4-0280 ETHNOPOETICS, NARRATIVE INEQUALITY, AND VOICE: ON THE LEGACY OF DELL HYMES

Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Organizers: Anthony K Webster (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) and Paul V Kroskrity (University of California at Los Angeles)

Chairs: Paul V Kroskrity (University of California at Los Angeles)

Discussants: Richard Bauman (Indiana Univ) and Charles L Briggs (University of California, Berkeley)

08:00

Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking, Ethnopoetics and the Recognition of Voice In Ethnographic Dialogue

Eleanor Nevins (University of Nevada, Reno)

08:15

Not In Vain: Hymesian Ethnopoetic Theory As Anthropolitical Linguistics

Alexander D King (University of Aberdeen)

08:30

-x- Marks the Spot: On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Expressive Features, and the Recognition of Voice

Anthony K Webster (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)

08:45

Reinventing Ethnopoetics

Robert Moore (University of Pennsylvania)

09:00

Overcoming Discursive Discriminations In the Representation of Mono Stories: Narrative Inequality and (Hymesian) Voice

Paul V Kroskrity (University of California at Los Angeles)

09:15

Discussant

Richard Bauman (Indiana Univ)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

Ethnopoetics and Ideologies of Poetic Truth

David W Samuels (New York University)

10:15

Translating Poetry and Song In Indigenous Societies: Ethnic Aesthetic Performances In Multilingual and Multicultural Settings

Sean P O'Neill (University of Oklahoma)

10:30

The Voice of the Cloud Forest: Ethnopoetic Consciousness and Mixe Voices Through Time

Daniel F Suslak (Indiana University)

10:45

The Poetics of Language Revitalization: Text, Media, and Representation

Gerald L Carr (University of Michigan) and Barbara A Meek (University of Michigan)

11:00

Communicative Competence, Normalcy and Disability

Amy E Shuman (Ohio State University)

11:15

Discussant

Charles L Briggs (University of California, Berkeley)

11:30

Discussion

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