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"Our Life in Language: Date: Friday, November 11, 2005 Key Note: Professor Barbara Johnstone, Professor Linguistics & Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University The University of New Mexico Rhetoric and Writing Program, the Departments of English and Linguistics along with the English Graduate Student Association and the Writing Across Communities (WAC) Initiative would like to invite you to a symposium for Faculty, Staff, Students, and the Community. The primary intent of the symposium is to work in conjunction with and support of WAC week, an all inclusive event geared towards creating an awareness of the WAC Initiative as well as organizing and assessing the needs of the University Community as a whole. The symposium features Barbara Johnstone (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University and editor of Language in Society. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (Benjamins, 1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (Indiana UP, 1990), The Linguistic Individual (Oxford, 1996), and two textbooks, Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (Oxford, 2001), and Discourse Analysis (Blackwell, 2002) in addition to many articles and book chapters. Her recurrent interests have to do with how people evoke and shape places in talk and what can be learned by taking the perspective of the individual on language and discourse. Her current work is about dialect and locality in the Pittsburgh (US) area. Program Co-Chairs: Hector Torres (Department of English) and Michelle Hall Kells (WAC Program Chair) Date: Friday, November 11, 2005 Time: 9:00 a.m.-4:30 Location: Lobo Room A&B Key Note: Professor Barbara Johnstone, Professor Linguistics & Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University 9:00-9:45 Breakfast with Barbara Johnstone 9:45 Introduction by Hector Torres 10:00-11:30 Morning Address: "Discourse Analysis for Rhetorical Studies." Question & Answer Lunch (on your own) 1:00-2:30 Afternoon Address: "The Linguistic Individual: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Voice." Question & Answer Dessert and Coffee Served 3:00-4:30 Roundtable Discussion "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Voice and Culture." Respondents from Departments of English & Linguistics, African American Studies, IFAIR, Spanish and Portuguese, and American Studies.
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