6.207 Confs: Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)

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Subject: 6.207 Confs: Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)
 
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 19:08:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Shari Kendall (KENDALLS at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)
Subject: Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)
 
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 19:08:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Shari Kendall (KENDALLS at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)
Subject: Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)
 
                             **********
                The Georgetown Linguistics Society
                              presents
            GLS 1995: DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
                        February 17-19, 1995
               Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
                             **********
 
                      **REGISTRATION SCHEDULE**
Friday   11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. Intercultural Center (ICC) Galleria.
Saturday  8:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. ICC Auditorium main entrance
Sunday    8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ICC Auditorium main entrance
 
                         **EVENT LOCATIONS**
Sessions:         Intercultural Center. Rooms will be posted at registration.
Plenary Sessions: Intercultural Center Auditorium.
Reception:        Intercultural Center Galleria.
 
                       **CONFERENCE SCHEDULE**
 
                        *FRIDAY, February 17*
11:00 a.m.
Registration begins in the Intercultural Center Galleria
 
2:00 - 3:30
Colloquium: Developments in Signed Language Discourse Part I
  (Coordinator: Melanie Metzger)
*Ruth Morgan
  The interplay of place and space in a Namibian Sign Language narrative
*Kathleen Wood
  Negotiating literate identities: Life stories of deaf students
*Susan M. Mather
  Adult-deaf toddler discourse
 
Will the Real Author Please Stand Up?: Exploiting the Speech of Others
*Richard Buttny
  Talking race on campus: Reported speech in accounts of race relations
  at a university campus
*Akira Satoh
  Reported speech in English and Japanese: A comparative analysis
*Joyce Tolliver
  Evidentiality and accountability in literary narrative
 
Folk, Interlocutor, and Analytical Frameworks
*Hanny Feurer
  A place for folk linguistics in discourse analysis? Greetings in
  Tibeto-Burman languages
*Christianna I. White
  Similarity and distinctiveness: A vantage analysis of Plato's
  Gorgias
*Martin Warren
  How do conversations begin and end?
 
3:45 - 5:15
Colloquium: Developments in Signed Language Discourse Part II
  (Coordinator: Melanie Metzger)
*Tina M. Neumann
  Figurative language in an American Sign Language poem: Personification and
  prosopopoeia
*Scott Liddell and Melanie Metzger
  Spatial mapping in an ASL Narrative: Examining the use of multiple surrogate
  spaces
*Elizabeth A. Winston
  Spatial mapping in comparative discourse frames in American Sign Language
 
Political, Intellectual, Institutional Identities
*Anna De Fina
  Pronominal choice, identity and solidarity in political discourse
*Charlotte Linde
  Other people's stories: Third person narrative in individual and group
  identity
*Karen Tracy
  The identity work of questioning in intellectual discussion
 
Prior Discourses and the Structure of Classroom Interaction
*Mary Buchinger Bodwell
  "Now what does that mean, 'first draft'?": Adult literacy classes and
  alternative models of editing a text
*Deborah Poole
  The effects of text on talk in a class-room literacy event
*Myriam Torres
  Why teachers do not engage in co-construction of knowledge: A critical
  discourse analysis
 
5:30 - 6:30                   ROGER SHUY
          Getting People to Admit Their Guilt: A Case Study
 
6:45 - 7:45                DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN
                      Narrative as Self-Portrait
8:00 - 11:00
Reception, Intercultural Center Galleria
 
                       *SATURDAY, February 18*
 
9:30 - 10:30                HEIDI HAMILTON
              The Aging of a Poet: Intertextuality and the
    Co-construction of Identities in the Oppen Family Letter Exchange
10:45 - 12:45
Colloquium: Developments in Conversation Analysis: Oh, What, Or, Pardon
 (Coordinator: Maria Egbert)
*Paul Drew
  'What'?: A sequential basis for an 'open' form of repair initiation in
  conversation (and some implications for cognitive approaches to interaction)
*Maria Egbert
  The relevance of interactants' eye gaze to the organization of
  other-initiated repair: The case of German 'bitte?' ('pardon?')
*Anna Lindstrom
  'Or'-constructed inquiries as a resource for probing the relevance of prior
  talk in Swedish conversation
*John Heritage
  'Oh'-prefaced responses to inquiry
 
Privileged Views in Media Discourse
*Gertraud Benke
  News about news: Textual features of news agency copies and their usage in
the newsproduction
*Debra Graham
  Racism in the reporting of the O.J. Simpson arrest: A critical discourse
  analysis approach
*Ian Hutchby
  Arguments and asymmetries on talk radio
 
Interactional Explanations for Patterns of Variation
*Scott Fabius Kiesling
  Using interactional discourse analysis to explain variation
*Sylvie Dubois
  The coherent network of effects on discourse
 
Humorous Faces
*Nancy K. Baym
  Humorous performance in a computer-mediated group
*Diana Boxer and Florencia Cortes-Conde
  Teasing that bonds: Conversational joking and identity display
 
12:45 - 2:45
Theme lunch
 
2:45 - 4:45
Negotiating Authority and Status
*Cynthia Dickel Dunn
  The language of the tea teacher: Shifting indexical ground in a Japanese
  pedagogical context
*Lena Gavruseva
  'What is this drivel about garages?': The construction of authoritative
  self in the cover letter discourse
*Geoffrey Raymond
  The voice of authority: Sequence and turn design in live news broadcasts
*Hideko Nornes Abe
  Discourse analysis on distal and direct styles of Japanese women's speech
 
Narrative Structures across Languages
*Viola G. Miglio
  Tense alternations in medieval prose texts
*Asli Ozyurek
  How children use connectives to talk about a conversation
*Marybeth Culley
  Rhetorical elaborations of a Chiricahua Apache comic narrative genre
*Bethany K. Dumas
  Complex narratives in Ozark discourse
 
Competing Discourses and Dominance
*Tony Hak
  'She has clear delusions': The production of a factual account
*Catherine F. Smith
  Democratic discourses
*John Clark
  Standard and vernacular: Persuasive discourse styles in conflict
*Kathryn Remlinger
  Keeping it straight: The socio-linguistic construction of a heterosexual
  ideology in a campus community
 
5:00 - 7:00
Colloquium: Discourse and Conflict
  (Coordinator: Christina Kakava)
*Faye C. McNair-Knox
  Discourse and conflict in African-American English womantalk: Patterns of
  grammaticalized disapproval in narratives
*Christina Kakava
  Evaluation in personal and vicarious stories: Mirror of a Greek man's self
*Patricia E. O'Connor
  'You can't keep a man down': Positioning in conflict talk and in violent acts
*Laine Berman
  Life stories from the streets: Homeless children's narratives of violence
  and the construction of a better world
 
Discourse Influences on Syntactic Categories and Structures
*Jennifer Arnold
  The interaction between discourse focus and verbal form in Mapudungun
*Rajesh Bhatt
  Information status and word order in Hindi
*Paul Hopper
  Discourse and the category 'verb' in English
 
Interactional Construction of Cognitive Understanding
*Pamela W. Jordan and Megan Moser
  Multi-level coordination in computer-mediated conversation
*Claudia Roncarati
  Repetition and cognition in the information flow: A case-study in Brazilian
  Portuguese database
*Andrea Tyler and John Bro
  Examining perceptions of text comprehensibility: The effect of order and
  contextualization cues
*Robbert-Jan Beun
  Structure in cooperative dialogue
 
7:15 - 8:15                 CHARLES GOODWIN
                      The Social Life of Aphasia
Saturday Evening
Theme Dinner
 
                        *SUNDAY, February 19*
 
9:30 - 10:30               FREDERICK ERICKSON
             Discourse Analysis as a Communication Chunnel:
                     How Feasible is a Linkage
           between Continental and Anglo-American Approaches?
 
10:45 - 12:45
Colloquium: Frames Theory and Discourse
  (Coordinator: Janice Hornyak)
*Janice Hornyak
  Personal and professional frames in office discourse
*Susan Hoyle
  Negotiation of footing in play
*Carolyn Kinney
  The interaction of frames, roles and footings: Conversational strategies of
  co-leaders in a long-term group
*Yoshiko Nakano
  Interplay of expectations in cross-cultural miscommunication: A case study of
  negotiations between Americans and Japanese
*Suwako Watanabe
  Framing in group discussion: A comparison between Japanese and American
  students
 
Interpreting, Challenging, Evaluating Gender
*Jennifer Curtis
  Contestation of masculine identities in a battering intervention program
*Keller S. Magenau
  More than feminine: Attending to power and social distance dimensions in
  spoken and written workplace communication
*Keli Yerian
  Professional and gendered identities in the discourse of two public
  television directors
*Donna Trousdale
  Social languages and privileging: Gender and school science discourse
 
Discursive Enactments of Cultural Ideologies
*Isolda Carranza
  Stance-making in oral interviews
*Shari E. Kendall
  Religion and experience: Constructed dialogue, narrative, and life story in
  religious testimonies
*Agnes Weiyun He
  Stories as interactional resources: Narrative activity in academic counseling
  encounters
*Orla Morrissey
  Discourse analysis as an evaluation methodology for technology assessment in
  pre-competitive R and D environments
 
12:45 - 2:15
lunch
 
2:15 - 3:45
Computational Approaches to Discourse Analysis
*Megan Moser and Johanna D. Moore
  An approach to the study of discourse cues
*Yan Qu
  A computational approach for automatically extracting discourse rules
*Donald Lewis
  Theme and eventline in a Classical Hebrew narrative: A computer-assisted
  analysis
 
Conversational Moves
*C. Antaki, F. Diaz, A. Collins
  Participants' orientation to footing: Evidence from conversational completion
*Peter Muntigl
  Saving face in argument: An analysis of face-threatening disagreements
 
Fine-tuning Conversation
*Hiroko Spees
  How aizuchi 'back channels' shape and are shaped by the interaction in
  Japanese conversation
*Toshiko Hamaguchi
  Manifestation of shared knowledge in conversation
*Yrjo Engestrom
  Discursive disturbances as bridge between the micro and the macro:
  Evidence from activity-theoretical studies in collaborative work settings
 
4:00 - 5:00                  DEBORAH TANNEN
                    Academic Discourse as Discourse
 
5:00 - 5:15                  RALPH FASOLD
                           Closing Remarks
 
                      **HOW TO CONTACT GLS 1995**
Please send registration and requests for information regarding special
discounts on airfare, accommodations, and transportation to the
Georgetown Linguistics Society:
        GLS 1995                        internet:  gls at guvax.georgetown.edu
        Georgetown University           bitnet:    gls at guvax.bitnet
        Department of Linguistics       voice:     (202) 687-6166
        479 Intercultural Center
        Washington, D.C. 20057-1068
 
Regularly updated information is available through the World-Wide Web
Georgetown Linguistics Home Page: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/gu_lx.html
 
                          **REGISTRATION**
On-site registration will begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Intercultural
Center (ICC) Galleria on Friday, February 17, 1995.
     Students        $30.00
     Non-students    $40.00
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