UWM conference program

[Michael Darnell]

      THE 24TH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
                LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM
                September 10-12, 1998
        DISCOURSE ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

*GENERAL INFORMATION*:
 - TIME: September 10-12, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday:
               Thursday, 9:15-5:45
               Friday, 8:30-6:00
               Saturday, 9:00-6:15
  There will be social gatherings both Friday and Saturday night.
 - PLACE: The meeting will take place in the Union Building on the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus (2200 E. Kenwood Boulevard,
Milwaukee, WI). All sessions will be held in the Wisconsin Room.
   - REGISTRATION: Registration will begin on Thursday at 8:00 a.m. and
will continue through Friday (please contact us about Saturday-only
registration).
  - CONFERENCE HANDBOOK: For those who cannot attend, the conference
handbook, which includes all the abstracts for presented papers, will be
available for purchase by mail. For information on this, or for other
questions contact Mike Darnell at darnell at csd.uwm.edu
*PROGRAM*
*THURSDAY*
9:15-9:30  Welcome

9:30-10:15 Carol MODER (Oklahoma State University) TBA

10:15 -11:00 Robert LONGACRE (U.of Texas at Arlington)
             TBA

11:00-12:30  Lunch

12:30-1:00  Aneta PAVLENKO(Cornell University)
            Narrative Construction:  Cross-linguistic
            and Cross-cultural Perspective

1:00-1:30   Mary DIGENNARO-SEIG(Oklahoma State U.)
            Episodic Boundaries in Japanese and English
            Narratives

1:30-2:00   Tania GASTAO SALIES(Pontificia Universidade
            Catolica)  Texts as Image-Schemas:
            The Communicative Text

2:00-2:30  Michael BARLOW (Rice University)
           Parallel Concordancing and Contrastive Discourse

2:30-2:45     Break

2:45-3:15  Ingrid PILLER (Universitat Hamburg)
           Topic Control in Bilingual Couples'
           Conversations

3:15-3:45  Patricia MAYES (U. of California, Santa Barbara)
           Genre as a Locus of Cultural Ideology: A
           Comparison of Japanese and American Cooking
           Classes

3:45-4:15  Paul Kei MATSUDA  (Purdue University)
           Negotiation of Identity in a Japanese On-Line
           Discourse Community

4:15-4:45  Brad DAVIDSON (Stanford University)
           The Medical Interpreter as the Site of Cross-
           cultural Interpretation

4:45-5:00  Break

5:00-5:45  Ronald SCOLLON (Georgetown University) TBA

*FRIDAY*
8:30-9:15  Susanna CUMMING (U. of California, Santa
           Barbara) TBA

9:15-9:30  Break

9:30-10:00 JoAnne NEFF (Universidad  Complutense)
           Contrastive Discourse Analysis:  Argumentative
           Text in English and Spanish

10:00-10:30 Finn FRANDSEN & Winni JOHANSEN  (The Aarhus
            School of Business) When Arguments Turn Green:
            Discourse, Genre, and Culture in "Green"
            Marketing Communications in France and Denmark

10:30-11:00  Elizabeth ARCAY HANDS & Ligia COSSE
             (Universidad de Carabobo)
             Multidimensional Analysis of Academic Essays
             Written in Venezuelan Spanish and British and
             North-American English by Monolingual and
             Bilingual Scholars

11:00-11:30  James J. MULLOOLY  (Columbia University)
             Reading English in Arabic:  Applied
             Contrastive Rhetoric

11:30 to 1  Lunch

1:00-1:30   Lafi ALHARBI (Kuwait University)
            Rhetorical Transfer Across Cultures: English
            into Arabic and Arabic into English

1:30-2:00  Christine GEOFFROY(The University of Technology)
           The English and the French: Cross-cultural
           Discourse Analysis in a Business Environment

2:00-2:30  Julia LAVID & Maite TABOADA (Universidad
           Complutense)Stylistic Differences in Document
           Design Across Languages in Europe:  A Cross-
           cultural Comparison

2:30-2:45   Break

2:45-3:15  Erica HOFMANN KENCKE(U. of Texas at Austin)
            Making Understanding Understood: Another
            Challenge for Non-native Speakers

3:15-3:45  Masako TAMANAHA  (U. of California, Los Angeles)
           Interlanguage Apologies by American learners of
           Japanese: A Comparison with Native Speakers of
           Japanese

3:45-4:15  Euen HYUK JUNG (Georgetown University)
           Apologies from a Cross-cultural Perspective

4:15-4:30  Break

4:30-5:15  Dan SLOBIN (U. of California, Berkeley) TBA

5:15-6:00  William EGGINGTON (Brigham Young University) TBA

*SATURDAY*

9:00-9:45  Ruth BERMAN (Tel-Aviv University) TBA

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-10:30  Hikyoung LEE  (University of Pennsylvania)
             Discourse Marker Use in Native and Non-native
             English-speaking Korean Americans

10:30-11:00  Janet M. FULLER  (Southern Illinois U.)
             Discourse Markers in Codeswitching and
             Borrowing: a Bridge between Language and
             Cultures

11:00-11:30  Suzanne FLEISCHMAN(U. of California, Berkeley)
             Discourse Markers Across Language?  Evidence
             from French and English

11:30-1:00   Lunch

1:00-1:45    Sonja TIRKONNEN-CONDIT (University of Joensuu)
             TBA

1:45-2:00    Break

2:00-2:30    John K. HELLERMANN (U. of Wisconsin, Madison)
             Prosody and Transistion-relevance-spaces in
             English and Hungarian Conversations

2:30-3:00    Rebecca DAMRON (The University of Tulsa)
             Prosody in Urdu and Pakistani English
             Conversational Discourse

3:00-3:30    Laura Hsiu-min LIU (National Taiwan
             University)A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of
             Pause Markers in Spoken Chinese and Seediq

3:30-3:45    Break

3:45-4:15    Maite TABOADA (Universidad  Complutense)
             Rhetorical Structure Theory in Dialogue:
             A Contrastive Analysis

4:15-4:45    Ivo SANCHEZ  (U. of California, Santa Barbara)
             Spontaneous Rhetoric:  Lists in English and
             Spanish Conversation

4:45-5:15    Amy MEEPOE (U. of California, Los Angeles) &
             Makoto HAYASHI  (U. of Colorado, Boulder)
             Formulating Person Reference in Thai and
             Japanese:  A Cross-linguistic Study of 'Zero'
             Pronouns in Conversation.

5:15-5:30    Break

5:30-6:15    Wallace CHAFE (U. of California, Santa
             Barbara) TBA