Workshop Schedule
AUGUST 19th
9-9:30 Introductions
9:30-11 Minority languages in context ((Three talks + 30 minutes discussion))
Sidwell – Reconstructing language contact and social change on Boloven Plateau, Laos.
Enfield & Zuckerman – House Construction and Ethnic Transformation in Upland Central Laos
Slotta – Intelligibility as a sociolinguistic variable
** Discussant = Alan Rumsey **
11:00-11:15 COFFEE
11:15-12:45 Contexts of contact in Vietnam ((Three talks + 30 minutes discussion))
Ngo – Narrating National Ancestors: Depending and Contesting Practices of the Contemporary Vietnamese
Vũ – The impact of languages used as medium of instruction on early grade ethnic minority students’ performance
Hang, Quỳnh & Lợi – The language of Lachi people in Ban Diu commune, Xin Man district, Ha Giang province
** Discussant = Hy van Luong **
12:45-2 LUNCH
2:00-3:30 Orthography and identity ((Three talks + 30 minutes discussion))
Hickman – Hmong millenarian movements and orthographies
Mukdawijitra – Materials and politics of script among ethnic Lao Song (Tai Dam) in Thailand
Paulson – Writing in the Margins: The Linguistic Landscapes of Endangered Austronesian Languages in Vietnam
** Discussant = James Slotta **
3:30-3:45 COFFEE
3:45-5:35 Ritual, gender, discourse ((Four talks + 30 minutes discussion))
Paing – Daughters of Good Lineage and Bitchy Prostitutes in Burmese Buddhist Nationalist Discourse
Shohet – Rituals and routines of sacrifice: Embodying asymmetrical reciprocity in Vietnamese
Nguyễn (Dương) – Talking with the Ancestors: Conversational repair in soul-calling ritual
High – More than “Mother and Child”: Birth policy and practice in Laos
** Discussant = Elinor Ochs **
AUGUST 20th
9:00-11.00 Ideology ((Three talks + 30 minutes discussion))
Yin – “Khmer has no grammar rules”: metapragmatic commentaries and linguistic anxiety in Cambodia
Enfield & Zuckerman – Heavy Sound Light Sound: A metalinguistic trope of the Nam Noi Valley
Dunford – Combination and Difference in Standardized Ta’ang
Wnuk – Emotion systems in mobile and sedentary hunter-gatherers
** Discussant = Judith Irvine **
11:00-11:15 COFFEE
11:15-12:45 Asymmetries in Vietnamese interaction ((Three talks + 30 minutes))
Pham & Nguyen – A statistical analysis of politeness and gender-bias in the use of pronouns in southern Vietnam
Luong & Sidnell – Shifting referential perspective in Vietnamese speech interaction
Sidnell, Trần & Vũ– On the interactional division of intersubjective labor
** Discussant = Alessandro Duranti **
12:45-2.00 LUNCH
2:00-3:15 Discussant round table
3:15-3:30 COFFEE
3:30-5:00 Open discussion
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