DESCRIPTION
This seminar brings together the methods and findings of sociocultural linguistics and those of conversation analysis in a dialogue centering on the ways in which members of society use and accomplish social difference through talk-in-interaction. Inspired by the recent influential book Doing Gender, Doing Difference edited by Fenstermaker and West (2002), this seminar aims to find ways to describe and account for conversational practices centering on the major dividing differences in our time, such as race, gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality. A primary goal is thus to formulate new understandings of how differences which are consequential within society emerge and play out at the point of their production in the details of ordinary talk-in-interaction.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
The following conferences relevant to the seminar topic have deadlines in the Winter 2005 quarter; students who have a project under way are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract to one or more. An abstract-writing workshop will be held early in the quarter (details TBA).
- American Anthropological Association (Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2005, in Washington, DC)
Deadline for panels: March 1, 2005; deadline for individual papers: April 1, 2005.
- American Sociological Association (Aug. 13-16, 2005, in Philadelphia)
Includes a session on "Conversation Analysis and Sociolinguistics" organized by John Heritage. Deadline: Jan. 18, 2005.
- Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (May 12-14, 2005, in Santa Barbara)
LISO's biennial student-run conference. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2005.
- National Communication Association (Nov. 17-20, 2005, in Boston)
Includes the division of Language and Social Interaction. Deadline: Feb. 16, 2005.
- Symposium About Language and Society—Austin (April 15-17, 2005, in Austin)
A student-run conference at the University of Texas focusing on conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. Deadline: Jan. 14, 2005.
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