The Twelfth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 25-27, 2006
| Thursday, May 25th | |
| 2:30-3:45 |
Graduate Student Workshops*: Geoff Raymond (Viewpoint Conference Rooms, Ackerman 303A) Bambi Schieffelin (Viewpoint Conference Rooms, Ackerman 303B) |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:15 |
Graduate Student Workshops*: Mary Bucholtz (Viewpoint Conference Rooms, Ackerman 303A) John Lucy (Viewpoint Conference Rooms, Ackerman 303B) |
| 5:30-7:00 | Conference Welcoming Reception -- Kerckhoff Grand Salon (All are welcome!) |
| *Workshops require on-line pre-registration; graduate students only. | |
| Friday, May 26th -- in the Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall | |
| 8:30-8:55 | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:55-9:00 | Opening Remarks: Jeffrey Good, Conference Chair |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Alan Firth (Aalborg University, Denmark) After 'How may I Help You?': The organization of problem-description sequences in calls to a technical helpline |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Rachael McRoberts (UCSD) The Socialization of Bilingual Children to and Through Codeswitching in Catalonia, Spain |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Shlomy Kattan (UC Berkeley) Time and Identity?: Socializing Schedules and the Implications for Community |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Plenary Address by Bambi B. Schieffelin (New York University) Found in translating: Reflexive language across time and texts in Bosavi, PNG Introduced by Elinor Ochs, UCLA |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan) Attunement in social interaction |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Tomoko Ernst (University of Hawaii at Manoa) "Jibun" as a contextualization cue: Its Strategic Use in a Japanese Teenagers' TV Talk Show |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Olga Solomon, Susan Kraft, Alexandra Horowitz, Nancy Bagatell
(University of Southern California, UCLA,
The Learning Center for Dogs, Inc., Barnard College) Service Dogs as mediators of autistic children's sociability: What can we Learn about autism from going to the dogs? |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Emmanuelle Savarit (Roehampton University, UK) Sequential Placement of Gesture in Aphasic Talk-in-Interaction |
| 3:30-3:45 | Coffee break |
| 3:45-5:00 |
Plenary Address by Geoff Raymond (UCSB) Opening Up Sequence Organization: The Activity Context as a Source of Organization for Talk-in-Interaction Introduced by John Heritage, UCLA |
| 6:00 | CLIC Dinner party, Hershey Hall 1648 |
| Saturday, May 27th -- All events held in the Grand Salon in Kerckhoff Hall | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Jotaro Arimori (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Use of Japanese Connectives as Prefaces to Resumption |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Shawn Halbert (UCLA) Achieving Expertise: Question Design and Alignment Strategies on the Antiques Roadshow |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Edith Disler (US Air Force Academy) Asking, Telling and Discourse Perspectives from a Military Sociolinguist |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
Plenary Address by Mary Bucholtz, UCSB "I guess I'm white": Interviews, interaction, and ethnic self-classification Introduced by Candy Goodwin, UCLA |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Kobin Kendrick (UCSB) Turn-beginnings and action formation: "See" as a preface in locally occasioned informings |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Elizabeth Plumridge, Elizabeth Cunningham, & Jim Ross (Community Health Research Collaboration ki Waitaha, New Zealand) "Small Talk" to Small Participants: Nurses Talk to Babies and Toddlers During Immunizations |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Jeanne Katzman (UCLA) Participant Frameworks - Around the Family Dinner Table with Alzheimer's Dementia |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Jim Wilce (Northern Arizona University) Divining Troubles: Divination as Interaction in Bangladesh |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-5:00 |
Plenary Address by John Lucy (University of Chicago): Linguistic Relativity and Semantic Accent Introduced by Alessandro Duranti, UCLA |
| 5:00 | Closing Comments: Jeffrey Good, Conference Chair |