2005. Discourse Across Speech events: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Social Life. Special issue of the Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology 15.1 (Asif Agha and Stanton Wortham, Guest Editors)

1993. Structural Form and Utterance Context in Lhasa Tibetan: Grammar and Indexicality in a Non-configurational Language.
Monographs in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, v. 2. New York : Peter Lang.

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2007a. The object called “language” and the subject of linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics 35 (3): 217-235.

2007b. Recombinant selves in mass mediated space-time, Language and Communication 27: 320-335.

2007c. Commentary on "Questioning democractic illusions: Anthropology, interviewing, an the making of contemporary society," Current Anthropology 48 (4): 587.

2007d. Commentary on "Agency: The relation between meaning, power, and knowledge" by Paul Kockelman's, Current Anthropology 48 (3): 387-388.

2006. Norm and Trope in kinship behavior. Texas Linguistics Forum 49: 1-21.

2005a. Introduction: Semiosis across encounters. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15 (1): 1-5.

2005b. Voice, footing, enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15 (1): 38-59.

2004. Registers of Language. In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, pp. 23-45, Alessandro Duranti, ed. New York and Oxford: Blackwell.

2003. The social life of cultural value. Language and Communication 23 (3/4): 231-273.

2002. Honorific Registers. In Culture, Interaction and Language, pp. 21-63, Kuniyoshi Kataoka and Sachiko Ide, eds. Tokyo: Hituzisyobo.

2001a. Register. In Key Terms in Language and Culture, pp. 212-215, Alessandro Duranti, ed. Oxford: Blackwell [Reprint of 1999 JLA article].

2001b. Tibetan Book of the Dead. In Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, pp. 896-898, Robert Kastenbaum, editor. New York: Macmillan.

2000. Review of Lee, Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage and the Semiotics of Subjectivity. Anthropological Linguistics 42 (2): 295-7.

1999a. Register. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9 (1/2): 216-219.

1999b. Review of Urban, Metaphysical Communities: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect. Language in Society 28 (1): 162-7.

1999c. Review of Wierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words. American Anthropologist 101 (4).

1999d. Review of Rahman, Pakistani English. Pakistan Studies News 3 (6-7).

1998a. Stereotypes and registers of honorific language. Language in Society 27 (2): 151-194.

1998b. Form and function in Urdu-Hindi verb inflection. Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 1: 105-133.

1997a. ‘Concept' and ‘communication' in evolutionary terms. Semiotica, 116 (2/4): 189-215.

1997b. Tropic aggression in the Clinton-Dole presidential debate. Pragmatics 7 (4): 461-497.

1997c. Review of Tedlock and Mannheim, eds., The Dialogic Emergence of Culture. Language in Society 26 (4): 593-597.

1996a. Schema and superposition in spatial deixis. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (4): 643-682.

1996b. Rhetoric. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, vol. 3, pp. 1115-9, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds., New York: Henry Holt.

1996c. Review of Tannen, ed., Framing in Discourse. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (1): 164-7.

1996d. Review of Parmentier, Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology. Language in Society 25 (2): 286-290.

1995a. Process and personality. Semiotica 107 (1/2): 125-146.

1995b. Review of Duran, Knowledge in Context: Naturalized Epistemology and Sociolinguistics. American Anthropologist 97 (2): 376.

1994a. Honorification. Annual Review of Anthropology, 23: 277-302.

1994b. The semantics and pragmatics of verb classifiers in Urdu-Hindi. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 20: 14-27.

1994c. Review of Lucy, ed., Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics. Anthropological Linguistics 36 (4): 529-534.

1993. Grammatical and indexical convention in honorific discourse. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 3 (2): 131-163.

1991. On the partial formal syncretism of categories of clause structure in Lhasa Tibetan (with T. Chonjore). Nepalese Linguistics 5/8: 1-12.

1987. Case marking and verbal categories in Tibetan. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 3: 1-20.

1985. Agentivity, transitivity and the question of active typology (with K. Tuite and R. Graczyk). In A Parasession on Agentivity, Chicago Linguistic Society 21 (2): 252-270.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Linguistic and cultural anthropology; sociolinguistics; semiotics; rhetoric; language and social relations; metaphor and tropes; registers of language; speech style; language and ideology.

Mass media and the public sphere. Advertising and public relations. Presidential campaigns.

Language structure and function; grammatical and indexical categories in language; language typology and universal grammar; discourse analysis; meaning and reference; language and cognition; speech as action; deference systems; evidential categories; modality and deixis; animal communication; Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics.

‘The sponsored self.' Paper presented at the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Annual Meetings, Milwaukee, WI, May 6, 2006.

‘Recombinant selves in mass-mediated space-time.' Discussants remarks, presented at the panel ‘Temporalities of text: From the ‘historical present' to dialogic time.' American Anthropological Association, annual meeting, Washington D.C., December 3, 2005

‘Identity and its doubles.' Discussants remarks, presented at the panel ‘Identities, mistaken and secret: The semiotics of “identity” in time and space'. American Anthropological Association, annual meetings, Washington DC, November, 30, 2005

‘Tropes of kinship.' Plenary address, SALSA XIII, University of Texas-Austin, April 15, 2005

‘Tropes of slang.' Invited paper, conference on ‘Rhetoric in social relations,' Johannes Gutenburg Universitat, Main, Germany, February 14, 2005

‘Registers, stereotypes and social personae.' Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, April 21, 2004

‘The enregisterment of voice.' Presented in the panel ‘Intertextuality in discourse and culture: Problems and prospects,'101 st annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 23, 2002

‘New approaches to face-work: Where is ‘face' going?' Discussion paper. Commentary on the panel ‘New approaches to face-work in verbal interaction,' 101 st annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 22, 2002

‘Epistemic stance.' Presented in the Workshop ‘Evidentiality in grammar and discourse,' sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 101 st annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 21, 2002

‘Honorific registers.' Invited paper. Panel title: “ Language and social relations: Aspects of ideology and indexicality in language use.” 9 th annual meetings of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, Chiba University, Japan, March 2, 2002.

‘Deviance and social persona in slang and argot.' Invited paper. Workshop title: “Rethinking the research on honorifics.” Japan Women's University, March 4, 2002.

‘The concept of register in discourse analysis.' Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, February 1, 2002

‘Interactional tropes in slang and argot.' 100th annual meetings, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 2, 2001

‘Slang and social persona.' Semiotics Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, November 27, 2001

‘Ideologies and practices of identity.' Discussion paper. Comments on ‘Word up: Social meanings of slang in California youth culture' by Mary Bucholz. Language and Culture Online Symposium, http://www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/

‘Tropes of kinship: fictive relations and performative realities.' Semiotics Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, April 3, 2001

‘“Your culture is valued”: Invocations of culture as a performative resource.' Discussion paper. Comments on ‘Asian American teens and culture in conversation' by Angela Reyes. Asian American Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, February 15, 2001

‘The speciation of modernity.' Discussion paper. Commentary on the panel ‘Linguistic modernity and its discontents: mixed evidence, hybrid models,' 99th annual meetings, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 17, 2000.

‘The social life of cultural value.' 99th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2000; Presented to the Ethnohistory Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 16, 1999

‘His Master's Voice and its dissemination: the early discursive history of a record label.' Opening remarks at the Graduate Symposium, ‘The voice of authority', University of Pennsylvania, October 21, 2000.

‘Register.' 97th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December, 1998. Panel title: ‘Language Matters: A lexicon for the new millennium.'

‘The social and interactional significance of honorific language.' Colloquium, Anthropology Department, University of Pennsylvania, February 1998

‘Stereotypic and emergent value in honorific discourse.' Paper presented at the 96 th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November, 1997. Panel title: ‘The polyvalency of codes.'

‘Perspectives on honorific language.' Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, November 5, 1997.

‘Tropic aggression in the Clinton-Dole presidential debate.' Workshop, Linguistics Laboratory of the Department of Anthropology, UCLA, October 15, 1997.

‘Lhasa Tibetan honorific language.' 3rd Himalayan Languages Symposium, Parasession on Language and Culture, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 18-20, 1997.

‘“Concept” and “communication” in evolutionary terms.' Conference on the Evolution of Human Language, University of Edinburgh, April 1-4, 1996.

‘Two types of simultaneity in honorific discourse.' 95th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 1996. Panel title: ‘Simultaneity: Merging messages, identities and interpretations.'

‘Status, sociolect and social identity.' Annual meetings of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, IL., March 23-26, 1996. Panel title: ‘ Constructed, contested & emergent forms of identity in discourse.'

‘Speech events, speech communities and the concreteness of discourse.' 94th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1995. Panel title: ‘Is there a postmodern linguistic anthropology?'.

‘Spatial metaphors and spatialization effects in Lhasa Tibetan discourse.' Invited paper, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, April 4, 1995. Conference title: ‘Himalayan space in language and culture'.

‘Current theories of honorific speech.' Culture, Interaction and Discourse Workshop, UCLA, March 25, 1994.

‘The “concept” concept in theories of mental development.' Annual meetings of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Baltimore, MD, March 5-8, 1994.

‘The semantics and pragmatics of verb classifiers in Urdu-Hindi.' 20th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, February 18-21, 1994.

‘Agency in political oratory.' [Discussion paper]. Invited comments, Conference on Interaction and Grammar, UCLA, March 5-6, 1993.

‘Is knowledge knowable?: Epistemic evaluative categories and discursive evaluation.' Colloquium, Department of Applied Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, March, 1992.

‘Honorific register and social action in Lhasa Tibetan.' 90th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL., November 20-24, 1991. Panel title: ‘Registers and Styles of denotational language.'

‘Lhasa Tibetan evidential verbs and the construction of a universe of knowables.' Linguistics Colloquium Series, Vassar College, May 6, 1991.

‘What's in a name?' Paper presented at Vassar College, February 25, 1990.

‘Evidentiality and epistemic mode in Lhasa Tibetan.' 88th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 15-19, 1989.

‘Basic and derived categories in Urdu-Hindi complex predicates.' Annual South Asia Conference, 18th annual meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI., November 3-5, 1989.

‘Honorific noun classifiers in Lhasa Tibetan.' 87 th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ., November 16-20, 1988.

‘On the segmentation of verbal categories in Urdu-Hindi.' Annual South Asia Conference, 17th annual meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI., November 4-6, 1988.

‘Deference marking in Tibetan.' Quarterly Social Thought Colloquium, University of Chicago, May 26, 1988.

‘From form to function: syntactic constituency and categorial scope of predicate affixes in Urdu-Hindi.' 8th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 26-7, 1987.

'On the partial formal syncretism of categories of clause structure in Lhasa Tibetan' (with Tsetan Chonjore). 8th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 26-7, 1987.

‘On the interdependence of two categories of predication in Tibetan.' Chicago Linguistic Circle, Chicago, IL., April 23, 1986.

‘The linguistic problem of proper names.' Chicago Linguistic Circle, Chicago, IL., November 12, 1984.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

EDITOR
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2005-present

FELLOWSHIP REVIEW PANELS
American Council of Learned Societies, 2005-07
Fulbright Fellowships, 2005-06,
The Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2005-07
National Science Foundation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic Society of America
International Pragmatics Association

Anth 603. Language in Culture and Society. Spring 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

Anth 730. Readings and Research in Linguistic Anthropology. Fall/Spring, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06.

Anth 607. Knowledge and the Knower. Fall 1999, Spring 2002.

Anth 658. Discourse Analysis. Fall 2000.

Anth 628. Language and Social Relations. Fall 2001.

Anth 668. Discourse Research Seminar: Honorific Language. Spring 1999.

Anth 436. Metaphor and Tropes. Fall 1999.

Anth 446. Registers of Language. Fall 2000, 2002.

Anth 280. Language and Culture. Spring 2000, 2001.

Anth 123. Communication and Culture. Fall 2002, 2004, 2005

University of California, Los Angeles, 1992-1998

AL M266/Anthro M247. Honorific Language. Winter 1997

AL M273/Anthro M246B. Grammar and Discourse-II. Spring 1994, Winter 1997.

AL M272/Anthro M246A. Grammar and Discourse-I. Winter 1994, Fall 1994, Fall 1996.

AL 266. Topics in Semantics & Pragmatics: The Metaphoric & The Literal. Fall 1995.

AL 266. Topics in Semantics & Pragmatics: Reference & Denotation. Winter 1995.

AL 288. Discourse Laboratory. Winter 1995.

AL 249. Foundations of Functional Grammar. Fall 1994.

AL 289. Current Issues in Language Use. Fall 1992, Winter 1993, Spring 1993, 1994.

AL M189 / Phil M173. Metaphor and Literal Speech. Fall 1992, Spring 1994.

Vassar College, 1990-1992

Anth 250. Topics in Linguistics. Spring 1992.

Anth 150. Anthropological Linguistics. Fall 1991.

Anth 351. Linguistic Theory: Syntax. Spring 1991.

Anth 253. Sociolinguistics. Fall 1990.

CLCS 102. Civilization in Question-2. Spring 1991.

CLCS 101. Civilization in Question. Fall 1990, Fall 1991.

The University of Chicago, 1986-1990

Ling 100. Language. With Jerrold Sadock. Fall 1989.

SoAsia 303-1/2/3. Intermediate Modern Tibetan. Fall-Winter-Spring 1989-90.

SoAsia 303. Elementary Modern Tibetan. Spring 1989.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989-1990

SoAsian 301-302. Elementary Hindi-Urdu. Summer terms 1989, 1990.