*          *          *   Saturday  *          *          * 

 

9:00 – 9:15

* Figures and Diagrams: Introductory Remarks on Silverstein on Context and Culture

            Luke Fleming (Université de Montréal)

 

9:25 – 11:40

Panel I. Text Structures: What Poetic Patterns Project

Moderator: Kevin Tuite (Université de Montréal)

 

9:25 – 10:10

* Revisiting the Pragmatic “Poetry” of Prose

            Constantine Nakassis (University of Chicago)

 

10:10 – 10:55

* Textuality, Genre, and the Appearance of the Human: Creating Intersubjectivity with Chatbots

            Courtney Handman (University of Texas at Austin)

 

10:55 – 11:40

* Metricalization and "Containerization" in Georgian Drinking Cultures

            Paul Manning (University of Trent)

 

11:40 – 12:45                     Lunch

 

12:45 – 15:10

Panel II. Iconic Indexicality, Ritual Semiosis and the Emblematicity of Culture

Moderator: Christine Jourdan (Concordia University)

 

12:55 – 13:40

* The Semiotics of Atmosphere: Sonic Materiality as Ritual Semiosis in Mauritian Muslim Devotional Voices

            Patrick Eisenlohr (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

 

13:40 – 14:25

* Other Orientations: Space and Context

            Kamala Russell (University of Chicago)

 

14:25 – 15:10

* “Do you know who I am?!”: Inversion, Interdiscursivity and Dynamic (Re)figuration in Vietnamese Denunciation Ritual

            Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)

 

15:10 – 15:40.     Coffee break

 

15:40 – 17:20

 Panel III. From Translation to Transduction: Mediating Between Languages-in-Cultures

Moderator: Charles Zuckerman (University of California, San Diego)

 

15:50 – 16:35

* The Secret Life of Sources: Journalistic Epistemics and Translation in Middle East Reporting in The New York Times, 1970-2022

            Alejandro Paz (University of Toronto)

 

16:35 – 17:20

* On Indexical Alignment: Revisiting Silverstein’s “Transduction” and the Possibility of Material Semiotics

            Miyako Inoue (Stanford University)

 

*       *       *   Sunday *       *       * 

 

9:00 – 12:10

Panel IV: ‘Language’ and ‘Culture’ after “Language-in-Culture”

Moderator: Stanton Wortham (Boston College)

 

9:10 – 9:55

* Expertise and the Pragmatics of Truth

            James Slotta (University of Texas at Austin)

 

9:55 – 10:40

* The Indeterminacy of Discourse Analysis: What Are We Analyzing?

            Angela Reyes (Hunter College)

 

10:40 – 11:25

* Metapragmatics in Bodily and Moral Kinship

            Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge)

 

11:25 – 12:10

* A Dynamic Figuration of the Total Linguistic Fact

            Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University)