MICHICAGO 2008
MAY 2-3, CHICAGO
"LINGUISTIC WORLDS IN COLLISION"
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ENG-SENG HO, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FRIDAY MAY 2ND: AFTERNOON SESSION
- PANEL I: LINGUISTIC WORLDS: PERSONHOOD AND INTERACTION
- PANEL II: COMPETING (RE)CONTEXTUALIZATIONS
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ENG-SENG HO, ANTHROPOLOGY, HARVARD
"BALLOTS FOR BOMBS: DO DEMOCRACIES AND TERRORISTS SHARE A LANGUAGE FOR TALKING PEACE?"
SATURDAY MAY 3RD: MORNING SESSION
- PANEL III: LANGUAGE IN ACTION
- PANEL IV: INSTITUIONAL INTERVENTIONS
SATURDAY MAY 3RD: AFTERNOON SESSION
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FRIDAY MAY 2ND: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL I: LINGUISTIC WORLDS: PERSONHOOD AND INTERACTION
Elise Berman
Ideologies of Truth and Deception: Interactive Life among the K'iche' Maya
Erika Alpert
"The Meaning of Cute is Very Deep": Gendering Androgyny in Japanese Conversation
Elise Kramer
"That's Not Funny!!": Rape Jokes as a Site for the Negotiation of American Humor Ideologies
Greg Thompson
Non-Referential Communication of Understanding and Evaluation in a Tutoring Interaction
Benjamin Smith
Controlling the Fickle: Aymara Children, Conative Interjections, and Alpacas
E. Summerson Carr, Discussant
PANEL II: COMPETING (RE)CONTEXTUALIZATIONS
Tatiana Tchoudakova
Of Scholars and Peasants: The Disciplinary Construction of ‘Locality Studies' in the Soviet 1920s
Elana Resnick
Transnational affiliations, Local Articulations: Romani Positioning in Bulgaria
Erika Feldman
Truth and True Crime
Craig Colligan
The Spectral Work of Art in the Age of Posthumous Production
Alexander Blanchette
Naturalizing Industry: Agricultural Science and Industrial Production Models
Bruce Mannheim, Discussant
SATURDAY MAY 3RD: MORNING SESSION
PANEL III: LANGUAGE IN ACTION
Elina Hartikainen
Linguistic Parodies of Favela Residents: Covert Racism in a Racial Democracy
Nicholas Q. Emlen
Language Ownership and the Common Property Discourse of Language Revitalization
Jessica Smith
Jumbled Talk, Confused Women? Language, Technology and the Gendering of Expertise in Wyoming Coal Mines
Urmila Nair
How Men become Gods: The Poetic Function of Grammar in a Tibetan Buddhist Rite
Judith T. Irvine, Discussant
PANEL IV: INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS
Stephen K. Scott
Pragmatic Translation and the Domestication of TB Control Discourse in Periurban Bolivia
Kabir Tambar
Secularist Crowds and Populist Politics in Turkey
Nishant Choksi
Orthography as an Expensive Affair: Hegemony, Ideology, and Metapragmatic Disputes within an Adivasi Speech Community
Matthew Wolfgram
More Knowledge Equals Less Power: Testifying Ayurveda in the Age of Biomedicine
Andrew Graan
"Public" Diplomacy and the Politics of Carrots and Sticks: Press Conferences and Construction of "International" Authority in Post-Conflict Macedonia
Susan Gal, Discussant
SATURDAY MAY 3RD: AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL V: COLLIDING CODES
Sonia Das
Regimenting Space-Time in the Montreal Tamil Diasporas
Aaron Butts
Grammatical Replication in Greek-Syriac Language Contact
Michael Bare
Snooty Interactions
Tanya Skubiak
The Uncertainty of Surzhyk: A Third Language in Ukraine?
Barbara Meek, Discussant
PANEL VI: COLLIDING COMMUNITY
Kathryn Graber
"Tortured Expressions" on "Uneven Ground": Reading Standard Literary Buryat in Siberian Newspapers
Alejandro Paz
The Nativity of Language and Ethnolinguistic Descent
Emily Hein
The Semiotics of Diaspora: Following the Text into the Coptic Liturgy in Germany
Shunsuke Nozawa
The Colliding of Temporalities: Functional Stratification in the Semiotic Structuring of Time
Kelda Jamison
Controversial Codes: Language ‘Communities' and Contradictions in Kurdish Turkey
John Lucy, Discussant
FINALE: EMERGENT THEMES OPEN FORUM
Stephen Scott, Sonia Neela Das, Susan Philips, & Michael Silverstein, moderators
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