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About the Annual LISO/CLIC Conference:

The annual conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The papers primarily employ analysis of naturally occurring data drawing from methodologies that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods, ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, and interactional sociolinguistics.

The Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture is jointly organized and sponsored by the Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) group and the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC).

About LISO and CLIC:

LISO is an interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student organization located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. whose members share an interest in the analysis of recorded social interaction through various approaches, including conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and functional linguistics. LISO is composed of faculty and graduate students from linguistics, sociology, and education, among other departments. LISO offers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis and hosts colloquia sharing the diverse research of these fields.

CLIC is located at the University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose of CLIC is to promote cross-disciplinary discussion about issues regarding language as a complex resource for thinking and acting in the world. CLIC is composed of faculty and graduate students from anthropology, applied linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology. 

Special Theme Symposium:

Transcribing Now:
Means and Meanings in the Transcription of Spoken Interaction

Presently, researchers from a broad range of fields find themselves
compelled to consider the nature of their relationship to a common
evidentiary practice: the transcription of recordings of naturally
occurring spoken interaction. This workshop brings together scholars from
an interdisciplinary  range of perspectives to take stock of some of the
key cross-cutting issues in transcription -- theory and practice -- that
continue to have such important, if often unnoticed, implications for how
we come to an understanding of the phenomena which are to be discovered in
spoken interaction.

Date: Sunday, May 15, 2005.
Location: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UC Santa Barbara

Click here to go to symposium website

The 2005 LISO Conference has been organized by the LISO Conference Organizing Committee: Jennifer Garland and Melissa Kwon, Co-Chairs; Valerie Sultan, Treasurer; Jesse Gillispie, Webmaster; Kevin Whitehead and Annette Harrison. 

University of California, Santa Barbara 

Department of Linguistics South Hall 3605 

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

LISOconf05@linguistics.ucsb.edu 

 
This conference is sponsored by the following organizations:

UCSB: College of Letters and Science, School of Education, Department of Linguistics, Department of Sociology, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the GSA

UCLA: GSA