Speaker Series

Unless otherwise specified, all CLIC talks are held in the UCLA Anthropology & CELF Project Discourse Lab (Haines 332).

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Upcoming Speakers/Events

Symposium on Race and Ethnicity in Language, Interaction, and Culture, February 27, 2009 at the UCLA Faculty Center. Invited speakers: Mary Bucholtz, Jane Hill, Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Adrienne Lo, Lauren Mason, Ben Rampton, John Baugh.

Past Speakers

 The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, May 22-24, 2008, UCLA. Plenary speakers: Asif Agha, Kris Gutiérrez, Douglas Maynard, Suzanne Wertheim.

Laura Ahearn (Anthropology, Rutgers): "From Grammar to Love: Ergative Markers in Nepali Love Letters" April 2, 2008, 5 pm. Place: Haines 352.

Julie Gros-Louis (Department of Psychological and Brain Studies, Indiana University): "The Origins of Communication: Social Influences on Development." February 27, 2008, 5 pm. Place: Haines 352.

Olga Yokoyama (Applied Linguistics, UCLA): "Gradations of Literacy: A Father and His Son in Rural 19th-Century Russia." March 12, 2008, 5 pm. Place: Haines 352.

Jack Sidnell (Anthropology, University of Toronto) : "If-prefaced Repeats as Responses to Questions and Assessments in Caribbean Conversation." January 23, 2008, 5pm. Place: Haines 352. 

Marco Iacoboni (Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA) : "Mirroring People: The Role of Mirror Neurons in Social Interactions., " December 5, 2007, 5 pm. Place: Haines 352.

  Sarah Bunin Benor (Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College) : " Hyperaccommodation, Avoidance, and the 'Bungee Effect': Language Socialization Among Newly Orthodox Jews. " November 14, 2007, 5 pm. Place: Haines 352.

Heidi Swank (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) : "Spoken Tibetan, Written English: Communities of Practice and Linguistic Marketplaces in the Tibetan Diaspora of McLeod Ganj, India., " October 3, 2007, 5pm. Place: Haines 352.

Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara) : "Sequence as a source of body behavior, body behavior as a resource for sequencing actions: the case of interjected action., "April 18, 2007, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Otto Santa Ana (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCLA) : "Did you call in Mexican Today? The racial politics of Jay Leno jokes about the 2006 immigrant marches., "March 7, 2007, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, Shirley Brice-Heath, Penelope Brown, Matthew Burdelski, Haruko Cook, Lourdes de Leon, Patricia Duff, Ayala Fader, Debra Friedman, Paul Garrett, Marjorie H. Goodwin, Agnes He, Kathryn Howard, Leslie Moore, Angela Nonaka, Elinor Ochs, Olga Solomon, Laura Sterponi, Tanya Stivers, Akira Takada: CLIC SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION, INTERACTION AND CULTURE February 23-24, 2007. The California Room, UCLA Faculty Center.

Makoto Hayashi (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) : "Marking 'departure' in talk: Eh-initiated turns in Japanese conversation, " Febraury 7, 2007, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) : " The paradox of being ordinary: The case of default person reference in Lao" , " November 29, 2006, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Susan Perry (Anthropology, UCLA) : " Capuchin Communication, " October 11, 2006, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Norma Mendoza Denton (The University of Arizona & Stanford University) : "The Sociophonetics of Face-Threatening Behavior, or How to Lose your Cool with your Congressman., "Date & Time: May 10, 2006, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

The 12th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Culture Thursday, May 25-Saturday May 27, 2006. Plenary speakers: Mary Bucholtz, John Lucy, Geoffrey Raymond, Bambi B. Schieffelin.

Susan Speer (School of Psychological Sciences, Psychology Division, The University of Manchester) : "The interactional organization of appearance attributions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients., "Date & Time: April 26, 2006, 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Karen Aronsson, Aaron Cicourel, Steven Clayman, Paul Drew, Alessandro Duranti, Charles Goodwin, Christian Heath, John Heritage, Kris Gutierrez: CLIC SYMPOSIUM ON THE LANGUAGE, INTERACTION AND CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS. February 24, 2006, 8am-6pm. The California Room, UCLA Faculty Center.

Agnes Weiyun He (Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook): "Title: Speaking the Heart: Toward an Identity Theory of Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language , "Date & Time: January 18, 2006, at 5pm. Place: Haines 332.

Mary Bucholtz (Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara) : "Styling, quoting, and California youth identities in interaction, " Date & Time: November 2, 2005, 5pm, Haines 332.

John M. Conley (University of North Carolina School of Law) : "Title: The Emerging Discourse of Corporate Social Responsibility, "Date & Time: June 8, 2005, 5pm, Haines 332.

Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey (Australian National University) : " Some aspects of the use of speech-event models in social theory , " Date & Time: February 23, 2005, 5pm, Haines 332.

John Heritage (Sociology, UCLA) : "Territories of Knowledge, Territories of Experience: (Not so) Empathic Moments in Interaction, " Date & Time: February 2, 2005, 5pm, Haines 332.

Alessandro Duranti (Anthropology, UCLA) : "Orality with Attitude: On the Limits of Writing According to Samoan Speechmakers and American Jazz Musicians, " Dec. 3, 2004, Haines 332, 10am.

Suzanne Wertheim (Northwestern University): "Linguistic Reflections of Nationalist Ideologies, " March 10, 2004, Haines 332, 4pm.

Steven C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): "Diversity in Human Spatial Cognition: Where Prehistory, Culture, Language and Biology Meet," March 1, 2004.

Participants in the Symposium on Theories and Models of Language, Interaction and Culture, Feb. 27, 2004. (The Symposium Proceedings were published as a special issue of Discourse Studies, Vol. 7: 4-5, edited by Anjali Browning and Alessandro Duranti, 2005).

H. Samy Alim (Duke University): "'My Steez, My Steelo': An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Language, Poetics, and Speech Styles of the Hip Hop Nation," February 19, 2004, at 4PM.

Judith Irvine (University of Michigan): "Discourse at a Distance: Colonial Regimes of African Linguistic Demography," February 6, 2004, at 10AM.

Sonja Lanehart (University of Georgia): "Sista Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy," November 7, 2003.

Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Linguistics & English, Indian Institute of Technology, New Dehli): "A Chat Room of One's Own: Youth Culture, Technology & the Evolution of English in India," October 24, 2003.

Barbara LeMaster (CSU, Long Beach): "When, and How Does Gender Language Matter in Irish Sign Language, and in Multilingual/Multiethnic Preschools in Long Beach?," October 10, 2003.

Steven Feld (University of New Mexico): "Nostalgia and Modernity: A Musical Interlude," May 21, 2003.

Noriko Akatsuka (UCLA): "The Co-Construction of Counterfactuals Reasoning Revisited: A Study in Modality and Mental Spaces," March 14, 2003.

Robin Shoaps (UCSB): "Morality in grammar and discourse: modal particles and evaluative stance-taking in Sakapultek wedding counsels," February 21, 2003.

Jack Whalen (Systems and Practices Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center): "Working Documents," November 15, 2002.

John Schumann (UCLA): "The Evolution of Grammar," October 18, 2002.

Benjamin Bailey (UMass, Amherst): "Developmental and Historical Time in Language and Negotiation of Identities: Some Findings among Dominican Americans", April 5, 2002.

Sandra A. Thompson (UCSB): "Linguistic Practices for Self-Repair of Overstatement and Other Utterances Leading to Possible Misapprehension," March 1, 2002.

Adam Kendon (Penn): "Semantic Themes in 'Pragmatic Gestures' in Neapolitan Speakers and Speakers of English," February 15, 2002.

Ana Celia Zentella (UCSD): "Language Socialization Research: Promises and Pitfalls," November 16, 2001.

Shirley Brice Heath (Stanford): Presentation and Graduate Student Workshop, April 27, 2001 (Sponsored by CLIC GSA).

Lourdes de León (CIESAS Sureste): "Placing the Soul: Language, Fear and Space in the Socialization of Zinacantec Children," April 20, 2001.

Elizabeth Keating (University of Texas, Austin): "American Sign Language in Virtual Space," March 16, 2001.

Geoff Raymond (University of York): "The Structure of Responding: Type-conforming and Nonconforming Responses to Yes/No Type Interrogatives," February 16, 2001.

Steven Clayman and John Heritage (UCLA): "Questioning Presidents: Journalistic Deference and Adversarialness in the Press Conferences of Eisenhower and Reagan," January 19, 2001.

Lanita Jacobs-Huey (USC): "Epistemological Deliberations: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross-Cultural Hair Testimonies," December 4, 2000.

Kathryn Woolard (UCSD):"The Origins of Spanish: A 17th Century Intrigue of Language, Religion and Race," October 27, 2000.

Paul V. Kroskrity (UCLA): "Performing Identities against a Field of Language Shift and Language Ideological Change," May 12, 2000.

Gene H. Lerner and Don H. Zimmerman (UCSB): "Action and the Appearance of Action in the Conduct of Very Young Children," April 28, 2000.

Fred Erickson (UCLA): "Slippery Footing and Whiffs of Racializing in Medical Discourse," February 11, 2000.

Paul Drew (University of York): "An Exercise in Comparative Analysis of Institutional Talk: The Case of Formulations," January 28, 2000.

William Labov (Penn): "Can Reading Failure Be Reversed? Some Positive Indications," January 28, 2000.

Paul B. Garrett (CSU Long Beach): "'You spit in the air, it fall on your nose': Language Socialization and the Dynamics of Language Change in St. Lucia, West Indies," December 3, 1999.

Bambi B. Schieffelin (NYU): "Reshaping Languages and Persons: Metalinguistic Innovations and Ethnopragmatic Obstacles," October 22, 1999.

Dan I. Slobin and Nini Hoiting (UC Berkeley): "Variations in Child-Directed Speech as a Guide to Language Form and Use," October 15, 1999.