The Linguistic Anthropology Working Group

April 9-10, 2010
The Berkeley Language Center
Dwinelle Hall, B4
University of California, Berkeley

Organizations:
The Linguistic Anthropology Working Group (LAWG)
The Graduate Students in Linguistic Anthropology (GSILA)
Laboratory for the Study of Interaction and Discourse in Educational Research (LSIDER)
Anthropology in Education Working Group (AEWG)
Graduate Assembly
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Berkeley Language Center
The Berkeley Linguistics Society

Departments:
The Department of Anthropology

Kathryn Woolard
University of California, San Diego

John Du Bois
University of California, Santa Barbara

Kira Hall
University of Colorado, Boulder

William F. Hanks
University of California, Berkeley

Charles L. Briggs
University of California, Berkeley

Nick Enfield
Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen

CPIL provides an interdisciplinary venue for scholars who investigate the role of communicative practices in social life. The conference aims to bring together scholars who are interested in broad range of phenomena relevant to language, interaction, and socio-cultural processes. We seek to maximize these cross-disciplinary exchanges for rethinking previous and expanding new perspectives for conceptualizing and methodologically investigating the complex relationships between communication and social life.

Invited Disciplines and Approaches
Approaches can include, but are not limited to: Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Education, Educational Sociolinguistics, Ethnomethodology, Folklore, Interactional Linguistics, Language and Media Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Performance Studies, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sociocultural Linguistics.

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