Past LISO Events: 2010-2020
LISO Seminar Series 2019-2020
Fall 2020 - Coordinator: John Du Bois (Linguistics)
October 16, 2020
Giorgia Troiani (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data Session: "Competing factors in Kazakh reported speech"
Giorgia Troiani (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data Session: "Competing factors in Kazakh reported speech"
October 30, 2020
Simeon Floyd (Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
“Getting others to do things in Cha’palaa and beyond"
“Getting others to do things in Cha’palaa and beyond"
November 13, 2020
Nick Enfield (Linguistics, University of Sydney)
"Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments"
"Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments"
Spring 2020 - Coordinator: Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)
April 10, 2020
Julia Katila (Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland & Anthropology and Sociology, UCLA)
"The role of touch in socialising children into health practices: Examples from a doctor, nurse and a dentist's office”
April 17, 2020
deandre miles-hercules (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session
April 24, 2020
[CLIC-LISO virtual session with UCSB presenters] (Part 1)
(1) Giorgia Troiani (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Gendered mock American personae in Italian conversation””
(2) Erika Prado (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) and Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘¿Qué quieres?’: Family members’ negotiation of understanding with a nonspeaking bilingual teenager with autism”
May 8, 2020
Eric Louis Russell (French & Italian, UC Davis)
"The linguistic and discursive foundations of male hegemony: Alphas, betas, and 'quality' women”
May 15, 2020
[CLIC-LISO virtual session with UCSB presenters] (Part 2)
(1) André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
“Category attribution during oolice encounters: How officers assess mental health-related phenomena”
(2) Rony Ron-Rén (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro & Sociology, UCSB)
“Some forms and functions of formulations in extrajudicial family mediation”
(3) Julia Fine (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Climate conversations: Media and interactional influences on climate action” (in collaboration with Delcia Orona, Elena Salinas, Forest Stuart, Jessica Love-Nichols, Rohit Reddy Karnaty, and Shawn Van Valkenburgh)
(4) Alexia Fawcett (Linguistics, UCSB)
“The inverted Spanglish of @ElBloombito: Anti-hegemonic humor, sociopolitical commentary, and challenging raciolinguistic ideologies on Twitter”
Winter 2020 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
January 24, 2020
Reading Group Discussion
As a group, LISO members will read and discuss select chapters related if the recent book of our CLIC colleague and friend, UCLA Department of Anthropology Distinguished Professor Emerita Dr. Marjorie Harness (Candy) Goodwin, titled: "Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis" (1st Edition), by Marjorie Harness Goodwin & Asta Cekaite, Routledge
February 7, 2020
Yumei Gan (Sociology, Video Analysis, Science and Technology (VAST) Research Group, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fulbright Fellow, UCLA (2019-2020))
"Orchestrated openings in video calls: Getting young left-behind children to greet their migrant parents to reaffirm their filial love"
Authors: Yumei Gan, Christian Greiffenhagen, & Christian Licoppe
February 21, 2020
Kira Hall (Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture: "Accent, interaction, and intimacy on the autism pectrum"
Fall 2019 - Coordinator: Kevin Whitehead (Sociology)
October 4, 2019
Andre Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)
“Category Attribution during oolice encounters: How officers assess mental health-related phenomena”
October 18, 2019
H. Samy Alim (Anthropology, UCLA)
“Sorry to bother you: Theorizing language, resistance, and racial capitalism”
October 25, 2019
Sara Goico (Sociology, UCLA)
“‘Can I sit there?’: Emergent communication systems at work in a mainstream classroom with deaf students”
November 5, 2019
(1) Anna Bax (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Language professionalization as a trigger for language-ideological revalorization in a Mixtec immigrant community”
(2) Julia Fine (Linguistics, UCSB)
“#MagicResistance: Anti-Trump witchcraft as register circulation”
(3) Jamaal Muwwakkil & deandre miles-hercules (Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘They say I can’t gun bar ‘em to death’: Stance and Embodiment through Media Representation of Battle Rap”
(4) Chloe Willis (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Music and Intertextuality in the Japanese Video Game Series”
December 6, 2019
Giovanni Rossi (Sociology, UCLA)
“Question intonation and action: The case of other-repetitions in Italian”
LISO Seminar Series 2018-2019
Fall 2018 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 19, 2018
Reading Group Discussion: Selected chapters of the last book of our friend and UCLA Departments of Applied Linguistics and Communication Distinguished Professor Emeritus Charles Goodwin, titled “Co-Operative Action”
October 26, 2018
Jinsook Choi (Division of General Studies, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea; Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
Data Session: “Negotiation of meanings in a Korean college start-up team meeting”
November 9, 2018
(1) Erika Prado (Psychology and Linguistics, UCSB) & Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Bilingual without speech: The interactional competence of a nonverbal bilingual youth with autism”
(2) Chloe Willis (Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘Dandan koe ga hikuku natte kite’ (‘Little by little (your) voice becomes lower’): Gender performance and performativity in Takarazuka”
(3) Audrey Lopez (Linguistics, UCSB)
“‘You have us here now’: Latinx youth brokers challenge the raciolinguistic ideologies of a California school district”
November 30, 2018
Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Anthropology, UCLA)
“The interactive organization of a celebration: The embodiment of surprise, joy, and gratitude”
December 7, 2018
Elliott M. Hoey (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics and Literature, University of Basel)
“Self-authorization in interaction: Some uses of lemme”
Winter 2019 - Coordinator: Kevin Whitehead (Sociology)
January 18, 2019
Steven Clayman (Sociology, UCLA)
“Journalistic questioning and sociopolitical change: The case of marriage equality in the U.S.”
February 1, 2019
Chase Wesley Raymond (Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder)
“Category accounts: Identity and normativity in sequences of action”
February 15, 2019
Giorgia Troiani (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session: “Communicative and social functions of multilingual voicing in reported speech”
March 8, 2019
Joseph Sterphone (Sociology, UCSB)
Data session: “‘You’re going to get beat up, no matter what’: Mitigating and managing incipient conflict in war game interactions”
Spring 2019 - Coordinator: Lal Zimman (Linguistics)
April 19, 2019
Erika Prado (Linguistics and Psychology, UCSB) & Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics, UCSB)
Paper-in-progress workshop: "Getting dressed as a social activity: The interactional competence of a nonverbal bilingual Latino teenager with autism"
April 26, 2019
Jennifer Reynolds (Anthropology, University of South Carolina)
“Border-crossings at the intersection of narrated and narrating landscapes: Linguistic brokers witnessing and enduring the U.S. spatio-temporal politics of migrant worker illegality in the American heartland”
May 10, 2019
Jenny Mandelbaum (Communication, Rutgers University) & Gene Lerner (Sociology, UCSB)
“On the social organization of manual actions: Handling the assistance of others during self-service at the dinner table”
LISO Seminar Series 2017-2018
Fall 2017 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 20, 2017
Mieke Vandenbroucke (Linguistics and Anthropology, Ghent University; UC Berkeley)
"Legal-administrative assessments of genuine cross-border love in Belgian marriage fraud investigations"
November 3, 2017
Teruko Vida Mitsuhara (Anthropology, UCLA)
"Translating utopia: moral quandaries in the multilingual immigrant and Bengali children’s peer group in India"
November 17, 2017
Joy Garza (Linguistics, UCSB), Jenny Sperling (Education, UCSB), Jamaal Muwwakkil (Linguistics, UCSB), Kendra Calhoun (Linguistics, UCSB)
AAA Preview: Research on ethnographic ethics and on representations of white masculinity
Winter 2018 - Coordinator: Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)
January 26, 2018
(1) Julia Fine (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Hey:, Ho%: The role of prosody in human-horse interaction"
(2) Erika Prado (Psychology, UCSB)
"Communicative strategies of nonverbal bilingual youth with autism"
February 9, 2018
Ramón Martínez (Education, Stanford)
"Recognizing (and not recognizing) the richness of children's linguistic repertoires: A raciolinguistic perspective on identity and interaction in urban schools"
February 23, 2018
Jerry Won Lee (English, UC Irvine)
"Unbanality and the reinvention of nation: The semiotic landscape of global Korea"
March 9, 2018
John Haviland (Anthropology, UCSD)
John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture: "K'alal Lajyak'bekon Notisia, 'Bweno Ta Xinupunkutik,' Gloria a Dios, Háganlo Bien (When they told me 'Well, we’re getting married'—Glory to God! Do it well!): Changing Tzotzil discourses of marriage"
Spring 2018 - Coordinator: Kevin Whitehead (Sociology)
April 13, 2018
Mie Femø Nielsen (Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen)
"How can we study trust as a phenomenon displayed in the interaction?"
April 27, 2018
Crystal Bae (Geography, UCSB)
“Collaborative route planning and situated navigation in a new environment”
Matthew Fritzler (Sociology, UCSB)
“Policing the secondary gains of the victim category”
May 25, 2018
Amelia Hill (Sociology, UCLA)
“Victim categorization in 911: Vulnerability as an interactional resource for obtaining police services”
June 1, 2018
Susan Gal (Anthropology/Linguistics, University of Chicago)
John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture: "Discursive strategies of dominance: The homogenization of national publics"
LISO Seminar Series 2016-2017
Fall 2016 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
October 7, 2016
Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology, UCSB)
"Studying violence in situ: Observations on the sequential organization of violent occasions"
October 21, 2016
Brandon Mells (UCLA)
"Policing the self: A political and moral ethnography of American police power"
October 28, 2016
Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)
"Language, globalization, and transnational mobility: Metapragmatic talk by Korean managers at multinational corporations"
November 4, 2016
Ilya Utekhin (European University St. Petersburg)
"Talk in Asymmetric Situations as Part of a Joint Activity"
December 2, 2016
Lucas Seuren (University of Groningen)
"Towards a third-turn proof procedure?"
Winter 2017 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
January 27, 2017
Julia Fine (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Stance, affect, style and identity in Kodiak Alutiiq storytelling"
February 17, 2017
Chelsea Tanous (Education, UCSB)
"Socializing to conversational practices in a bilingual French-English conversation group"
March 3, 2017
Hiroko Takanashi (English, Japan Women's University)
"Stance-taking and co-construction of identity in teasing interaction"
LISO Seminar Series 2015-2016
Fall 2015 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
October 16, 2015
Kevin Whitehead (Department of Psychology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
"Conversation analysis, membership categories and participant orientations: Addressing ambiguity and context(s)"
October 23, 2015
Todd Sandel (Communication, University of Macau)
"Language has a soul: Unpacking the meanings and interpretations of Indonesian language discourse in the case of Singkawang, Indonesia"
October 23, 2015
Karen Tracy (Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder)
The 12th Annual Bradac Memorial Lecture: “Discourse style variation among judges in small claims courts: Its consequentiality”
November 13, 2015
John W. Du Bois & Eric Campbell (Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
"What a difference a conversation makes: Dialogic syntax and the structural description of unfamiliar languages"
December 4, 2015
Jeff Bowen (UCSB)
"Synchrony and abstraction in intimate partner conflict: A word-level analysis"
Winter 2016 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
January 22, 2016
Jenny Nilsson (Institute for Language and Folklore, Sweden)
“The choreography of greeting: Initiating interaction in service encounters”
February 5, 2016
Friederike Kern (Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld)
“Changing participation in a German remedial lesson: Learning how to syllabify”
March 11, 2016
[Language and the Body Day]
(1) Amelia Hill (Sociology, UCLA)
"Some gestural realizations of membership categories"
(2) Kimberly Breed (Education, UCSB)
"Knowing what counts and what counts as knowing: The social organization and interactional consequences of student turn-taking during whole-class discussion"
(3) Jacqueline Kemp (Education, UCSB)
"Proposals and accept responses in preschool boys’ peer interactions"
(4) Amanda McArthur (Sociology, UCLA)
"Locating pain as an interactional achievement: Coordinating touch and talk in medical examinations"
Spring 2016 - Coordinator: Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)
April 8, 2016
[Interaction and Culture Across Languages: Perspectives from Field Linguistics]
(1) Dibella Caminski (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Tea ceremonies and consonant mutation: Repetition in Nivkh discourse as a means of preservation"
(2) Daniel Hieber (Linguistics, UCSB)
"How to become a Kisii folktale: Generic features of moralizing narratives among the Gusii people of Kenya"
(3) Nathaniel Sims (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Negotiations of ethnicity among Rma-speaking Tibetans: Language as a tool for ethnogenesis"
April 15, 2016
Thomas M. Phillip (UCLA)
"Professional ethics: 'Ungrievable lives' as an interactional production in an Undergraduate engineering ethics course"
May 13, 2016
Elisabeth Reber (University of Würzburg)
"Quoting and action formation in Prime Minister's questions"
June 3, 2016
H. Samy Alim (Stanford University)
John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture
LISO Seminar Series 2014-2015
Fall 2014 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 10, 2014
Professor Kyratzis will hold an informal meeting with LISO students from Education to discuss LISO issues. Students from the other participating departments are welcome to attend.
October 24, 2014
Chase Wesley Raymond (Sociology and Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA)
“Spanish questions, English answers: Code-switched responses to inquiry”
November 7, 2014
(1) Sarah Jean Johnson (Education, UCLA)
“Agency, accountability and affect: Kindergarten children’s orchestration of participation in reading picture books with a friend”
(2) Amy Kyratzis (Education, UCSB)
“Peer ecologies for learning how to read: Framing the activity of reading to peers and orchestrating participation in bilingual preschoolers’ play enactments"
November 21, 2014
John W. Du Bois & Students (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Building the Sociocultural Construct: How Dialogic Practice Mobilizes Authority and Affords Social Action"
Winter 2015 - Coordinator: Gene Lerner (Sociology)
January 16, 2015
Brandon Mells (Applied Linguistics, UCLA)
"'Do you know why I stopped you?': Police questions and the moral availability of subjects"
"'Do you know why I stopped you?': Police questions and the moral availability of subjects"
February 6, 2015
Curtis LeBaron (BYU)
"Intersubjective understanding during varied performance of organizational routines: A study of ICU physician handoffs"
February 20, 2015
Federico Rosano (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
"Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction"
"Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction"
February 27, 2015
Ingrid Li Sato (Sociology, UCSB)
Dissertation talk: "Collective audience response in and as social action"
March 6, 2015
Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology, UCSB)
Topic: Policing practices
Topic: Policing practices
Spring 2015 - Coordinator: John W. Du Bois (Linguistics)
April 17, 2015
Monica Heller (University of Toronto)
"Language, social order and social justice: A tribute to the life and work of John Gumperz"
"Language, social order and social justice: A tribute to the life and work of John Gumperz"
May 1, 2015
Michael Sean Smith (UCLA)
"On 'being wrong': Claims of (mis)apprehension and their role in managing inter-subjectivity"
"On 'being wrong': Claims of (mis)apprehension and their role in managing inter-subjectivity"
May 12, 2015
Adam Jaworksi (University of Hong Kong)
"Globalization and Intercultural Contact: The Mattering and Production of Difference Across the Medialized Centre-Periphery Divide"
"Globalization and Intercultural Contact: The Mattering and Production of Difference Across the Medialized Centre-Periphery Divide"
May 22, 2015
Elena Skapoulli-Raymond (UCSB)
Data session: "Greek is a noble language: Blurry boundaries of language use among peers in a multiethnic middle school of Cyprus"
Data session: "Greek is a noble language: Blurry boundaries of language use among peers in a multiethnic middle school of Cyprus"
May 30-31, 2015
The 21st Annual Conference on LISO at UCSB
Theme: “Studying Interaction, Advancing Social Justice: Identities, Ideologies, and Inequalities”
June 5, 2015
(1) John W. Du Bois (UCSB)
"Building the sociocultural construct"
"Building the sociocultural construct"
(2) Panel discussion: Anna Bax, Sam Coveleski, John Du Bois, Kayla Eisman, Jessica Love-Nichols, Kevin Schaefer, Morgan Sleeper
“Construction methods: Finding the sociocultural construct in the dialogicmoment”
LISO Seminar Series 2013-2014
Fall 2013 - Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)
October 4, 2013
(1) Rachel Cranfill (Linguistics, UCSB)
"’Because we don’t know math’: Epistemic stance accretion, expert identity, and negotiation of knowledge in an undergraduate calculus course”
(1) Rachel Cranfill (Linguistics, UCSB)
"’Because we don’t know math’: Epistemic stance accretion, expert identity, and negotiation of knowledge in an undergraduate calculus course”
(2) Yuri Hosoda & David Aline (Cross-Cultural Studies, Kanagawa University)
“Learning to use space and objects in language classrooms: A longitudinal study of teacher trainee interactional practice”
October 11, 2013
Wayne Beach (School of Communication, San Diego State University)
"When cancer calls...: Three alternative approaches to examining interaction and health"
November 1, 2013
Lynnette Arnold (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Communicative mobility: Multiply mediated interaction and its consequences in transnational Salvadoran families"
Lynnette Arnold (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Communicative mobility: Multiply mediated interaction and its consequences in transnational Salvadoran families"
November 8, 2013
(1) Gene Lerner (Sociology, UCSB)
“The practices of language and body employed to engage someone outside the immediate co-presence of a speaker”
(1) Gene Lerner (Sociology, UCSB)
“The practices of language and body employed to engage someone outside the immediate co-presence of a speaker”
(2) Amy Kyratzis (Education, UCSB)
"Mexican heritage children's negotiations of language and literacy in a bilingual US
preschool"
November 15, 2013
(1) Rachel Cranfill (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Doing math, doing gender: Enactments of expertise and femininity among math and science undergraduate women"
(1) Rachel Cranfill (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Doing math, doing gender: Enactments of expertise and femininity among math and science undergraduate women"
(2) Qiuana Lopez
"A manly man doesn't eat 'sissy pizza: Herman Cain's construction of masculinity in the 2012 republican primary"
(3) Chris VanderStouwe
"Discourse and materiality: Regulating inclusive language to create safe spaces"
Winter 2014 - Coordinator: Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)
January 10, 2014
(1) Meghan Corella Morales (Education, UCSB)
"Practicing critical pedagogy: Negotiating language and identity in a dual language classroom"
(1) Meghan Corella Morales (Education, UCSB)
"Practicing critical pedagogy: Negotiating language and identity in a dual language classroom"
(2) María José Aragón (Education, UCSB)
"'You don’t get it. I do': Co-constructing identities and learning opportunities through peer interactions in a two-way immersion"
January 24, 2014
Audrey Lopez ( Linguistics, UCSB)
"Talking race, power, and privilege: Student-interpreter interactions with an American NGO in Ghana"
"Talking race, power, and privilege: Student-interpreter interactions with an American NGO in Ghana"
February 14-16, 2014
The 5th LISO Symposium at UCSB
Theme: “Multiple Engagements: Complexity in Human Involvement”
March 7, 2014
Hannah Yates (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Community policing in action: Mutual epistemic authority in civilian-initiated service encounters in San Francisco”
March 14, 2014
Mary Bucholtz, Lynnette Arnold, Audrey Lopez, and Verónica Muñoz Ledo (Linguistics, UCSB)
“Interpreting touch: Communicative disjuncture and embodied reenactment in a Child molestation case”
“Interpreting touch: Communicative disjuncture and embodied reenactment in a Child molestation case”
Spring 2014 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
April 11, 2014
Charles Bazerman (Education, UCSB)
"Literate action"
"Literate action"
April 18, 2014
Steven Clayman (Sociology, UCLA)
"Political positioning sequences and the sociopolitical landscape"
"Political positioning sequences and the sociopolitical landscape"
May 1-3, 2014
The 20th Annual Conference on CLIC at UCLA
The 20th Annual Conference on CLIC at UCLA
May 16, 2014
[Language and the Body Day]
[Language and the Body Day]
*"Language and the Body Day” showcases exciting grad student research that frequently results in a publication. This year the event features three of the best papers from the Fall 2013 and Winter 2014 "Language and the Body" seminar, taught by Gene Lerner and Sandy Thompson. Please come to hear about and discuss a sample of the research emerging from this course!
(1) John Thibdeau (Religious Studies, UCSB)
"Reciprocal interaction in Tahtib: Co-ordination of action in an Egyptian folk dance"
"Reciprocal interaction in Tahtib: Co-ordination of action in an Egyptian folk dance"
(2) Hannah Yates (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Self-attentive, evaluative digressions and their embodiment in storytelling sequences"
(3) Clara Bergman (Sociology, UCLA)
"Doing make-believe: Embodied action in children’s imaginary character play"
(3) Clara Bergman (Sociology, UCLA)
"Doing make-believe: Embodied action in children’s imaginary character play"
LISO Seminar Series 2012-2013
Fall 2012 - Coordinator: John Du Bois (Linguistics)
October 5, 2012
(1) Melissa L. Curtin (UCSB)
“Multilingual/polyscriptal creativity in the linguistic landscape of Taipei”
“Multilingual/polyscriptal creativity in the linguistic landscape of Taipei”
(2) Carmen Fought (Pitzer) & Michael Diercks (Pomona)
“Towards explaining social akwardness”
“Towards explaining social akwardness”
October 12, 2012
Peggy Szymanski (Xerox PARC)
“Mobile Telepresence”
“Mobile Telepresence”
October 26, 2012
Leah Wingard (San Francisco State University) & Chris Koenig (UC San Francisco)
“Assessment sequences in diabetes visits and their implications for patient-centered care”
November 2, 2012
Olga Galanova (Bielefeld)
November 9, 2012
(1) Hannah Yates (UCSB)
“A regular kid: The embodied performance of expressiveness in autistic discourse”
“A regular kid: The embodied performance of expressiveness in autistic discourse”
(2) Eva Michelle Wheeler (UCSB)
“Gifted problem solvers: Complex cognitive and interactional skills in Spanish-English interpretation by bilingual youth”
“Gifted problem solvers: Complex cognitive and interactional skills in Spanish-English interpretation by bilingual youth”
(3) Meghan Nicole Corella Morales & Jin Sook Lee (UCSB)
“What counts as language assessment: A child’s redefinition of the boundaries”
“What counts as language assessment: A child’s redefinition of the boundaries”
(4) Rachel Cranfill (UCSB)
“Embodied math: Managing the boundaries between physical and abstract space in undergraduate peer explanations”
“Embodied math: Managing the boundaries between physical and abstract space in undergraduate peer explanations”
November 30, 2012
Charlotte Zeamer & Jean E. Fox Tree (UC Santa Cruz)
“Sense making can impede recall: A study of distraction from environmental noise in a simulated lecture setting”
“Sense making can impede recall: A study of distraction from environmental noise in a simulated lecture setting”
Winter 2013 - Coordinator: Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Education)
January 11, 2013
Cecilia E. Ford (English and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"'Getting it' together: Orchestrating ordinary empathy"
"'Getting it' together: Orchestrating ordinary empathy"
January 25, 2013
Josh Kuntzman & Julie Antilla (Education, UCSB)
Data Session
Data Session
February 1, 2013
Lorenza Mondada (French and General Linguistics, University of Basel)
"Multiactivity in social interaction: The methodical organization of multiple temporalities"
"Multiactivity in social interaction: The methodical organization of multiple temporalities"
February 15, 2013
Margaret Whitney O'Malley (Education, UCSB)
"Learning to be Greek: Negotiating power asymmetries in a sorority"
"Learning to be Greek: Negotiating power asymmetries in a sorority"
March 1, 2013
Simona Pekarek Doehler (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
March 8, 2013
Lourdes de León (CIESAS, Mexico, D.F.)
"Intertextuality, parallelism, and performance in Tzotzil-Spanish sibling’s bilingual play."
"Intertextuality, parallelism, and performance in Tzotzil-Spanish sibling’s bilingual play."
Spring 2013 - Coordinator: Gene Lerner (Sociology)
April 12, 2013
Michele Back (Visiting Scholar, UC Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society)
"Síganme los buenos: Co-constructing symbolic competence in a peer tutoring session"
"Síganme los buenos: Co-constructing symbolic competence in a peer tutoring session"
April 26, 2013
Netta Avineri (Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies)
"Yiddish endangerment as interactional reality and discursive strategy: An examination of language socialization practices within the Yiddish metalinguistic community"
"Yiddish endangerment as interactional reality and discursive strategy: An examination of language socialization practices within the Yiddish metalinguistic community"
May 3, 2013
Ikuyo Morimoto (Graduate school of Language, Communication, & Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
"Reformulating practices in courtroom deliberations"
"Reformulating practices in courtroom deliberations"
May 11-12, 2013
The 19th Annual Conference on LISO at UCSB.
May 24, 2013
Irene Checa-Garcia (University of Wyoming)
"Asking for things without words: Embodiment of action onset as a toddlers communication tool"
"Asking for things without words: Embodiment of action onset as a toddlers communication tool"
LISO Seminar Series 2011-2012
Fall 2011 - Coordinator: Jason Raley & Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Education)
September 30, 2011
(1) Shawn Warner-Garcia (UCSB)
"'His belly dancer': How stance bridges identity and ideology among college sorority women within a normative Christian community"
(2) Ryoko Suzuki (Keio University) & Sandra A. Thompson (UCSB)
"Reenactments: Talk, body, and gaze"
"Reenactments: Talk, body, and gaze"
October 7, 2011
Herbert H. Clark (Stanford University)
"How we manage to do things together"
"How we manage to do things together"
October 21, 2011
Jenny Cook-Gumperz (UCSB)
Reading & Discussion: Text & Talk special issue (July 2011) in Honour of John Gumperz
Reading & Discussion: Text & Talk special issue (July 2011) in Honour of John Gumperz
November 4, 2011
Jason Raley (Education, UCSB)
Data session: Classroom data.
Data session: Classroom data.
December 2, 2011
Laura Sterponi (UC Berkeley)
"Rethinking echolalia: Repetition and ventriloquation in the communication of children with autism spectrum disorders"
"Rethinking echolalia: Repetition and ventriloquation in the communication of children with autism spectrum disorders"
Winter 2012 – Coordinator: Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)
January 20, 2012
Besnier (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam)
February 10, 2012
Rachel Cranfill (Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session
Data session
February 17, 2012
Keith Murphy (Department of Anthropology, University of Irvine)
March 2, 2012
Peter Hobson & Jessica Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London)
March 9, 2012
(1) Sandra Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB)
Presentation
Presentation
(2) Elliott Hoey (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session
Spring 2012 - Coordinator: Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology)
April 6, 2012
Richard Bauman (Indiana University, Bloomington)
"'There's a good deal to everything': Country communicability on early commercial sound recordings in the U.S."
"'There's a good deal to everything': Country communicability on early commercial sound recordings in the U.S."
April 20, 2012
Ariel Wu (Education, UCSB)
"The second language socialization of international students to becoming teaching assistants for undergraduate classes in a U.S. University"
"The second language socialization of international students to becoming teaching assistants for undergraduate classes in a U.S. University"
Lucero Nájera (CIESAS, Mexico; Fulbright Scholar, UCSB)
April 27, 2012
[Language and The Body Day] (Graduate Students in Ling/Soc 273A "Language and The Body")
(1) Katelynn C. Bishop (Sociology, UCSB)
"Hand Gesture and Identity: The Interactional Production of 'Interiority'"
"Hand Gesture and Identity: The Interactional Production of 'Interiority'"
(2) Chris VanderStouwe (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Anchor’s the way: Negotiating interactional participation through anchoring and body torque"
(3) Shawn Warner-Garcia (Linguistics, UCSB)
"Gestural resonance: The negotiation of embodied action among speakers"
May 4, 2012
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Marking cognitive and emotive changes-of-state: Examples from German"
"Marking cognitive and emotive changes-of-state: Examples from German"
May 10-12 2012
The 18th Annual Conference on CLIC at UCLA
June 1, 2012
Nikki Jones, Geoffrey Raymond (Sociology, UCSB) & Mardi Kidwell (Communication, University of New Hampshire)
"Going with the program: Some initial observations on the use of force in police-citizen encounters"
"Going with the program: Some initial observations on the use of force in police-citizen encounters"
LISO Seminar Series 2010-2011
Fall 2010 - Coordinator: John Du Bois (Linguistics)
September 24, 2010
LISO Faculty Meeting
October 1, 2010
[But but but... Perspectives on particles in context]
(1) Sandy Thompson (UCSB) & Jean Mulder (Melbourne)
(1) Sandy Thompson (UCSB) & Jean Mulder (Melbourne)
"The turn-final particle BUT in English conversation"
(2) Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv) and John Du Bois (Linguistics, UCSB)
Data session: "Concession and contrast: Intonation unit-final though and but in American English"
October 15, 2010
Moderator: Mary Bucholtz (UCSB)
Discussant: Geoffrey Raymond (UCSB) "Questioning questioning: A discussion of "An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation" by Tanya Stivers (UCLA)
October 22, 2010
Lynnette Arnold (UCSB)
"Dialogic gesture: Embodied interaction at the bike shop"
"Dialogic gesture: Embodied interaction at the bike shop"
November 5, 2010
(1) Alex Wahl (UCSB)
"Language and interaction in the Luso-African musical style Kuduro"
"Language and interaction in the Luso-African musical style Kuduro"
(2) Audrey Lopez (UCSB)
"You don't fit inside the camera, dude!? Socialization through teasing in conversation"
November 19, 2010
Bracha Nir (Haifa) and Yael Maschler (Haifa)
"Constructing (dis)agreement through dialogic resonance in Hebrew talk-in-interaction"
"Constructing (dis)agreement through dialogic resonance in Hebrew talk-in-interaction"
Winter 2011 - Coordinator: Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Education)
January 14, 2011
Discussion Moderators: Amy Kyratzis & Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Gevirtz School of Education, UCSB)
Theme: "Multilingualism, diasporic populations and spatializing practices" (discussion of 2 articles)
Theme: "Multilingualism, diasporic populations and spatializing practices" (discussion of 2 articles)
January 28, 2011
Marco Jaquemet (Dept. of Communication, University of San Francisco)
"Credibility and referential accuracy during asylum hearings"
"Credibility and referential accuracy during asylum hearings"
February 18, 2011
Nathaniel Dumas (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, UCSB)
"Stance-work towards grammar, interaction and identity in conversations amongst persons-who-stutter in the US"
"Stance-work towards grammar, interaction and identity in conversations amongst persons-who-stutter in the US"
February 25, 2011
Geoffrey Raymond (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
"Legitimacy in action: Practices for managing rights, responsibilities, and social relations in sequence initiating actions"
"Legitimacy in action: Practices for managing rights, responsibilities, and social relations in sequence initiating actions"
March 4, 2011
(1) Elena Skapoulli (Department of Sociology, UCSB)
"Cell phone practices among teenage girls in Cyprus: Group identity and individual distinctiveness"
"Cell phone practices among teenage girls in Cyprus: Group identity and individual distinctiveness"
(2) Eva Oxelsen (Gevirtz School of Education, UCSB)
"School building: The crafting of authority relations in early elementary classrooms"
Spring 2011 - Coordinator: Gene Lerner (Sociology)
April 15, 2011
Linda L. Putnam (Communication, UCSB)
"Analyzing the framing of issues and moral stance in press releases of union-management in the 2007 writers' strike"
"Analyzing the framing of issues and moral stance in press releases of union-management in the 2007 writers' strike"
April 29, 2011
Galina Bolden (Communication, Rutgers)
"Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair"
"Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair"
May 12, 2011
The 17th LISO Annual Conference at UCSB
Theme: "Interaction, Embodiment, and Materiality"
Theme: "Interaction, Embodiment, and Materiality"
May 27, 2011
Jörg Zinken (Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK)
"Passing objects: Grammar in the organisation of a cooperative moment"
"Passing objects: Grammar in the organisation of a cooperative moment"
June 3, 2011
Seyda Tarim (Education, UCSB)
"Turkish Immigrant Children's Bilingual Language Practice"
"Turkish Immigrant Children's Bilingual Language Practice"