16th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning
Indiana University - Bloomington
April 14-16, 2005

 

 

Conference proceedings

Conference Program

Workshop: Teaching of Pragmatics

Keynote Speakers

Colloquia

Conference Location

Registration

Transportation

Lodging

Organizing Committee

Sponsors

About Bloomington

Indiana University

 

 

 

16th International Conference

on Pragmatics and Language Learning

  

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2005: Conference Opening – Plenary 1

 

         Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

On the Role of Formulas in the Acquisition of Second Language Pragmatics

(5:00PM - 6:00PM)

(Reception following)

 

Conference Poster Sessions: Friday, April 15

Instructions for Poster Presenters

We are looking forward to viewing your poster at the Pragmatics and Language Learning on Friday, April 15.

The usable area of the poster display boards is 4 feet (high) by 8 feet (long), that is, 1.2 m by 2.4 m. You may arrange your presentation in any way that you would like within that space. The boards will take push pins and thumb tacks.

The posters will be available for set up in the reception area as early as 7:30 a.m. The posters will be posted all day, allowing for maximum viewing of your work.

Poster presenters should be available to discuss their work with participants from 1:15-2:15 p.m.

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2005

Parallel Sessions

Room
Georgian Room
State Room East
Sassafras Room

8:00AM

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Chairs
Julie Belz
Beverly Hartford
Jeffrey Harlig

8:30AM-9:00AM

Effect of Instruction on Chinese Adolescent EFL Beginner Learners Interlanguage Pragmatic Development

Qingping Li

Pragmatic Development among Taiwanese L2 English Learners in the United States

Stephanie Cheng

Second Language Writing as an Interlanguage Rethoric

Paul Russell

9:00AM-9:30AM

Teaching EFL Learners' Pragmatic Competence on Suggestions: A Focus on Explicit and Implicit Pedagogical Treatments

Alicia Martínez-Flor

When "Small Talk" Becomes not So Small : An Ethnomethodological/CA Investigation of a
Communicative Activity in the Classroom

Keiko Ikeda

 

Hmoob Boy Meets Hmong Girl: The Pragmatics of Orthographic Codeswitching in a Play Script

Susan M. Burt

9:30AM-10:00AM

Incorporating Pragmatics On-line into the L2 Curriculum

Noriko Ishihara

Andrew D. Cohen

Psychology and Speech/Language Co-treatments

Leigh Warren

Marlene Eernisse

Backchannels as a Pragmatic Resource

Terese Thonus

10-00AM-10:15AM

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Chairs
Stephanie Woody
Susan Meredith Burt
Samuel Obeng

10:15AM-10:45AM

Teaching Pragmatic Resources for Alignment in L2 Spanish: Suggestions and Suggestion Responses

Lyn Pearson

Dale Koike

Iranian EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Strategies: A Sociopragmatic Cross-Cultural Perspective

Zohreh Eslami-Rasekh

A Cross-cultural Study of Complaining by Americans and Japanese

Hisae Kuri Shea

 

10:45AM-11:15AM

Talking to Strangers: Teaching EFL Students Conversation Strategies

Verόnica Sardegna

Daniella Molle

CA for Understanding Microgenesis of Modal Expressions in Decision-Making Activities

Midori Ishida

Developing
    Discourse Markers in L2 Spanish during a One Semester Study Abroad
    Program at a Spanish University

Helena Lindqvist

11:15AM-11:45AM

Enhancing Sociopragmatic Awareness through Video

Russell Arent

Pragmatic Competence
    in Japanese Face to Face Interactions: A Trial to
    Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Polish

Miroslawa Kaczmarek

Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Development during Study Abroad

Margaret A. DuFon

Eton Churchill

11:45AM-1:15PM

LUNCH

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Chairs
Jennifer Brondell
Ardith Meier
Peter Cramer

1:15PM-1:45PM

Conversational Implicatures in TOEFL Listening Comprehension: Content Analysis of Practice Books

Shao-Ting Hung

The Production of Requests in the French Interlanguage of Moroccan and Hispanic Immigrant Children in Brussels

Karolien Rys

Just Saying ‘No’: The Development of Pragmatic Competence During Study Abroad

Amy VonCanon

1:45PM-2:15PM

Methodological Issues in Impression Formation Research as Shown through Telecollaborative Data

Emily F. Rine

Accommodation to US Academic Teaching Norms: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

Virginia LoCastro

Gordon Tapper

The Effects of Explicit Instruction Followed by Study Abroad on the Development of Pragmatic Competence: Focusing on Intermediate Level Japanese EFL Learners

Kenneth Fordyce

Seiji Fukazawa

2:15PM-2:45PM

Enough DCTs: Moving
Methodological Debate in Pragmatics into the 21st Century

Patricia Bou-Franch

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

     Different Realizations
of Solidarity Politeness: Comparing Venezuelan and
Argentinean Responses to Invitations

Carmen García

The Impact of an Intervention on Study Abroad StudentsSpeech Act Performance in Spanish and
French

Rachel Shively

2:45PM-3:15PM

Formulaic Sequences Processing in Second Language Pragmatic Competence

Tatiana Nekrasova

Nan Jiang

Pragmatics/discourse Analysis: A Comparative Analysis of Sympathetic/Empathetic Speech Acts

Keiko Nakajima

 

3:15PM-3:30PM

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3:30PM – 5:30PM

COLLOQUIUM

Cultural Influences and Biases in Intercultural Pragmatics

 

 

Organizer:

   Andrea DeCapua

 

Presenters:

   Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth

   Timothy John Ebsworth

   César Félix-Brasdefer

   Ardith Meier

   Elena Schmitt

Georgian Room

COLLOQUIUM

Pragmatic Socialization and Developing L2 Identity in Second, Foreign, and Heritage Language Classroom Discourse

Organizers:

               Diana Boxer

               Joan Kelly Hall

Presenters:

   Michael Gelbman

   So-Eun Cho

   Sharon Barkley

   Mutsuo Nakamura

   Mantoa Rose Smouse

State Room East

 

5:30PM-6:00PM

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6:00PM-7:00PM

Plenary 2: 

Gabriele Kasper

Speech Acts in Interaction: A

Conversation-Analytic Perspective

Room: Chemistry 122

 

 

 

7:00PM-8:30PM

 

BANQUET

TUDOR ROOM (IMU)

Included with paid registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2005

          

                                                    

                                                     Parallel Sessions

Room
Georgian Room
State Room East
Maple Room

8:00AM

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Chairs
Diana Boxer
Beatrix Burghardt
Andrea DeCapua

8:30AM-9:00AM

 

Email Discourse of Native and Nonnative TESOL Graduate Students: Openings

Zahra Moghadasian Rod & Zohrech Eslami-Rasekh

 

From Wh to
Yes/No questions: Interactional trajectories of teacher questions

Yo-An Lee

Refusals of Invitations: L2 Pragmatic Development through Synchronous
Computer Mediated Communication  

Julie M. Sykes

9:00AM-9:30AM

Pragmatics of Child Code-switches

Galina Chirsheva

Exercising Agency: L2 Speakers' Resistance to L2 Pragmatic Norms in Authentic L2 Use

Noriko Ishihara

Interlanguage Pragmatics and the Effects of the Setting

Edelmira L. Nickels

9:30AM-10:00AM

Pragmatic Development of
    Hedging in Chinese EFL Learners

Shengming Yu

Delay as an Interactional Resource in NS-NNS Academic Interaction

Noel Houck

Seiko Fujii

Comparing Complaints in Role Plays and Naturally
Occurring Data: Evidence from Service Encounters

Ronald Geluykens

Bettina Kraft

10-00AM-10:15AM

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Chairs
Zohreh Eslami-Rasekh
Russell Arent
Rebecca Mahan-Taylor

10:15AM-10:45AM

The Development
of ESL Learners' Pragmatic Competence: A Longitudinal Investigation of Awareness and Production

Gila Schauer

Social Presence Through
Textual Communication: Discourse Analysis of EFL Speakers

Senem Yildiz

Pragmatic Aspects of Joke Telling

Jodi Eisterhold

Salvatore Attardo

10:45AM-11:15AM

Perception of Sincerity in Compliments and Apologies

Saowanee Treerat

Functions of Formulaic Language in L2 Spanish Acquisition and Use

Inmaculada Moreno Teva

Ojo!: L2 Humor and Pragmatic Competence

Karyn Hopper

11:15AM-11:45AM

The Acquisition of Complaint and Complaint Response Strategies in a Foreign Language

Yuan-Shan Chen

Chun-Yin Chen

Miao-Hsia Chang

From Empirical Research to Lesson Plan: The Teaching of Compliment Responses in Chinese as a Foreign Language

Qihui Tang

L2 Pragmatic
Comprehension: The Case of Humor

Nancy Bell

11:45AM-1:15PM

LUNCH

LUNCH

 
Chairs
Kimberly Geeslin
Matilda Francoeur
Kelly Sax

1:15PM-1:45PM

 

L2 Perspectives on English Discourse Connectives

Kent Lee

Pragmatic Instruction and Development in ESL and EFL Settings

Heidi Vellenga

1:45PM-2:15PM

German Modal Particles:
Tracking Development of Metapragmatic Awareness and Pragmatic Performance
in Telecollaboration

Nina Vyatkina

Mitigation in Two Modalities: Making Suggestions in Face-to-Face and Online Group Collaboration

Yu Feng

Openings and Closings in Spanish and English Text-Based CMC:

A Politeness-Theoretical, Community of Practice Approach

Pilar Garcés-Blitvich

Patricia Bou-Franch

2:15PM-2:45PM

Making Requests in Kiswahili: Performance of Native Speakers and Learners

Alwiya Omar

Teaching pragmatics in Spanish L2 courses: What do learners think?

Lyn Pearson

Pragmatic Variation in L2 Spanish: The Effects of Individual-Level and Task-Level Variables

Lisa Kuriscak

2:45PM-3:00PM

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Chairs
Paul Malovrh
Paul Russell
Jodi Eisterhold

3:00PM-3:30PM

Hitting Moving Targets: Reference and Cohesion in Learners

Piibi-Kai Kivik

Making Requests in
Email: Does Distance Entail Directness?

Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas

The Pragmatic Development of Korean NNSs of English in the Speech Act of Requests

Sangkyung Han

3:30PM – 4:00PM

The Development of

Pragmatic Competence in an L2

Classroom: The Case of Advice

in Spanish 

Jerome Mwinyelle

Misunderstandings in CMC: A Study of Spanish Language Learners

Marta González-Lloret

How are Turns Constructed in English and Japanese Conversations?:
Unit Types and Onset Places of Turns in Telephone and Face-to-Face Interactions

Hiroko Furo

4:00PM-4:30PM

How do Thai Learners of
Japanese Use the Final Particle "Kedo" at the End of their Sentences in Spoken discourse?

Akemi Fu

Khwanchira Sena

 

   

4:30PM-4:45PM

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4:45PM-6:00PM

COLLOQUIUM

Political Discourse and Intercultural Pragmatics

Beverly Hartford

Samuel Obeng

Georgian Room

   

6:00PM-6:30PM

Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

Conference Poster Sessions

Poster Sessions for the Conference on

Pragmatics and Language Learning

Friday, April 15, 2005

 

 

The Pragmatic Function of Com 'a little' in Korean

Kyungja Ahn

 

Interlanguage Complaints and Gender Variation

Ron Geluykens

Bettina Kraft

Pragmatics Meets Communicative Language Teaching:

Politeness and Face in Group Work

Gabrielle Kahn

Rebekah Johnson

 

Giving and Receiving Compliments:

A Cross-Cultural Study in Australian English and Vietnamese

Thu Dinh Nguyen

 

 

How Does a Family Develop Pragmatics in ESL Environment? A Case Study of Three Korean Families in the United States

Saem Jinkyu Park

 

The Pragmatics of Translation: Can Perlocutionary Equivalence Be Achieved?

Mimoza Rista-Dema

 

Conversation Analysis Applied to ESL Pragmatics Testing

F. Scott Walters

 

 

Cross-Sectional Analysis of KFL Students’ Request and Refusal

Sang-Seok Yoon

 

 

A Study of Two Types of Positive Politeness in Chinese Casual Conversations

Ann Wang & Winnie Orr

 

 

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