Programme

5:30-7:00pm

Conference welcome function (in combination with LabPhon 11)
Wellington City Council Chambers, Wakefield Street, Wellington

7:00pm

Informal dinner arrangements Recommendations in conference packs

8:30-9:15am

Conference opening and welcome RHLT01

9:15-10:30am

RHLT01 Opening plenary, Don Kulick: Humorless Lesbians  
Chair: Janet Holmes

10:30-11:00am

Morning tea Mezzanine Foyer

GBLT04

RHLT01

RHLT02

RHLT03

11:00am

Opening to “Beyond Binaries” by Mani Bruce Mitchell.

98: Jo Angouri. “[yeah] hmmm yea of c[ourse]” Overlapping talk (OT) and gender identities in workplace talk.

Symposium on language and gender in African contexts, facilitated by Jane Sunderland, including

Vera Williams Tetteh. Race, gender dynamics and the second language learner: a study “on”, “for” and “with” African women in Australia

Phonetic Detail and the Performance of Gender
Convenor Jen Hay

Panel members:
Ben Munson,
Gerry Docherty
Jane Stuart-Smith and Ghada Khattab

11:30am

95: Jenny Davis. "He is a beautiful woman": Two-Spirit Negotiations of gender and sexuality

67: Louise Mullany. “The wee girl in the office”: Direct indexing of gender in the Cambridge and Nottingham Business English Corpus

12:00pm

13: Martin Paviour-Smith ‘I like a real, normal man.’ Normal as a contested resource on a gay men’s dating site

55: Jariah Mohd Jan. Euphemisms @ Work: A Linguistic Inquiry of Men’s Discourse at the Workplace

12:30pm

103: Sarah Wagner. Lesbian and Gay Parents' Ideologies of "Family"

11: Junko Saito Are they always direct?: Male superiors’ directive strategies in a Japanese workplace

101: Mary Bucholtz, Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee and Elena Skapoulli. Succeeding in science: Interaction and identity among high-achieving female science majors

80: Douglas Bigham
Sexuality as a Factor for Sociophonetic Variation

1:00-2:00pm

Lunch Mezzanine Foyer

2:00pm

35: Japanese, gender, sexuality: Questioning the binaries/resisting the norms

Panel Organiser: Claire Maree

Panel members:
Momoko Nakamura
Kyoko Satoh

Shigeko Kumagai

58: Marlene Miglbauer. “In Serbia at least I never heard that someone as a man decided to go on maternity leave but I can tell you that I will have no problem with that”: Gendered discourses and identities in postsocialist globalised workplaces

8: Andrea Simon-Maeda. Vamp or Victim: The Barbara Walters/Monica Lewinsky Interview

25: Kevin Heffernan. Anatomically-based linguistic variation and indexations of social gender: How low can it go?

2:30pm

17: Stephanie Schnurr. "I’m such a small potato". Gendered leadership discourse in Hong Kong workplaces

108: Christy Bird. Women Can’t Tell Jokes: Ideology in Interaction)

54: Katie Drager.
Language, Style, and Identity at Selwyn Girls’ High

3:00pm

138: Bernadette Vine and Meredith Marra. EH and Maori men: a vernacular feature at work

Judith Baxter 'I'm not going to talk to her, whatever her name is': Constructing narratives of male solidarity and female exclusion in builders' discourse'

114: Stacy Lewis. Making meaning through mocking:  A case of the FAKE people

3:30 – 4:00pm

Afternoon tea Mezzanine Foyer

4:00-4:30pm

40: Brian King. Your space or mine? Language and sexual spatialisation online

109: Janet Ainsworth. The Performance of Gender as Reflected in American Evidence Rules: Language, Power, and the Legal Construction of Liability

81: Chien-Pin Chang. Haoqi but Yinrou, Wenshun but Kuangfang? Changes of Gender Representations Manifested in Chinese Adjectival Compounds

121: Kyong-Sook SONG. Gender and Implicature in Computer-Mediated Communication

4:30-5:00pm

22: Rebecca Dwyer. Terms of Endearment? Vocatives and Power in BDSM Erotica

62: Lidia Tanaka. Japanese Male Speech in Institutional Discourse

57: Rosli Talif and Ramesh Nair A CDA Approach to Reading Gender Construction in Malaysian Children’s Literature

5:00- 6:15pm

RHLT01  Plenary, Surin Kaur: Transversal Subjects: An Analysis of Gender, Race and Religion in the Politics of Identity in Malaysia
Chair: Jane Sunderland

6:15 – 7:15pm

Book prize function sponsored by Equinox Mezzanine Foyer

7:30pm

Evening events – informal arrangements

IGALA Exec Meeting  (Room to be advised)

8:45-10:00am

RHLT01 Plenary, Carmen Caldas-Coulthard “Women of a certain age” – life styles, the female body and ageism
Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff

GBLT04

RHLT02

RHLT03

10:00am

56: Jie Yang. Consuming or Consumed: Language, Gender and Consumption in urban China

65: Denise Troutman, Ashley Talley and Mawusi Johnstone. Gender, race, and linguistic politeness

CA Roundtable – Ann Weatherall

10:30am

129: Agnes Kang. At the Intersection of Elitism and Gender in Hong Kong Advertisements of Luxury Residences

29: Siriruck Thijittang and Thao Lê. Gender Differences and Apologies in English of Thai Learners: Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Perspective

11:00-11:30am

Morning tea Mezzanine Foyer

11:30am

Intro to sexual identities stream

96: Karolyn Gruszewski. “I know, I’m not only gorgeous, I’m also fabulous!”: Complimenting and Related Discursive Strategies in a Polish-Canadian Community of Practice

26. Ann Weatherall. Repairs of gendered person references

12:00pm

49: Kiran Pienaar. Oppositional discourses of sexual identity in ‘coming out’ narratives

50: Chan-Chia Hsu. Question Tags in the Speech of Men and Women in Taiwan

42. Kaoru Amino. Code switching in turn-taking strategies of Japanese women: Socially obliged “women’s style”

12:30pm

72: Stephen DiDomenico.
“I always knew that there was something different about me…”: A Genre Analysis of Undergraduate ‘Coming Out’ Stories

10: Brona Murphy. I thought that she was to be honest ….: Gender and Age-related Examination of Hedging in a Corpus of Spoken Irish English.

85. Claire Maree Native Onee: Gender/sexuality in Japanese

1:00-2:00pm

Lunch Mezzanine Foyer

2:00pm

79: Stina Ericsson. "She probably thinks he's hot!": parents constructing heterosexual identities for their children

33: Harold Castañeda-Peña. ‘Both a man and a woman could be ‘I’’: Preschoolers’ discourses of masculinities and femininities in the EFL classroom

My brilliant career: Where can gender and language research lead?
(Postgraduate Workshop)

Chair: Jo Angouri

Panel includes:
Miriam Meyerhoff
Susan Ehrlich
Louise Mullany

2:30pm

14: Momoko Nakamura Women’s and Men’s Languages as Twisted Heterosexual Resource

128: John Macalister. Flower-girl and bugler-boy no more: changing gender roles in writing for children

3:00pm

23: Kimie Takahashi. “Harder, faster, deeper!”: Gender, Race and Desire in Japan’s Ren-ai English

38: Piia Varis and Sanna Lehtonen. Examining gender in an autobiography and a children's novel: Possibilities and challenges of applying feminist CDA

3:30-4:00pm

Afternoon tea Mezzanine Foyer

GBLT04

RHLT03

Mezzanine Foyer

4:00pm

46: Jose Santaemilia. 'It's unfair to be a second-class citizen because of love’: The legal, sexual and discursive struggles over ‘gay marriages’ in Spain

89: Madeleine Adkins. Endangered language revitalization and the reproduction of gender hegemony

Poster sessions
31: Chie Adachi. A Pragmatic Study of Complimenting Behaviour Amongst Young Adults in Japan and Britain
41: Karamjeet Kaur and Ponmalar Alagappar. The media influence in setting salience issues – a case study of representation of homosexuality in the Malaysia Newspaper
48: Kaoru Amino. Code switching in turn-taking strategies of Japanese women  –Socially obliged “women’s style”
66: Michelle Ray. How To Engage Men & Women to Promote & Progress Equity In The Workplace
70: Mildred Laurilla. Explorations in Philippine Computer Mediated Communication: Gendered Patterns of Blogging and Chatting
92: Anindita Chatterjee. Doing the tale: Gendered Narratives
100: Sara Mack. . Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Stereotypes in Puerto Rican Spanish
123: Zaal Kikvidze. Gendered Division of Labour and Covert Gender Patterns in Georgian
140: Michał Jahns. The Feminist Language Reform in Grammatical-Gender Languages - the case of Polish

4:30pm

132: Kristopher Geda. The enregisterment of gay-sounding speech in non-gay media.

119: Jocelyn Ahlers.
Language revitalization and the (re)constituting of gender

5:00pm

Business Meeting

7:00pm

Conference Dinner The Brewery, Cable St (poster prize announced)

8:30-9:30am

Editorial Board meeting

GBLT03

GBLT04

RHLT02

RHLT03

9:30-10:00am

Opening of Indigenous languages and gender:
Aroha Yates-Smith

68: Ayako Tominari. The representation of a male hero and of masculinities in the newspaper coverage of the National High School Baseball Championship in Japan

69: Elisabeth Kuhn. Gendered Discourses and Persuasive Strategies in the Email Marketing of Relationship Advice

47: Morad Al-Sahafi. What do fathers think? Arab Muslim immigrant fathers’ perceptions of language maintenance and identity

10:00-10:30am

9: Linda McLoughlin. 'Bingo wings and Muffin tops': The Language of perceived bodily imperfections in the British Television programme 'How to Look Good Naked'

136: Hideko Abe. Advice Column in Japanese Lesbian and Gay Magazines

34: Justin Charlebois. The Discursive Management of Career and Family Ideological Dilemmas

10:30-11am

19: ALLYSON JULE. Teaching Gender and Language: Using The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Teaching Tool

104: Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty. LOVE: From Off-Line Tradition To On-Line Modernity

44: Kati Kauppinen. Managing motherhood. Empowerment and neoliberalism in a postfeminist women’s magazine

11:00-11:30am

Morning tea Mezzanine Foyer

11:30am

Indigenous languages and gender continues including
39: Catherine Watson, Jeanette King, Margaret Maclagan, Ray Harlow and Peter Keegan. Maori women’s role in sound change

126: Gerry Yokota. "Always": Gender and the Discourse of Nostalgia in a Popular Japanese Film

105: Fabienne Baider. Disembodiement and Embedment in the French Press or the Null Effect of Feminist Lexical Change

18: Laurel Kamada. Girls and Boys as Similarly Powerless and Powerful: Embodiment of Hybrid Adolescents

12:00pm

45: Keiko Miyata. Gender Construction of young people through the Japanese language in popular culture

127: Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk. Is there a ‘sex/prestige pattern’ in the Polish language use?

137. Susan Ehrlich
Post-Penetration Rape:  Narratives of Consent or Complicit Resistance?

12:30pm

91: Miriam Meyerhoff et al Place, gender, and the place of gender: Some small island sociolinguistics

28: Judith Baxter and Allyson Jule. ‘The new girl order and active womanhood’: representations of post-feminist identities in the US comedy Sex and the City

27: Kyoko Satoh. Leadership norms and the verbal behavior of Japanese female professors

110: Amy Sheldon. Assimilating radical new knowledge without a safety net: Epistemological issues in teaching our field.

1:00-2:00pm

Lunch Mezzanine Foyer

2:00pm

52: Débora C. Figueiredo. Body design and identity in personal narratives of cosmetic plastic surgery

90: Tanya Romaniuk. “I’m your girl!”: Revisiting sexism and naming practices in the public sphere

71: Masami Saito. The (Mis)use of a foreign word in Japanese discourse on gender equality

Workshop – Language and Gender Teaching
Facilitators: Jane Sunderland & Maria Stubbe

2:30pm

78: Roberval Silva.The building of the gender identity through the topic organization

97: Lia Litosseliti. Gendered Discourses in Advertising

74: Mariko Bohn. Creating a Virual Sisterhood: Educated Young Japanese Women's Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Behaviours during the Meiji and Taisho Periods (1868–1926)

3:00pm

113: Victoria Bergvall. How Repetitive Discourse Trains the Brain: On Gender, Language, and Neuroplasticity

102: Mary Bucholtz. "You Ain't White": Authenticating Masculinity through Dialect Crossing in Hollywood Film

76: Reiko Hayashi. Metaphor Weaving Gender: Taste and Women in Japanese texts and talks

3:30-4:00pm

Afternoon tea Mezzanine Foyer

4:00 – 5:15pm

RHLT01   Closing Plenary, Anne Pauwels: Men, masculinities and feminist linguistic activism
Chair: Meredith Marra

5:30pm

Conference Close