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Welcome! ...................................................................................................................... 3 Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................... 5 Conference Schedule at a Glance .......................................................................... 7 Conference Schedule ................................................................................................. 8 Plenary Speakers ....................................................................................................... 16 Special Panel .............................................................................................................. 23 Concurrent Sessions ................................................................................................ 24 Friday Morning ........................................................................................................... 24 Friday Afternoon ......................................................................................................... 30 Saturday Morning ........................................................................................................ 37 Saturday Afternoon ..................................................................................................... 44 Sunday Morning .......................................................................................................... 51
Poster Session ............................................................................................................ 56 Maps and Important Locations ........................................................................... 59 Dining Options ......................................................................................................... 63 GURT 2019 ............................................................................................................... 66
Welcome! Message from Cynthia Gordon
It is with great enthusiasm and gratitude that I welcome you to the 69th Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2018). Every year GURT focuses on a different area of language and linguistics research; this year’s theme, “Approaches to Discourse,” highlights the diverse theories and methods used in the analysis of discourse, both within the field of linguistics and beyond, to explore language in use, language beyond the sentence, and social interaction. In part, this theme is inspired by my own academic path: I have had the pleasure of teaching courses in discourse analysis in departments of English, Anthropology, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, and Linguistics, the Georgetown department which I am now privileged to call home. In all these departments, each rooted in a different academic discipline, I always felt motivated by, and learned from, my colleagues whose academic training and background in discourse differed from my own. The topic of GURT is also inspired by the ongoing proliferation of approaches to discourse analysis, ranging from those that are longstanding – such as interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and pragmatics – to newer foci, including multimodality and visual analysis, critical theorizing and perspectives, and corpus-based approaches. Finally, the conference theme – in addition to, of course, its name – is also in reference to Deborah Schiffrin’s 1994 Approaches to Discourse, a book which, along with Debby’s many other books and articles, and with Debby herself, influenced how I – and many other Georgetown graduate students and faculty members, and countless students and scholars from around the world – have come to understand and appreciate the richness of the field of discourse analysis. GURT 2018 features six renowned plenary speakers and six colloquia, in addition to diverse individual papers and posters. These collectively highlight a range of theories, methods, and analytic foci. We look forward to wonderful presentations, productive conversations, and new shared insights into the vast landscape that is discourse analysis. To close the conference, in remembrance of Debby Schiffrin’s untimely passing and in recognition and celebration of her timeless legacy, we feature a special panel focusing on one of the areas in which Debby Schiffrin impacted the field: through her work on narrative and identity. On behalf of the GURT 2018 Organizing Committee, welcome to the 69th annual Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. We thank you for joining us, and wish you an enlightening and enjoyable conference. Cynthia Gordon Washington, DC, March 2018 GURT 2018 Organizing Committee: Cynthia Gordon (Chair), Ho-Fai (Viggo) Cheng, Felipe de Jesus, Naomee-Minh Nguyen, Mark Visonà, and Jeremy Wegner
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Acknowledgments This conference would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of the doctoral student members of the GURT 2018 Organizing Committee: Ho-Fai (Viggo) Cheng Felipe de Jesus Naomee-Minh Nguyen Mark Visonà Jeremy Wegner They provided enthusiasm and creativity, attended to tasks big and small with consummate efficiency, and displayed generosity of spirit throughout.
I am also grateful for this year’s GURT sponsors: Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Georgetown University M.A. in Language and Communication (MLC) Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University Georgetown University Press Georgetown College The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Georgetown University Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action Office of the Provost, Georgetown University Office of the President, Georgetown University
In addition, I offer special thanks to Elizabeth Zsiga, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton for invaluable guidance, advice, and encouragement; to Anna De Fina, for organizing the panel in honor of our beloved late colleague, Deborah Schiffrin; and, for their generous collegiality and tireless administrative assistance, Conor Sinclair, Jennifer Brusstar, and Yulkiana Delgado Gonzalez.
Our thanks and appreciation to all, Cynthia Gordon
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Student Volunteers Jehan Almahmoud Amani Aloufi Bertille Baron Amelia Becker Austin Blodgett Margaret Borowczyk Tanner Call Yutzu Chang Hanwool Choe Alannah Connolly Caitie Coons Rebecca Farkas
Yuhang Hu Didem Ikizoglu Adrienne Isaac Arianna Janoff Brent Laing Toni Lewis Janet Liu Tripp Maloney Nick Mararac Christiana McGrady Alex Muth Samuel Nelson Genevieve Pennanen
Ashleigh Pipes Aisulu Raspayeva Margaret Anne Rowe Lily Schaffer Sakol Suethanapornkul Casey Tesfaye Ivy Wang Ping-Hsuan Wang Ivy Wong Akitaka Yamada Xuyang Zhang Sabrina Zhong
Thank You to Our Reviewers Jehan Almahmoud (Georgetown University) Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University) Minnie Annan (Georgetown University) Galina Bolden (Rutgers University) Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) David Boromisza-Habashi (University of Colorado Boulder) Richard Buttny (Syracuse University) Ho-Fai (Viggo) Cheng (Georgetown University) Hanwool Choe (Georgetown University) Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou (National Cancer Institute) Elaine Chun (University of South Carolina) Caitie Coons (Georgetown University) Anna De Fina (Georgetown University) Felipe de Jesus (Georgetown University) Stephen Di Domenico (SUNY New Paltz) Evelyn Fogle (University of Memphis) Cynthia Gordon (Georgetown University) Heidi Hamilton (Georgetown University) Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington) Didem Ikizoglu (Georgetown University) Adrienne Isaac (Georgetown University) Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon University) Deborah Keller-Cohen (University of Michigan) Brian King (City University of Hong Kong) Christopher Koenig (San Francisco State University) Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool) Miriam Locher (University of Basel) David Machin (Örebro University) Lisa Mikesell (Rutgers University)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg) Shannon Mooney (Georgetown University) Kristine Muñoz (University of Iowa) Karen Murph (Northern Virginia Community College) Naomee-Minh Nguyen (Georgetown University) Jennifer Nycz (Georgetown University) Anastasia Nylund (Georgetown University) Aisuli Raspayeva (Georgetown University) Branca Telles Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Lesley University) Jessica Robles (Loughborough University) Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (Georgetown University) Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University) Jennifer Sclafani (Georgetown University) Robin Shoaps (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) Sylvia Sierra (Syracuse University) Nicholas Subtirelu (Georgetown University) Grace Sullivan Buker (Georgetown University) Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University) Alla Tovares (Howard University) Amelia Tseng (Georgetown University) Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark) Brion Van Over (Manchester Community College) Mark Visonà (Georgetown University) Jeremy Wegner (Georgetown University) Hsin-I Yueh (Northeastern State University) Charles Zuckerman (University of Michigan)
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GURT 2018 Conference Schedule at a Glance
8:15am — 9:00am 9:00am – 9:15am 9:15am – 10:15am 10:15am – 10:30am 10:30am – 12:45pm 12:45pm – 2:00pm 2:00pm – 3:00pm 3:00pm – 3:15pm 3:15pm – 5:30pm 5:30pm – 5:45pm 5:45pm – 6:45pm 6:45pm – 7:45pm
8:15am — 9:00am 9:00am – 10:00am 10:00am – 10:15am 10:15am – 12:30pm 12:30pm – 1:45pm 1:45pm – 4:00pm 4:00pm – 5:45pm 5:45pm – 6:45pm 6:45pm – 7:45pm
8:15am – 9:00am 9:00am – 10:00am 10:00am – 10:15am 10:15am – 12:30pm 12:30pm – 1:30pm 1:30pm – 3:15pm 3:15pm – 3:30pm
Friday, March 9 Registration & Coffee (ICC Galleria) Welcome & Opening Remarks (ICC Auditorium) Plenary Speaker: Donal Carbaugh (ICC Auditorium) Coffee Break (ICC Galleria) Concurrent Sessions (ICC First Floor) Lunch Plenary Speaker: Susan Philips (ICC Auditorium) Coffee Break (ICC Galleria) Concurrent Sessions (ICC First Floor) Coffee Break (ICC Galleria) Plenary Speaker: Jürgen Streeck (ICC Auditorium) Reception (ICC Galleria) Saturday, March 10 Registration & Coffee (ICC Galleria) Plenary Speaker: Ruth Wodak (ICC Auditorium) Coffee Break (ICC Galleria) Concurrent Sessions (ICC First Floor) Lunch Concurrent Sessions (ICC First Floor) Coffee Break & Poster Session (ICC Galleria) Plenary Speaker: John Heritage (ICC Auditorium) Reception (ICC Galleria) Sunday, March 11 Registration & Coffee (ICC Galleria) Plenary Speaker: Deborah Tannen (ICC Auditorium) Coffee Break (ICC Galleria) Concurrent Sessions (ICC First Floor) Light Lunch (ICC Galleria) Special Panel in Honor of Debby Schiffrin (ICC Auditorium) Closing Remarks (ICC Auditorium)
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Conference Schedule
FRIDAY MORNING (MARCH 9)
8:15 9:00 9:00 9:15
Coffee & Registration Welcome, Opening Remarks Plenary 1 - ICC Auditorium
9:15 10:15
Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
10:15 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 11:00
Cultural discourse: In theory and practice
101 Natalie Schilling Naomee-Minh Nguyen
We don’t have Smith Island kids anymore: Constructing "authenticity" in discourse in an endangered dialect community Amelia Becker
11:05 11:35
Dominant and nondominant handshape variation across discourse contexts in American Sign Language
102 Keli Yerian Marion Tellier
Learning through coteaching: spontaneous multimodal alignment and intervention between teachers in coteaching tasks
Ryan Redmond
Hand-fans and headturns: Indexing heteronormativity through dispreferred responses in Japanese
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105 Colloquium 1
Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan
Technologies and social action across contexts
Language ideologies of institutional language policy: Exploring variability by language policy register
Organizers: Didem Ikizoglu & Mary Clinkenbeard
Rachel Thorson Hernandez Nicholas Subtirelu
Everyday experiences of policy: Exploring the appropriation of educational language policy through teachers’ narratives
Joshua Raclaw Stephen DiDomenico Jessica Robles
Embodying attention to technology: Doing demonstrable orientations towards mobile phones in conversation Mary Clinkenbeard
A disability studies approach to agency and technology in social interactions
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107 Karen Feagin Megan Stump
“Can I make a comment?”: Teacher candidates in rehearsals
108 Miriam Locher Thomas Messerli
Relational work and participation structures in interlingual subtitling from the perspective of pragmatics of fiction
Yi-Ju Lai
Disciplinary voice and membership construction in international teaching assistants’ instructional interactions with U.S. university students
Ji-Young Jung
Host power in fourparty discussions in Korean talk radio
115 Colloquium 2
Strategies of "normalisation" in public discourse: Paradoxes of populism, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion Organizer: Michał Krzyżanowski
Part I: Normalization in/and the public: Insights from media and political discourse Colleen Cotter
Discursive displacements and the “new normal” behind the news
Didem Ikizoglu
Fumiko Nazikian 11:40 12:10
Japanese "deshoo" and "yone" as a marker of claiming and displaying the speaker’s epistemic and affective stance
Elisa Gironzetti Salvatore Attardo Lucy Pickering
Tray Geiger Rachael Gabriel
Differences in humor and irony marking in conversation: Gaze aversion and gaze to the mouth
Shifting rights and responsibilities: Implications of the discursive construction of value-added models
"What did it say?": Mobile phone translation app as participant and object in family interaction Brion van Over Donal Carbaugh
3 dimensions of humancar interaction
Michael Higgins
Lauren Carpenter
Developing studentteacher Elicitation sequences over time: A conversation analytic intervention
Domenica DelPrete
“How would you compare my situation with yours?”: Troubles talk in mother-adolescent daughter interaction
Antonio Reyes
Recording concern: ‘Good’ surveys and ‘bad’ talk in Luang Prabang, Laos Discussant: Laura Ahearn
12:45 2:00
Lunch FRIDAY AFTERNOON (MARCH 9) Plenary 2 - ICC Auditorium
2:00 3:00 3:00 3:15
Susan Philips (University of Arizona)
How linguistic anthropologists theorize relations among different forms of discourse Coffee Break 101 Staci Defibaugh
3:15 3:45
Angela Smith
Hypermasculinity, Twitter, and #MAGA Spain vs. Catalonia: Normalizing democracy through police intervention
Charles Zuckerman
12:15 12:45
Politics and discourses of masculinity across new and old media: Strategies of "normalisation"
"I’m just a guide": Medical providers’ positioning in the era of neoliberalism
102 Amelie Harbisch
Practices of constructing the “ideal” refugee: Macrostructure and microinteraction approaches to discourse combined
103 Colloquium 3
Dementia, discourse, and situated cognition: Learnings from the past, opportunities for the future Organizer: Heidi Hamilton
105 Colloquium 4
Digital Discourse Analysis and Citizen Sociolinguistics Organizers: Camilla Vásquez & Betsy Rymes
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107 Aisulu Raspayeva
Constructing Kazakh identity in mealtime narratives through (dis)alignment with other ethnic groups
108 Mariana Irby
Migrant workers and modern brides: Examining RussianPersian bilingualism in post-Soviet Tajikistan
115 Colloquium 2 (cont'd.) Organizer: Michał Krzyżanowski
Part II: Normalization, social class and the politics of (anti)immigration
Philip Rowley 3:50 4:20
4:25 4:55
Responding to young people who disclose self-harm: A discourse analysis of an online counselling service
5:30 5:45
"Speaking sensibly": A communication ideal for Chinese officialcitizen interaction
Rachael Gabriel
Yi Wang
Framing dyslexia as a public policy problem: Framing Theory and Discourse Analysis in dialogue
Ideological leanings and tensions of English-medium programs for study abroad students in China
José Carlos Gonçalves
5:00 5:30
Bingjuan Xiong
Perceptions of presence in healthcare communication: Towards transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives
Grace Sullivan-Buker
Intertextuality, intersectionality, and Rachel Jeantel's voice in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman
Robert Schrauf Michael Amory
Hard questions: A discursive look at the clinical diagnosis of dementia Heidi Hamilton
Reasoning made visible in the face of not remembering: Discourse and dementia in social interaction Vai Ramanathan
Written discourse analysis and retained cognitive function in people with Alzheimer’s dementia Discussant: Steven Sabat
Betsy Rymes
Citizen Sociolinguistics: Why trivial and funny insights on the Internet are important to Discourse Analysis
Hansun Waring
Voicing as a child resource for “growing a head taller”
Andrea LeonePizzighella
“Typecasting” and selffulfilling prophecies: Everyday metacommentary about school and students Judith Bridges
The metapragmatics of mansplain in social media discourse Camilla Vásquez Erhan Aslan
Citizen Sociolinguistics and the digital memescape: The case of “cash me ousside/how bah dah”
Nicholas Mararac
Community identity construction of gentrifying neighborhoods
Leslie Cochrane
"Fur babies" and "pet parents": Discourse about pets in the American linguistic landscape
Break Plenary 3 - ICC Auditorium
5:45 6:45
Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin)
6:45 7:45
Reception - ICC Galleria
Indexicality, intersubjectivity, intercorporeality
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Ho-Fai (Viggo) Cheng
Positioning and identity construction in a migrant domestic helper's narrative in Hong Kong Kitty Jiayin LiGottwald
The negotiation of social relations and status in a Chinese complementary school in Berlin, Germany
David Cassells Johnson
Language policy and deficit discourses: Normalizing language gaps for a new generation of working class youth Tom Van Hout Katja Pelsmaeker
People on the move: How museums demarginalise migration Michał Krzyżanowski
The normalisation of interactive racism: Right-wing populism, discursive shifts and the "refugee crisis" in Poland Discussant: Ruth Wodak
SATURDAY MORNING (MARCH 10)
8:15 9:00
Coffee & Registration Plenary 4 - ICC Auditorium
9:00 10:00 10:00 10:15
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
“Post-truth and/or post-shame”: Right-wing populist discourse, politics and performance on frontstage and backstage Coffee Break 101
Colloquium 5
10:15 10:45
Revisiting Goffman's concept of "total institution" and Foucault's notion of "regimes of practice" in light of discourse studies Organizers: Diana de Souza Pinto & Branca Telles Ribeiro Branca Telles Ribeiro Diana de Souza Pinto
10:50 11:20
Interpreting location and identity in total institutions: Ambivalence and contradiction
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Colloquium 6
Approaches to social media and activism Masamichi Yamada
Discovering new antonyms in real discourse: A pragmatics of cultural opposites
Marta Baffy Themis Kaniklidou
Left-wing populist discourses in the Press
Gendered access to powerful interactional resources in political talk
Gabriele Kasper Eunseok Ro
Documents as situated objects in writing assessment meetings
Arianna Janoff
Optimality Theory and the sociopragmatic functions of code switching: A rubric
Organizer: Najma Al Zidjaly
Part I: Social media and Arab religious and political activism Francesco Sinatora
Chester Hsieh
An Interactional Construction Grammar approach to sequentially sensitive near synonyms
Jaran Shin Elizabeth Ging
Critical Discourse Analysis of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Untangling the threads of conflicting ideologies
Zohar Kampf
Communicating amicably: Performing interstate relations through friendly speech acts
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Jamie Schissel Sara Kangas
Oppression in discourses of reclassification: A nexus approach to intersectionality
Mapping Syrian discourses of dissidence across online and offline platforms: A multimethod approach Amir Zeldes
A neural approach to discourse relation signaling
Mark Visonà
Solidarity through intertextuality: Understanding religious reference use in disagreements on Charismatic Christian and Muslim discussion boards
Liana de Andrade Biar Liliana Cabral Bastos
11:25 11:55
Deviance and resistance: Narratives of inmates in a penal institution Diana de Souza Pinto Francisco Ramos de Farias
12:00 12:30
Practices of resistance at a custodial and treatment hospital in Brazil: An inpatient’s narratives and memories
Elizabeth Ging Jaran Shin Junko Baba
Beyond grammatical constraints: An emotive contexual analysis of Japanese case marker elision
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Integrated English Literacy Civics Education in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Obey, pay, and repeat after me
1:45 2:15
Performing Donald Trump: Synchronic and diachronic approaches to the discourse of political parody
The writing classroom as performance space: An L2 teacher’s use of spatial orientation and embodied actions to explain abstract concepts
Maryam Enjavinezhad
Hooman Saeli
Revisiting politeness in light of Persian favors
Najma Al Zidjaly
Torri Raines
“Praise the sun”: Enregisterment and intertextuality in videogame gestures and community discourse
Deconstructing Islamic cultural discourses on Twitter: A multimodal example from Arabia
Katelyn MacDougald
Toward a polyphonic syntax: A multiderivational approach to unarticulated material in Catholic conversion narratives
Radical discourses and manipulation in the Middle East: The case of Mohammad Al-Arefe's Friday sermons
*Presented by Corey Miller
12:30 1:45
Jennifer Sclafani
Yumi Matsumoto Jay Jo Tom Nygren
SATURDAY AFTERNOON (MARCH 10)
Lunch 101
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Felipe de Jesus
Genevieve Dibua
Criminal sexuality: Semiotic representations of a bisexual defendant in the media
A pragmatic analysis of conversational code switching among Esan-English bilinguals
Communicating with the public: “Third parties” in question-answer sequences
Colloquium 7
Organizer: Hansun Zhang Waring
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Colloquium 8
Hannah Sullivan
Narratives in social contexts: Schiffrin’s legacy in Japanese Discourse Analysis Organizer: Akira Satoh
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The Muslim ban recontextualized: An intertextual Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim discourse
108 Adrienne Isaac
Participation, addresseeship & speaking about another in interactions involving an individual with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
115 Colloquium 6 (cont'd.) Organizer: Najma Al Zidjaly
Part II: Social media and activism across cultural and social contexts
Heiko Motschenbacher 2:20 2:50
Language use in media coverage before and after coming out: A corpus-based study of texts on Ricky Martin
Victoria Bergvall 2:55 3:25
3:30 4:00
Recasting combative binaries of “sex differences” as discourse of “gender variation” in science and technology
Allie King
Kelly Lovejoy
Arguments in NS-L2 conversation: The pragmatics of participation practices
Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri
Second language learners’ stances and metapragmatic models
Lisa Armstrong
Alana DeLoge
Sex, bartenders, and video games: A multimodal analysis
Discourse Analysis in language and culture contact: A case from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Doing being the moderator in webinar Q&As Di Yu Nadja Tadic
Narrating the visual: Accounting for and projecting actions in webinar Q&As Ann Tai Elizabeth Reddington
But-prefacing as a refocusing device in questioning and answering Carol Lo Di Yu
Beyond the “Q&A”: The TV journalist’s third turn in interviews with public health experts
Akira Satoh
How did the Japanese media use quotations in their coverage of Fukushima disaster? Teruko Ueda
Rethinking approaches to medical discourse in Japan: Multiple metalinguistic interpretation “beyond the sentence” Toshiko Hamaguchi
Collective remembering as Snapchat: Storysharing for people with dementia Shoko Okazaki Yohena
Narratives and the interactive nature of coaching discourse in Japanese
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Nancy Henaku
Discourse, gender and neoliberalism in a postcolonial context: A Discourse Historical Analysis
Stephen DiDomenico
“I’m just kinda having a hard time”: Examining the troubles-centered headline and extended telling formats in calls to a crisis help line Christopher Koenig Leah Wingard
Sibley Slinkard
"Enough is enough": Textual trajectory in a trial of a battered woman who kills
Jehan Almahmoud
Instigators of civil unrest: voices and descriptions of women in Saudi Arabian media coverage of October26 driving campaign
Managing professional knowledge boundaries during tele-consultations in specialty care liver clinics: A themeoriented Discourse Analysis
Alla Tovares
Trolling as creative insurgency: The carnivalesque delegitimization of Putin and his supporters in online newspaper commentary Ping-Hsuan Wang
“If my child came out to me”: Constructing affirmative parent identities through YouTube hypothetical narratives Eleonora Esposito
Bridging the Middle Passage: Multimodal constructions of panCaribbean history and identity in the social media campaign for slavery reparations Sage Graham
Ethical and methodological challenges in researching digital discourse
Coffee & Poster Session
4:00 5:45
5:45 6:45
Adonis de Carvalho Borges - Semiotics, semi-symbolism and comics: A semiotic perspective of Mafalda Akitaka Yamada - Bayesian update: From semantics/pragmatics to variation theory Alena Vasilyeva - Disagreement managament in group discussions Amani Alageel - Being a Saudi woman in the USA: Heteroglossia and identity in digital discourse Asri Nurul Qodri - Say the magic word: Audience design in magicians' vlogs Austin Blodgett - A network-theoretic foundation for studying macro-discourse Eric Odle and Thi Bich Phuong Nguyen - Evaluative language resources in five Taiwanese dissertation defenses HeeSun Chang and Minho Kwak- An introduction of text mining to discourse studies: Latent Dirichlet allocation Jung Yun Choi - Calibration of sensory experience and morality in assessment Lily Schaffer - Voice quality as a resource in identity construction and stancetaking: Evidence from narrative constructed dialogue Peter Joseph Torres - Discussing opiates in medical consultations: Expressing pain, mitigated questions, implicit requests and formulating credibility Sinae Lee and Torri Raines - The use of English in K-pop girl groups and boy groups: Construction of masculinity and femininity Zhilling Zhong - "Where are you really from?": Identity and racial otherness in narratives by Asian Americans Plenary 5 - ICC Auditorium John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles)
The expression of authority in primary care medicine
6:45 7:45
Reception - ICC Galleria SUNDAY (MARCH 11)
8:15 9:00
Coffee & Registration Plenary 6 - ICC Auditorium
9:00 10:00 10:00 10:15
10:15 10:45
Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
Politeness, power and solidarity in professor-student emails and conversations among friends Coffee Break 101 Margaret Anne Rowe
Friendship across distance: Threatening face and building solidarity over video calls
103 Catherine Box Sarah Creider
Talking allies and adversaries into being: A conversation analytic account of grassroots activism
105 Elif Rosenfeld
From audience member to Dantist: An interactional sociolinguistic analysis of Inferno VIII:94-96
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107 Kaoru Amino
Linguistic devices for constructing the stance-triangle in Japanese dementia discourse: Citation, evaluation and verbs of perception
108 Sylvia Sierra
Negotiating millennial masculine identities with Internet meme references in everyday conversation among friends
Agnieszka Lyons 10:50 11:20
11:25 11:55
12:00 12:30
12:30 1:30
How to do things with typography: Discursive enactment in text-based mobile communication Cecilia Tomasatti
Emerging national identities in the limbo
Hanwool Choe
Creating imagery and detail in photo/video sharing during online family talk
Susan Ehrlich
Xuehua Xiang
Semiotic ideologies and multimodal approaches to Discourse Analysis
Vendor calls and spiels: From oral genres to enregisterment of deceit
Multiple negation as an epistemic stance marker
Tanner Call William Eggington
Joshua Kraut
Michal Marmorstein
The pastor in the pew: Simulated conversation in contemporary American sermons
Conversational practices in writing: The discourse marker yaʕni (lit "it means") in spoken and written Egyptian Arabic
Cecile Wilson
Nathan Schneider Bonnie Webber Hannah Rohde Anna Dickinson Annie Louis
Cross-cultural pragmatic failure between police and young African American urban males
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Galle’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (ca. 1569)
Didar Akar Can Ozbey
Hidden AND in plain sight? Implicit and explicit relations cooperate in the construction of meaning in discourse
Lunch Special Panel - ICC Auditorium
Narrative and identities: Homage to Debby Schiffrin Organizer: Anna De Fina Michael Bamberg
Navigating sameness and difference by use of visual cues in wordless narratives 1:30 3:15
Isolda Carranza
The emergence of a survivor’s retellings and their inscription in bureaucratic narrative William Labov
Narratives of uncontrollable grief Mércia Regina Santana Flannery
Narratives of discrimination in a Brazilian discussion group on Facebook 3:15-3:30
Discussant: Deborah Tannen Closing Remarks
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Katherine Murray
Queer, interfaith, and going to church: A young couple coconstructs identity through keying a frame Alicia Massie
Oilsands, oil wives, and oil dads: An analysis of collective identity
Plenary Speakers
Donal Carbaugh
University of Massachusetts Amherst Donal Carbaugh is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his many accomplishments, he is recipient of the University’s highest awards for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity in addition to the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Research Fellowship; he is also the recipient of teaching awards as a Graduate Mentor and as a finalist for the university’s campus-wide Outstanding Teaching Award. In June of 2017, a conference on New Directions in the Ethnography of Communication was held in his honor at Mount Saint Vincent College, New York City, and in 2016, he was named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (NCA) for a lifetime of achievement. In 2007-2008, he was appointed Fulbright’s Distinguished Professor and Bicentennial Chair of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His general interests focus upon cultural philosophies of dialogic communication, the environment, and the ways culturally distinctive practices get woven into international and intercultural interactions. His studies focus upon Native American, popular American, Russian, and Finnish communication practices, with special attention to the relationship between language use, culture, spirit, and nature. He currently serves on about twenty editorial boards of national and international journals. His published research has appeared in many major academic journals, in several countries including China, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Russia, in several languages.
His books include Talking American: Cultural Discourses on DONAHUE, Cultures in Conversation, Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes (with Michael Berry), and The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective(edited), Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research (with Patrice Buzzanell), Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture(edited with Jens Brockmeier), and Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identity in American Scenes. Recipient of a Hewlett Fellowship for Teaching, Fulbright Fellowships, an Advanced Institute of the Humanities Fellowship, several grants, and a consultant for the United States Congress, he has enjoyed lecturing at the United Nations, at various embassies and universities around the globe. CULTURAL DISCOURSE: IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE Friday, March 9th, 9:15am-10:15am – ICC Auditorium How does one hear culture as active in discourse? What might this tell us about discursive devices, forms, and their meanings? This presentation introduces a culturally based approach to the study of discourse by discussing its basic assumptions, central concepts, and methodology. The latter will focus on three modes of analysis differentiated in Cultural Discourse Analysis, that is, the complementary nature of descriptive, interpretive, and critical analyses. The presentation will demonstrate how the approach can be and has been used to explore features of linguistic and non-linguistic activities. Special attention will be given to discursive dynamics which are active today in a Native American discourse; these, we find, are rich
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historically, dense culturally, and vibrant as expressions in various scenes today. Indeed, this cultural discourse offers a portal with deep critical insights about “popular American” ways of acting, teaching language, and educating others.
Susan Philips
University of Arizona Susan U. Philips is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is a linguistic anthropologist. Philips is the author of The Invisible Culture: Communication in Classroom and Community on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation (1984/1993), the co-editor of Language, Gender and Sex in Comparative Perspective (1987), and the author of Ideology in the
Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics and Courtroom Control (1998).
She has been primarily interested in the way cultural realities are constituted through language use in the process of face to face interaction. Her major research projects on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, in the Superior Court of Tucson, Arizona, and in the Kingdom of Tonga each entailed a focus on discourse in institutional settings, coupled with comparison of speakers’ use of language in and out of those settings. In her research she relies on the ethnographic method of participant observation and on the recording, transcription, and translation of socially occurring speech. Substantively she has contributed to scholarly research on language ideologies, honorific languages, language and law, gender and language, and language and social inequality. Her current research interests focus on aging and elderly women in retirement communities. HOW LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELATIONS AMONG DIFFERENT FORMS OF DISCOURSE Friday, March 9th, 2:00pm-3:00pm – ICC Auditorium
Approaches to discourse in linguistic anthropology have involved some distinctive perspectives and contributions. One distinctive feature of anthropological discourse analysis reflects our interactions with cultural anthropology and that is our focus on relations among different kinds of discourse. Such a focus has taken different forms. For example, in my discussions of classroom discourse on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, I described how the same curriculum material would be repeated using different ways of organizing participation by teacher and students. This held true at both the first and sixth grade levels. I viewed this as evidence of a theory of learning underlying the organization of participation: that learning can and should be carried out through different ways of organizing interaction, different ways of learning and teaching, but also what could be considered different forms of talk. Or consider Judith Irvine’s analysis of various forms of talk through which the stylistic identities of noble and griot were constituted in Senegalese Wolof interactions. Both examples involve thinking of different forms of discourse as in a relationship that accomplished particular social ends. Our methodological and analytical deliberate inclusion of different forms of talk was in part derived from Gumperz and Hymes’ underlying vision of the nature of language. In that vision, the grammar and semantics of a language constitute a set of resources to be drawn upon selectively in the
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accomplishment of obviously different cultural activities. For Hymes the concept of genre entailed a notion of bounded forms of talk with characteristic linguistic properties and sequential structure related to what was being accomplished socially that distinguished one genre from another. There is, then, a fundamental commitment to the idea that there are multiple forms of talk related to each other in a wide range of ways, that this is part of the nature of language and the locus of social and cultural differentiation in all societies. In this paper I will consider how linguistic anthropologists, including myself, have drawn attention to key ways that different forms of discourse are systematically related to one another. The central point here, however, is that such comparative relational analyses of forms of talk is itself generally and broadly a characteristic of anthropological discourse analysis.
Jürgen Streeck
University of Texas at Austin Jürgen Streeck (Ph.D. in linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin) is a professor of communication studies, anthropology, and Germanic studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has previously taught at FU Berlin and the Universities of Vienna, Utrecht and Oldenburg. A leading researcher of gesture and embodied interaction, his books include Gesturecraft – The Manu-facture of Meaning (Amsterdam 2009), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World (edited with C. Goodwin and C.D. LeBaron, Cambridge 2011), SelfMaking Man. A Day of Action, Life, and Language (Cambridge & New York, 2017), and Intercorporeality. Emerging Socialities in Interaction (edited with C. Meyer and J.S. Jordan, Oxford 2017). Jürgen’s conception of the communicating body has evolved step by step in response to questions raised in his data. For example, his view of hand gestures and the bodies making them developed from the observation that speakers look at some of their gestures, but not others; that hand gestures often arise from practical actions and can become intermittent symbolic conventions in a local practice community; that they can anticipate and foreshadow subsequent acts; and that some varieties of gestures, though not others, are produced so rapidly that they cannot constitute deliberately expressive acts. Meaning-making by gesture does not begin with a thought, but with a grasp, with an active, spontanenous, manual take on the situation at hand. Gesture is the communicative medium of a species defined by its distinctive hands and their capacities for making, structuring, and experiencing the material world.
INDEXICALITY, INTERSUBJECTIVITY, INTERCORPOREALITY Friday, March 9th, 5:45pm-6:45pm – ICC Auditorium
This paper addresses phenomena at the intersection of multiple lines of inquiry in the study of everyday interaction and language use: communicative corporeal acts that emanate within physical activities in the ‘world at hand’ or the ‘world in sight’ and disclose and suggest, or account for, features of this world and the interactions the interaction taking place within it at the moment. Communicative acts of this type range from economically regimented bi- or tri-modal acts of reference (comprising a pointing gesture, a deicticon, and a pattern of looking) through merely habitual ‘annotations’ of objects, to spontaneous
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elaborations of one’s body for sense-making purposes. These ‘environmentally coupled gestures’ (Goodwin 2007) are of equal interest to researchers of deictic systems and referential practice (Hanks 1990) and of intercorporeality and embodied communication not least because deictic expressions ultimately cannot be understood without attention to concomitant bodily actions, typically of the hands. But we can observe many other ways in which perceptual reality is ‘augmented’ by physical, indexical acts, including acts that reveal the ‘because of’ and the ‘towards which’ of the situation at hand. The phenomena that I explore illustrate that indexical speaking is fundamentally and in the first place inseparable from physical action and cooperation, that ‘indexicality’ and ‘embodiment’ (or ‘mimesis’; Donald 1991) are closely intertwined sources of understanding in interaction. In my paper, I describe one route that research motivated by the puzzle of indexicality has taken since the concept was first discussed in logic, pragmatics, and ethnomethodology, the route from talk and intersubjectivity to action and intercorporeality as ultimate grounds of human understanding and sociality (Meyer, Streeck & Jordan 2017; Streeck 2017).
Ruth Wodak
Lancaster University / University of Vienna Ruth Wodak is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and affiliated to the University of Vienna. Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She is pastPresident of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. In 2011, she was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria. She is member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and member of the Academia Europaea. In 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö).
She is member of the editorial board of a range of linguistic journals and co-editor of the journals Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studies, and Language and Politics. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University. In the spring 2014, Ruth held the Davis Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. In the spring 2016, Ruth was Distinguished Schuman Fellow at the Schuman Centre, EUI, Florence. 2017, she holds the Willi Brandt Chair at the University of Malmö, Sweden. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; gender studies; language and/in politics; prejudice and discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. Ruth has published 10 monographs, 27 co-authored monographs, over 60 edited volumes and ca 400 peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Recent book publications include The Politics of Fear. What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage, 2015; translation into the German Politik mit der Angst. Zur Wirkung rechtspopulistischer Diskurse. Konturen, 2016); The discourse of politics in action: ‘Politics as Usual’ (Palgrave), revised edition (2011); Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty, P. Jones, 2011); The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the German Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer,
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W. Manoschek, A. Pollak, 2008); The Politics of Exclusion. Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyżanowski, 2009); The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill, 2010); Analyzing Fascist Discourse. Fascism in Talk and Text (with John Richardson, 2013), and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with Majid KhosraviNik and Brigitte Mral, 2013). “POST TRUTH AND/OR POST-SHAME”: RIGHT-WING POPULIST DISCOURSE, POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE ON FRONTSTAGE AND BACKSTAGE Saturday, March 10th, 9:00am-10:00am – ICC Auditorium
In this paper, I discuss the current global swing to (far-) right politics. After first attempting to define the complex and fluid phenomenon of right-wing populism, I trace how tabooed and extreme right contents slowly became acceptable in European party politics, i.e. “normalized” (Wodak 2015a, b, 2017). The main question to be posed – why are such parties and their programs successful – requires a careful examination of how they actually produce and reproduce their ideologies and exclusionary politics in everyday politics, first backstage, and then frontstage, in the media, in campaigning, in posters, slogans and speeches (Rheindorf & Wodak 2017; Wodak 2011). Central among the traits identified in rightwing populist politics is its divisiveness and appeal to “the people”: It divides society into two antagonistic camps, the “pure people” versus the “corrupt elite”. It claims that it alone represents the true will of the people often linked to a larger opposition of “national” versus “international” interests. Beyond such commonalities, right-wing populist politics, their rhetoric and discourse differ strikingly across the globe and across (traditional) political affiliation (Brubaker 2017; Kriesi & Pappas 2015; Mudde & Kaltwasser 2017; Pelinka 2013; Pels 2012). In order to illustrate current developments in more detail, I take the Austrian election campaign and national election on October 15, 2017, as my point of departure. The transformation and shift to the right is caused, I claim, by a process of normalization, an accommodation to the, sometimes also extremeright, agenda of formerly right-wing populist parties such as the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). The election campaign of both the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the FPÖ focussed primarily on migration and refugee politics, based on a politics of fear and resentment. In summary, I propose to use the term “post-shame” instead of “post-truth” (Arendt 2016) when characterising the staging and implementation of right-wing populist agenda and policies in the public sphere.
John Heritage
University of California, Los Angeles John Heritage is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, USA. His research focuses on social interaction and its interface with social institutions, with particular reference to medicine and mass communication. His publications include Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology (Polity Press, 1984), Structures of Social Action (co-edited with Max Atkinson, Cambridge University Press, 1984), Talk at Work (co-edited with Paul Drew, Cambridge University Press,1992), The News Interview: Journalists and Public
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Figures on the Air (with Steven Clayman, Cambridge University Press, 2002), Communication in Medical Care(co-edited with Douglas Maynard, Cambridge University Press, 2006), Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (with Steven Clayman, Wiley Blackwell, 2010), Enabling human conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff (co-edited with Gene Lerner and Geoffrey Raymond, John Benjamins, 2017, At the intersection of turn and sequence: Turninitial particles across languages (co-edited with Marja-Leena Sorjonen, John Benjamins, 2018), and Harold Garfinkel: Praxis, Social Order and the Ethnomethodology Movement (co-edited with Douglas Maynard, Oxford University Press, 2018). THE EXPRESSION OF AUTHORITY IN PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE Saturday, March 10th, 5:45pm-6:45pm – ICC Auditorium
According to the sociologist Paul Starr (1982), when patients agree to recommendations for medical treatment, they engage in the ‘surrender of private judgment.’ The medical authority to which they acquiesce comes in two flavors: epistemic and deontic. Epistemic authority is perhaps most evident in the diagnostic stage of medical consultations, while its deontic counterpart is more evident in the context of treatment recommendations. This paper asks whether and how this authority finds verbal expression in these two moments in primary care. It does so by (i) describing the design of turns at talk in which primary care physicians render diagnoses and make treatment recommendations, and (ii) describing the frequency and extent to which patients respond to these two forms of medical action. The paper is based on a study of c.300 American primary care consultations, with brief comparisons of other secondary consultations.
Deborah Tannen
Georgetown University Deborah Tannen has been a member of the linguistics department faculty at Georgetown since 1979; she is one of six in the College of Arts and Sciences who hold the distinguished rank of University Professor. Her 25 books (12 authored, 13 edited or coedited) have addressed such topics as interactional sociolinguistics, conversational interaction, cross-cultural communication, frames theory, conversational vs. literary discourse, gender and language, and social media discourse. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and has twice been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She has received 5 honorary doctorates. Her books include Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (Oxford), Gender and Discourse (Oxford), and Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (Cambridge).
Outside of the Academy, she is best known as the author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was on the New York Times best seller list for nearly four years, including eight months as No. 1, and has been translated into 31 languages. Among her other books, You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives and You're Wearing THAT?:
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Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation were also New York Times best sellers; Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work was a New York Times Business best seller. Her most recent book, You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships, was published in May. POLITENESS, POWER AND SOLIDARITY IN PROFESSOR-STUDENT EMAILS AND CONVERSATIONS AMONG FRIENDS Sunday, March 11th, 9:00am-10:00am – ICC Auditorium
With the conference theme in mind, I begin by tracing the development of interactional sociolinguistic theory from Robin Lakoff’s 1973 paper “The Logic of Politeness,” which launched the field of politeness studies, through Erving Goffman’s presentation of self; John Gumperz’ conversational inference; Gregory Bateson’s frames theory; and my own notion of the ambiguity and polysemy of power and solidarity. I then show how these combined frameworks shed light on two domains of my recent research: professorstudent emails and the language of women’s friendships. Previous research on emails exchanged between university students and professors has focused primarily on students’ emails, especially their failure to observe requisite formality and politeness (in the common-parlance sense of being polite) when making requests. In contrast, I focus on professors’ emails to students, and their potential ambiguity (what professors see as informal and friendly is often interpreted by students as a failure to observe requisite formality and politeness) and polysemy (the option of informality results from professors’ position of power). A parallel ambiguity and polysemy can be seen in conversations among women friends. For example, the connection-creating rejoinder, “The same thing happened to me,” can be perceived as oneupping if the speaker seems to be implying, “What happened to me is worse” or “Forget you – let’s talk about me.” In addition, given the expectation of sameness, a statement implying “I’m not the same” can be heard as “I think I’m better than you.” Hence the frequency with which girls (as M. Goodwin [1978, 1980] observed in her pioneering studies and I also observed in my recent research) accuse other girls of being “snobby” or “stuck up,” and thinking “she’s something.” I hope thus to demonstrate that the framework of power and solidarity contributes to our understanding of naturally-occurring discourse, and that applying interactional sociolinguistic theory and methods to interaction in these contexts deepens our understanding of politeness theory and of the ambiguity and polysemy of power and solidarity.
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Special Panel NARRATIVE AND IDENTITIES: HOMAGE TO DEBBY SCHIFFRIN Sunday, March 11th, 1:30pm-3:15pm – ICC Auditorium Organizer: Anna De Fina (Georgetown University) Discussant: Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
The aim of this panel is to pay homage to Debby Schiffrin’s memory and to her legacy by gathering a small group of scholars who have mentored her, worked with her and/or have been students of hers to reflect on ways in which her work on narrative and identity has inspired their own. Michael Bamberg (Clark University)
Navigating sameness and difference by use of visual cues in wordless narratives Investigating the use of visual cues in purely visual (wordless) narratives, with emphasis on their contribution to coherence building and emotion transportation, the presentation will discuss implicit challenges to traditional concepts of narrative analysis. Isolda E. Carranza (National University of Córdoba)
The emergence of a survivor’s retellings and their inscription in bureaucratic narrative Storytelling during a victim’s deposition before a court clerk and the clerk´s written narrative are jointly analyzed to explore aspects concerning episode recycling and the imposition of coherence as well as dimensions of identity. William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
Narratives of uncontrollable grief
In narrative reports of the death of close kin, actors are often overcome by uncontrollable emotion which blocks the emergence of linguistic structure. Emotional control is required for the use of complex syntax. Mércia Regina Santana Flannery (University of Pennsylvania)
Narratives of discrimination in a Brazilian discussion group on Facebook In this presentation, I discuss how Schiffrin’s work on narrative has influenced my study of discriminatory narrative discourse. I analyze the tellers’ linguistic construction of positions and identities in narratives about episodes of discrimination in a university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, collected through a Facebook discussion page.
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Concurrent Sessions Below you can find the title and summary of each presentation (individual papers and colloquia) organized by room and time slot. MARCH 9TH – FRIDAY MORNING
ICC First Floor, 10:30am-12:45pm ICC Room 101
We don’t have Smith Island kids anymore: Constructing "authenticity" in discourse in an endangered dialect community
10:30am – Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University) 11:00am Naomee-Minh Nguyen (Georgetown University)
This presentation presents a qualitative study complementing ongoing quantitative study of language variation and change in the endangered dialect community of Smith Island, Maryland. We explore how ‘authentic’ islander identity is constructed across generations in narrative and descriptive discourse, focusing on detailed imagery, referring terms, and category-bound activities (Sacks 1995). Dominant and nondominant handshape variation across discourse contexts in
11:05am American Sign Language – 11:35am Amelia Becker (Georgetown University)
Signed languages have the potential to display an aspect of variation not possible in spoken languages by allowing for specification of both dominant and nondominant handshapes in twohanded signs. This study compares the degree of variation in dominant versus nondominant handshapes across three discourse contexts.
Japanese “deshoo” and “yone” as a marker of claiming and displaying the speaker’s
11:40am epistemic and affective stance – 12:10pm Fumiko Nazikian (Columbia University)
This study examines how Japanese speakers rely on the sentence-final particle yone and the suppositional auxiliary deshoo to seek/ display frequent agreement or mutual consent from listener(s) in particular social interactions. Building on the notions of “epistemic” and “affective stance,” 12 pairs of natural conversations were analyzed.
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ICC Room 102 Learning through co-teaching: spontaneous multimodal alignment and intervention
10:30am between teachers in co-teaching tasks – 11:00am Keli Yerian (University of Oregon) Marion Tellier (University Aix-Marseille)
Many novice language teachers struggle with gaze, gesture, orientation, and voice as embodied teaching resources. This paper uses data from both English and French teacher education to show how co-teaching tasks provide peer-learning opportunities for teachers to spontaneously align with, problematize, or compensate for the other’s use of multimodal resources.
Hand-fans and head-turns: Indexing heteronormativity through dispreferred
11:05am responses in Japanese – 11:35am Ryan Redmond (University of California, Davis)
Through analyzing preference organization in an interaction on a Japanese television show involving both transgender and cisgender individuals, this research demonstrates how (both verbal and non-verbal) dispreferred responses can be used to preserve a heteronormative stance when conversing with those whose identities may challenge said heteronormativity.
Differences in humor and irony marking in conversation: Gaze aversion and gaze to the mouth
11:40am – Elisa Gironzetti (University of Maryland) 12:10pm Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University-Commerce) Lucy Pickering (Texas A&M University-Commerce)
This study acknowledges the multimodal nature of conversations and focuses on the function of gaze and smiling as humor markers. The analysis of smiling (intensity, patterns, and synchronicity) and gaze for 12 speakers indicates that gaze aversion characterizes all humor types, while gaze to the interlocutor’s mouth only characterizes irony. ICC Room 103 Language ideologies of institutional language policy: Exploring variability by language
10:30am policy register – 11:00am Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
Using corpus-based discourse analysis this study asks, Is there variation in language ideologies expressed in a corpus of institutional language policy attributable to register? Findings suggest the importance of analyzing institutional models of policy, though policy discourse and policy texts are the objects of the majority of political discourse analysis.
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Everyday experiences of policy: Exploring the appropriation of educational language
11:05am policy through teachers’ narratives – 11:35am Rachel Thorson Hernández (Georgetown University) Nicholas Subtirelu (Georgetown University)
Narrative inquiry offers a lens through which to explore teachers’ orientations to equity issues in schools. We explore how teachers narrate everyday experiences in interviews and how they represent their agency relative to policy differently. This, we argue, has implications for understanding how they appropriate policy at the local level.
Shifting rights and responsibilities: Implications of the discursive construction of value-added models
11:40am – 12:10pm Tray Geiger (Arizona State University) Rachael Gabriel (University of Connecticut)
In this study, researchers examine how private companies discursively manage and shift responsibility for the public policy implications of their products. ICC Room 105
10:30am Colloquium 1: Technologies and social action across contexts – 12:45pm Organizers: Didem Ikizoglu (Georgetown University) Mary Clinkenbeard (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Discussant: Laura Ahearn (Dexis Consulting)
The papers in this panel look across contexts (ranging from use of mobile phones and recording devices to in-car infotainment systems) and approaches to discourse (conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cultural discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology) to illuminate the role of technology in the co-construction of action. Embodying attention to technology: Doing demonstrable orientations towards mobile phones in conversation
Paper 1
Joshua Raclaw (West Chester University) Stephen DiDomenico (SUNY New Paltz) Jessica Robles (Loughborough University)
This paper analyzes video recordings of mobile phone use in conversation to examine how interactants manage - and embody their attention toward - the communicative affordances of mobile phones amidst other interactional contingencies. We also consider the methodological value of examining videos of screen capture used in conjunction with traditional video recordings.
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Paper 2
A disability studies approach to agency and technology in social interactions Mary Clinkenbeard (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
This presentation explores interactions between children who have communication disabilities and their parents in order to understand how agency is distributed across participants and communication technologies. I argue that disability studies approach to agency in humantechnology interactions can be understood as the available interaction possibilities resulting from intersecting socio-cultural-technological relations.
Paper 3
“What did it say?": Mobile phone translation app as participant and object in family interaction Didem Ikizoglu (Georgetown University)
This study examines video recordings of a multilingual family interacting through a voice translation app to explore the ways in which family members orient to the app as an object or a participant and shows how participation is negotiated and displayed collaboratively. 3 dimensions of human-car interaction
Paper 4
Brion Van Over (Manchester Community College) Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
This presentation elaborates a model for understanding interaction in and with in-car infotainment systems through the development of a set of cultural dimensions that have been identified in a recent study of user interactions with an autonomous vehicle. These dimensions include 1) Information density/granularity, 2) Proactivity, and 3) Relationality.
Paper 5
Recording concern: ‘Good’ surveys and ‘bad’ talk in Luang Prabang, Laos Charles Zuckerman (University of Michigan)
This presentation elaborates a model for understanding interaction in and with in-car infotainment systems through the development of a set of cultural dimensions that have been identified in a recent study of user interactions with an autonomous vehicle. These dimensions include 1) Information density/granularity, 2) Proactivity, and 3) Relationality. ICC Room 107 “Can I make a comment?”: Teacher candidates in rehearsals
10:30am – Karen Feagin (University of Maryland) 11:00am Megan Stump (University of Maryland) This qualitative study examined how teacher candidates (TCs) in a language teacher preparation program collaboratively solved problems of practice in teaching rehearsals. This study offers insights into the functioning of peer groups and their potential for co-constructing knowledge, which has implications for grouping learners in ways that maximize learning opportunities.
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Disciplinary voice and membership construction in international teaching assistants’
11:05am instructional interactions with U.S. university students – 11:35am Yi-Ju Lai (University of Minnesota)
This language socialization study examines how international teaching assistants construct disciplinary voices and memberships in instructional interactions with U.S. university students in an undergraduate-level physics laboratory class. The juxtaposition between content experts and language novices leads to interactional consequences for assistants’ instruction and negotiation of their disciplinary knowledge and memberships. Developing student-teacher elicitation sequences over time: A conversation analytic
11:40am intervention – 12:10pm
Lauren Carpenter (Columbia University) Over the course of an academic year, a student-teacher in a TESOL K-12 graduate program worked with her supervisor, who is also the researcher, to target the design and delivery of elicitations in her instruction by using conversation analysis. Strategies to improve her use of elicitations were successfully implemented.
ICC Room 108 Relational work and participation structures in interlingual subtitling from the
10:30am perspective of pragmatics of fiction – 11:00am Miriam Locher (University of Basel) Thomas Messerli (University of Basel) This paper employs discourse analysis to study relational work in interlingual subtitling. We explore strategies that subtitlers choose to make sense of the original for the target audience. Examples are drawn from a number of case studies which include the translation of television series from Korean into English. 11:05am Host power in four-party discussions in Korean talk radio – 11:35am Ji-Young Jung (University of Pennsylvania) The study examines the interactional practices found in a Korean talk radio show, the yellin tholon (lit. open discussion). The analysis draws upon both CA and discourse-analytic tools to examine the host’s power to allocate turns within the discussion, and the interactional consequences of such power.
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“How would you compare my situation with yours?”: Troubles talk in mother-
11:40am adolescent daughter interaction – 12:10pm Domenica DelPrete (Columbia University) While common in female friendship groups, troubles telling between a mother and her adolescent daughter creates a peer-like interaction resisted by the daughter. Recognizing the cues that signal their daughter is closed to a discussion will help mothers from continuing on a topic that will not garner a positive outcome. ICC Room 115 Strategies of "normalisation" in public discourse: Paradoxes of populism, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion
10:30am – 12:45pm
Colloquium 2:
Organizer: Discussant:
Part I: Normalization in/and the public: Insights from media and political discourse
Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University/University of Vienna)
This colloquium aims to debate linguistic and discursive strategies of normalisation used to legitimise views, ideologies and positions that were until recently treated as radical and socially unacceptable and/or located outside the norms of public expression. We target strategies salient in forging legitimacy for populism and politics of exclusion as well as neoliberalism. We address a variety of strategic mechanisms that address in public issues such as, inter alia, misogyny and sexism, political violence, social and class inequality or anti-immigration rhetoric and right wing populism. We show how these are normalised drawing on discursive resources of, inter alia, legitimation, frame shifting, redefinition, scapegoating, creating ambiguity, etc., that effectively help to normalise nationalist, racist and other uncivil exclusionary and neoliberal ideologies.
Paper 1
Discursive displacements and the “new normal” behind the news Colleen Cotter (Queen Mary University of London)
This paper examines recent changes in news consumption patterns alongside concurrent changes in news discourse production arguing there is a lessening of shared public understanding; that combative language style is intensifying reactivity, dampening rational response, and normalizing types of exclusionary expression; and professional practice routines are changing because of this.
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Politics and discourses of masculinity across new and old media: Strategies of ‘normalisation’
Michael Higgins (University of Strathclyde) This paper explores normalisation of aggressively masculine forms of discourse in politics and across media platforms. It explores the UK and US discourse including of Donald Trump to assess the role of social media in setting the agenda of media and politics and expanding the limits of acceptable political discussion.
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Paper 3
Hypermasculinity, Twitter, and #MAGA
Angela Smith (University of Sunderland) This paper explores discursive constructions of hypermasculinity and argues that social media enable side-stepping the regulating voice of the mainstream media. Analysing tweets by Donald Trump and the use of ‘Make America Great Again’ (#MAGA) hashtag, the paper argues that resurgent hypermasculinity can be used to explore such data.
Paper 4
Spain vs. Catalonia: Normalizing democracy through police intervention Antonio Reyes (Washington & Lee University)
This paper explores Spanish 2017 media discourses on Catalonia’s independence. It pulls from CDS to show how various discursive strategies were deployed to not only counteract Catalonian independence in mainstream media but also to effectively normalize Spanish politics including the violent crush against Catalonian voters.
MARCH 9TH – FRIDAY AFTERNOON
ICC First Floor, 3:15pm-5:30pm ICC Room 101
3:15pm – 3:45pm
"I’m just a guide": Medical providers’ positioning in the era of neoliberalism Staci Defibaugh (Old Dominion University)
In this presentation, I outline how medical neoliberalism positions providers as being ‘guides’ rather than medical authorities. Through an analysis of nurse practitioner-patient visits, I explore how discussions of medication non-adherence reflect this ideological positioning. I also discuss implications in terms of how quality healthcare is conceived and implemented.
3:50pm – 4:20pm
Responding to young people who disclose self-harm: A discourse analysis of an online counselling service Philip Rowley (Lancaster University)
Increasing numbers of adolescents use on-line counselling services to talk about self-harm. The ways in which adults respond to such disclosures remains relatively unexplored. This paper uses critical discursive psychology to analyse how discourse operates in both the micro-level of counselling interactions and the power relations between counsellors and adolescents.
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4:25pm – 4:55pm
Framing dyslexia as a public policy problem: Framing Theory and Discourse Analysis in dialogue Rachael Gabriel (University of Connecticut)
In order to understand the heightened legislative attention to dyslexia in recent years, we identify diagnostic, prognostic and motivational frames as a first stage of analysis, and then conduct a line-by-line analysis of text, informed by critical discursive psychology, to consider the actionorientation of language use in these frames.
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Perceptions of presence in healthcare communication: Towards transdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives José Carlos Gonçalves (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Investigation of presence by (i) considering the concept of presence from the perspective of healthcare professionals, including possible differences across different professional groups; and (ii) engaging with potential transcultural differences that might exist across Brazilian and Danish (Nordic) healthcare professionals with a view towards professional pre/in/service education.
ICC Room 102
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Practices of constructing the “ideal” refugee: Macro-structure and micro-interaction approaches to discourse combined Amelie Harbisch (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies)
The paper uses a combined macro-micro-approach to study the discursive and performative meaning-making of and by refugees. It can thereby not only counter current discourse analyses' weakness of focusing either solely on microinteractional or macrostructural discourse, but also shows the possibility for original agency for refugees.
3:50pm – 4:20pm
"Speaking sensibly": A communication ideal for Chinese official-citizen interaction Bingjuan Xiong (University of Colorado Boulder)
This study uses a video of a Chinese citizen-official confrontation and subsequence TV news reports and online comments to investigate how the Chinese cultural systems of meaning shape interactions between citizens and officials, especially in situations of confrontation, drawing upon cultural discourse analysis (Carbaugh, 2005) as a theoretical framework.
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4:25pm – 4:55pm
Ideological leanings and tensions of English-medium programs for study abroad students in China Yi Wang (University of Arizona)
The study examines the ideological leanings embedded in promoting EMPs to attract students studying abroad in China by analyzing public available documents at both national and institutional levels. Findings reveal the emergence of unique forms of English-medium education in China’s universities and foreground the contradictory ideological constructs towards English.
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Intertextuality, intersectionality, and Rachel Jeantel's voice in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman Grace Sullivan Buker (Georgetown University)
This paper examines the treatment of Rachel Jeantel's language variety, AAVE, in her testimony in the George Zimmerman murder trial. This work explores how intertextual strategies utilized by a lesser-examined institutional representative, the court reporter, perhaps contributed to the juror's disregard of Jeantel’s testimony.
ICC Room 103
3:15pm – 5:30pm
Colloquium 3: Organizer: Discussant:
Dementia, discourse, and situated cognition: Learnings from the past, opportunities for the future
Heidi Hamilton (Georgetown University) Steven Sabat (Georgetown University)
Panelists, all pioneers on discourse and dementia, illuminate Lave's (1988) notion of "situated cognition" by examining language used by and with persons with dementia as they make their thinking visible (Perkins 2003) in a variety of authentic discourses, including everyday conversations, cognitive testing, memory loss support group meetings, and first-hand written accounts of living with dementia. Hard questions: A discursive look at the clinical diagnosis of dementia
Paper 1
Robert Schrauf (Pennsylvania State University) Michael Amory (Pennsylvania State University)
In diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease, clinicians ask patients to recall events from the personal past. However, the clinician’s questions put to cognitively impaired individuals differ in subtle linguistic ways from those put to non-cognitively impaired individuals. By comparing such sequences, we seek to highlight forgetting as an interactional, co-constructed, clinical event.
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Reasoning made visible in the face of not remembering: Discourse and dementia in social interaction Heidi Hamilton (Georgetown University)
This study examines situations of "not remembering" within everyday conversations, memory loss support group meetings, and physician-patient-carer interactions from the perspective of epistemic discourse analysis. Findings illuminate the multifaceted nature of cognitive change associated with dementia and highlight the resourcefulness of those living with dementia to use, say, if-then reasoning to fill in short-term memory gaps.
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Written discourse analysis and retained cognitive function in people with Alzheimer’s dementia Vai Ramanathan (University of California, Davis)
This presentation focusses on issues regarding retained cognition in people with Alzheimer’s disease. It advocates a need to examine first-hand written accounts (of the condition) by people in the mild stages of the disease, as well as first-hand accounts of caregivers dealing with the condition for their loved ones.
ICC Room 105
3:15pm – 5:30pm
Colloquium 4: Organizers:
Digital Discourse Analysis and Citizen Sociolinguistics
Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) Betsy Rymes (University of Pennsylvania)
This colloquium explores what a Citizen Sociolinguistics approach can contribute to studies of computer-mediated discourse. Each paper investigates Internet circulated metadiscourse on speech, genre and social categories, and focuses on subjects’ detailed understandings of their own and others’ on-line linguistic performances.
Paper 1
Citizen Sociolinguistics: Why trivial and funny insights on the Internet are important to Discourse Analysis Betsy Rymes (University of Pennsylvania)
This paper foregrounds the importance of everyday insights people routinely share about language on the Internet and via social media as citizen sociolinguists. Through a series of examples, I will illustrate how citizen sociolinguists provides new data for discourse analysis and can expose complicated social relations surrounding language use.
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“Typecasting” and self-fulfilling prophecies: Everyday metacommentary about school and students Andrea Leone-Pizzighella (University of Pennsylvania)
Citizen sociolinguistic metacommentary (Rymes, 2014) about school choice in Italy is very influential in students’ decisions about secondary school enrollment. I analyze metacommentary about schools and students in online spaces, paying particular attention to the stances social media users take to the typifications of the three school types and their students.
Paper 3
The metapragmatics of mansplain in social media discourse
Judith Bridges (University of South Florida) This presentation provides an analysis of everyday language users’ online discourse about the word mansplain. The analysis of 200 tweets and Facebook posts that include mansplain shows the varied ways in which this word prompts language users to be “citizen sociolinguists,” and to reflect on distinctions among gender-based language norms.
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Citizen Sociolinguistics and the digital memescape: The case of “cash me ousside/how bah dah” Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) Erhan Aslan (University of Reading)
This presentation provides an analysis of YouTube metadiscourse about an instance of nonstandard language use, which originated as a media event and became an internet meme. We focus on how this instance of language use is understood by “citizen sociolinguists” as indexing social categories such as race, region, and class.
ICC Room 107
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Constructing Kazakh identity in mealtime narratives through (dis)alignment with other ethnic groups Aisulu Raspayeva (Georgetown University)
Applying Bamberg & Georgakopoulou’s (2008) concept of three levels of positioning in narratives, I examine how two Kazakh-speaking participants construct their identity of Kazakhs through (mis)alignment with other ethnic groups in four mealtime narratives, two of which revolve around public life (finance) and two around private life (food and family).
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3:50pm – 4:20pm
Voicing as a child resource for “growing a head taller” Hansun Waring (Columbia University)
This conversation analytic study details how a 3-year-old girl voices “command and control” by issuing directives that consistently manifest a concern for fun, fairness, and safety during family mealtimes. The findings contribute to the budding literature on documenting socialization in naturalistic settings and foregrounding the child’s role in such socialization.
4:25pm – 4:55pm
Community identity construction of gentrifying neighborhoods Nicholas Mararac (Georgetown University)
Drawing data from the online social network, Nextdoor, this paper analyzes discourse strategies of residents in two gentrifying neighborhoods in Washington DC as they construct identity of self and a identity of community using face and facework while exercising inclusivity of existing ethnic residents.
5:00pm – 5:30pm
“Fur babies" and "pet parents": Discourse about pets in the American linguistic landscape Leslie Cochrane (College of William & Mary)
Using data from the U.S. linguistic landscape, I examine intertextuality, production format, and the metaphorical relationship between humans and animals to demonstrate the consistent anthropomorphizing of pets. I argue that these publicly-visible discourses about pets both display changing attitudes toward animals and shape future discourses about pets as people.
ICC Room 108
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Migrant workers and modern brides: Examining Russian-Persian bilingualism in post-Soviet Tajikistan Mariana Irby (University of Pennsylvania)
This paper examines the gendered nature of bilingualism and register formations in the postSoviet Republic of Tajikistan in light of the phenomenon of outbound waves of primarily male migration to Russia that have left many women solely responsible for the bilingual socialization of their children.
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3:50pm – 4:20pm
Positioning and identity construction in a migrant domestic helper's narrative in Hong Kong Ho-Fai (Viggo) Cheng (Georgetown University)
Using Bamberg’s theory of positioning (1997) and narrative analysis, I study how a foreign domestic helper working in Hong Kong constructs multiple identities in her narratives as a victim of harassment, a jocular survivor, and an agentive fate changer through various linguistic strategies.
4:25pm – 4:55pm
The negotiation of social relations and status in a Chinese complementary school in Berlin, Germany Kitty Jiayin Li-Gottwald (Institute of Education, University of London)
This study aims at revealing the significance of social interactions at a Chinese complementary school in Berlin, Germany, for the first generation migrant-parents. It further investigates how the parental interactions and their social relations at the school setting produce and reproduce the parents´ social status.
ICC Room 115
3:15pm – 5:30pm
Colloquium 2: (continued) Organizer: Discussant:
Strategies of "normalisation" in public discourse: Paradoxes of populism, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion Part II: Normalization, social class and the politics of (anti)immigration
Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University/University of Vienna)
This colloquium aims to debate linguistic and discursive strategies of normalisation used to legitimise views, ideologies and positions that were until recently treated as radical and socially unacceptable and/or located outside the norms of public expression. We target strategies salient in forging legitimacy for populism and politics of exclusion as well as neoliberalism. We address a variety of strategic mechanisms that address in public issues such as, inter alia, misogyny and sexism, political violence, social and class inequality or anti-immigration rhetoric and right wing populism. We show how these are normalised drawing on discursive resources of, inter alia, legitimation, frame shifting, redefinition, scapegoating, creating ambiguity, etc., that effectively help to normalise nationalist, racist and other uncivil exclusionary and neoliberal ideologies.
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Language policy and deficit discourses: Normalizing language gaps for a new generation of working class youth David Cassels Johnson (University of Iowa)
This paper explores debates of/about deficit language ideologies in US language policy and political discourse. The former and the latter re-conceptualize linguistic deficits for a new generation of marginalized youth and provide a link between social class, language, and educational success that effectively normalizes educational failure for working class children.
People on the move: How museums de-marginalise migration
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Tom Van Hout (University of Antwerp/Leiden University) Katja Pelsmaekers (University of Antwerp)
This paper analyses how heritage museums in Belgium and Germany de-marginalise emigration as a lived and liveable reality. Set against a contemporary mediascape that dehumanizes migrants as either voiceless victims or faceless evil-doers, museum representations oscillate between demarginalising unsettling memories and providing pleasurable visitor experiences.
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The normalisation of interactive racism: Right-wing populism, discursive shifts and the ‘refugee crisis’ in Poland
Michał Krzyżanowski (University of Liverpool) This paper explores ‘discursive shifts’ in mediatised politicisation of immigration by European right-wing populist parties during the recent ‘Refugee Crisis’. Looking at e.g. Poland, it explores how anti-immigration and anti-refugee rhetoric supports enactment, perpetuation and normalisation of racism in politics and the wider public sphere.
MARCH 10TH – SATURDAY MORNING
ICC First Floor, 10:15am-12:30pm ICC Room 101
Colloquium 5:
Revisiting Goffman's concept of "total institution" and Foucault's notion of "regimes of practice" in light of discourse studies
10:15am – 12:30pm Organizers: Diana de Souza Pinto (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) Branca Telles Ribeiro (Federal U. of Rio de Janeiro/Lesley University) This colloquium revisits the notion of "total institutions" (Goffman, 1961) and the concept of "regimes of practices" (Foucault, 1975) in hospitals and prisons. It discusses how individuals construct discursively ambiguous positions in a variety of alignments to self and other, shifting from giving credence to the institution to establishing deviance and resistance.
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Interpreting location and identity in total institutions: Ambivalence and contradiction
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Branca Telles Ribeiro (Federal U. of Rio de Janeiro/Lesley University) Diana de Souza Pinto (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
Assuming that language is pervasively indexical, this study discusses markers of location and identity for psychiatric inmates/patients living in total institutions. Specific interactions portray the multifaceted notion of institutional discourse, where patients, inmates and mental healthcare providers express and contextualize contradictory and ambivalent positions regarding themselves and the institution. Deviance and resistance: Narratives of inmates in a penal institution
Paper 2
Liana de Andrade Biar (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) Liliana Cabral Bastos (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
This study examines interactions which took place in a large Brazilian prison. It takes an interactional approach to narrative which focuses on three points: the ‘mixed encounters’ between inmates and researchers; the structure of narratives of adherence to trafficking; coherence systems and ideological struggles portrayed in these narratives.
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Practices of resistance at a custodial and treatment hospital in Brazil: An inpatient’s narratives and memories Diana de Souza Pinto (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) Francisco Ramos de Farias (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
This study investigates practices of resistance of a former inpatient who had been sheltered at a Custodial and Treatment Hospital in Rio de Janeiro for over 30 years. The research investigates the co-construction of narratives with the former patient, healthcare professionals and the interdisciplinary research team. ICC Room 102
10:15am Discovering new antonyms in real discourse: A pragmatics of cultural opposites – 10:45am Masamichi Yamada (Takushoku University) I examine what I call “cultural opposites” in Japanese and English. They are one type of noncanonical antonyms (Jeffries 2010) created by their uses in specific cultural contexts. As such, they can only be observed in real discourse. I present main characteristics and pragmatic functions of cultural opposites in discourse.
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An Interactional Construction Grammar approach to sequentially sensitive near
10:50am synonyms – 11:20am
Chester Hsieh (Pennsylvania State University/ National Taiwan University)
Drawing on data from two spoken Chinese corpora, this research aims to propose an Interactional Construction Grammar approach to a pair of near-synonyms in Mandarin, benlai and yuanlai ‘originally,’ and to showcase how the factor of sequential position is instrumental in distinguishing and explaining the meanings and patterns of near-synonyms.
Beyond grammatical constraints: An emotive contextual analysis of Japanese case
11:25am marker elision – 11:55am Junko Baba (University of South Carolina)
This study examines grammar-pragmatics interface while demonstrating how Japanese Case Marker Elision (CME) correlates with the emotive intensity of spoken discourse. Among sociopragmatic variables that determine the emotive intensity of the discourse, “interaction” is found to be the most significant in CME, followed by “positive politeness” and “subjectivity.”
Revisiting politeness in light of Persian favors
12:00pm – Hooman Saeli (The University of Tennessee) 12:30pm *Presented by Corey Miller (Georgetown University) In this presentation, the tenets of politeness theory are introduced. Then, DCT data on Persian favors will be presented to illustrate politeness norms in an academic context across different genders and academic statuses.
ICC Room 103
10:15am Left-wing populist discourses in the Press – 10:45am Themis Kaniklidou (Hellenic American University) Using CDA-driven approaches, this study identifies the discursive template for left-wing populism in the press. Preliminary findings suggest that the strategies employed make increasing use of the terms ‘The People’, the ‘family’ and the ‘household’ as strategic lexical items for legitimizing purposes of the left-wing variety of populism
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Critical Discourse Analysis of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act:
10:50am Untangling the threads of conflicting ideologies – 11:20am Jaran Shin (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Elizabeth Ging (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this study seeks to address the question of how adult basic education and those involved are characterized in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Our analysis reveals that WIOA presents the purposes of adult basic education in ideologically loaded but simultaneously camouflaged ways.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Integrated English Literacy Civics Education in the
11:25am Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Obey, pay, and repeat after me – 11:55am Elizabeth Ging (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Jaran Shin (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) mandated the integration of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), civic education, and workforce development. Using Critical Discourse Analysis to uncover the hidden agenda inherent in the combination of these educational components, this paper discusses how WIOA disciplines newcomers in this country.
ICC Room 105
10:15am Gendered access to powerful interactional resources in political talk – 10:45am Marta Baffy (Georgetown University) This paper examines exchanges between a witness and two senators—female and male—during a formal hearing. Despite employing similar questioning styles, only the female politician is sanctioned for “interrupting” the witness, suggesting gendered access to interactional resources that index a stance of authority (e.g., fast-paced questioning, latching, and overlapping).
10:50am Communicating amicably: Performing interstate relations through friendly speech acts – 11:20am Zohar Kampf (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The question guiding this study is how to foster amicable relations between states. On the basis of 2,180 friendly messages delivered in a range of contexts, and eight interviews with senior foreign affair policymakers it aims at conceptualizing and classifying amicable actions and their potential enhance relations in global affairs.
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Performing Donald Trump: Synchronic and diachronic approaches to the discourse of
11:25am political parody – 11:55am
Jennifer Sclafani (Georgetown University)
This study examines a corpus of parodies of Donald Trump spanning three decades, performed by multiple actors in diverse media venues, in order to shed light on the indexicality of an individual speaker’s linguistic style and its semiotic trajectory over time.
Radical discourses and manipulation in the Middle East: The case of Mohammad Al-
12:00pm Arefe's Friday sermons – 12:30pm
Maryam Enjavinezhad (University Putra Malaysia)
This study presents a critical discourse analysis of selected Friday sermons delivered by a wellknown Saudi preacher to provide an example of the way new practices are justified, legitimized, and naturalized through looking at the radical discourses in the genre of preaching.
ICC Room 107 Documents as situated objects in writing assessment meetings
10:15am – Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) 10:45am Eunseok Ro (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, this talk examines how raters in an English for Academic Purposes program treat student essays, written as placement tests, as textual, material, and assessable objects as they work on reaching consensual placement decisions in a series of multiparty meetings.
Oppression in discourses of reclassification: A nexus approach to intersectionality
10:50am – Jamie Schissel (University of North Carolina Greensboro) 11:20am Sara Kangas (Lehigh University)
This paper situates intersectionality within nexus analysis to problematize reclassification policies and assessments for English learners (ELs) with disabilities. We argue that this framework serves to illuminate how discourses of reclassification erase the differences among and unique needs of ELs with disabilities and how this erasure perpetuates oppression.
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The writing classroom as performance space: An L2 teacher’s use of spatial orientation and embodied actions to explain abstract concepts
11:25am – Yumi Matsumoto (University of Pennsylvania) 11:55am Jay Jo (University of Pennsylvania) Tom Nygren (University of Pennsylvania)
Through sequential, multimodal analysis, this study qualitatively examines an L2 teacher’s use of gestures, embodied actions, materials, and speech for teaching academic writing. It highlights the moments when the teacher creates spaces in the classroom where he can shift his footing and engage in embodied performance for explaining abstract concepts.
ICC Room 108
10:15am Optimality Theory and the socio-pragmatic functions of code switching: A rubric – 10:45am Arianna Janoff (Georgetown University) Optimality Theory allows linguists to compile earlier findings about the socio-pragmatic functions of code switching (CS) under one framework, in which CS variation comes from constraints on the sociolinguistic grammar. Using four bilingual language groupings, this presentation illustrates how a rubric allows for easier creation of computational corpora for discourse-level analysis.
10:50am A neural approach to discourse relation signaling – 11:20am Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) This paper uses Recurrent Neural Networks to identify signals of discourse relations, such as ‘concession’ or ‘justification’, including adverbials, connectives and content words. Using a corpus of 64,000 tokens annotated for 4700 instances of 20 discourse relations, we present a novel approach to quantifying and ranking signal ambiguity in context.
“Praise the sun”: Enregisterment and intertextuality in videogame gestures and
11:25am community discourse – 11:55am Torri Raines (Ohio University) This study examines how commenters on Reddit use the phrase “praise the sun” from the videogame Dark Souls differently depending on context. Computational analysis of multiple billions of comments and manual context analysis of selected samples suggest three categories of use: thanking, celebrating, and expressing community membership.
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Toward a polyphonic syntax: A multi-derivational approach to unarticulated material
12:00pm in Catholic conversion narratives – 12:30pm Katelyn MacDougald (Georgetown University)
This study analyzes unarticulated material in Catholic conversion narratives as the discursive output to competing syntactic derivations. Transposing concepts in Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al. 2001) from interpersonal dialogue to intrapersonal microdialogue (à la Bakhtin 1984), I advance a polyphonic approach to understanding various elliptical and subsentential phenomena as a plurality of internal voices contending for phonological realization.
ICC Room 115
10:15am – 12:30pm
Colloquium 6: Organizer:
Approaches to social media and activism Part I: Social media and Arab religious and political activism
Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University)
Using a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches that highlight diverse multimodal and discursive strategies, this panel explores social, religious, and political activism online. The four papers examine political dissent and religious activism by Arab Muslims on Facebook, Twitter, and online discussion boards.
Paper 1
Mapping Syrian discourses of dissidence across online and offline platforms: A multimethod approach Francesco Sinatora (The George Washington University)
In this paper, I investigate the discursive practices enacted by a group of Syrian activists across online and offline platforms to challenge the narrative of the Syrian government as the only legitimate alternative to sectarian chaos. I analyse these practices through the notions of intertextuality, multimodality, and language hybridity.
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Solidarity through intertextuality: Understanding religious reference use in disagreements on Charismatic Christian and Muslim discussion boards Mark Visonà (Georgetown University)
This paper demonstrates how posters use references to holy texts in Charismatic Christian and Muslim discussion boards to position themselves and others. I argue this referencing ultimately builds solidarity between disagreeing posters. I further discuss how researchers and activists can use intertextuality as a methodological tool for analyzing online communities.
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Paper 3
Deconstructing Islamic cultural discourses on Twitter: A multimodal example from Arabia Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University)
I draw upon mediated discourse analysis and contemporary theorizations of visual texts to examine how ex-Muslim Arabs on Twitter discursively and multimodally debunk taken for granted Islamic cultural discourses to create a new religious movement. I also highlight the power of conceptualizing visual texts as mediated actions.
MARCH 10TH – SATURDAY AFTERNOON
ICC First Floor, 1:45pm-4:00pm ICC Room 101
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Criminal sexuality: Semiotic representations of a bisexual defendant in the media Felipe de Jesus (Georgetown University)
This study investigates news reports of a crime where a bisexual man was the defendant. Through a combination of methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, I analyze how newsmakers reproduce biased discourses by making use of semiotic/linguistic choices to (mis)represent the defendant based on of his sexuality.
2:20pm – 2:50pm
Language use in media coverage before and after coming out: A corpus-based study of texts on Ricky Martin Heiko Motschenbacher (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
The paper presents a corpus-based study of the media representation of pop star Ricky Martin before and after his public coming-out as a gay man. Keyword, semantic keyness, concordance and collocation analyses are carried out. Findings are discussed in relation to the theorisation of normativity in language and sexuality studies.
2:55pm – 3:25pm
Recasting combative binaries of “sex differences” as discourse of “gender variation” in science and technology Victoria Bergvall (Michigan Technological University)
The discourse on women and men in science and technology is often framed using combative metaphors (e.g., “meritocracy,” “zero-sum games,” “separate spheres of interest/influence,” “pink brains/blue brains”). Using (Feminist) Critical Discourse Analysis (Lazar, 2014), I recast discourses of “sex differences” instead as deeply intersectional “gender variation” in neurology and society.
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3:30pm – 4:00pm
Sex, bartenders, and video games: A multimodal analysis Lisa Armstrong (Carleton University)
Using methods from systemic functional linguistics and multimodal discourse analysis, this paper (part of a larger study on sexualized, popular media representations of bartenders), analyses the verbal and visual discourse of and around a non-player character (Telma the bartender) from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. ICC Room 102
1:45pm – 2:15pm
A pragmatic analysis of conversational code switching among Esan-English bilinguals Genevieve Dibua (Baltimore City Community College)
This study seeks to examine the pragmatic functions of conversational code switching among Esan-English bilinguals to establish the claim that code choices are discourse strategies. A Pragmatic analysis of data collected during fieldwork reveals that code switching among EsanEnglish bilinguals performs a variety of functions.
2:20pm Arguments in NS-L2 conversation: The pragmatics of participation practices – 2:50pm Kelly Lovejoy (Saint Louis University) This paper examines participation manifested in conversational arguments in Spanish by native and L2 speakers. Several non-linguistic practices, including latching, overlapping, and interrupting are analyzed from both a CA and discourse-pragmatic perspective, revealing pragmatic variation between native and L2 speakers that impacts the quality and development of the argument interactions. 2:55pm – 3:25pm
Second language learners’ stances and metapragmatic models Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri (Pennsylvania State University)
The presentation reports on an ethnographic study tracking two groups of ESL students and their stances toward language registers and its effect on their learning.
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Discourse Analysis in language and culture contact: A case from Cochabamba, Bolivia Alana DeLoge (University of Pittsburgh)
Based on bi/multilingual speakers from Bolivia, I argue that a veces in Andean Spanish serves as a reportative evidential marker, expressing epistemic and negative affective stances. This study demonstrates how DA offers a nuanced perspective on outcomes of language contact and is critical in understanding connections between language and culture.
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ICC Room 103
1:45pm – 4:00pm
Colloquium 7: Organizer:
Communicating with the public: “Third parties” in question-answer sequences
Hansun Zhang Waring (Columbia University)
By examining how “third parties” such as the moderator, the computer screen, or the audience become “procedurally consequential” (Schegloff, 1992) for the development of question-answer sequences, this colloquium explore matters that may be considered ancillary to question-answer sequences but integral to environments such as broadcast interviews and publicly-available webinars.
Paper 1
Doing being the moderator in webinar Q&As Allie King (Columbia University)
This study examines how moderators embody a “third party” role by doing question preliminaries, question animation, question closings, and respondent selection during webinar Q&A sessions. Findings suggest that using these practices contributes to progressivity and enhances efficiency during question-answer sequences, and may align with some “best practices” for webinar facilitation.
Narrating the visual: Accounting for and projecting actions in webinar Q&As
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Di Yu (Columbia University) Nadja Tadic (Columbia University)
In this paper, we examine how participants’ asymmetrical visual access is consequential for organizing interactions in informational webinars. We observe that participants narrate what is visible to them to account for interactional work such as transitioning to another task, selecting the next speaker, and highlighting potential technical difficulties. But-prefacing as a refocusing device in questioning and answering
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Ann Tai (Columbia University) Elizabeth Reddington (Columbia University)
This paper examines the use of but-prefaced turn-construction units by participants in interviews, panel discussions, and webinars. Using conversation analysis, we show how but-prefacing marks a transition from talk addressed to other matters back to the “main business” of questioning and answering, regaining focus for the benefit of the audience.
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Paper 4
Beyond the “Q&A”: The TV journalist’s third turn in interviews with public health experts Carol Lo (Columbia University) Di Yu (Columbia University)
Drawing on broadcast interviews on public health issues, we examine how the interviewer orients to the viewing public by producing a third turn to (1) provide supplemental information and (2) reformulate the interviewer’s response into “layman’s terms”, thereby facilitating the audience’s understanding of novel concepts and initiatives.
ICC Room 105
1:45pm – 4:00pm
Colloquium 8: Organizer:
Narratives in social contexts: Schiffrin’s legacy in Japanese Discourse Analysis
Akira Satoh (Osaka University)
This colloquium aims to show how Schiffrin’s works on narrative have inspired Japanese discourse analysis. We will investigate underresearched narrative data type from various social contexts through a range of approaches such as critical discourse analysis and interactional sociolinguistics, with insights gained from conversation analysis and the ethnography of communication.
Paper 1
How did the Japanese media use quotations in their coverage of Fukushima disaster?
Akira Satoh (Osaka University) This paper examines how the Japanese media used quotations in their coverage of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The case study of a news story on the disaster and the database and Internet research reveal that the choice of direct/indirect speech is ideologically motivated.
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Rethinking approaches to medical discourse in Japan: Multiple metalinguistic interpretation “beyond the sentence” Teruko Ueda (Aomori Public University)
Analyzing doctor-patient interactional data as well as metalinguistic commentaries from interview narratives towards the doctors, this paper demonstrates how “silence” possesses metapragmatic functions in constructing diagnosis contexts. In order to understand the multi-faceted significance, we must carefully analyze metalinguistic meanings from both viewpoints of linguistic researchers and medical doctors.
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Paper 3
Collective remembering as Snapchat: Story-sharing for people with dementia Toshiko Hamaguchi (University of the Sacred Heart)
This paper explores the construction of collective memory through sharing fragmented and shortlived narratives in informal reminiscence interactions in a geriatric hospital. It is claimed that a weekly activity called Tea Time Talk helps recreate inaccessible or forgotten social history and reproduce normative selves of people with dementia.
Paper 4
Narratives and the interactive nature of coaching discourse in Japanese Shoko Okazaki Yohena (Ferris University)
This paper analyzes the interactive nature of coaching by examining actual coaching sessions. Various techniques and features of coaching are identified linguistically, and it is argued that, through the collaborative work of coaches and clients, the participants explore different perspectives, which influence the co-authoring of new storylines for achieving goals.
ICC Room 107
1:45pm – 2:15pm
The Muslim ban recontextualized: An intertextual Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim discourse
Hannah Sullivan (Georgetown University) This paper explores the intertextual relations between a 2015 campaign statement released by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and the so-called “travel ban," using the frameworks of intertextuality and Critical Discourse Analysis to show how key elements of an anti-Muslim discourse present in the campaign statement are recontextualized in executive orders issued in 2017.
2:20pm – 2:50pm
Discourse, gender and neoliberalism in a postcolonial context: A Discourse Historical Analysis Nancy Henaku (Michigan Technological University)
This paper employs Wodak’s (2015) discourse historical approach in analyzing the empowerment discourse of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, a female politician in Ghana, so as to historicize the varied influences and contradictions in her discourse while arguing for the viability of an interdisciplinary framework for analyzing gendered discourses in postcolonial contexts.
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2:55pm – 3:25pm
"Enough is enough": Textual trajectory in a trial of a battered woman who kills Sibley Slinkard (York University)
This paper uses multi-method Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate entextualization in the legal sphere. It investigates how statements made during a police interview ‘move’ throughout the course of a trial in a text trajectory (Blommaert 2005), and the transformations in meaning that occur as the text moves across settings.
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Instigators of civil unrest: voices and descriptions of women in Saudi Arabian media coverage of October26 driving campaign Jehan Almahmoud (Georgetown University)
This paper compares the representation of Saudi women in a state-run newspaper and an independent newspaper during the October 26th women-driving campaign. I examine the utilization of two linguistic devices: referring terms used to describe women activists, focusing particularly on the use of Arabic grammatical gender, and editorial reported speech strategies.
ICC Room 108
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Participation, addresseeship & speaking about another in interactions involving an individual with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia Adrienne Isaac (Georgetown University)
This paper investigates the employment of third-person reference terms of co-present interlocutors as well as participants’ eye gaze behavior in interactions involving an individual with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and his family members. This research illuminates a unique conversational context in which verbal and non-verbal behavior serve noncollaborative functions.
2:20pm – 2:50pm
“I’m just kinda having a hard time”: Examining the troubles-centered headline and extended telling formats in calls to a crisis help line Stephen DiDomenico (SUNY New Paltz)
This paper analyzes audio recordings of calls made to a help line dedicated to crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and mental health care. Analysis focuses on a pair of practices used by callers to present their present their problem early in the call: a minimal announcement format and extended storytelling format.
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2:55pm – 3:25pm
Managing professional knowledge boundaries during tele-consultations in specialty care liver clinics: A theme-oriented Discourse Analysis Christopher Koenig (San Francisco State University) Leah Wingard (San Francisco State University)
This theme-oriented Discourse Analysis examines 115 video-recorded consultations between generalist and specialist providers managing Hepatitis C. Focal themes characterize the range of consultation questions. Analytic themes describe the relationship between consultation question format and associated knowledge domains. Findings suggest that generalists apply general medical knowledge to specialty consultations in novel ways.
ICC Room 115
1:45pm – 4:00pm
Colloquium 6: (continued) Organizer:
Approaches to social media and activism Part II: Social media and activism across cultural and social contexts
Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University)
Using various approaches that highlight diverse multimodal and discursive strategies, this panel explores social, religious, and political activism across online contexts (YouTube, Facebook, gaming and chat), languages (Russian, Ukrainian, English), and groups (Russians, Ukrainians, Caribbean people, parents of LGBTQ children, online gamers). It also addresses social media research ethics.
Paper 1
Trolling as creative insurgency: The carnivalesque delegitimization of Putin and his supporters in online newspaper commentary Alla Tovares (Howard University)
Through the analytical lens of stance, this study brings together Bakhtin’s (1984) theorizing on carnival, Kraidy’s (2016) notion of creative insurgency (the mixture of activism and artistry), and computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 2004) to investigate how online trolling is deployed as activist delegitimization in the context of Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical conflict.
Paper 2
“If my child came out to me”: Constructing affirmative parent identities through YouTube hypothetical narratives Ping-Hsuan Wang (Georgetown University)
This paper examines YouTube commenters’ use of hypothetical narratives to construct “openminded parent” identities and the co-constructing role of corroborating replies. Findings show that the narrators, using fictional dialogues, contrast their responses to stereotypical negative reactions to LGBT children’s coming out, focalizing their acceptance of their children in fictional scenarios.
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Paper 3
Bridging the Middle Passage: Multimodal constructions of pan-Caribbean history and identity in the social media campaign for slavery reparations Eleonora Esposito (Sultan Qaboos University)
I explore the multimodal discursive strategies employed by the CARICOM Reparation Commission to argue for slavery reparations on Social Media, with a focus on Facebook. Using a critical approach, I highlight how different semiotic resources are deployed to communicate ideas and values, ultimately ‘branding’ the reparation movement identity.
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Ethical and methodological challenges in researching digital discourse Sage Graham (University of Memphis)
Using live online game streams and simultaneous public chat from the game streaming platform Twitch.tv, I explore ethical and practical concerns for interactional sociolinguistic researchers in multi-faceted settings. As technology evolves, our methods and ethical stances must also; it is the goal of this presentation to bring these issues to light.
MARCH 11TH – SUNDAY MORNING
ICC First Floor, 10:15am-12:30pm ICC Room 101
10:15am – 10:45am
Friendship across distance: Threatening face and building solidarity over video calls Margaret Anne Rowe (Georgetown University)
This study examines how friends accomplish positive facework using the technological affordances of video computer-mediated communication (VCMC). Specifically, it considers jocular mockery and troubles talk as sites for solidarity-building both helped and hindered by technological features, lending insight into how interlocutors adapt to new yet “reconfigured” media (Herring, 2013).
10:50am – 11:20am
How to do things with typography: Discursive enactment in text-based mobile communication
Agnieszka Lyons (Queen Mary University of London) This paper deals with multimodal meaning-making in text-only digital discourse through what I refer to as kineticons – typographically marked graphical representations of actions and observable phenomena in digital communication. Kineticons trigger associations with nonverbal communication and demonstrate a complex relationship to the discursively constructed alterae personae of communicators.
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11:25am – 11:55am
Emerging national identities in the limbo
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Creating imagery and detail in photo/video sharing during online family talk
Cecilia Tomasatti (North Carolina State University)
DACA recipients in the US and second-generation young immigrants in Italy are liminal groups seeking ratified national belonging in the current political landscape. Their calling into question of national identities can be achieved in and through discourse, and online video collections of immigrant voices become a fruitful site to look at how updated forms of belonging emerge from the borderland.
Hanwool Choe (Georgetown University)
Refining Tannen's (2007) sense of 'imagery and detail', the present study examines how imagery and detail are constructed in sharing photos and videos via instant messages. The study gives a better understanding of how everyday photos and videos multimodally and intertextually make meanings in online conversational discourse.
ICC Room 103
10:15am – 10:45am
Talking allies and adversaries into being: A conversation analytic account of grassroots activism Catherine Box (University of Pennsylvania) Sarah Creider (New York University)
This study examines the interactions of a rural American Indivisible group. Utilizing conversation analysis, we analyze moments in which grassroots activists discursively create contingent categories of political allies and adversaries. Findings suggest the fluidity of member groups, and the inextricable link between discursively constructing such groups and devising action plans.
10:50am – 11:20am
Semiotic ideologies and multimodal approaches to Discourse Analysis Susan Ehrlich (University of York)
Departing from much previous work on multimodality, in this paper I investigate multimodality from an ‘emic’ perspective, demonstrating the way that the semiotic ideologies (Thurlow 2017) of participants are key to understanding how different semiotic modes are ‘afforded’ meaning.
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11:25am – 11:55am
Cross-cultural pragmatic failure between police and young African American urban males Tanner Call (Georgetown University) William Eggington (Brigham Young University)
Our research focuses on a series of discourse analyses that examined cross-cultural pragmatic failures between law enforcement officers and young African American urban males. We hypothesize a conflict between the pragmatics of legality as demanded by law enforcement, and respect, as proffered by African American young men.
ICC Room 105
10:15am – 10:45am
From audience member to Dantist: An interactional sociolinguistic analysis of Inferno VIII:94-96 Elif Rosenfeld (Independent Scholar)
Taking an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach to Dante’s first address to the reader, I demonstrate how the address not only creates audience involvement in the narrative, but further reframes the entire 14,233 line poem as a single turn-at-talk initiating a literary conversation that has continued for almost 700 years.
10:50am – 11:20am
Vendor calls and spiels: From oral genres to enregisterment of deceit Xuehua Xiang (University of Illinois at Chicago)
This study is a discourse analysis of the textual and semiotic properties of vendor calls and spiels in the Chinese marketplace based on naturally occurring data. The analysis illustrates the displaced nature of calls/spiels and argues that certain calls and spiels effectually codify deceit as a register.
11:25am – 11:55am
The pastor in the pew: Simulated conversation in contemporary American sermons Joshua Kraut (Hope College)
This study explores the way a Christian minister “ventriloquizes” (Tannen, 2004) his congregation – speaks as them in their presence – and then responds (to himself) in his own voice in order to affirm or challenge his actual listeners. In “playing both parts” the minister accomplishes key interpersonal and argumentative work.
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12:00pm A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Galle’s Judith Beheading – 12:30pm Cecile Wilson (Carleton University) A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis focusing on the salient aspects of the image and poem in Philips Galle’s print of Judith beheading Holofernes (ca. 1569) reveals a somber consideration of the possibility of resistance and the horrific outcome of violence, rather than the threat women pose to men.
ICC Room 107
10:15am – 10:45am
Linguistic devices for constructing the stance-triangle in Japanese dementia discourse: Citation, evaluation and verbs of perception Kaoru Amino (Fukuoka Prefectural University)
Different views on interpreting utterances have been analyzed by theories as “Intersubjectivity” or “Framing”. In this study, caregivers’ evaluations towards their patients’ utterance in Japanese dementia discourse are examined. Consequently, the modal expressions as topological nature of Japanese language facilitate the re-constructions of patients’ intentions and emotions by caregivers.
10:50am – 11:20am
Multiple negation as an epistemic stance marker Didar Akar (Bogazici University) Can Ozbey (Bogazici University)
This study investigates double negative structures in Turkish with respect to their discourse properties within a general corpus linguistics framework. Double negation functions as an epistemic stance marker as they hedge or qualify the author’s stance as indicated by the correlation of the type of verbs, adverbs and discourse markers.
11:25am – 11:55am
Conversational practices in writing: The discourse marker yaʕni (lit "it means") in spoken and written Egyptian Arabic Michal Marmorstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The paper explores the adaptation of the conversational discourse marker yaʕni (‘it means’) into Egyptian Arabic written discourse. Casual-personal writing vs. expository writing present markedly different frequency of use, as well as different redefinitions of the rhetorical function of yaʕni and its macro-social value.
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Hidden AND in plain sight? Implicit and explicit relations cooperate in the construction of meaning in discourse
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Nathan Schneider (Georgetown University) Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh) Anna Dickinson (University of Edinburgh) Annie Louis (University of Edinburgh)
Prior work on coherence assumes discourse relations are either signaled explicitly (via discourse connectives) or left implicit. We investigate to what extent multiple discourse relations are present concurrently. A conjunction completion survey task, where conjunctions were elicited before adverbials, suggests redundancy and inference are crucial to meaning construction in discourse. ICC Room 108
10:15am – 10:45am
Negotiating millennial masculine identities with Internet meme references in everyday conversation among friends Sylvia Sierra (Syracuse University)
This study integrates intertextuality with media stereotypes, Internet memes, and discourses of masculinity to analyze humorous intertextual references to Internet memes which comment on masculinity in the talk of a group of Millennial friends in their mid-twenties, showing how they use meme references to negotiate masculine identities in their interactions.
10:50am – 11:20am
Queer, interfaith, and going to church: A young couple co-constructs identity through keying a frame Katherine Murray (Georgetown University)
This paper analyzes the ways in which a young, queer, interfaith couple key the frame of talking about church as light-hearted through swearing, slang, and repetition. I show that these linguistic strategies index the interactants’ identities, thus expanding on prior research about keying and identity.
11:25am – 11:55am
Oilsands, oil wives, and oil dads: An analysis of collective identity Alicia Massie (Simon Fraser University)
Employing a CDA approach to analysing collective identities, this research explores open letters and blog posts written by Canadian oilsands workers and their families. This analysis unpacks how authors negotiate their identities through discourses of family, work, and gender – enmeshing people with extraction and rejecting alternative possibilities to the petro-economy.
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Poster Session MARCH 10TH – SATURDAY AFTERNOON
ICC Galleria, 4:00pm-5:45pm
Semiotics, semi-symbolism and comics: A semiotic perspective of Mafalda Adonis de Carvalho Borges (University of Texas at El Paso)
According to the semiotic theory proposed by Algidas Grimes, there is a semi-symbolic relationship between illustration and text through the language of comics. Four strips from the famous Argentine comic series Mafalda formed the basis for exemplifying the behavior of semiotic theory applied to illustration and text. Bayesian update: From semantics/pragmatics to variation theory Akitaka Yamada (Georgetown University)
This study models the discourse dynamicity associated with addressee-honorific constructions. Unlike previous studies (e.g., McCready 2014), this study uses Bayesian Statistics and proposes that the update is to calculate the posterior density of the relevant parameters. Models used in Variation Theory are regarded as a special case of this model. Disagreement management in group discussions Alena Vasilyeva (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The study examines how interactivity is constructed in the course of multi-person interaction in a semiinformal educational context, namely, meetings of a female discussion club. More specifically, it explores the interconnection between the participants’ disagreement management practices and the practical activity context. Being a Saudi woman in the USA: Heteroglossia and identity in digital discourse Amani Alageel (University of Arizona)
This study employs Bakhtin ‘s (1981) concept of heteroglossia to analyze the linguistic practices of a group of ten expatriate Saudi women in the USA. the result illustrates how heteroglossic linguistic practices, such as, parody, mocking, and stylization, have granted these expatiates the power to project contradictory voices and negotiate their traditional gender roles. Say the magic word: Audience design in magicians' vlogs Asri Nurul Qodri (Ohio University)
This study investigates how magician vloggers (i.e. video bloggers) involve and attract their viewers, and what linguistic strategies they utilize. Drawing on the framework of audience design (Bell 1984), the study analyzes features which include linguistic content (e.g. opening and closing sequence), conversational history, physical arrangement, gaze/gesture, and manner of speaking.
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A network-theoretic foundation for studying macro-discourse Austin Blodgett (Georgetown University)
The last decade has seen a movement of computational sociolinguistics research, motivating new methods for the field. One topic of interest is the spread of an idea (or stance, or lexeme, etc.) within a social network. I present a simulated-network model of this phenomenon and discuss implications for further research. Evaluative language resources in five Taiwanese dissertation defenses Eric Odle (Yuan Ze University) Thi Bich Phuong Nguyen (Yuan Ze University)
This project explores evaluative language in the dissertation defense. Through application of Appraisal Theory, we analyze Engagement, Attitude, and Graduation resources in both candidate and examiner speech during five Taiwanese defenses held in English. We then summarize successful defense strategies in order to provide practical guidelines for future candidates. An introduction of text mining to discourse studies: Latent Dirichlet allocation HeeSun Chang (University of Georgia) Minho Kwak (University of Georgia)
The study introduces basic concepts of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and potential utilities of it, focusing on discourse/text analysis. It is a powerful complement for various discourse studies, such as cross-cultural text analysis and critical discourse analysis. Moreover, it can help establish external validity of many discourse studies. Calibration of sensory experience and morality in assessment Jung Yun Choi (University of California, Los Angeles)
This paper examines the interactive process of calibrating sensory experience and a moral dimension in the assessment of food at a professional culinary school in Korea. I will look at how the assessment of participants’ actions are made though the evaluation of something made by the party whose actions are being assessed. After a generic assessment, detailed forensic explanations for failure follow by locating attributes of the student’s food as public evidence for the assessment being made. Voice quality as a resource in identity construction and stancetaking: Evidence from narrative constructed dialogue Lily Schaffer (Georgetown University)
This paper analyzes the uses of voice quality in narrative constructed dialogue, specifically the potential for the inversion of social meaning by flouting the indexes associated with particular voice qualities. The speaker utilizes non-modal phonation in her characterization of queer identity as being orthogonal to lesbian identity.
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Discussing opiates in medical consultations: Expressing pain, mitigated questions, implicit requests and formulating credibility Peter Joseph Torres (University of California, Davis)
This exploratory clinical sociolinguistic study combines interactional sociolinguistics, conversational analysis, pragmatics, and speech act theory to examine the linguistic features utilized by two patients during medical consultations. The results show similarities in the ways both patients asked questions, formulate requests, express pain, and create credible social identities. The use of English in K-pop girl groups and boy groups: Construction of masculinity and femininity Sinae Lee (Ohio University) Torri Raines (Ohio University)
This study examines the construction of polarized gender attributes in South Korean popular music (Kpop), focusing on the use of English by four K-pop groups. The study suggests that while the boy-groups are constructing masculinity in a comparable way, the two girl-groups are constructing two very different types of femininity. "Where are you really from?": Identity and racial otherness in narratives by Asian Americans Zhilling Zhong (Georgetown University)
This paper argues that Asian Americans, who are frequently categorized as “modal minorities,” are positioned as “racial others” through pragmatic processes—implicature and presupposition discursively by members of other ethnic groups in the US. The use of direct reported speech polarizes the ideologies of racial binary - “insiders” and “others
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Maps and Important Locations
Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Third Floor
(ICC Galleria and Auditorium)
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Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) First Floor (Classrooms)
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Georgetown University Main Campus
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Dining Options On Campus: LOCATION
NAME
TYPE
Leavey Center
Starbucks (202) 687-3198
coffee/tea, snacks, lite fare
Leavey Center
Royal Jacket Deli
sandwiches, salads
Healey Family Student Center
Bulldog Tavern (202) 687-6186
burgers, sides, salads, beverages
Off Georgetown Medical Center Parking Lot
Epicurean & Co. (202) 625-2222 http://www.epicureanandcompany.com
coffee/tea, buffet, sandwiches, soups, snacks
Off-Campus: Here are some “tried and tested” restaurants in the area (all 10-15 minutes walking): Booeymonger ($) Cuisine: Deli Location: 3265 Prospect Street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-4810 Web: http://www.booeymonger.com Hours: Fri-Sun (8:00am - 12:00am)
Chipotle Mexican Grill ($) Cuisine: Mexican Location: 3255 M street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-8377 Website: https://www.chipotle.com Hours: Fri-Sun (10:45am - 10:00pm)
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HOURS
Fri (6:30am – 6:00pm) Sat (7:00am – 5:00pm) Sun (7:00am – 7:00pm) Fri (11:00am – 4:00pm) Sat-Sun (closed) Fri (11:00am – 7:00pm) Sat (closed) Sun (2:00pm – 1:00am) Fri-Sun (6:30am – 10:30pm)
Curry & Pie ($$) Cuisine: Indian Location: 1204 34th Street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-4369 Website: http://www.curryandpie.com Hours: Fri-Sat (12:00pm - 11:00pm), Sun (12:00pm - 10:00pm)
Moby Dick House of Kabob ($) Cuisine: Middle Eastern Location: 1070 31st Street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-4400 Website: http://www.mobyskabob.com Hours: Fri (11:00am-10:00pm), Sat (12:00pm - 10:00pm), Sun (12:00pm - 9:00pm)
Mai Thai ($$) Cuisine: Thai Location: 3251 Prospect Street (NW) Phone: (202) 337-2424 Web: http://www.maithai.com Hours: Fri-Sat (11:30am - 11:00pm), Sun (11:30am – 10:30pm)
Pizza Paradiso ($$) Cuisine: Pizza Location: 3282 M Street (NW) Phone: (202) 337-1245 Web: http://www.eatyourpizza.com Hours: Fri-Sat (11:30am to 11:00pm), Sun (12pm-10:00pm)
Dean & Deluca ($$) Cuisine: Eclectic Location: 3276 M Street (NW) Phone: (202) 342-2500 Web: http://www.deandeluca.com/georg-dc Hours: Fri-Sat (8:00am - 9:00pm), Sun (8:00am – 8:00pm)
The Tombs ($$) Cuisine: Pub food/American Location: 1226 36th Street (NW) Phone: (202) 337-6668 Web: http://www.tombs.com Hours: Fri (11:30am - 2:30am), Sat (11:00am - 2:30am), Sun (9:30am - 1:30am)
Falafel Inc. ($) Cuisine: Middle Eastern Location: 1210 Potomac Street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-4265 Hours: Fri-Sat (12:00pm - 10:00pm), Sun (12:00pm – 9:00pm) Web: http://www.falafelinc.org
Wisemiller’s Deli ($) Cuisine: Deli Location: 1236 36th Street (NW) Phone: (202) 333-8254 Website: http://www.wisemillersgrocerydeli.com Hours: Fri-Sun (7:00am - 11:30pm)
And if you feel like exploring other options, the Georgetown area has dozens of excellent options. See http://www.yelp.com/dc for restaurants near M Street or Wisconsin Avenue.
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LINGUISTICS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD
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