Jan. 18
Lucy Jones (University of Sheffield)
“Authenticity and (Homo)normativity in a Lesbian Community of Practice ”

Feb. 1
Ingrid Li (Sociology, UCSB)
“Exercising Entitlement in Next Turn: The Use of Exactly as a Success-Marker ”

Feb. 15
Mary Bucholtz, with Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, Jung-Eun Janie Lee, Elena Skapoulli (UCSB)
“"That's a physics attitude": Ideologies of disciplinarity in science students' interaction”
and
“"What do you call an eigensheep?": Formulaic jokes as scientific knowledge displays among undergraduates ”

Feb. 29
Liana Grancia (UCLA)
“Ethnic solidarity as interactional achievement”

Mar. 7
Susanne Guenthner (University of Munster)
“Projective constructions in German interactions - an analysis of pseudo-clefts, N-be-that-constructions and extraposition”