
> Zwicky, Stanford Univ.
> 2. =E2=80=9CGendered Aspects of Lexicographic Labeling.=E2=80=9D Katherine M=
> artin, Oxford=20
> English Dictionary.
> 3. =E2=80=9CRepresentations of Southern Speech in Folk Dictionaries.=E2=80=
> =9D Sarah Hilliard
> , Duke Univ.
>
> Session 2: Talkin=E2=80=99 and Testifyin=E2=80=99; Using Large Corpora, 1:00=
> =E2=80=932:30 p.m.
> 4. =E2=80=9CEvidence on the History of Prosodic Rhythm in African American E=
> nglish.=E2=80=9D=20
> Erik R. Thomas and Phillip M. Carter, North Carolina State Univ.
> 5. =E2=80=9C =E2=80=98God Don=E2=80=99t Want No Weak Women=E2=80=99: Testify=
> in Performance and Ideology in=20
> a Black Church.=E2=80=9D Andrea Kortenhoven, Stanford Univ.
> 6. =E2=80=9CAdvantages, and Disadvantages, of Using Large Dialect Corpora.=
> =E2=80=9D Malcah=20
> Yaeger-Dror, Univ. of Arizona; J.P. Campbell, W.M. Campbell, P. A.=20
> Torres-Carrasquillo, and D. A. Reynolds, all of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
>
> Session 3: Southern Dialects=E2=80=94Black and White, 3:00=E2=80=935:00 p.m.
> 7. =E2=80=9CDialect and the Spread of Country Music: the Case of =E2=80=98Al=
> abama.=E2=80=99 =E2=80=9D=20
> Catherine Evans Davies, Univ. of Alabama.
> 8. =E2=80=9C =E2=80=98Talking White=E2=80=99 at the Apollo: African-American=
>  Narrative Comedians=20
> Portraying the Middle-class Establishment.=E2=80=9D Jacquelyn Rahman, Miami=20=
> Univ. of=20
> Ohio.
> 9. =E2=80=9CThe Shifting Significance of Postvocalic R-Lessness in Southern=20
> African-American English.=E2=80=9D Kristy D=E2=80=99Andrea, North Carolina S=
> tate Univ.
> 10. =E2=80=9COn the Shifting Social Significance of Receding Dialect Variabl=
> es: The=20
> Case of Static Locative to.=E2=80=9D Jeannine Carpenter, North Carolina Stat=
> e Univ. and=20
> Duke Univ., and Janelle Vadnais, North Carolina State Univ.
>
> Session 4: Special Presentation, 5:15=E2=80=936:15 p.m.
> 11. Voices of North Carolina. Video that will be aired on PBS, featuring=20
> Outer Banks speech, Appalachian speech, metropolitan speech (Charlotte), Lum=
> bee=20
> English, African American English in terms of dialects, as well as the state=
>  of=20
> the Cherokee language and Spanish. Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State Univ.
>
> Friday, January 7
>
> Executive Council Meeting, 8:30=E2=80=9310:30 a.m. Open meeting; all members=
>  welcome.=20
> Presiding: ADS President Michael Montgomery, U. of South Carolina.=20
>
> Words of the Year Nominations, 10:30 a.m.=E2=80=9312:00 noon. Open meeting o=
> f the New=20
> Words committee; ADS members and friends welcome. Chair, Wayne Glowka,=20
> Georgia College and State University. This meeting reviews nominations for W=
> ords of=20
> the Year 2004. Final candidates will be identified in preparation for the vo=
> te=20
> at 5:30 p.m.
>
> Session 5: Language Contact, 1:30=E2=80=933:30 p.m.
> 12. =E2=80=9CAnother Look at the Copula in Caribbean Creoles.=E2=80=9D James=
>  A. Walker, York=20
> Univ., Toronto, and Miriam Meyerhoff, Univ. of Edinburgh.
> 13. =E2=80=9CWhen Speech Islands Collide.=E2=80=9D Steven Hartman Keiser, Ma=
> rquette Univ.
> 14. =E2=80=9CWhat Happened to Texas German?=E2=80=9D Hans C. Boas, Univ. of=20=
> Texas, Austin.
> 15. =E2=80=9CSpanish Dialect Contact in South Texas: Variable Subject Person=
> al=20
> Pronoun Use by Puerto Ricans in San Antonio.=E2=80=9D Robert Bayley, Carlos=20=
> Martin=20
> V=C3=A9lez-Salas, Belinda Schouten, and Norma C=C3=A1rdenas, Univ. of Texas=20=
> at San Antonio.
>
> Session 6: Special Session, 3:45=E2=80=935:15 p.m.
> 16=E2=80=9318 =E2=80=9CThe Atlanta Survey Project.=E2=80=9D William A. Kretz=
> schmar, Jr., Univ. of=20
> Georgia.=20
> Betsy Barry
> Iyabo Osiapem
> Mi-Ran Kim and Nicole Kong
>
> Words of the Year Vote, 5:30=E2=80=936:30 p.m.
>
> Bring-Your-Own-Book Exhibit and Reception, 6:30=E2=80=937:30 p.m.
> =20
> Saturday, January 8
>
> Annual Business Meeting, 8:30=E2=80=939:30 a.m.
>
> Session 7: Regional Phonology, 9:45=E2=80=9311:45 a.m.
> 19. =E2=80=9CA First Approach to Regional Phonetic Variation in Canadian Eng=
> lish.=E2=80=9D=20
> Charles Boberg, McGill Univ.
> 20. =E2=80=9CAcoustic Characteristics of Utah=E2=80=99s card/cord Merger.=
> =E2=80=9D David Bowie,=20
> Univ. of Central Florida.
> 21. =E2=80=9CUpper Midwest Obstruent Variation: There=E2=80=99s More of It T=
> han You Might=20
> Think.=E2=80=9D Thomas Purnell, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Joseph Salmons,=
>  Univ. of=20
> Wisconsin, Madison; Dilara Tepeli, Univ. Bonn; Jennifer Mercer, Univ. of=20
> Wisconsin.
> 22. =E2=80=9CYou So Don=E2=80=99t Talk Like Me: Exploring Southern Californi=
> a Sound Changes=20
> Across Generations.=E2=80=9D Allyn Partin Hernandez, Northridge, Calif.
>
> Annual Luncheon, 12:15=E2=80=931:45 p.m.=20
>
> Session 8: Special Session on Teaching, 2:00=E2=80=934:00 p.m.
>
> =E2=80=9CPromoting Language Awareness in Schools via Do You Speak American?=
> =E2=80=9D Jeffrey=20
> Reaser, Duke Univ.; Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics;=20
> Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State Univ.
>



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