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mtu.edu>DRAFT PROGRAM FOR THE 1993 COSWL LANGUAGE AND GENDER CONFERENCE "The Language-Gender Interface: Theories and Methods for Research and Teaching" July 15-18, 1993, Columbus, Ohio Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics Affiliated with the the Linguistic Society of America's 1993 Linguistic Institute Conference Organizers: Victoria Bergvall (Michigan Tech U), chair; Janet Bing (Old Dominion U), Alice Freed (Montclair State Col), Kathryn Remlinger (Michigan Tech U), and Christie Block (OSU). TUESDAY: Please note that the plenary address to the Linguistic Institute by Sally McConnell-Ginet and Penelope Eckert, previously scheduled for July 13, has been moved to the evening of July 20. Title TBA. ----------------- THURSDAY, JULY 15 7-9 pm casual reception/registration (at Drackett Hall, housing check-in site) ----------------- FRIDAY, JULY 16 8:00 Registration opens at conference site (TBA) 8:45 Welcome, opening remarks, announcements SESSION A: THEORY AND METHOD IN LANGUAGE AND GENDER RESEARCH 9:00-9:25 Bonnie McElhinny, Stanford U "Theories of Gender in Women's Studies and Linguistics: A Critical Review" 9:25-9:50 Mary Bucholtz, UC Berkeley "Theory and Practice in African American Women's Speech" 9:50-10:15 Alice Freed, Montclair State Col "Language and Gender Research in an Experimental Setting" 10:15-10:30 general discussion 10:30-10:45 break SESSION B: THE INTERFACE OF AGE AND GENDER IN LANGUAGE 10:45-11:10 Amy Sheldon, U Minnesota "'I want to play too': Preschool Girls' Negotiations for Power and Access" 11:10-11:35 Alice Greenwood, Vassar Col, "Floor Management and Power Strategies in Adolescent Conversation" 11:35-12:00 Pam Saunders, Philadelphia Geriatric Center, "Do Old Women Tell Secrets? An Analysis of Personal Talk in the Discourse of Elderly Women" 12:00-12:15 general discussion 12:15-2:00 Lunch break SESSION C: CONSTRUCTING A GENDERED IDENTITY, PART 1 2:00-2:25 Veronica O'Donovan, U Texas-Austin and Kira Hall, UC Berkeley "Gendering India's Third Sex: Constructions of Female and Male Self in the Hindi of the Banaras Hijras" 2:25-2:50 Miriam Meyerhoff, U Penn. and Nancy Niedzielski, UC Santa Barbara "Women's Identities: Interpersonal and Intergroup Perspectives on Constructing a Unique Identity" 2:50-3:15 Victoria Bergvall, Michigan Tech U "Constructing and Enacting Gender Through Discourse: Negotiating Multiple Roles as Female Engineering Students" 3:15-3:30 general discussion 3:30-3:45 break SESSION D: CONSTRUCTING A GENDERED IDENTITY, PART 2 3:45-4:10 Kira Hall, UC Berkeley "The Redefinition of Self Among Ashram Widows in Banaras" 4:10-4:35 Birch Moonwomon, USC "Syntactic Choice and Identity Construction in Narrative" 4:35-5:00 Anita Liang, UC Berkeley "Stepping Out of Institutional Roles: Telephone Service Encounters with Prank Callers" 5:00-5:15 general discussion 6:00 BANQUET 7:30-9:00 OPEN COSWL MEETING, discussion of formation of LSA Women's Caucus ----------------- SATURDAY, July 17 SESSION E: NEGOTIATING INTERACTION 9:00-9:25 Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King, York U "Feminist Linguistic Innovations: Negotiating Meaning" 9:25-9:50 Scott Kiesling, Georgetown U "Competitive Cooperativeness and Status in Male Discourse" 9:50-10:15 Sarah Bacon, Y. Ayanna Bennett, Ottrell Ferrell, Mona Kanda, and Carolyn Laub, Stanford U, "Gesture Patterns of Black and White Women in Conversation" 10:15-10:30 general discussion 10:30-10:45 break SESSION F: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON LANGUAGE AND GENDER 10:45-11:10 Laurel Sutton, UC Berkeley "Using the NET: Gender, Power, and Silencing in Electronic Discourse" 11:10-11:35 Doris Ravotas, Copper Country Mental Health Center/Michigan Tech U "Discourse Patterns in a Family Therapy Case" 11:35-12:00 Livia Polanyi & Diana Strassmann, Rice U, Storytellers and Gatekeepers in Economics" 12:00-12:15 general discussion 12:15-2:00 Lunch break SESSION G: VIEWS ON CONVERSATION AND GENDER 2:00-2:25 Janice Drakich, Terry Chow, and Sandra Miller, U Windsor "An Experiential Course on Gender Communication and Academic Processses: The Relationship of Topic of Talk, Sex Composition, and Gender on Amount of Talk" 2:25-2:50 Anna Fellegy, U Minnesota "Minimal Response Patterns in Male Speech" 2:50-3:15 Liliana B. Anglada, Texas Tech U "Conversational Interactions Among Women and Men in the Spanish Variety Spoken in Argentina" 3:15-3:30 general discussion 3:30-3:45 break SESSION H: WOMEN AND MEN COMPARED 3:45-4:10 Genevieve Escure, U Minnesota "Gender and Tense Marking in a Creole Context" 4:10-4:35 Madeleine Youmans, USC and G. Genevieve Patthey- Chavez, UCLA and LA City Col "Action vs. Experience: Linguistic Contrasts in Women's and Men's Erotic Genres" 4:35-5:00 Deborah James, U Toronto-Scarborough"When and Why is Women's Speech Closer to the Standard than Men's? A Critical Review" 5:00-5:15 general discussion 5:15-7:30 dinner break 7:30 INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Deborah Cameron, U Strathclyde (comments by Penny Eckert, Institute for Research on Learning & Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell ?) 8:30 or 9:00 PARTY?/MUSIC (beginning after the keynote address is over) ----------------- SUNDAY, JULY 18 9:00-10:15 WORKSHOPS (still to be confirmed) tentatively: Teaching L&G (syllabi workshop), Beth Hume (OSU) and Bonnie McElhinny (Stanford) Pedagogy of L&G, Janet Bing (Old Dominion U) Methods in L&G research Career Issues How to write an abstract for the LSA conference 10:15-10:30 break 10:30-11:45 WORKSHOPS (repeats, extensions, or second set) 11:45-12:00 break 12:00-1:00 ROUNDTABLE/SUMMARY "Theory and Methods for Research and Teaching Language and Gender": Sally McConnell- Ginet, Penny Eckert, (Deborah Cameron, Victoria Bergvall, Alice Freed, Janet Bing) discussion of conference, future directions, audience commentary, closing comments PLUS, All day Sunday: WORKSHOPS/PARASESSION ON LESBIAN LANGUAGE(S) (Birch Moonwomon and Ruth Morgan, organizers) TUESDAY, July 20 evening: Plenary address to the Linguistic Institute by Sally McConnell-Ginet and Penelope Eckert, Title TBA.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue