6.345 Confs: Program for CMDA, Call for NWAVE 24

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-345. Wed 08 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 158
 
Subject: 6.345 Confs: Program for CMDA, Call for NWAVE 24
 
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 22:41:05 CST
From: susan at utafll.uta.edu (Susan Herring)
Subject: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: Final conference program
 
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:23:39 -0500
From: Bill Labov (labov at central.cis.upenn.edu)
Subject: NWAVE 24
 
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 22:41:05 CST
From: susan at utafll.uta.edu (Susan Herring)
Subject: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: Final conference program
 
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                "Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis"
                           GURT Presession
                            March 8, 1995
                        Georgetown University
                    Intercultural Center Room 105
                        8:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
 
Organizer:      Susan Herring
                susan at utafll.uta.edu
 
PROGRAM
Morning
8:45-9:00       Introductory remarks
                Susan Herring (University of Texas at Arlington)
 
9:00-9:30       Simeon Yates (University of Leeds) & David Graddol
                (Open University, UK)
                "Mediated Knowledge in Computer Mediated Discourse"
 
9:30-10:00      Alison Newlands, Anne H. Anderson & Jim Mullin
                (University of Glasgow)
                "Communicative Functions in Interaction: A Comparison
                of Computer Mediated and Spoken Dialogues"
 
10:00-10:30     Sherri L. Condon & Claude G. Cech (University of
                Southwestern Louisiana)
                "Discourse Management Strategies in Face-to-Face vs.
                Computer-Mediated Decision Making Interactions"
 
10:30-11:00     COFFEE BREAK
 
11:00-11:30     Deborah Du Bartell (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
                and State University of New York at Buffalo)
                "The Functions of Adhesion in Computer-Mediated Discourse"
 
11:30-12:00     Joanna Robin (Georgetown University)
                "Turn-Taking in a Cyberian Pub: The Coordination of
                Discourse on IRC"
 
12:00-12:30     Lynn Cherny (Stanford University)
                " 'Marie disconnects': Third Person Simple Present Tense
                Actions in the Discourse of a Social MUD"
 
12:30-2:00      LUNCH
 
Afternoon
2:00-2:30       David Duff (MITRE Corporation), Esther Kim (MIT),
                Susann LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation; Georgetown University),
                and Keith Miller (Georgetown University)
                "Some Effects of Electronic Mediation:  An Observational
                Study of Dialogue Management for the Interpreting Telephone"
 
2:30-3:00       John Paolillo (University of Texas at Arlington)
                "Code Switching on the Internet: Panjabi and English on
                Soc.culture.punjab"
 
3:00-3:30       H.L. Weber (State University of New York at Buffalo)
                "Affect on the Internet *or* Beyond Emoticons"
 
3:30-4:00       COFFEE BREAK
 
4:00-4:30       Ljuba Veselinova & Helen Dry (Eastern Michigan University)
                "Queries on the LINGUIST List: Acquisition of a Subregister"
 
4:30-5:00       Susan Herring & Robin Lombard  (University of Texas at
                Arlington)
                "Negotiating Gendered Faces: Requests and Disagreements
                Among Computer Professionals on the Internet"
 
5:00-5:30       Laurel Sutton (University of California, Berkeley)
                "A Gricean Analysis of Netiquette Rules"
 
5:30-5:45       Closing Remarks
 
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Abstracts for papers presented at this presession and information about
presenters are available on the World Wide Web.  The URL is:
 
     http://trill.berkeley.edu/guide-to-the-lab/Resources/People/CMC.html
 
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:23:39 -0500
From: Bill Labov (labov at central.cis.upenn.edu)
Subject: NWAVE 24
 
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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
                24th Annual Conference on
                New Ways of Analyzing Variation
                        NWAVE 24
                October 15-19, 1995
                        at the
                University of Pennsylvania
                        Philadelphia, PA
 
Invited speakers:
                        Gregory Guy
                        Anthony Kroch
                        Donald Winford
 
Send abstracts before June 15th to:
        nwave24 at babel.ling.upenn.edu
 
Indicate category:
                        20 minute paper
                        poster session
 
Papers are solicited in particular for projected sessions on:
        Historical syntax and the time course of syntactic change
        Linguistic research in the high school context
        The linguistic situation of Asian minorities
 
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