Center for Transcultural Studies: Projects/Language and Culture

Language and Culture

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Language and Society Project, 1991-1995

This project resulted in a special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics (vol. 5 no. 2).

Coorganizers: Susan Gal and Kathleen Woolard. Participants: Richard Bauman, Joe Errington, Jane Hill, Elizabeth Mertz, Bambi Schiefflin, Jacqueline Urla, Hy Van Luong.

Mediated Communications Project, December 1988-1991

Coorganizers: James Collins and Richard Parmentier. Participants: Richard Bauman, James Collins, Steve Feld, William Hanks, John Haviland, Judith Irvine, Marilyn Ivy, Bernard Jendron, Sut Jhally, Loren Kruger, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, Kathryn Woolard.

Text and Social Action, 1986-1988

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Coorganizers: Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban. Participants: Don Brenneis, Richard Bauman, James Collins, Vincent Crapanzano, William Hanks, John Haviland, Michael Herzfeld, Judith Irvine, John Lucy, Benjamin Lee, Hugh Mehan, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban.

De-Centered Discourse Symposium, held at the American Anthropological Association meetings, November 19, 1987

Organizer: Richard Parmentier. Participants: Don Brenneis, Richard Bauman, James Collins, Vincent Crapanzano, William Hanks, John Haviland, Michael Herzfeld, Judith Irvine, John Lucy, Benjamin Lee, Hugh Mehan, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban.

Language and Education Workshop, June 1987-April 1989

Organizer: James Collins. Participants: James Collins, Elizabeth Mertz, John Lucy, Benjamin Lee, Norris Minick, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.

Micro-Macro Language Workshop, March-April 1989

Organizer: Francesca Merlan. Participants: Joe Errington, Webb Keane, Francesca Merlan, Benjamin Lee, Michael Silverstein, Kathryn Woolard.

Metapragmatics and Reported Speech Conference, June 26-29, 1985

This project resulted in a publication (Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics).

Organizer: John A. Lucy. Participants: Asif Agha, Charles Briggs, Robert Brightman, Steve Caton, William Hanks, Maya Hickmann, Coby Jones, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Robert Moore, Richard Parmentier, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Debra Spitulnik, Greg Urban, James Wertsch, Bernard Weissbourd.

Metapragmatics and Poetics Workshop, July-August 1985

Organizer: John Lucy. Participants: Steve Caton, William Hanks, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, James Wertsch.

Representations of Consciousness in Narrative and Discourse, January 31-February 1, 1986

Speaker: Ann Banfield. Participants: Asif Agha, Steve Caton, William Hanks, Coby Jones, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Robert Moore, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Debra Spitulnik, Bernard Weissbourd.

Workshop on Reported Speech, held at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1983

Participants: Niko Besnier, John DuBois, Jane Hill, Judith Irvine, Joel Kuipers, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Tullio Maranhao, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Susan Philips, Bambi Schieffelin, Amy Shuman, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, James Wertsch, Anthony Woodbury.

Workshop on Metapragmatics, April 1984

Participants: William Hanks, Maya Hickmann, Benjamin Lee, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Nancy Press, Lee Schlesinger, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch, Anthony Woodbury.

Colloquium on Semiotic Mediation, held at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1982

This project resulted in a publication (Semiotic Mediation).

Organizer: Elizabeth Mertz. Participants: James Boon, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Leonard Scinto, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch. Discussant: Virginia Dominguez.

Language and Social Theory, 1983

Organizer: Michael Silverstein. Participants: Craig Calhoun, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Edward LiPuma, Elizabeth Mertz, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch.


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