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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria"><span>We are doing a
second call for (at least) one more paper for our double panel
on constrained agency. If anyone is still looking for a panel
to join and has any interest in the panel as we outline below,
please reply to me at (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cvanderstouwe@umail.ucsb.edu">cvanderstouwe@umail.ucsb.edu</a>) with an
abstract no later than April 8, 2015. Thank you again for your
time!<br>
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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><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></font><font><span>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font face="Cambria">--
Chris VanderStouwe, C.Phil
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles</font></pre>
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