AAA 2000 panel call

[Clark, John]

Greetings  Linganth folk,

Scott Kiesling and I, John Clark, are putting together a panel for AAA 2000
with a
working title of *Claiming the Center*, focussing on how  the center
is claimed and achieved  as white, male, heterosexual, oral/aural,
able-bodied etc. through global and local textual and interactional
practices. How is the "unmarked marker" status of whiteness, inter alia,
claimed and resisted through processes of centering and othering? How
are these same processes masked so as to attribute a timeless and
natural centered-status to these same groups? Finally, how are these
processes resisted and unmasked in global and face-to-face interaction?

If you're interested in being a part of it, please let us know ASAP, and
send an abstract to me by March 1st at: jtclark at csuchico.edu

John
John T. Clark
Professor Linguistics/English
California State University, Chico
jtclark at csuchico.edu
(530) 898-5453