The upcoming Berkeley Women and Language Conference is taking place at the Berkeley Conference Center from April 24-26. Below you'll find the most recent (and hopefully final) incarnation of the schedule.

If you need directions or hotel suggestions, or have any questions, please e-mail us at bwlg@socrates.berkeley.edu.

Looking forward to seeing you!

SCHEDULE FOR BWLG 5

Friday, April 24 8:00 Registration and coffee

9:00 Suzanne Romaine.
"Women, land and language: shifting metaphors and shifting languages".
10 minute break
Morning Session 1a 10:00
Marjorie K. M. Chan
Sentence particles JE and JEK in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types
10:30 Melinda Chen
How lexical appropriation works: A mental-spaces analysis
11:00 Britta Mondorf
Women, men and the communicative contract
Morning Session 1B
10:00 Barbara Eastman and Jan Bernsten
Women learn to talk shop: Coming into skilled trades at General Motors
10:30 Arlene Oak
The gender of critique: The nature and impact of gendered talk in the assessment of objects and buildings
11:00 Maria Stubbe
Striking a balance: Language, gender and professional identity
10 minute break
Morning Session 2a
11:40 Minju Kim
Cross-adaptation of language between different genders: The case of the Korean kinship terms Hyeng and Enni
12:10 D. K. Ruuskanen
The problem of gender in translation
12:40 Amy Kyratzis
Gender and contextual specificity: Preschooler'sinteraction styles and preferred play themes in different friendship groups
Morning Session 2B
11:40 Renee Blake
What's gender got to do with it (creoles)? A sociolinguistic case study from Barbados
12:10 Kathe Managan
Gendered language ideology in the Martinician Creolite Movement
12:40 Hye-Sook Wang
Non-sexist language movement in Korea: A historical overview
Lunch 1:10-2:30
2:30 Jeri Jaeger
Does sex make a difference?
10 minute break
Afternoon Session 1a
3:30 James Stanlaw
A new voice: The use of English as a new rhetoric in modern Japanese women's language
4:00 Wakako Ozaki
Gender-appropriate language in transition: The use of final particles in Japanese across generations
4:30 Lisa Ann Lane
Reflections of macro-social change: Linguistic ideological and material orientations of women to their community
Afternoon Session 1B
3:30 Shari Kendall & Keller S. Magendau
'He's calling her DaDa!': Lesbian mothers and discursive gender ideologies in child custody cases
4:00 Robin Queen
Conversational dominance in lesbian and gay male conversations
4:30 Birch Moonwomon-Baird
What do lesbians do in the daytime? Recover
10 minute break
4:40 Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge, Howard Grabois, Ingrid Piller, Marya Teutsch Dwyer
Panel: Bilingualism and gender
Saturday, April 25
8:00 Registration and coffee
9:00 Lesley Milroy.
Women as innovators and norm-creators: the sociolinguistics of dialect leveling in a northern English city.
10 minute break
Morning Session 1A
10:00 Marlis Hellinger
The de/construction of gender roles through language variation and change: International perspectives
10:30 Louise Mary Cunningham
Gender and dialects: Issues of social change
11:00 Diane Downer Anderson
"I call myself Wo-man" meets "Callie the Torturewoman": Children naming and renaming across talk and text
Morning Session 1B
10:00 Barbara Kelly
She's married, she's divorced, she's old, she's gay: A study of folk linguistic attitudes to the female address term "Ms."
10:30 Rusty Barrett
The conscious linguistic construction of gay male "circuit" identity
11:00 Lisa Bland and Rusty Barrett
"Stick your (adj.) (noun) in my (adj.) (noun)!": Teaching women to 'talk dirty'
10 minute break
Morning Session 2A
11:40 Natalie Schilling-Estes
Reshaping economies, reshaping identities: Gender-based patterns of language variation in Ocracoke English
12:10 Chris L-K Yuen
Vowel devoicing and gender in Japanese
Morning Session 2B
11:40 James Waldinger
Online values: Sex in chat rooms
12:10 Ben Smith
Gender bending and traditional gender in computer-mediated communication
Lunch 12:40-1:45
1:45 Ursula K. LeGuin.
Loud cows.
10 minute break
2:45 Alice Freed, Susan Erlich, Kira Hall, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Elizabeth Strand, Deborah Cameron
Panel: Ideologies of 'difference' in language and gender research.
15 minute break
Afternoon Session 1A
5:00 Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Gender, language, and interactive practice in jump rope
5:30 Barbara LeMaster, Megan Hitchcock Orlando Sanchez, Tina Werner
Teaching preschool children how to participate in structured teacher-student interactions
Afternoon Session 1B
5:00 Anthony Mulac
Language in combination does it happen any other way?: Multiple-variable analyses of gender-linked language differences
5:30 Victoria L. Bergvall
Theory into practice: Why theory matters in language and gender research
10 minute break
6:10 Deborah Cameron
'Good to talk'? Communication skills as a gendered discourse.
Sunday, April 26
8:30 Registration and coffee
9:00 Janice Gould
Internalizing racism as A means of 'Killing the Indian and saving the Man'.
10 minute break
Morning Session 1A
10:00 Susan Levesque and Susan Ehrlich
Male perpetrators/Male victims: Exceptional representations of sexual assault
10:30 Mary Talbot
Choosing to refuse to be a victim: 'Power feminism' and the intertextuality of victimhood and choice
11:00 Rebecca Aviel
Insidious misinterpretations: A linguistic perspective on date rape
Morning Session 1B
10:00 Charles Briggs
When epistemology fails: Engendering narratives and confronting death a cholera epidemic in Venezuela
10:30 Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
Fieldwork and women's place
11:00 Celia Rothenberg
Palestinian village women and their stories of spirit possession
10 minute break
Morning Session 2a
11:40 Leela Bilmes
The politeness paradigm shift in Britain: What Princess Diana's death revealed
12:10 Deborah Johnson-Evans
Issue One...Woman talk: Women political pundits on the McLaughlin Group
12:40 Monica Corston-Oliver
The 'white wedding': Metaphors and advertising in bridal magazines
Morning Session 2b
11:40 Aki Uchida
English as a gendered praxis: Japanese women's intercultural experience
12:10 Nobuko Adachi
Gender roles, women's speech and ethnic and community boundaries in a Japanese-Brazilian commune
12:40 Kyoko Takashi
Wilkerson Feminist linguistic innovations on loan: Japan's borrowing privileges
Lunch 1:10-2:30
2:30 Ana Celia Zentella.
Spanish Madonnas: U.S. Latinas and language loyalty.
10 minute break
3:30 Bonnie McElhinny,
Gayle Haberman Panel: Language and women in cooperatives
10 minute break
4:40 Patricia Nichols.
Women and acts of identity in imagined communities.