LINGUIST List 10.345

Fri Mar 5 1999

Confs: Language interaction and culture

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

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1. Mardi J Kidwell, Language, Interaction, and Culture University of California

 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND CULTURE

 University of California, Santa Barbara

 April 29 - May 1, 1999

 Plenary Speaker:

 Don Kulick

 Language and Gender/Language and Sexuality

 Guest Speaker:

 Bev Sauer

 Embodied Experience: Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture


Presented by:

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate
Student Association at UCSB
 and
The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) Graduate
Student Association at UCLA

Registration and all events are free, but space is limited and
pre-registration is strongly encouraged BY APRIL 1 (SEE FORM AT THE END
OF THIS MESSAGE). For more information, contact us at
harbisoncats.ucsc.edu, or see our website at
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/liso.

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Conference Events Include:

Th, April 29
Pre-conference workshop for graduate students with Dr. Kulick (space
limited to 40)
Pre-conference reception (open to everyone)

F, April 30
Full day of paper presentations
Plenary Speaker Don Kulick: Language and Gender/Language and Sexuality
Dinner Party

Sat, May 1
Half day of paper presentations
Guest speaker Bev Sauer:
 Embodied Experience: Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture
Panel Discussion with UCSB and UCLA faculty:
 Methodologies at the Crossroads: Perspectives on Language,
 Interaction, and Culture Research


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Don Kulick is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Stockholm.
He is the author of "Language shift and cultural reproduction:
socialization, syncretism and self in a Papua New Guinean village" (CUP
1992). His most recent book is "Travesti: sex, gender and culture
among Brazilian transgendered prostitutes" (U of Chicago Press, 1998).

Bev Sauer teaches courses in Classical and Renaissance Rhetoric, advanced
professional and technical communication, the rhetoric of science,
language and design, and the rhetoric of public policy . Her current work
investigates the rhetorical strategies that individuals employ to
represent an individual's embodied viewpoint at two critical moments of
knowledge transfer within risky industries: accident investigations and
workplace safety training and instruction.

ABOUT LISO AND CLIC:
LISO is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, whose members share an interest in the
analysis of recorded social interaction through various approaches,
including conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and
functional linguistics. LISO is composed of faculty and graduate students
from linguistics, sociology, and education, among other departments.

CLIC is located at the University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose
of CLIC is to promote cross-disciplinary discussion about issues
regarding language as a complex resource for thinking and acting in the
world. CLIC is composed of faculty and graduate students from
anthropology, applied linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology.

**************************REGISTRATION FORM********************************
Please e-mail this form to harbisoncats.ucsc.edu, or mail a hard copy to
the address below by APRIL 1.

NAME (to appear on badge):

AFFILIATION (to appear on badge):

ADDRESS:

E-MAIL:

PHONE:

Please indicate which events you want to register for:

April 29 Pre-conference reception_______
April 29 Graduate Student Workshop with Dr. Kulick (space limited)________
April 30 ________
May 1 ________


Would you like information on hotels/transportation? Yes/No____________


LISO Graduate Student Association
Department of Sociology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

FAX: (805) 893-3324