Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 19:08:23 -0500
From: Shari Kendall KENDALLS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET
Subject: Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)
updated 2/10/95
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The Georgetown Linguistics Society
presents
GLS 1995: DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
February 17-19, 1995
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
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**REGISTRATION SCHEDULE**
Friday 11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. Intercultural Center (ICC) Galleria.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. ICC Auditorium main entrance
Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ICC Auditorium main entrance
**EVENT LOCATIONS**
Sessions: Intercultural Center. Rooms will be posted at registration.
Plenary Sessions: Intercultural Center Auditorium.
Reception: Intercultural Center Galleria.
**CONFERENCE SCHEDULE**
*FRIDAY, February 17*
11:00 a.m.
Registration begins in the Intercultural Center Galleria
2:00 - 3:30
Colloquium: Developments in Signed Language Discourse Part I
(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
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
Folk, Interlocutor, and Analytical Frameworks
*Hanny Feurer
A place for folk linguistics in discourse analysis? Greetings in
Tibeto-Burman languages
*Christianna I. White
Similarity and distinctiveness: A vantage analysis of Plato's
Gorgias
*Martin Warren
How do conversations begin and end?
3:45 - 5:15
Colloquium: Developments in Signed Language Discourse Part II
(Coordinator: Melanie Metzger)
*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
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
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 class-room literacy event
*Myriam Torres
Why teachers do not engage in co-construction of knowledge: A critical
discourse analysis
5:30 - 6:30
ROGER SHUY
Getting People to Admit Their Guilt: A Case Study
6:45 - 7:45
DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN
Narrative as Self-Portrait
8:00 - 11:00
Reception, Intercultural Center Galleria
*SATURDAY, February 18*
9:30 - 10:30
HEIDI HAMILTON
The Aging of a Poet: Intertextuality and the
Co-construction of Identities in the Oppen Family Letter Exchange
10:45 - 12:45
Colloquium: 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
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
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
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
12:45 - 2:45
Theme lunch
2:45 - 4:45
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
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
*Bethany K. Dumas
Complex narratives in Ozark discourse
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
5:00 - 7:00
Colloquium: 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
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
Interactional Construction of Cognitive Understanding
*Pamela W. Jordan and Megan Moser
Multi-level 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
*Robbert-Jan Beun
Structure in cooperative dialogue
7:15 - 8:15
CHARLES GOODWIN
The Social Life of Aphasia
Saturday Evening
Theme Dinner
*SUNDAY, February 19*
9:30 - 10:30
FREDERICK ERICKSON
Discourse Analysis as a Communication Chunnel:
How Feasible is a Linkage
between Continental and Anglo-American Approaches?
10:45 - 12:45
Colloquium: Frames Theory and Discourse
(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
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
Professional and gendered identities in the discourse of two public
television directors
*Donna Trousdale
Social languages and privileging: Gender and school science discourse
Discursive Enactments of Cultural Ideologies
*Isolda Carranza
Stance-making in oral interviews
*Shari E. Kendall
Religion and experience: Constructed dialogue, narrative, and life story in
religious testimonies
*Agnes Weiyun He
Stories as interactional resources: Narrative activity in academic counseling
encounters
*Orla Morrissey
Discourse analysis as an evaluation methodology for technology assessment in
pre-competitive R and D environments
12:45 - 2:15
lunch
2:15 - 3:45
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
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
Fine-tuning Conversation
*Hiroko Spees
How aizuchi 'back channels' shape and are shaped by the interaction in
Japanese conversation
*Toshiko Hamaguchi
Manifestation of shared knowledge in conversation
*Yrjo Engestrom
Discursive disturbances as bridge between the micro and the macro:
Evidence from activity-theoretical studies in collaborative work settings
4:00 - 5:00
DEBORAH TANNEN
Academic Discourse as Discourse
5:00 - 5:15
RALPH FASOLD
Closing Remarks
**HOW TO CONTACT GLS 1995**
Please send registration and requests for information regarding special
discounts on airfare, accommodations, and transportation to the
Georgetown Linguistics Society:
GLS 1995 internet: gls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu
Georgetown University bitnet: gls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.bitnet
Department of Linguistics voice: (202) 687-6166
479 Intercultural Center
Washington, D.C. 20057-1068
Regularly updated information is available through the World-Wide Web
Georgetown Linguistics Home Page: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/gu_lx.html
**REGISTRATION**
On-site registration will begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Intercultural
Center (ICC) Galleria on Friday, February 17, 1995.
Students $30.00
Non-students $40.00
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