Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:53:11 -0500

From: Shari Kendall KENDALLS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: GLS 1995 Schedule (updated 1/19/95)



updated 1/19/95 (includes session times)





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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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**CONFERENCE SCHEDULE**





*FRIDAY, February 17*



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



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



Plenary Speaker: ROGER SHUY



6:45 - 7:45



Plenary Speaker: DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN



8:00 - 11:00



Reception





*SATURDAY, February 18*



9:30 - 10:30



Plenary Speaker: HEIDI HAMILTON



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

*Joanna Thornborrow

Talk shows and democratic discourse



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



7:15 - 8:15



Plenary Speaker: CHARLES GOODWIN





*SUNDAY, February 19*



9:30 - 10:30



Plenary Speaker: FREDERICK ERICKSON



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

*Martin Warren

How do conversations begin and end?



Fine-tuning Conversation

*Hiroko Spees

How aizuchi 'back channels' shape and are shaped by the interaction in

Japanese conversations

*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



Plenary Speaker: DEBORAH TANNEN







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