| Thursday, May 7, 1998 | |
| 3:00-5:00 | Grad student workshop (Kerckhoff State Room) |
| 5:00-7:00 | Reception (Powell Courtyard) |
| Friday, May 8, 1998 -- Charles Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall | |
| 8:00-9:00 | Continental Breakfast and registration |
| 9:00 | Opening Comments |
| 9:15-9:45 | Debbie Cohen (Dept of Communication; Rutgers)
Direct reporting as a resource for demonstrating or enacting internal psychological states |
| 9:45-10:15 | James Wilce (Dept of Anthropology; Northern Arizona Univ)
Coping with the language of madness in rural Bangladesh: Aesthetics and language ideologies |
| 10:15-10:45 | Tanya Stivers (Applied Linguistics; UCLA)
Participation organization in pediatric consultations |
| 10:45-11:15 | Haruko Minegishi Cook (Dept of East Asian Languages and Literatures; University of Hawaii)
Students' Use of the Impersonal Style in a Japanese Elementary School Classroom |
| 11:15-11:45 | Break |
| 11:45 | Introduction of the Plentary Speaker by Elinor Ochs |
| 11:55-1:00 | Plenary Address by Dr. Penelope Brown:
Everyone has to lie in Tzeltal: Threats, lies, and video tape in a Mayan society |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:00 | Jill Kushner (Dept of Anthropology; UCLA)
These are the words they don't put in the stories: The Negotiation of Sephardic moral frameworks through narrative |
| 3:00-3:30 | David Olsher (Applied Linguistics; UCLA)
The English progressive in spoken discourse: The case of broadcast news interview talk |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-4:30 | Evelyn McClave (English and Linguistics; CSU, Northridge)
You have a head for language: Linguistic uses of the head in conversation among Americans |
| 4:30-5:00 | Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Dept of Germanic Languages; U of Texas, Austin)
Politeness in Persian interaction: The preference format of offers in Persian |
| 7:00 | Party at the home of Elinor Ochs and Sandro Duranti |
| Saturday, May 9, 1998 -- in the Charles Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Continental Breakfast and registration |
| 9:30-9:45 | Opening comments by John Heritage |
| 9:45-10:15 | Edward Miner (Linguistics; U of Illinois, Urbana)
The Discursive Construction of Linguistic Hierarchies in Ugandan Television Programming |
| 10:15-10:45 | Ikuko Yuasa (Dept of East Asian Languages; UC Berkeley)
Politeness strategies observed in pitch-ranges employed by Japanese men and women |
| 10:45-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-11:45 | Yong-Yae Park (East Asian Languages; UCLA)
A discourse analysis of the Korean connective ketun in conversation |
| 11:45-12:15 | Amy Meepoe (Program in Applied Linguistics; UCLA)
Tying techniques in Thai: The practices of personal reference" |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45-2:00 | Introduction of speakers by Alessandro Duranti |
| 2:00-3:30 | Symposium with professors Elinor Ochs, Emanuel Schegloff, and Sandra Thompson |
| 3:30-3:45 | Closing comments by Jeff Robinson |