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*Responsibility, Evidence, and Ideology: Conversations Inspired by Judith
T. Irvine, Parts 1 & 2Invited Sessions (In-Person and Virtual)Society for
Linguistic Anthropology(2-0900) Thurs 18 Nov 2:00 PM-3:45 PM Part 1
  Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91029377835
<https://umich.zoom.us/j/91029377835>(2-0890) Thurs 18 Nov 4:15 PM - 6:00
PM Part 2    Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91824101680
<https://umich.zoom.us/j/91824101680>These panels honor Judith T. Irvine,
Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University
of Michigan. Irvine’s theoretical and methodological engagements with
discipline, field site, teaching, and politics have expanded the scope and
impact of linguistic anthropology. A generous colleague, she has helped
place responsibility, evidence, and ideology at the center of the field. A
committed mentor, she has trained her students in the union of close
observation and critical analysis on which our value as a discipline
depends. Irvine’s work ranges widely across theoretical sociolinguistics,
semiotics, the history of colonial linguistics, and African studies. One
constant in her work is an insistence on investigating how sociological and
ideological conditions affect the very category of “language” itself.
Zooming in and out of reified scales of analysis while also challenging
their ontological status, Irvine combines broad ethnographic insights with
detailed study of communicative practices. She analyzes the historical
emergence of linguistic categories, and the impact they have on the
interpretation of sign forms and perceptions of social and linguistic
differences. Her most cited works challenge classic notions in linguistics
(style, formality, code) and anthropology (participant roles, performance,
scale) through the fine-grained analysis of meaning in a dialogic context.
At the same time, she has helped develop powerful theoretical concepts,
such as language ideology, fractility, and stance, of very general utility.
The panelists represent colleagues, interlocutors, and students past and
present who have responded to Irvine’s seminal insights about language and
political economy, language ideology, linguistic variation and difference,
responsibility in oral evidence, participant frameworks, and the critique
of colonial and historical linguistics. These talks demonstrate the value
of fostering conversations around issues of responsibility and engagement
as linguistic anthropologists seek to advance knowledge in and beyond the
field.PDF of individual paper abstracts attached.PANEL 1Thurs 18 Nov 2:00
PM-3:45Organizer: Webb Keane (U of Michigan). Chair: Barbra Meek (U of
Michigan)Richard Bauman (Indiana U): Speech inscribes itself in matter for
all time_: early French proposals for museums of recorded speechChristina
P. Davis (Western Illinois U): Memes, Emojis, and Text: The Semiotics of
Differentiation in Sri Lankan Tamil Digital PublicsSonia Das (New York U):
How do Reasonable Persons Act? Responsibility and Evidence in U.S. Criminal
JusticeSarah Hillewaert (U of Toronto): Vernacular contestations.
Deconstructing and reimagining boundaries in African linguistics.Charles H.
Zuckerman (U of Sydney): The Relative Pervasiveness of Ideological
DifferentiationsSusan Gal (U of Chicago): Status and style: JTI and the
Comparative EyePANEL 2Thurs 18 Nov 4:15 PM - 6:00 PMOrganizer: Matthew
Hull (U of Michigan). Chair: Bruce Mannheim (U of Michigan)Susan U.
Philips (U of Arizona): Ambiguity in Signs of DementiaUjin Kim (Nazarbayev
U): Systematic Conventionality: How Kajrat Became an IdiotErika
Hoffmann-Dilloway (Oberlin): Shadows and Mirrors: Spatial and Ideological
Perspectives on Sign Language CompetencyNikolas Sweet (Grinnell): Embodied
Interactions: Caste, Personhood, and Senses of HumorKathryn Woolard (UCSD):
What's wrong with this picture? The reception and production of the
sociolinguistic selfElinor Ochs (UCLA): When Baby Talk Isn't Cheap:
Economies of Talk in Childhood*


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