gls 1995 schedule ( updated 1 / 19 / 95 ) updated 1 / 19 / 95 ( includes session times ) * * * * * * * * * * the georgetown linguistics society presents gls 1995 : developments in discourse analysis february 17-19 , 1995 georgetown university , washington d . c . * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 * * 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 @ guvax . georgetown . edu georgetown university bitnet : gls @ 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 * * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ pre-registration form for * * gls 1995 * * please complete and print this form or provide the required information on another sheet of paper and mail to gls 1995 , georgetown university , department of linguistics , 479 intercultural center , washington , d . c . 20057-1068 name : affiliation : mailing address : e - mail address : phone number : registration fee . please remit the appropriate registration fee in the form of a check or money order made payable to " georgetown university " : student non - student preregistration ( through feb . 10 ) $ 20 . 00 $ 30 . 00 on - site registration $ 30 . 00 $ 40 . 00 attendance needs ( ) american sign language interpretation ( ) crash space ( first-come basis ) ( ) other ( please specify ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ end of announcement . please distribute as widely as possible . thank you .
