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Topics of the day:



 1. Developments in Discourse Analysis (GLS 1995)



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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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