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Saturday, May 10

Morning events will be held in the UCEN rooms and McCune Conference Room; afternoon events will be held in the McCUNE Conference Room.


9:30 - 11:30

Concurrent Roundtable Sessions


 
Session 1

"Language and Embodied Conduct"

Session Presider: Marjorie H. Goodwin

McCune Conference Room


 
The Pitch of Formal and Informal Russion Discourse
Olga Yokoyama
UCLA


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"Leaving the Scene": Embodiment and Inference in the Actions of Very Young Children
Mardi Kidwell
University of California, Santa Barbara


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Collaborative Storytelling of "my Own Story:" An Analysis of Participation in Japanese Conversation
Chisato Koike
University of California, Los Angeles


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Where she looks different from the last slice: distributed cognition in the activity of fMRI motion correction
Morana Alac
University of California, San Diego

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 Session 2

"Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality in Interaction"

UCEN, Flying A Studios Room

Session Presider: Deborah Schiffrin



 
How Speakers Negotiate Relations of Intimacy and Control Through Gossip
Mercia Santana Flannery
Georgetown University


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The Social Construction of Female Sexuality in Teenage Magazines
Linda McLoughlin
Liverpool Hope University College


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Referring to Relational Others: The Conversational Practices of Gay and Lesbian Couples
Brian Heisterkamp
California State University San Bernardino


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Compliments and Gender
Peter Wogan
Willamette University

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 Session 3


“Identities and Discourse”

Session Presider: Eve Clark

UCEN, Lobero Room

 
 
Nationalist Discourses, Magic, and the Politics of the State: The Semiotics of Class, Ethnicity and Religion in Contemporary Israel
Nitzan Shoshan
University of Chicago


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Friends and Neighbors: A Narrative Construction of Identity and Community in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina
Aida Premilovac
Georgetown University

(no abstract currently available)
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The Social Organization of National Identity: A Multi-Modal Analysis of Tourism Websites
Richard Hallett and Judith Kaplan-Weinger
Northeastern Illinois University


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The Myth of the "New Taiwanese": Identity Construction and Language Ideology in the Bilingual Discourse of Taipei's Young Generation
Dominika Baran
Harvard University

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 Session 4

“Media and Culture”

Session Presider: Emanuel Schegloff

UCEN, Santa Barbara Harbor Room


 
Did you see Coronation Street?: Everyday Conversation and the Ideology of Mass Culture
Margaret Toye
Georgetown University

(no abstract currently available)
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Stretching the Phone Lines: Ideology in Radio Talk Show Hosts' Advice-Giving
Mei-ching Ho
Pennsylvania State University


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Telling Judge Judy's Story
Fleur van der Houwen
University of Southern California


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Participants' Choice of Reference Terms in "Natural" and "Elicited" Soap Opera Talk
Pamela Downing
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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 Session 5

“Language and Institutions”

Session Presider: Don Zimmerman

UCEN, State Street Room

 

Louder than Words: Analysing Girls' Silence in a Language-Learning Classroom
Allyson Jule
University of Glamorgan, Wales


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The Ifs and Buts of Instructional Language: An Alternaitve Account of Conditional Clauses
Elizabeth O'Dowd and Mia Thomas-Ruzic
Saint Michael's College; University of Colorado


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School-Based Minority Language Revitalization on Corsica: Democratic Models of Bilingual Identification and Educational Practice
Alexandra Jaffe
California State University; Long Beach

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The Scales of Justice: How Judges Balance Neutrality and Efficiency in Plea Bargaining Encounters
Seung-Hee Lee
UCLA

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11:30-1:00

Lunch


1:00 – 2:00

PLENARY: Deborah Schiffrin

Georgetown University

Life, Language, and the Pursuit of Narrative

(Introduction by Mary Bucholtz)

2:00 – 2:15

Break


2:15 – 2:45


Language, Culture, and Linguistic Change: Honorific Terms of Address in Modern Hebrew
Yael Reshef
University of Michigan


2:45-3:15

Discourse Pragmatics as a Means of Contact-Induced Change
Suzanne Wertheim
University of California, Berkeley

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3:15-3:45

"Gendered Voicedness" Style Variations in Direct Quotations as Evidence for Gender Indexing in Japanese Conversational Narratives
Tetsuya Sato
University of Arizona



3:45 – 4:00

Break

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4:00 - 5:00

PLENARY: Marjorie Harness Goodwin

University of California, Los Angeles

Affect, Participation Structure and Occasioned Knowledge Exploration
in Family Interaction

(Introduction by Amy Kyratzis)


5:00 - 5:05

Closing Comments
Mardi Kidwell and Francien Rohrbacher, conference chairs

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