LINGUIST List 3.737

Fri 02 Oct 1992

Confs: Kentucky Foreign Language; Speech Communication

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1. Greg Stump, Call for papers
2. AHARRIS - Alan Harris, Speech Communication Association

The 46th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference will be held on
April 22-24, 1993, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The
conference will include sessions devoted to linguistic theory and TESL.
If you wish to present a paper in one of these sessions, send one copy
of a one-page abstract to Greg Stump (sessions on linguistic theory)
or to Barbara Kennedy (sessions on TESL) at the following address:
Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506-0027. Alternatively, abstracts may be submitted by e-mail to
the following addresses: eng101ukcc.uky.edu (Stump),
engblkukcc.uky.edu (Kennedy). Please specify whether your abstract
is for a 20-minute or a 45-minute paper. The deadline for submission
of abstracts is November 15, 1992.

Please announce: schedule of meetings, Commission on Semiotics, Speech
Communication Association annual national meeting, October 29-Nov.1,'92
Hilton, Chicago
[abbreviated version]

Th.10/29
4-5:20 pm/Conf rm 5b
"Semiotic Determinism and Visual Signs: Towards a Theory of Textual
Determinism. . ." B. King, Widener U.
"Semiotics, Reversibility, and the Implicate (Enfolded) Order" J. Gemin, U.
Wisc. Oshkosh
"C.S. Peirce and the Analytic Destruction of Argument:. . . " T. Puckett,
E. Wash U.
ch: J. Lundy, U. of Wisc.; resp: R. Lanigan, SIU

Fri.,10/30 2:30-3:50 pm, Conf.rm 5e
"World Beat: Returning Culture Through Integral Music" K. Williams, OU
"Hispanic TV: The Emergence of a Third Text" E. Lozano, OU
"Signs in Transition" A. Mickunas, OU
ch: J. Tumas-Serna, Hollins Coll; resp: D. Descutner, OU

Fri., 10/30 7-8:20 pm, Conf. rm 5b
"A Semiotic Perspective on the Structure of Recovery" R. Slagle, CSU
Northridge
"Enduring Messages: A communicative Semiotic of Walls" A. Harris,
N. McChesney,CSU, Northridge
"The Poetic Function of 'Going Home'" M. Kaiser, SIU
ch: R. Wolin, Babson Coll; resp. E. Peterson, U. Maine

Sat. 10/31 Business Meeting 8:30-9:50 am Conf. Rm. 5a

Sat. 10/31 11:30-12:50 pm Conf. Rm. 5i
"TV as icon and Index, and Something Else Entirely: R. Gozzi, Jr., Bradley U.
"Discursive Structure and Discursive Practice: Social Action Implications. .
. " G. Schoening, LaSalle U.
" The Advertising Function of Newspaper Photographs" A. Himsl, U. Maine,
Orano
ch: R. Hobbs, Babson Coll; resp. J. Tumas-Serna, Hollins Coll

Sat. 10/31 5:30-6:50 pm Conf. rm 4b
"The Other as Alien, Monster, Robot: P. Salus, Sun User Grp.
"Race in Space: The Representation of Ethnicity in SF. . ." M. Pounds, CSU,
Long Beach
ch: A. Harris, CSU Northridge; resp. T. Puckett, E. Wash. U.

Sun. 11/1 10-11:20 am Conf. Rm 5d
"Stories as Signs: What is the Difference between Sexual Suggestion and
Violation?" R. Pietropaolo, Villanova U.
"Breaching Codes: The Aesthetic, Moral, and Social Dimensions of Sexual
Violation" L. Townsend, Villanova U.
"The Ambiguities of 'Hooking Up'" G. Mead, Villanova U.
ch: A. Smith, Villanova; resp. J. Martinez, Babson Coll

Sun. 11/1 11:30-12:50 pm, Conf. Rm 5a
"Hard Sell/Soft Sell: Computer Commercails and the Contesting of the Hegemonic
Cultural Elite" K. Kitalong, Mich. Tech. U.
"The Mismeasure of Mesomorphy: A Critical Analysis of . . Body Building"
R. Fiordo, Penn State U.
"TV News, Objectivity, and Abortion" J. Chung, OSU
ch: A. Harris, CSU, Northridge; resp. A. Smith, Villanova U.


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Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. telno: off:
Professor, Communication/Linguistics 818-885-2853/2874
Speech Communication Department hm:
California State University, Northridge 818-780-8872
SPCH CSUN fax: 818-885-2663
Northridge, CA 91330
 Internet: AHARRISVAX.CSUN.EDU
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