Conference

CLIC gsa

Addressing heterogeneity: Language use in urban enviroments

May 24, 1996

8:30 Coffee
9:00 Introduction
9:15 Patricia Baquedano-Lopez (TESL/Applied Linguistics)
Creating social identities through Doctrina narratives
9:45 Benjamin Bailey (Anthropology)
Intercultural communication of respect between immigrant Korean retailers and African-American customers in Los Angeles service encounters
10:15 Adrienne Lo (TESL/Applied Linguistics)
She's so FLY!: Constructing mulitiple social identities in an interracial conversation in L.A.
10:45 Break
11:00 Workshop: Dropping out and dropping in: Contrasting perspectives within classroom conversation.
Organizer: Betsy Rymes (TESL/Applied Linguistics)
12:30 Lunch
1:45 David Olsher (TESL/Applied Linguistics) and Andrew Roth (Sociology)
A comparative study of locally- and nationally-broadcast news interviews: The case of "What-about"-prefaced questions.
2:15 Otto Santa Ana (Cesar Chavez Center)
Metaphoric structure of anti-immigrant discourse in Califoria politics
2:30 Break
3:00 Workshop: Cooperative learning in a bilingual classroom in northern California
Organizer: John Gumperz (Graduate School of Education, UCSB)
4:30 Concluding remarks