2012 Language and Social Interaction

3302       TOP FOUR PAPERS IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

10:15 – 11:30      Sunday, February 19       Fiesta II

Chair & Respondent:  Lori L. Britt, James Madison University

  • Performed Identity, and Community among Interns: An Interpretive Analysis of Students’ Written Reflections* —                 Catherine F. Brooks, California State University Long Beach
  • Talking About the Hipster Headdress: Analyzing the Utility of Online Discussions of Cultural Appropriation —  Amy Stockhausen, University of Utah
  • In the Name of the Free and the Poor: Online Construction of Serbian National Identity in the Wake of EU Visa Liberalization** —  Jelena Petrovic, University of New Mexico
  • To Drink or Not to Drink?:  A Qualitative Analysis on a University Campus —  Tiffani J. Smith, California State University Fullerton

*Top Paper, Language and Social Interaction Interest Group   **Top Student Paper, Language and Social Interaction Interest Group

 3502      HIPSTERS, PATRIOTS, QUEERS, AND RACISTS: DISCOURSE AND IDENTITIES COMPETITIVE PAPERS IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

1:00 – 2:15           Sunday, February 19       Fiesta II

Chair & Respondent: Leah Wingard, San Francisco State University

  • “Stuff Hipsters Don’t Like”: Other Hipsters, Gentrification, Smiling, and Analyses Regarding how they Constitute a Public
  • Brian Rogers, University of Utah
  • Patriotism, Inc.: A Discourse Analysis of Patriotic Consumerism in the Post 9/11 Epoch* — Stephen E. Rahko, Indiana University Bloomington
  • The Impact of Same Sex Marriage on Queer Bodies: Shifting the Discourse of Equality —                Kathryn Hobson, University of Denver
  • Bleeping Bleep: Identifying Variations on the Two-Word Phenomenon of Racial Insults* — Caitlin Ring, University of Colorado Boulder

* Debut Paper

3702       TEACHING LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN COMMUNICATION COURSES

4:00 – 5:15           Sunday, February 19       Fiesta II

Panelists will discuss how they integrate LSI research into a variety of Communication courses such as family, interpersonal, intercultural and health communication and provide sample assignments, instructions, and other teaching materials.  Audience members will be encouraged to share ideas.

Chair: Charlotte M. Jones, Carroll College

Participants:

  • Jeffrey Good, University of California Los Angeles
  • Brian Heisterkamp, California State University San Bernardino
  • Charlotte M. Jones, Carroll College
  • Chris J. Koenig, San Francisco State University
  • Leah Wingard, San Francisco State University

4103       CONVERSATION ANALYSIS: TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL DATA SESSION

8:00 – 9:15           Monday, February 20     Fiesta III

This program offers audience members the opportunity to observe experienced conversation analysts working with videotaped data and to participate in ongoing analysis.  Following repeated viewings, program participants will offer mini-analyses.  Audience members will be invited to offer further analysis and comments.

Chair: Charlotte M. Jones, Carroll College

Participants:

  • Wayne A. Beach, San Diego State University
  • Jeffrey Good, University of California Los Angeles
  • Charlotte M. Jones, Carroll College
  • Chris J. Koenig, San Francisco State University
  • Leah Wingard, San Francisco State University

4502       STUDYING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT: INFLUENCES OF MOBILITY, TECHNOLOGY AND PROFESSIONALISM

3:45 – 5:00           Monday, February 20     Fiesta II

Chair: Catherine F. Brooks, California State University Long Beach

  • The Long Khan: Examining the “Free World-Class Education” Provided by Khan Academy* — Sarah Billingsley, California State University Sacramento
  • Equal Access Discussion and Professional Talk: Take One — Heidi L. Muller, University of Northern Colorado
  • Encountering Long-Distance Train Travel: Social Interactions in a Mobile Space — Brian Cozen, University of Utah
  • “Dude, I’m Dead!” Tensions in Story-Craft: A Conversational Analysis of Role-Playing — Brandon J. Greenstreet, University of Alaska Fairbanks

*Debut Paper

4602       METAPHORS TO LIVE AND DIE FOR: CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY VIA CULTURALLY-SITUATED FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

5:15 – 6:30           Monday, February 20     Fiesta II

Chair: Patricia Covarrubias, University of New Mexico

  • Healing Metaphors: Using Figures of Speech to Help Terminally Ill Patients Face Death  – Gavin Leach, University of New Mexico
  • “A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out”: Metaphors of Helping the Homeless — LaRae Tronstad, University of New Mexico
  • “Eating Up the Bitterness”: Life as an International Working Mother in the U.S. — Qingjing (Angela) Xu, University of New Mexico
  • Hranitel’nitsa Domashnego Ochaga: The Metaphorical Construction of Female Identity in Russia — Olga Zaytseva, University of New Mexico

Respondent/Facilitator: Janet Shiver, University of New Mexico

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