FALL 2006 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in South Hall 1430 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. every Thursday afternoon during the academic quarter. When our speaker is an out-of-town guest, dinner is held in her or his honor at a local restaurant (location to be announced immediately following the colloquium). All are welcome to attend.

Graduate students who attend the colloquium series should enroll in Linguistics 272 each quarter.

FALL 2006 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE

Oct. 5
Diane Hintz
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
"Communicative functions of past tense markers in South Conchucos Quechua"
Dissertation

Oct. 12
Alec Coupe
University La Trobe, Austrailia
"Linguistics convergence in Nagaland"

Oct. 19
Janie Lee/Lea Harper
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
"Representations of Asian English in Hollywood Films" (Janie Lee)
"Film Media Representations of AAVE: Frequency, Indexicality, and Ideology" (Lea Haper)
MA research

Oct. 26
Sharon Rose
Department of Linguistics, UCSD
"Aspects of the phonology and morphology of Moro nominals"

Nov. 2
Greg Brown
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
"An Analysis of Soaring Discourse: Interaction and Contextual Constraints"
Dissertation

Nov. 9
TBA

Nov. 16
Jeff MacSwan
Arizona State University
"Grammatical constraints on language mixing below sentential boundaries: What kind of theory should a theory of codeswitching be?"

Nov. 23
No Colloquium, Thanksgiving

Nov. 30
Joye Kiester
Department of Linguistics, UCSB
"'What Does a Sorry Card Do'?: Board Game Discourse as a Genre"
MA Research

Dec 7
Joe Blythe
University of Sydney, Australia
"'Follow the two males,' the two males said: The
interactional use of pragmatic, prosodic, and polysynthetic person
reference in Murriny Patha reported conversations"