Pragmatics Festival at Indiana University: April 19-21, 2012

REGISTRATION opens Thursday, April 19th, 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Conference Lounge, Indiana Memorial Union [IMU]). You can pick up you conference materials there.

Thursday, April 19
9:00 - 9:30	Opening: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Chair, Department of Second Language Studies Welcome: Maria Bucur, Associate Dean College of Arts and Sciences Oak Room
9:30 - 10:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Oak Room	Walnut Room Session Chair: Marda Rose
10:00 - 10:30	Colloquium #1: ‚ÄúPragmatic Development in Study Abroad Contexts‚Äù Organizer: Maria Shardakova The taxonomy of the speech act set of direct complaints of American speakers, Russian native speakers, and American learners of Russian Beata Moskala-Gallaher Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania Learning to be funny in Spanish during study abroad Rachel L. Shively Illinois State University ‚ÄúI joke you don‚Äôt‚Äù: Second language humor and intercultural identity construction Maria Shardakova Indiana University	Interlanguage development of affective expression in Japanese narrative Koji Tanno Eastern Michigan University
10:30 - 11:00		Apologizing in Kiswahili: Performance of native speakers and learners Alwiya Omar Indiana University
11:00 -11:30		Joking and power relationships in a Chicago restaurant kitchen Gaston Philipps University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30 - 12:00		Restrictiveness and information status of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence from discourse comprehension Charles Lin Indiana University
12:00 - 12:30		Learning to interact with extended speech acts Sara Gesuato University of Padova, Italy
12:30 - 2:00	LUNCH
	Oak Room Session Chair: Aaron Albin	Walnut Room Session Chair: Maria Hasler Barker
2:00 - 2:30	Place-based mobile games for the research and learning of L2 pragmatic variation in Spanish Julie Sykes & Christopher Holden The University of New Mexico	L2 learners’ pragmatic awareness of request speech act in Mandarin Chinese Yi-Ju Lai Rutgers University
2:30 - 3:00	Speech and gesture in L2 direction-giving interactions Jihye Lee Indiana University	Talking about, for and to the TV: An analysis of NFL fans’ discourse Jennifer Ewald & Kerry Burns Saint Joseph’s University
3:00 - 3:30	Meaning as a hidden variable in the use of conventional expressions in L2 pragmatics Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Indiana University Oak Room
3:30 - 3:45	COFFEE BREAK
	Oak Room Session Chair: Aaron Albin	Walnut Room Session Chair: Patrick Moore
3:45 - 4:15	Multiple perspectives on Serbian EFL learners’ refusals Milica Savic University of Nis, Serbia	Spanish in the U.S. legal system: Discourse approaches to administrative proceedings Erin Lavin Indiana University
4:15 - 4:45	The role of honorifics in Korean requests and apologies Sang-Seok Yoon University of Minnesota	Making plans: An analysis of L2 proposals Marda Rose Indiana University
5:00 - 6:15	PLENARY #1 Variation in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics: The Case of Service Encounters César Félix-Brasdefer Indiana University Oak Room
6:30	RECEPTION (Federal Room - IMU)

Friday, April 20
8:15 - 8:30	COFFEE
	Oak Room Session Chair: Karol Hardin	Maple Room Session Chair: Nöel Houck	Walnut Room Session Chair: Megan Solon
8:30 - 9:00	Are Spanish informal conversations impolite? Maria Barros García University of Granada, Spain	Work and Play: Simulating language contact Roland Muehlenbernd University of Tuebingen, Germany	Can requests be taught to L2 learners of Spanish? Brad Langer Kansas State University
9:00 - 9:30	Delicate matters in the exam room Abdesalam Soudi, Jeanette South-Paul & Lauren Hasek University of Pittsburgh	A corpus-based study on interlanguage pragmatics: A case with multi-word discourse markers Anne Li-E Liu University of Nottingham, UK	Development of pragmatic competence in the foreign language classroom through film Maria Victoria Romero Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
9:30 - 10:00	Introducing “free conversation”: The role of referring terms in creating a clinical interaction Marissa Fond Georgetown University	Encantado de conocerte virtualmente: Native/non-native electronic chats in Spanish Matthew Kanwit Indiana University	A web-based tutorial of the speech act of gratitude in Chinese Li Yang The University of Iowa
10:00 - 10:30	“Me dijo que”: Authorship and advice in an academic self-help group Robert Baxter Indiana University	Invitations in a virtual world Kristin Cardellio University of South Florida	Explicit pragmatics teaching: Softening up FL learners to interact in their own interpersonal way Gerrard Mugford Fowler University of Guadalajara, Mexico
10:30 - 10:45	COFFEE BREAK

	Oak Room Session Chair: Mercédez Niño-Murcia		Maple Room Session Chair: Matt Kanwit		Walnut Room
10:45 - 11:15	Pragmatic performance in a study abroad context: Pilot study for investigating learners’ performance Lisa Kuriscak Ball State University		Online communication and students pragmatic choices in English: Email openings and closings Zohreh Eslami Texas A&M University		Pedagogy Workshop for Less Commonly Taught Languages Alwiya Omar Indiana University
11:15 - 11:45	The rhetoric’s of ethnic humor: The Peruvian TV program “The Paisana Jacinta” Susana de los Heros University of Rhode Island		Linguistic creativity online: A cross-cultural study of special internet language varieties Susan Herring, Inna Kouper, Daniel O. Kutz, Carmel L. Vaisman & Guo Zhang Indiana University
11:45 - 12:15	Getting the mood right: A game-theoretic look at the subjunctive Jason Quinley University of Tuebingen, Germany		Student to faculty communication Wei-Hong Ko, Marianne Snow, Xue-wei Chen & Zohreh Eslami Texas A&M University		Walnut Room Session Chair: Lauren Harvey
					Rapport and teamwork patients in Australia: Insights for international medical graduates Lynda Yates & Peter Roger Macquarie University, Australia
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH
	Oak Room	Maple Room Session Chair: Alwiya Omar		Walnut Room Session Chair: Piibi-Kai Kivik
2:00 - 2:30	Colloquium #2 “Pragmatics Research and the Language Classroom” Organizer: Nöel Houck The Pragmatics of e-mail communication Zohreh R. Eslami Texas A&M University Problems with the lexicon: Offers that fade away Jean Wong The College of New Jersey Teaching compliments in the Spanish foreign language classroom Maria Hasler-Barker Indiana University Pragmatics and teaching oral skills: Teaching materials projects from an MA TESOL seminar David Olsher San Francisco State University CONTINUES AFTER BREAK	Linguistic features, language variety, and sentiment in online Arabic Muhammad Abdul-Mageed & Hisham Mostafa Indiana University & Qassim University, Saudi Arabia		Teach Chinese greetings in intermediate-low CFL classroom Ying Wu Purdue University
2:30 - 3:00		Me da dos pupusas con green chili: Service encounters in a U.S. Salvadoran pupusería Michael Woods The University of New Mexico		Using a web-based tutorial for interlanguage pragmatic development among study abroad students Victoria Russell & Camilla Vásquez Valdosta State University & University of South Florida
3:00 - 3:30		Cross-cultural negotiation sequences in Yucatecan touristic service encounters Megan Solon Indiana University		Effects of teachability on third language learners’ metapragmatic reflections on refusals Eva Alcón & Josep Guzman University Jaume I, Spain
3:30 - 3:45	COFFEE BREAK
	Oak Room	Maple Room Session Chair: Erin Lavin		Walnut Room Session Chair: Jihye Lee
3:45 - 4:15	Colloquium #2 “Pragmatics Research and the Language Classroom” Organizer: Nöel Houck California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Reduced forms in academic computer-mediated communication Jonathan White Högskolan Dalarna, Sweden		Pragmatics of conversational actions: Repairing understanding in foreign language conversation hour Piibi-Kai Kivik Indiana University
4:15 - 4:45		A comparison of Coastal and Santanderian Spanish from a variational pragmatics perspective Rebeca Bataller Gettysburg College		Sympathy and compassion in Spanish and English: Expressing emotion in the L2 Jocelly Meiners The University of Texas at Austin
5:00 - 6:15	PLENARY #2 ‚ÄúWhy Are They So Weird?‚Äù Pragmatics and Miscommunication Across Cultures Diana Boxer University of Florida Oak Room
6:30	CONFERENCE DINNER Tudor Room - IMU

Saturday, April 21
8:45 - 9:00	COFFEE
	Oak Room Session Chair: Stephen Grimsley	Walnut Room Session Chair: Andrea Mojedano-Batel
9:00 - 9:30	Emergence of comprehension of Spanish second language requests Robert Sauveur The University of Texas at Austin	From stance to stancetaking: Examining French and American opinions in online discussions Carl Blyth The University of Texas at Austin
9:30 - 10:00	A video-based approach to the DCT Lisa DeWaard Clemson University	Where lexical aspect and negation meet Gricean theory: Towards explanatory adequacy in linguistic analysis of affirmative inceptive hasta in Spanish Rob Vann & Mikela Zhezha Western Michigan University
10:00 - 10:30	Individual variation in native-speaker interpretation of nonliteral language Mai Kuha & Elizabeth Riddle Ball State University	Beggars with questions: Game-theoretic rationales for minimal cooperativity Nick Asher The Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Toulouse, France
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 1:30	Colloquium #3: “Language of Healthcare” Organizers: Ulla Connor & Kathryn Lauten Oak Room Doctor-patient communication in EDs: Contextual complexity & competing discourses Diana Slade Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Technology, Sydney How medical communication can be done better in trilingual settings? Diana Slade, Jack Pun, Elaine Espindola; Christian Matthiessen, Francisco Veloso, Marvin Lam; Andy Ka Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Patient language and agency in Latino life story narratives Marta Antón, Associate Professor of Spanish Indiana University Indianapolis, IUPUI Communication competency training of IMG’s Lauren Harvey, ICIC Assistant Director of Training Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI