Language and the Body in a Material World
THE SECOND SANTA BARBARA SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sunday, May 20, 2007

A symposium in association with the annual LISO conference
For more information, contact: Mary Bucholtz (bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu)

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PROGRAM

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8:30     Breakfast and Welcome

WHAT IS COMMUNICATIVE IN EMBODIED INTERACTION?

 

Data presentation

9:00     Norma Mendoza-Denton (Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona), "Studying Conversation and the Autonomic Nervous System: Evidence from Speech Breathing"

Discussants

9:20     John Haviland (Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego)
9:35     Mary Bucholtz (Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara)

9:50     General discussion

10:30     Coffee break

 

EMBODIED PROJECTION

 

Data presentation

11:00     Barbara A. Fox (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado), "Seen but Not Heard: Visible but Silent Upper-Body Movements during Silences in Conversation"

Discussants

11:20     Sandra A. Thompson (Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara)
11:35     Jan Svennevig (Department of Communication, Culture, and Languages, Norwegian School of Management BI)

11:50     General discussion

12:30     Lunch

 

TOUCH IN INTERACTION

 

Data presentation

2:00     Merran Toerien (MRC Health Services Research Collaboration) and Celia Kitzinger (Department of Sociology, University of York), "Co-ordinating a Shoulder Touch with Talk-in-Interaction"

Discussants

2:20     Gene Lerner (Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
2:35     Lanita Jacobs-Huey (Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California)

2:50     General discussion

3:30     Coffee break

 

DISCIPLINING BODIES

 

Data presentation

4:00     Jason Raley (Department of Education, UC Santa Barbara), "Bodies of Knowledge: Exploring the Peculiar Arrangements for Reading in School"

Discussants

4:20     Emanuel Schegloff (Department of Sociology, UCLA)
4:35     H. Samy Alim (Department of Anthropology, UCLA)
4:50     General discussion

5:30     End of symposium