1. RESEARCH
INTERESTS OF THE GROUP
The LISO Ph.D.
emphasis, approved in Spring 1994, grew out of a recognition
of shared research and teaching goals among a group of faculty.
It provides a framework within which three distinct but
related approaches to the study of interaction and social
organization can be brought together. These three approaches
are: the ethnographic study of naturally occurring interaction;
interactional functional linguistics, which studies the
structure of natural languages and the properties of language
in use; and the study of sequentially organized activities
carried out through the medium of language. Participating
departments are Linguistics, Sociology, and the Givertz
Graduate School of Education.
The central
research focus of all three approaches is the recognition
of the importance of language use in concrete situations
as a fundamental resource for human action and social organization.
They furthermore emphasize the crucial role that close,
detailed description of real-time human activities plays
in the study of language use, human interaction, and social
organization. They share a methodology involving work with
audio and video recordings of interaction in the pursuit
of I problems in particular disciplines in a manner that
addresses the integrity of the embeddedness of particular
events in their naturally occurring contexts.
2. LISO FACULTY
AND GRADUATE STUDENTS
(Lerner & Thompson, RFG conveners)
Linguistics
Faculty
Patricia M. Clancy (language acquisition, discourse, Japanese
and Korean linguistics)
John Du Bois (discourse, sociocultural linguistics, Mayan
linguistics)
Sandra A. Thompson (discourse and grammar, language universals,
Chinese linguistics)
Mary Bucholtz (language and gender, language and identity)
Students
Jennifer Garland
Annette Harrison
Mara Henderson
Kobin Kendrick
Jung Eun Lee
Akiyo Maruyama
Kyung-AE Oh
Valerie Sultan
Monica Turk
Sociology
Faculty
Gene Lerner (sequential organization of talk in interaction)
Geoff Raymond (grammar and interaction, talk in work settings)
Don H. Zimmerman (interaction in institutional settings)
Students
Ingrid Li
Lars Linton
Kevin Whitehead
Education
Faculty
Charles Bazerman (text and interaction)
Jenny Cook-Gumperz (language socialization, language and
literacy, narrative analysis)
Amy Kyratzis (children's relationships, language and gender)
Jason Raley (classroom interaction, trust in action)
Students
Tim Dewar
Janet Garufis
Francien Rohrbacher
Jesse Singer
Elena Skapoulli
Audrone Skukauskaite
All meetings will be held as usual:
Fridays, 1:30 - 3:30
Phelps 2536
