The Spoken Discourse Research Studio is proud to announce that we will be hosting a workshop: Mediums of Discourse Exchange. In addition, we are delighted to announce the attendance of three featured speakers: Professors Hongyin Tao, Ross Krekoski, and Misumi Sadler.

The speakers presenting at the workshop, including graduate students and visiting scholars, examine language use in a variety of genres with a focus on East Asian languages, especially Chinese and Japanese. The foci of the presentations range from linguistic markers in everyday face-to-face conversation to communication phenomena in the classroom, language vitality in rural communities, and the social and cultural implications of creative language use in the digital space. Our workshop aims to promote awareness regarding language use in context and to share the current contributions that are being made to the growing field in the areas of Chinese and Japanese linguistics.

All talks are open to the public and we encourage your attendance. A program outline can be found below.

Featured speakers

Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ross Krekoski (University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills)

Misumi Sadler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Program

October 31st (morning session in ARTS 501; afternoon ARTS 430; Prof Tao's talk CAB 239 )

10:30 Intro

10:45 Kerry Sluchinski (University of Alberta, Canada)

Referential Forms in Digital Chinese LGBTQ Discourses: Animate "It" and the Genderless Comrade

11:30 Lunch

14:00 Misumi Sadler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA)

Japanese negative suffix nai: Its structural fixedness and involvement effect in conversation

14:45 Ross Krekoski (University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills, Canada)

Category in Dene conversation: when do we need to make a decision?

15:30 Xiaoyun Wang (University of Alberta, Canada)

The Interactional Functions of Teacher-initiated Teasing in Second Language Classrooms

16:15 Break

17:00 Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angels, USA) [CAB 239]

East Asian Studies Lecture (poster)

Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions of Creative Language Use in China’s Internet and New Media

November 1st (Arts 501)

10:45 Chiho Ogawa (University of Alberta, Canada)

Language Vitality of the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan

11:30 Longlu Qin (Spoken Discourse Research Studio)

Negation and counterfactual interpretations of yaobushi-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Minako Noda (University of Alberta, Canada)

How the Japanese 'Contrastive' Marker kedo is Used in Everyday Conversation

14:00 Yue Guan (Department of East Asian Studies; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Final-positioned conjunctions and co-producing clause-combination

Organizing Committee

Yue Guan (Department of East Asian Studies; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Shui Li (Department of East Asian Studies; Peking University)

Minako Noda (Department of East Asian Studies)

Chiho Ogawa (Department of East Asian Studies)

Tsuyoshi Ono (Department of East Asian Studies)

Kerry Sluchinski (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)

Kanza Tariq (Spoken Discourse Research Studio)

Xiaoyun Wang (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)