Fwd: Academics' talk

[Kerim Friedman]

Michael Silverstein alerted me to work on the subject by Allen Grimshaw,
who passed away last year. Here is a link to his obituary:

http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct11/obit_0911.html#obit_2

The obit has this to say about his work on professional discourse:

"Later, Allen turned his attention to professional discourse, and embarked
on an influential research project where scholars from different
disciplines were asked to analyze the same transcript of a doctoral
dissertation defense. The result was publication of the monograph Collegial
Discourse: Professional Conversation Among Peers (Ablex, 1989) and the
edited volume What’s Going on Here? Complementary Studies of Professional
Talk (Ablex, 1994), which continue to be major contributions to the field
of sociolinguistics."

- Kerim



On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, <mslv at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Dear Dr Friedman:
>
> It's not possible to tell from the discussion thus far if it's a matter of
> enregisterment or of interactional context or of demographics of those
> inhabiting the interactional roles that you are really after, but since no
> one has heretofore called attention to it, I'm wondering if you know about
> the two or three volumes published under Allen Grimshaw's editorship about
> the doctoral dissertation defense and all the peri-evenemential interaction
> among academics at IU some decades back.  I believe that Allen has
> videotapes of some of this as well, should you want to contact him.
>
> Very best wishes, Sincerely, Michael Silverstein
>



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 *P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 <http://kerim.oxus.net/>*
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Assistant Professor
Department of Indigenous Cultures
College of Indigenous Studies
National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
助理教授國立東華大學民族文化學系





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*P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 <http://kerim.oxus.net/>*
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*

Assistant Professor
Department of Indigenous Cultures
College of Indigenous Studies
National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
助理教授國立東華大學民族文化學系