SALSA 2008- Program

Program
April 10-11, 2009
University of Texas at Austin

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FRIDAY @ UTC 4.132
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8:00-9:00
Registration & Coffee

9:00-9:15
Opening Remarks: TBA

9:15-10:15
Keynote Address:
SONJA LANEHART, UT San Antonio
Diversity and Intersectionality

10:15-10:30
Break

Session I

10:30-11:00
Lori Labotka, University of Arizona
Language and Woman's Place in Drag: Power, Femininity, and Gay Speech

11:00-11:30
Quiana Lopez, UT Austin
Influence or Imitation: White actors and Black language in film

11:30-12:00
M'Balia Thomas, University of Arizona
Words as Weapons: The Metaphorical Attack of Michelle Obama in US Headlines

12:00-12:30
Matthew Zebrowski, Carnegie Mellon University
Linguistic Markets and Symbolic Power in Television Commercials Using AAVE

12:30-2:00
Lunch

2:00-3:00
Keynote Address:
MATTHEW MCGLONE, UT Austin
Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun, Or Do You? Affect, Agency, and Embodiment in Temporal Communication.

Session II

3:00-3:30
Chelsea Booth, Rutgers University
‘An Ocean of Culture:’ Language Ideologies and the Social Life of Multilingualism in Darjeeling, India

3:30-4:00
Anastasia Nylund, Georgetown University
"Our local dialect" or "the slang of suburban boys"? Public discourses of sociolinguistic authenticity, community and place in multicultural Sweden.

4:00-4:15
Break

4:15-4:45
Melanie Bertrand, UC Los Angeles
The Importance of Considering Multiple Semiotic Resources in the Study of Racist Discourse

4:45-5:15
Asha Tickoo, Dalarna University
Performance devices in the Stories of Hatim’s Tales

5:15-5:45
Robin Conley, UC Los Angeles
Future Danger: The Construction of Dangerous Subjects in Texas Death Penalty Trials

6:30-8:30
Reception (Clay Pit)

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SATURDAY @ GAR 0.102
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8:30-9:00
Registration & Coffee

9:00-10:00
Keynote Address:
MARIANNE MITHUN, UC Santa Barbara
Evolving Circumstances, Evolving Values: Thinking
for the present and future

10:00-10:15
Break

Session III

10:15-10:45
Maya Ravindranath, University of Pennsylvania
Prejudice and prestige in a case of language maintenance

10:45-11:15
Brenda H. Boerger, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
Trees of Santa Cruz Island and their metaphors

11:15-11:45
Yvette Englehart, Gillian Lawlor, Melissa Morin & Nancy Sullivan, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
On the Fence/Sobre el muro: Attitudes toward English language legislation

11:45-12:15
Shawn Warner & Jennifer Lang, UT Austin
Bilingualism and Audience Design: Some Issues in Data Collection

12:15-1:45
Lunch

1:45-2:45
Keynote Address:
CURTIS LEBARON, Brigham Young University
Knowing and working with things: The embodiment of expertise within organizations.

Session IV

2:45-3:15
Amy Heaton, Furman University
There May Not Be Sharks in the Pool, but the Cats Are Covered in Fleas and There Are Cockroaches Everywhere: An Analysis of How a Man in the Late Stages of Parkinson’s Disease Co-Constructs Sophisticated Meanings With his Family

3:15-3:45
Bryan Gordon & Lori Labotka, University of Arizona
Gendered gestures: An experimental approach

3:45-4:15
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon
Positivity and negativity in early mother-child communication: Data from three cultures

4:15-4:30
Break

4:30-5:00
Brenna Reinhart Byrd, UC Los Angeles
Media Representations of Turkish-German and Hip-Hop Language as a Uniform Ethnolect

5:00-5:30
Marjorie Perry, University of Illinois, UC
Triflin: Females in Hip Hop

7:30-9:30
SALSA 2009 Party (Dr. Wechsler's Home)