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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hello
everyone!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Shawn
Warner-Garcia and I are organizing a panel for the 2015 AAA
Conference in Denver on constrained agency. Lal Zimman has
agreed to be our discussant, and we are looking for
additional participants. Please read on for more information
about the panel:</span></span><span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman"">Research abounds on the concept of agency in
linguistic anthropology (cf. Ahearn 1999, 2001; Duranti 2004),
with particularly fruitful veins of scholarship on language
and gender (e.g. Bergvall et al 1996; Hall and Bucholtz 2012),
language socialization (e.g. Ochs 1988; Schieffelin 1990), and
dialogicality (e.g. Hill and Irvine 1993; Tedlock and Mannheim
1995). Embedded in many of these works are questions and
discussions about the location and limitations of agency.
However, while the topic of constrained agency has been
featured in works on social geography (e.g. Coe and
Jordhus-Lier 2010), health care (e.g.</span><span><span><span>
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Rodney and Varcoe 2011)<a>,</a></span><span><span><span>
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times
New Roman"">feminist theory (e.g. Beste 2007), and
applied linguistics (e.g. Lamb 2013), an extensive
consideration of sociocultural constraints on agency has not
been produced within linguistic anthropology. <span></span></span></font><font><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>Building
on Ahearn’s (2001) definition of agency, we invite panel
submissions that linguistically explore the socioculturally
mediating forces that constrain the capacity to act. With an
intentionally broad scope, we aim to provide a wide array of
presentations to discuss this topic and welcome any relevant
research topic grounded primarily in language.</span></span></font><font><span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Interested
panelists should send an off-list message to either Chris
VanderStouwe (<a href="mailto:cvanderstouwe@umail.ucsb.edu"
target="_blank">cvanderstouwe@umail.ucsb.edu</a>) or Shawn
Warner-Garcia (<a href="mailto:warnergarcia@umail.ucsb.edu"
target="_blank">warnergarcia@umail.ucsb.edu</a>) with
name, affiliation, and planned topic as soon as possible.
Once panelists are chosen, we request panel abstracts be
submitted to the organizers no later than April 8, 2015, for
review and to ensure timely submission to the Annual Meeting
system by the April 15 deadline.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thank you
for your consideration. See you in Denver!<br>
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Chris VanderStouwe, C.Phil
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles</pre>
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