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ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>SALSA VIII Symposium About Language and Society--Austin April 7-9 ART BUILDING AND GALLERY (ART) 1.102 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania William Labov, University of Pennsylvania William Hanks, Northwestern University Madeline Maxwell, University of Texas at Austin FRIDAY, APRIL 7 9:00-9:30 Registration/Coffee 9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks 9:45-10:45 Keynote Address: The sociolinguistics of language change: Linguistic reorganization across the lifespan Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania 10:45-11:00 BREAK SESSION I: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CHANGE 11:00-11:30 Language variation in Caribbean creole/non-lexifier contact situations: Continua or diglossia? Peter Snow, University of California, Los Angeles 11:30-12:00 The role of Russian function words in urban colloquial Uzbek Dominika Baran, Harvard University 12:00-12:30 The interplay of morphophonological systems in linguistic borrowing in Louisiana French Becky Brown, Purdue University 12:30-2:00 LUNCH SESSION II: DISCOURSE AND PERSUASION 2:00-2:30 Generalizing opinions as a strategy of persuasion in Japanese business meetings Keiko Emmett, University of Minnesota 2:30-3:00 The discourse of pharmaceutical ads Rae A. Moses, Northwestern University 3:00-3:15 BREAK SESSION III: CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY 3:15-3:45 Creating a bilingual identity: Conversation analysis of Spanish/English language use in a television interview Holly R. Cashman, University of Michigan 3:45-4:15 Language attitude and identity in the European Republics of the Former Soviet Union Matthew H. Ciscel, Angie C. Green, and Richard W. Hallett, Murray State University 4:15-4:45 Martha Stewart's linguistic presentation of self Catherine Evans Davies, University of Alabama 5:30 Happy Hour SATURDAY, APRIL 8 8:30-9:00 Coffee 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address: The sociolinguistics of language change: The evolution of North American English William Labov, University of Pennsylvania 10:00-10:15 BREAK SESSION I: FORM AND FUNCTION 10:15-10:45 Informal greeting formulas in connection with postwar situation in Western Ukraine Anatoliy Orlovskyy and Ludmyla Chamarnyk, State University "Lviv Politechnical," Ukraine 10:45-11:15 Referent honorifics in Japanese conversation Harumi Yamaji, University of Arizona 11:15-11:45 Framing interactions and defining relations: Phatic talk in Chinese telephone conversations Hao Sun, University of Idaho 11:45-1:15 LUNCH 1:15-2:15 Keynote Address: The making of a colonial interlanguage William Hanks, Northwestern University 2:15-2:30 BREAK SESSION II: LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT 2:30-3:00 Addressing the invisible world: Indexicality, iconicity, and the cultural concept of self in Belian, a Petalangan healing ritual Yoonhee Kang, Yale University 3:00-3:30 Language and ecology: The view from the Kuna Indians of Panama Joel Sherzer, University of Texas at Austin 3:30-4:00 Cooperation, flexibility and multimodal communication Jens Allwood, University of Goeteborg 4:00-4:15 BREAK SESSION III: LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA 4:15-4:45 Poetics of argumentative public speaking Troi Carleton, San Francisco State University 4:45-5:15 The dubbing of The Simpsons: Cultural appropriation, discursive manipulation and divergences Eric Plourde, University of Montreal 8:00-11:00 SALSA Party SUNDAY, APRIL 9 8:30-9:00 Coffee 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address: Lessons about language and communication to be learned from the study of deaf language and social interaction Madeline Maxwell, University of Texas at Austin 10:00-10:15 BREAK SESSION I: GENDER AND POWER 10:15-10:45 Gender, power, and (inter)subjectivity in a Japanese seventh grade classroom Ayumi Miyazaki, Harvard University 10:45-11:15 Tom-boy talk, 'Girls from the "Cit�"' and the limits of gender as performance Chantal Tetreault, University of Texas at Austin 11:15-11:45 How White hegemonic English reproduces racial and gender hierarchies John T. Clark, California State University at Chico Pre-registration (until April 6): Students $22, Non-students $37 Registration (April 7-9): UT Students $18, Non-UT Students $25, Non-students $40 Symposium About Language and Society-Austin For more information: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/projects/salsa E-mail: SALSAMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue