6-0545 GOSSIP, CONFESSION, AND INNUENDO: FAMILY RESEMBLANCES, SOCIAL PROCESSES, AND INTERSTITIAL LINGUISTIC PRACTICES

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Sunday, November 20, 2011: 12:15-14:00

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers: Angela M Lewis (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Chairs: Heidi A Swank (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Discussants: Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam)

12:15

Troubles Talk and Mish-Mash: A Linguistic Politics of Indistinction In Bilingual Lusatia

Elizabeth A Spreng (Kansas State University)

12:30

Talking Politics Like a Man: The Silencing of Female Working Class Voters In Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA)

Melissa S Maceyko (University of Virginia)

12:45

Chinks and the Chinese Exclusion Act: Ethnic Slurs and Social Processes

Ellen MacDonald (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

13:00

The Conspicuous Life of (Post)Secret Confessions: Finding Support In An Imagined Community

Angela M Lewis (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

13:15

Political Talk and the Mediation of State of Emergency News Coverage In Ecuador

Nicholas Limerick (University of Pennsylvania )

13:30

Discussant

Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam)

13:45

Discussion

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