FALL 2005 COLLOQUIA

Sept. 16
Ronald Geluykens
Institut für Fremdsprachenphilologien, University of Oldenburg
Bettina Kraft
Department of Modern Languages, University of Southampton
“Complaint Strategies in a Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Methodological Evaluation”

Sept. 22
Sarah Kriz
Department of Psychology, UCSB
“Perspective in Spatial Perception, Representations, and Descriptions”

Sept. 29
Susanna Cumming
Department of Linguistics, UCSB, Lab Colloquium
“Word for Linguists”

Oct. 6
Marianne Mithun
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
“Expanding the Explicable: Windfalls from an Iconicity Anomaly”

Oct. 13
Dorothy Chun
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, UCSB
“The Field of Applied Linguistics and the Sub-Field of CALL”

Oct. 20
Robert Englebretson
Rice University
“‘He Wants to Know How You Say Hi to a Horse’: Dialogic and Interactional Implications of English Embedded Wh-Questions”

Oct. 27
Robert Kennedy
Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UCSB
“Nicknames and the Lexicon of Sport”

Nov. 3
Matthew Gordon, Carlos Nash, and Carmen Jany
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
“Phonetic Correlates of Syllable Weight”

Nov. 10
John W. Du Bois
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
“Triangulating Affect: Empathy in the Dialogic Structure of Stance”

Nov. 17
Russell Schuh
Department of Linguistics, UCLA
“The Great Ngamo Tone Shift”

Nov. 24: No colloquium (Thanksgiving holiday)

Dec. 1
Sandra A. Thompson
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
“What Are Clauses For?: Understanding Grammar in Terms of Social Action”