6.31 Confs: GLS 1995: Developments in Discourse Analysis

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Shari Kendall (KENDALLS at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)
Subject: GLS 1995: Developments in Discourse Analysis
 
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Shari Kendall (KENDALLS at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)
Subject: GLS 1995: Developments in Discourse Analysis
 
 
               The Georgetown Linguistics Society
                            presents
 
         GLS 1995: DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
 
                     February 17-19, 1995
             Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
 
GLS 1995: DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS is an interdisciplinary
conference featuring presentations and colloquia focusing on a variety
of topics in discourse analysis, ranging from discourse analytic theory
to the use of discourse analysis as a tool in other disciplines. Papers
address discourse in the media, the workplace, the classroom, everyday
conversation, and in therapeutic, political, legal, religious, and other
institutional contexts, addressing such areas as gender,identity, argument,
authority, and narrative. The discourse analytic approaches include
interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnography,
conversation analysis, and cognitive science. The conference presenters,
paper titles, and plenary speakers are provided below in this announcement.
 
**HOW TO CONTACT GLS 1995**
 
Requests for information, including information about TRANSPORTATION,
ACCOMODATIONS, and a DISCOUNT ON AIRFARE, may be addressed to the
Georgetown Linguistics Society:
 
        GLS 1995                          gls at guvax.georgetown.edu
        Georgetown University             gls at guvax.bitnet
        Department of Linguistics         202-687-6166
        479 Intercultural Center
        Washington, D.C. 20057-1068
 
Regularly updated information about GLS 1995 is also available
through the World-Wide Web Georgetown Linguistics Home Page:
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/gu_lx.html
 
 
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM FOR **GLS 1995**
 
Please complete and print this form or provide the required information
on another sheet of paper and mail to GLS 1995, Georgetown University,
Department of Linguistics, 479 Intercultural Center, Washington, D.C.
20057-1068
 
Name:
Affiliation:
Mailing address:
E-mail address:
Phone number:
 
Registration Fee.
   Please remit the appropriate registration fee in the form of a
   check or money order made payable to "Georgetown University":
 
                                      Student       Non-Student
   Preregistration (through Feb. 10)  $20.00          $30.00
   On-site registration               $30.00          $40.00
 
Attendance Needs
 
() American Sign Language interpretation
() crash space (first-come basis)
() other (please specify)
______________________________________________________
 
**CONFERENCE SCHEDULE**
 
Friday, February 17     2:00 pm to 7:45 pm, Reception at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 18   9:30 am to 7:15 pm
Sunday, February 19     9:30 am to 5:00 pm
 
**PLENARY SPEAKERS**
 
*Frederick Erickson, University of Pennsylvania
*Charles Goodwin, University of South Carolina
*Heidi Hamilton, Georgetown University
*Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University
*Roger Shuy, Georgetown University
*Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
 
**COLLOQUIA**
 
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
 
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
 
DEVELOPMENTS IN SIGNED LANGUAGE DISCOURSE (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
*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
 
FRAMES THEORY (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
 
**PAPER SESSIONS**
 
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
 
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
 
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
    Male and female TV directors talking on the air and off
*Donna Trousdale
    Social languages and privileging: Gender and school science
    discourse
 
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
 
DISCURSIVE ENACTMENTS OF CULTURAL IDEOLOGIES
*Isolda Carranza
    Stance-making in oral interviews
*Agnes Weiyun He
    Stories as interactional resources: Narrative activity in academic
    counseling encounters
*Shari E. Kendall
    Religion and experience: Constructed dialogue, narrative, and
    life story in religious testimonies
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
INTERACTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF COGNITIVE UNDERSTANDING
*Pamela W. Jordan and Megan Moser
    Global 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
*Toshiko Hamaguchi
    Manifestation of shared knowledge in conversation
 
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
 
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
*Martin Warren
    How do conversations begin and end?
 
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
 
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
*Joanna Thornborrow
    Talk shows and democratic discourse
 
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
 
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 classroom literacy event
*Myriam Torres
    Why teachers do not engage in co-construction of knowledge:
    A critical discourse analysis
 
**UPCOMING GEORGETOWN CONFERENCES**
 
Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995. "Linguistics
and the Education of Second Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic,
Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects." Pre-sessions and
conference, March 6-11, 1995. Contact: Carolyn A. Straehle,
202-687-5726, gurt at guvax.georgetown.edu, GURT 1995, 303 ICC, Washington,
D.C. 20057-1067.
 
(This announcement). Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) 1995:
Developments in Discourse Analysis. February 17-19, 1995. Contact:
Coordinators of GLS 1995, 202-687-6166, gls at guvax.georgetown.edu,
GLS 1995, 479 ICC, Washington, D. C. 20057-1068.
 
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