Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Previous studies suggested that Japanese speakers perceived American English-speakers as offering detailed accounts in situations in which they considered it appropriate to give an expression of regret and a brief explanation. The analysis of a conversation in which a Japanese and an English speaker engaged in accounting practices reveals, however, that the English speaker did not construct her detailed accounts alone. Instead, the Japanese speaker co-constructed the English speaker’s extensive accounts by not explicitly honoring them and by using continuers. The paper suggests that Japanese speakers’ view of American English speakers as providing extensive accounts may be formed and reinforced in interactions such as the one analyzed here without their being aware of their own influence on English speakers’ behavior.

Publication Type: Session Presentation
Abstract: Expressing thanks has been widely recognized as one of the most important social acts because it facilitates warm feelings and solidarity among interlocutors (Cohen, 1996; Eisenstein and Bodman, 1986, 1993; Intachakra, 2004; Leech, 1983). However, a review of literature reveals that despite its importance and the high frequency of its use in daily social interactions, the speech act of expressing gratitude has attracted little research attention compared to other speech acts and most researches focused only on the main strategies without furthering into sub-strategies of the semantic content of the strategies.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has multiple roles. This study addresses an aspect of the speakership that has not been previously analyzed. In this paper we examine the floor behavior, through speaking and voting, of the past six Speakers of the U.S. House. _x000d_The congressional literature is been replete with debates over competing models of party influence in the House. Smith argues that single goal models are insufficient to explain party leadership. Sinclair emphasizes party polarization as a critical factor in explaining behavior in the post-reform Congress. Cox and McCubbins have advanced the cartel theory of control by party leaders. Electoral influences are dominant in Rohde’s analysis._x000d_In this paper, we will explore whether the floor appearances of Speakers lend support for any of the competing theories of party leadership in the House. The 1983-2008 time period and number of different Speakers (14 years for each party) provide a rich data set with variation to test these hypotheses. These are first data of actual floor appearances that have been analyzed. They are available from data collected from C-SPAN video recordings of the House of Representatives.

Publication Type: Session Presentation
Abstract: The presenters will demonstrate how this middle school program raises the expectations of Spanish-speaking students and engages them in preparation for more rigorous high school work and preparation for college level work. The program turns the students' Spanish language skills into a positive advantage. Data shows that 80% - 90% of the 8th grade students are scoring 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Spanish Language Exam. The presenters will provide overall information for program implementation.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Against an understanding of security as a synonym for everything that is potentially good or desirable Waever introduced the concept of security as speech act into the IR/security studies discourse. His notion of Securitisation refers to an actor's practice of successfully naming a certain development, i.e. a referent object, a security problem in order to legitimise the use of extraordinary measures to solve it. Hitherto, Waever's concept appears underspecified concerning a speech act's conditions of success (or felicity, in Austin's words), stating merely that any securitising move has to gain recognition by an audience. This leads to a somewhat circular reasoning that the conditions of success are met when a securitising speech act has success. But what kinds of speech acts gain recognition and which do not? For what reasons?This is where the proposed paper takes off. In a first step, it is to be established whether theories of reception, as they are used by communication theorists, help to specify the conditions necessary for a successful speech act. Building thereupon we will then apply our theoretical findings to an empirical test case (to be selected) of an obviously successful securitisation act. Overall, the paper aims at both establishing missing links between the securitisation approach and communication studies and at elucidating the potential contributions of communication studies to an elaborated framework of Securitisation.