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cogsci.Berkeley.EDU>PLEASE POST PLEASE POST 1992 BERKELEY WOMEN AND LANGUAGE CONFERENCE: LOCATING POWER April 4 and 5 University of California, Berkeley Martin Luther King, Jr., Student Union (Corner of Bancroft and Telegraph) Preliminary Schedule Saturday, April 4 8:00 Registration, Coffee & Pastries: Heller Lounge 8:45 Introductory Remarks: Heller Lounge Kira Hall Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley Session 1: Heller Lounge 9:00 The silencing of women Robin Tolmach Lakoff Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 9:45 Language, gender, and power: An anthropological review Susan Gal Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University 10:30 Claudia Mitchell-Kernan Dean and Vice Chancellor, Graduate Programs University of California, Los Angeles 11:15 Lunch Session 2A: Tilden Room 12:30 Lectal variation and women's power in a creole community Genevieve Escure Department of English, University of Minnesota 12:55 Recent development of a second-person pronoun caki in Korean Jeong-Woon Park Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 1:20 When agents disappear: How gender affects the implicit causality of interpersonal verbs Marianne LaFrance Department of Psychology, Boston College 1:45 Why is it that women in Rwanda cannot marry? Alexandre Kimenyi Department of Foreign Languages and Ethnic Studies California State University, Sacramento Session 2B: Tan Oak Room 12:30 Less feminine speech among young Japanese females Shigeko Okamoto and Shie Sato Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno 12:55 Gender interference in transsexuals' speech H. Merle Knight 1:20 Language choice and women learners of ESL Tara Goldstein Modern Language Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 1:45 A sociolinguistic description of linguistic self-expression, innovativeness, and power among chicanas in Texas and New Mexico Maria Dolores Gonzales Velasquez Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of New Mexico D. Letticia Galindo Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University Session 2C: Stephens Lounge 12:30 Gender displays in talk among family, friends and neighbors Deborah Schiffrin Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University 12:55 Miss Nora, rescuer of the Rama language: A story of advocacy and empowerment Colette G. Craig Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon 1:20 Talking it out or talking it in: An ethnography of power and language in psychotherapeutic practice Cathryn Houghton Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 1:45 Bringing aging into the language/gender equation Heidi E. Hamilton Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University 2:10 Conferring Session 1: Heller Lounge Session 3A: Tilden Room 2:40 Rape, race, and responsibility: A graffiti text political discourse Birch Moonwomon Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 3:05 Accruing power on conversational floors Karen L. Adams Department of English, Arizona State University 3:30 Participation in electronic discourse in a "feminist" field Susan Herring, Deborah Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino 3:55 The construction of equality in women's conversations Senta Troemel-Ploetz Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn Session 3B: Tan Oak Room 2:40 Gender versus group-relations analysis of impositive speech acts Mira Ariel and Rachel Giora Department of Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 3:05 "It's rather like embracing a textbook": The linguistic representation of the female psychoanalyst in American film Beth Daniels Department of TEFL, American University in Cairo, Egypt Kira Hall Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 3:30 Camille Paglia and the feminist backlash Melanie Morton Department of Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society University of Minnesota 3:55 We understand perfectly: A critique of Tannen's view of cross-sex communication Alice F. Freed Department of Linguistics, Montclair State College Session 3C: Stephens Lounge 2:40 The status of the sexes: A view through language Holly Bea Liske Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University 3:05 Feminist meanings and sexist speech communities Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics York University, Canada 3:30 Bitches and skankly hobags: The place of women in contemporary slang Laurel Sutton Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 3:55 Sex differences in address terminology in the 1990's Leanne Hinton Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 4:20 Conferring Session 2: Heller Lounge Session 4: Heller Lounge 4:50 Orchestrating participation in events: Power in African American girls' talk Marjorie Harness Goodwin Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina 5:35 Mothers' role in the everyday reconstruction of 'Father knows best' Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor Department of Applied Linguistics/TESL University of California, Los Angeles 6:30 Break for Dinner 8:00 Party catered by Lauren and Mo: Alumni House Sunday, April 5 8:30 a.m. Coffee & Pastries: Heller Lounge Session 5A: Tilden Room 9:00 Women's language for sale on the fantasy lines Kira Hall Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley 9:25 The social construction of sexual realities in women's and men's heterosexual erotic fiction G. Genevieve Patthey-Chavez The Sociobehavioral Group, University of California, Los Angeles Madeleine Youmans Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California 9:50 A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a teenage magazine Mary Talbot Department of English Literature Chester College of Higher Education 10:15 Clarence Thomas and the survival of sexual harassment Peg O'Connor Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota 10:40 Variation in gap length and the Anita Hill/ Clarence Thomas cross-examination discourse Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Session 5B: Tan Oak Room 9:00 The tools of the trade: Acquiring the discourse of the skilled trades Marisa Castellano School of Education, University of California, Berkeley 9:25 'You don't smile a lot': Affect, gender, and the discourse of Pittsburgh police officers Bonnie McElhinny Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Department of WomenUs Studies, University of Pittsburgh 9:50 Power in discourse: A language model of organizational inequity in a steel plant Susan S. Case Department of Organizational Behavior Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University 10:15 The politics of subordination: Linguistic discourse in organizational hierarchies Anne Machung Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley 10:40 Playing down authority and still getting things done: Female professors get help from the institution Elisabeth D. Kuhn Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University Session 5C: Stephens Lounge 9:00 Masculine pronouns as generic: A view from the child Nancy Anne Niedzielski Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara 9:25 Gendered talk and gendered lives: Little girls being women before becoming (big) girls Jenny Cook-Gumperz Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara 9:50 The effects of group size and gender composition on the kind of participation in small group discussions Jacqueline J. Madhok SESAME: Graduate Group in Science and Math Education University of California, Berkeley 10:15 Gender differences in the use of persuasive justification in children's pretend play Amy Kyratzis Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley 10:40 Talking power: Preschool girls' conflict talk Amy Sheldon Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota 11:05 Conferring Session 3: Heller Lounge 11:35 Break for Lunch Session 6: Heller Lounge 1:00 Studying language and gender as community practice Penelope Eckert Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto Sally McConnell-Ginet Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University 1:45 Are you with me?: Power, solidarity, and community in the discourse of African American women Michele Foster Department of Black Studies/Division of Education University of California, Davis 2:30 Linguistic privilege: Stating facts and speaking powerfully in Japanese Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis 3:15 What are we laughing about? Susan Ervin-Tripp Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley Session 7A: Tilden Room 4:00 Gender-dependent pitch levels: A comparative study in Japanese and English Yumiko Ohara Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Manoa 4:25 "Sounds pretty ethnic, eh?": A pragmatic particle in Porirua speech Miriam Meyerhoff Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Victoria University of Wellington 4:50 A theory of deixis for examining the social construction of reality in relation to differential access to power Louanna Furbee Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia Session 7B: Tan Oak Room 4:00 "To spare women a beating for three days, they will make the world upside down": Images of women in Chinese proverbs Hong Zhang Department of Anthropology, Columbia University 4:25 Discourse of power and solidarity: Language features of African American females in a neighborhood-based youth dance program Arnetha F. Ball School of Education, University of Michigan 4:50 The goddess and the sea people: The origins of the languages of the Minoan scripts Karen Woodman Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria Session 7C: Stephens Lounge 4:00 Women talking to women: The function of questions in conversation Alice F. Freed Department of Linguistics, Montclair State College Alice Greenwood Department of Linguistics, AT&T Bell Laboratories 4:25 Interruptions, gender and power: A critical review of the literature Deborah James Division of the Humanities, University of Toronto Sandra Clark Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland 4:50 Issues of gender, roles, and power in dyadic conversations Grace P. Chan Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago 5:15 Conferring Session 4: Heller Lounge Session 8: Heller Lounge 5:45 Information management: Women's language strengths Dale Spender University of London, University of Queensland 6:30 Wine and Cheese Reception: Heller LoungeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue