Jenny Cook-Gumperz Vitae

Department of Education Phone: (805) 893-3786 University of California

Secretary: (805) 893-4515 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: cook-gumperz@education.ucsb.edu

EDUCATION 1971 Ph.D., Sociology, University of London, England 1963 B.Sc., Sociology, (Economics and Politics), University of Birmingham, England ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1991- present Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara 1988 - 1991 Associate Research Sociologist, National Center for Vocational Education, University of California, Berkeley 1980 - 1988 Associate Research Sociologist, Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1976 - 1980 Assistant Research Sociologist, Institute of Human Learning 1975 - 1988 Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley 1967 - 1970 Lecturer-part-time, Extra-mural studies/WEA University of London 1964 - 1970 Research Officer, Institute of Education, London University. 1963 - 1964 Research Assistant, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. London VISITING APPOINTMENTS 2008 Visiting Research Professor Faculty of Arts: Department of Linguistics,

University of Antwerp 2005 Visiting Research Professor, Institute of German Language (IDS) Mannheim, Germany 1998 Visiting Professor, International Graduate School in Language and Communication

University of South Denmark. Odense, Denmark 1997 Visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany 1991 Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Working Group in Cognitive Anthropology, Berlin,

Germany. 1985 Associate Professor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Georgetown University,

Washington D.C.

1983 Visiting scholar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. 1979 Guest Faculty: Summer Institute on Language and Child Development, Society for

Research in Child Development 1972 Lecturer, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Institute for the Study of Indian Languages,

University of Mysore, India 1965 Research Associate, Center for the Study of the Urban Child, Committee of Human

Development, University of Chicago AWARDS AND HONORS 2011 Nomination for the Grawmeyer award in Education 1986 Distinguished Scholar, American Educational Research Association, Committee on the

Role and Status of Minorities in Educational Research 1985 Nijmegen Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Radboud University,

Nijmegen Netherlands. 1974-1976 Postdoctoral fellowship, National Institute of Child Health and Development 1970-1971 Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Socialization theory; Language socialization and the acquisition of communicative competence; Gender socialization. Interactional sociolinguistics: Literacy as a social process; Educational sociolinguistics. Qualitative methods in Education.

BOOKS/GUEST EDITED JOURNALS 2009     Rethinking Bernstein for the 21st century: codes, class, language in a

multilingual/multicultural world Special Issue Multilingua vol28 nos2&3 2008 A Constucao Social Da Alfabetizacao Portuguese translation Porto Allegre:

Artmed (revised edition) 2008 The Social Construction of Literacy New Revised Edition (Greek translation)

Thessalonika: Epikentro 2006 The Social Construction of Literacy New Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press

1993 Alternative Literacies: Literacy in School and Beyond. Special issue Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Vol. 24, Number 4, (co-ed. With D. Keller-Cohen).

1991 A Constucao Social Da Alfabetizacao Portuguese translation.. Porta Allegre: Editoria

Artes Medicas. 1988 La Constuccion Social De La Alfabetizacion Spanish translation. Barcelona, Buenos

Aires, Mexico City: Edition Paidos 1986 The Social Construction of Literacy. (editor) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reviewed in: Language in Society, 17, 4, 1988 593-597, (K.,Walters) American Anthropologist, 89, 2, 516-517, 1987 ( M.,Saville-Troike)

Language, 63, 1, 166-169, 1987 ( S.,Scollon,) Man, 21, 4, 78 1986 (R.Scollon

Contemporary Sociology 1987, 16, 1, p. 27-3 (W.Griswold) 1986 Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language (co-edited with W. Corsaro & J.Streeck).

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers. Reviewed in:

Language in Society, 18, 1, 141-142,( S..Romaine,) 1981 Language and Context. Discourse Processes, Special Issue Vol. 4, Number 2, April-

June. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. 1976 Strategien sozialer Kontrolle in der Familie. Dusseldorf: Verlag Schwann (German

translation of Social control and Socialization) 1973 Social Control and Socialization: A Study of Class Differences in the Language of

Maternal Control. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Reviewed in:

Language in Society, 4, 1, 110-113,1975 ( F Erickson ) Social Forces, 53, 2, 356-357, 1074 ( E Singer.)

British Journal of Educational Studies, 22, 1, 103-104, 1974 (J.Klein ) Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews,1974, 2, 6, p. 575-585 (Allen D Grimshaw)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND BOOKS 2015 Child Discourse ( with Amy Kyratizis). In Handbook of Discourse Analysis. D. Tannen,

H E.Hamilton D. Schiffrin (eds) Wiley-Blackwell pp. 681-704 2015 Debating the world-choosing the word: High school debates as academic discourse

preparation for bilingual students. (with Julie Garza-Antillia). Linguistics and Education.n.3.

2014 Interactional sociolinguistic perspectives on intercultural communication. in Handbook of Intercultural Discourse ad Communication. ed. C Bratt Paulston, S Keisling, E Rangel.

Wiley-Blackwells (with JJ Gumperz) (Reprinted paperback 122) 2014 The Social Construction of Literacy in M Prinsloo& M Baynham (eds) Literacy Studies. San Diego: Sage Benchmarks in Language and Linguistics (reprint of 108)

2013 Concluding Remarks (with John J Gumperz) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

V23;n3: 213-214 2012 Time of Life: women’s narratives of decision-making at mid-life. M.Moerk & V Heller

(eds) Forms of Narrative and Narrative Form. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2012 Literacy Pragamtics. J-O Ostman(ed) The Practices of Pragmatics.: Highlights from the

Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, J. Benjamins 2012 The public face of language: Why spelling matters in Pragmaticizing Understanding (Ed.)

M. Meeuwis and J-O. Ostman. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, J. Benjamins, pp. 197-213 (with J.J. Gumperz)

2012 Interactional sociolinguistic perspectives on intercultural communication. in Handbook of

Intercultural Discourse ad Communication. ed. C Bratt Paulston, S Keisling, E Rangel. Wiley-Blackwells (with JJ Gumperz) reprinted paperback 2014

2011 Literacy; a pragmatic perspective. in Pragmatics in Practice eds. Jan-Ola Ostman and Jef

Verscheuren. Amsertdam: John Benjamins publisher. pp: 231-247 2011 Frames and contexts: another look at the macro-micro link in Reframing Framing:

interaction and the constitution of culture and society. Special issue of Pragmatics 21:2:285-288.

2011 Entextualizing institutional memories: retelling the academic story. Text and Talk 31:4:429-446

2009 Re-examining Bernstein for the 21st century: Class codes and language in a

multilingual/multicultural world. Bernstein in the 21st Century (ed J Cook-Gumperz) Multilingua. vol 28 2/3:125-131

2009 Bernstein, educational change and gendered language. in Bernstein in the 21st Century

(ed J Cook-Gumperz) Multilingua. vol 28 2/3:291-307 2008 Language socialization and gendered practices in childhood. In P Duff and N Hornberger

(eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Vol 8 language Socialization p 1-13 Springer Science+business media LLC (with A Kyratzis)

2008 Studying language, culture and society: sociolinguistics or linguistic Anthropology

Journal of Sociolinguistics vol 12:4 pg 2008 Living in an interview society: what is cultural about cultural misunderstandings in A.

Moussirou-Moyama (ed) Les Boites Noires de jean-Lois Calvet. Paris and Montreal: Ecriture

2007 Discourse, Cultural Diversity and Communication : a linguistic anthropological

perspective. in Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Vol 7: Intercultural Communication. (eds) H Kothoff & H Spencer-Oatey. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter (with JJ Gumperz)

2007 Communicative Style and Social Identity: an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach. In P. Auer. (ed) Social Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. (with JJ Gumperz)

2005 Children’s storytelling. In D. Herman, M. John, & M.L. Ryan (Eds.), Routledge

Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routedge. ( with A Kyratzis) 2005 Literacy in J Verschuren (ed) Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam/ Philadlephia: John

Benjamins Publishing Co. 2005 Language Standardization and the complexities of communicative practice. Chapter 12

In Complexities: beyond nature and Nuture. (eds). S McKinnon & S. Silverman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (with J.J. Gumperz)

2005 Language, Culture and Miscommunication. In Theme Issue, “Plan B: When the

Anthropologist Becomes Data”, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Vol. 91, 6-24.( with JJ Gumperz)

2005 Making Space for Bilingual Communicative Practice. Intercultural Pragmatics, Vol. 2,

No. 1, 1-23. (with JJ Gumperz) 2005 Style and Identity in Interactional Sociolinguistics in Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics

no 2 vol 5 (with JJ Gumperz) 2004 Public discourse and the private life of little girls: how ‘Language and Woman’s Place’

has influenced language socialization. (Ed) M Bucholtz Language and Woman’s Place Revisited. Oxford University Press.

2004 Institutional memories: The narrative retelling of a professional life in U. Quasthoff & T.

Becker (Eds.), Narrative interaction. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing

2003 Thematic Imagination in Linguistic Anthropology: Comments on Duranti’s Language as

Culture in the US. Current Anthropology 2002 Culture, communicative practice and miscommunication in Logos and Language: Journal

of General Linguistics and Language Theory, III(2), 45-54. 2002 Girls' Oppositional Stances: the interactional accomplishment of gender in nursery

school and family life. In "Gender Interactions: perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse" ed. H Kotthoff and B. Baron. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing

2002 Rethinking Literacy from a social perspective. In Language Teaching and Linguistic

Studies (5) series 96, Beijing: Language and Culture University Press 2002 Conversation with Jenny Cook-Gumperz in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies

(6) series 96, Beijing: Language and Culture University Press 2002 Narrative accounts in gatekeeping interviews: Intercultural differences or common

misunderstandings in Language and Intercultural Communication, 2(2)

2001 Cooperation, Collaboration and Pleasure in Work: issues for intercultural

communication at work. In Culture in Communication: analyses of intercultural situations (eds.) A. Di Luzio., S. Gunthner., F. Orletti Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing

2001 Pretend Play: Trial Ground for The Simple Present. in Applied Cognitive Linguistics Vol

1. Theory and Language Acqusition ed. M. Putz, S. Niemeier & R. Dirven. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter ( with A Kyratzis)

2001 Child Discourse in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Ed D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen &

H. Hamilton. Oxford: Blackwells Publishers, (with A. Kyratzis) 2001 Classroom families: girls' and boys' interactional styles in collaborative classroom talk.

In Research on Language and Social Interaction. Vol 12 no 1 Special Issue on Studying Gender Cross-Culturally. (with M. Szymanski)

2000 Local Identities and Institutional Practices: constructing the record of professional

collaboration. In Talk, Work, and the Institutional Order. ed S. Sarangi & C. Roberts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers. (with L. Messerman)

1999 Collaborative Practices in Bilingual Cooperative Learning Classrooms. Research Report

No. 6. published by the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington D.C. for The Center for Excellence and Diversity in Education CREDE, University of California, Santa Cruz. (with J.J. Gumperz and M. Szymanski)

1999 A Memory of Many Mondays: commentary on Linde's "The Transformation of

Narrative Syntax into Institutional memory." In Narrative Inquiry Vol. 9., No. 1. 1999 Narrative Explanations: Accounting for past experience in interviews. (with J.J.

Gumperz) In Journal of Narrative and Life History. special issue: Oral versions of Personal experience: Three Decades of Narrative Analysis (ed) M. Bamberg, Vol. 7, nos. 1-4.

1997 Nurse’s work, women’s work: Some recent issues of professional literacy and practice

(with K. Hanna). In Hull, G. (Ed.), Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy and Skills. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

1997 Language in Education: Changing Views of: Anthropological Perspectives (with J.J.

Gumperz). (Revised, updated and reprinted) International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition and Encyclopedia of Higher Education by Elsiver Science Publications.

1997 Girls, boys, and just people: The interactional accomplishment of gender in the discourse

of the nursery school (with B. Scales). In Slobin, D., Gerhardt, J., Kyratzis, A. and Guo, J. (Eds.), Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in Honour of Susan Ervin-Tripp. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associations.

1996 Treacherous words: Gender and power in academic assessments (with J. J. Gumperz). In

Folia Linguistica, Vol. 30, Number 3-4.

1996 Reproducing the discourse of mothering: How gendered talk makes gendered lives. In Hall, K. and Bucholtz, M. (Eds.), Gender Articulated. Boston and London: Routledge.

1995 Bilingual language use in literacy instructional contexts (with J.J. Gumperz and M.

Szymanski). Focus on Diversity. The National Center for Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning.

1995 Tell me a book or play me a story: The oral roots of literacy socialization . In Uta M.

Quasthoff (Ed.), Aspects of Oral Communication: Research in Text Theory series. Berlin: De Gruyter.

1994 Changing anthropological views of language in education (with J.J. Gumperz). In Ogbu,

J. (Section Ed.), Polkinghorne, D. and T. Husen (General Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education (2nd Edition). Oxford: Pergamon Press.

1994 The politics of a conversation: Conversational inference in discussion (with J.J.

Gumperz). Grimshaw, A.D., et al (Eds.), What’s Going On Here? Complementary Studies of Professional Talk: Volume Two of the Multiple Analysis Project. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

1994 Introduction: Alternative literacies: The multiple literacies of speaking and writing (with

D. Keller-Cohen). 1993 Dilemmas of identity: Oral and written literacies in the making of a basic writing

student. In J. Cook-Gumperz and D. Keller-Cohen (Eds.), Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Special Issue.

1993 The relevant text: Narrative, story-telling and children’s understanding of genre: A

response to Kieran Egan. Linguistics and Education, Vol. 4. 1993 Gender in narrative and play: A view from the frontier (with B. Scales). In S. Rieffel

(Ed.), Advances in Early Education and Day Care: Vol. 5 - Perspectives on Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Greenwood, CT: JAI Press.

1993 Alternative literacies: In school and beyond (with D. Keller-Cohen). Special issue of

Anthropology and Education Quarterly (released as a separate issue). 1993 Gendered talk and gendered lives: Little girls being women before they become (big)

girls. In K. Hall, M. Bucholtz, B. Moonwomon (Eds.), Locating Power: Proceedings of the 2nd Berkeley Woman and Language Conference. University of California, Berkeley.

1992 Gendered talk and gendered lives: Little girls being women before they become (big)

girls. Revised and translated as: Geschlechstypisches Sprechen und Geschlechstypiche Lebensformen In S. Gunthner and H. Kothoff (Eds.), Von Fremden Stimmen. Frankfurt, Germany: Surkamp Verlag.

1992 Changing views of language in education and the implications for literacy research (with

J.J. Gumperz). In R. Beach, J. Green, M. Kamil, and T. Shanahan (Eds.), Multiple Perspectives in Literacy Research. Urbana, IL: National Council for Teachers of English.

1991 Children’s construction of “childness.” In M. Almy, S. Ervin-Tripp, A. Nicolipoulou, and B. Scales (Eds.), Play and the Social Context of Development. New York: Teacher’s College Press.

1991 Changing views of language in education and the implications for literacy research: An

interactional sociolinguistic perspective (with J.J. Gumperz). Occasional paper #23. Center for the Study of Writing. University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

1990 Writing and reading in the community (with R. Gundlach and M. Farr). In A.H. Dyson

(Ed.), Reading and Writing: Classroom Collaboration. Urbana, IL, National Council for Teachers of English.

1989 Text and Context in Children’s language Socialization in Ethnographic Approaches to

children’s Worlds and Peer Cultures. Ed S. Berentzen The Norwegian Centre for Child Research.

1989 Writing and reading in the community (with R. Gundlach and M. Farr). Reprinted in

1989 Occasional paper #8. Center for the Study of Writing. University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

1989 Literacy and schooling: An unchanging equation? In J.J. Cook-Gumperz (Ed.), The

Social Construction of Literacy. New York: Cambridge University Press. ).

1986 Caught in a web of words: Some considerations of language acquisition and language socialization. In J.J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro, and J. Streeck (Eds.), Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers.

1986 Introduction: Children’s World and Children’s Language (with W. Corsaro). In J.J.

Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro & J. Streeck (Eds.), Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers.

1986 Introduction: The social construction of literacy. In J.J. Cook-Gumperz (Ed.), The

Social Construction of Literacy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

1986 Keeping it together: Text and context in children’s language socialization..

In J. Alatis and D. Tannen (Eds.), Languages and Linguistics: the interdependence of theory, data and application. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

1986 Discourse and socialization: Some topics and methods. In P. Auer and A. DeLuzio

(Eds.), Interpretative Sociolinguistics. Tubingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag. 1984 A sense of story: Influences on children’s storytelling ability (with J. Green). In D.

Tannen (Ed.), Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

1984 The politics of a conversation: Conversational inference in discussion (with J.J.

Gumperz). Cognitive Science Report No. 23, Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley.

1984 Socialization, social identity and discourse. In A. Jacobson-Widding (Ed.), Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural - A Symposium Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 5. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

1983 Language and disadvantage: The hidden process (with C. Roberts and T. Jupp). In J.J.

Gumperz (Ed.), Language and Social Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1982 Communicative competence in educational perspective (with J.J. Gumperz). In L.C.

Wilkinson (Ed.), Communicating in the Classroom. New York: Academic Press. 1982 Interethnic communication in committee negotiations (with J.J. Gumperz). In J.J.

Gumperz (Ed.), Language and Social Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1982 Interethnic communication in committee negotiations (with J.J. Gumperz). In J.J.

Gumperz (Ed.), Language and Social Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1982 Introduction to language and social identity (with J.J. Gumperz). In J.J. Gumperz (Ed.),

Language and Social Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1981 Ethnic difference in communicative style (with J.J. Gumperz). In C. Ferguson and S.B.

Heath (Eds.), Language in the USA New York: Cambridge University Press. 1981 From oral to written culture: The transition to literacy (with J.J. Gumperz). In M.

Whiteman (Ed.), Writing: The Nature, Development and Teaching of Written Language, Volume 1 Variation in Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1981 Persuasive talk: The social organization of children talking. In J. Green and C. Wallet

(Eds.), Ethnography and Language in Educational Settings. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp.

1981 Introduction to Special Issue on Language and Context. Discourse Processes, Vol. 4,

Number 2. 1980 Beyond ethnography: Some uses of sociolinguistics for understanding classroom

environments (with J.J. Gumperz). Bilingual Education Paper series, National Dissemination and Assessment Center, ESEA, CSU, Los Angeles.

1979 Communicating with young children in the home. Theory in Practice, Vol. XVIII, No. 4. 1979 A Study of sharing time with first grade students: Discourse narrative in the classroom

(with S. Michaels). In Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistic Society, Vol. 5. 1978 Context in children’s speech (with J.J. Gumperz). In C. Snow and N. Waterson (Eds.),

The Development of Communication. New York, NY: Academic Press. 1977 Situated instructions: Language socialization of school age children. In S. Ervin-Tripp

& C. Mitchell-Kernana (Eds.), Children’s Discourse. New York, NY: Academic Press. 1977 Socio-ecological constraints on children’s communicative strategies (with W. Corsaro).

Sociology, Vol. 113.

1976 The child as a practical reasoner. In B. Blount & M. Sanchez (Eds.), The Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use. New York, NY: Academic Press.

1976 Working Papers on Language and Context (with J.J. Gumperz). LBRL Working Papers,

#46. University of California Berkeley 1974 The communication basis of language problems in education (with J.J. Gumperz). In J.J.

Gumperz (Ed.), Speech, Local Culture and Identity. Dusseldorf: Verlag Schwan. 1973a Language and Socialization: a review. In Class, codes and Control vol 2 Applied Studies

toward a sociology of language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1973b Language and education in India. In P. Pattanayak (Ed.), Papers in Indian

Sociolinguistics. Mysore, India: Central Institute for Indian Languages. 1971 The communication basis of language problems in education (with J.J. Gumperz). In

Proceedings of UNESCO conference on language and education in diverse societies. 1969 Toward a theory of telling (with B.N. Lewis) International Journal of Man-Machine

Studies, Vol. 1., No. 4. 1968 Some comments and recommendations concerning inter-coder reliability (with B.N.

Lewis) Psychological Reports, Vol. 22. BOOK REVIEWS 2011 Review of Penelope Gardner –Chloros Codeswitiching. Language in Society

(in press) 2005 A review of “Continua of Bi-literacy: a framework for educational policy, research and

practice in multi lingual settings. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 1997 Entering the urban print culture: Breaking the cycle of low literacy. Review of V.

Purcell-Gates Other Peoples’ Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy. Annals of American Academy of Social and Political Sciences.

1994 Rethinking testing in a diverse society: A review of “Changing Assessments:

Alternative Views of Aptitude, Achievement and Assessment” by Bernard Gifford and Mary Catherine O’Connor. Discourse Processes, Vol. 17, No. 4.

1979 Social class, verbal strategies, and linguistic codes: A review essay Language in Society,

Vol. 8, No. 2. 1978 Dilemmas of discourse: Review of A. Wotton. Language in Society, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1974 Towards a humanistic sociology review of Maurice Roche Phenomenology, Language

and the Social Sciences. Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 4. RESEARCH REPORTS

1996 Twenty-first Century Tools for Qualitative Data Analysis (with S. Wiley and C. Frank).

American Education Research Association, New York. (ERIC Clearinghouse #TM025597.)

1995 CIRC and bi-lingual classroom practices. ( with J.J. Gumperz and M. Szymanski) The

National Center for Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning. University of California, Santa Cruz .

1990 Workplace literacy: Preparation for a literate work force (with G. Hull). National Center

for Research on Vocational Education. University of California, Berkeley. 1988 Transition to the workplace: Strategies of Writing and Adult Literacy. National Center

for the Study of Writing and Literacy. University of California, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

1986 Gender Socialization at the Beginnings of Schooling. The Chancellor's Committee on

Women. 1985 Research on Sociolinguistics and Education. Graduate School of Education and Spencer

Foundation. 1981 Language at school and home: Final report to National Institute of Education on the

school/home ethnography project. Institute of Human Learning and Graduate Department of Education.

1980 Report of the Chairperson, National Institute of Education Conference on “The Family as

Educator.” National Institute of Education, Washington, D.C. 1979 Children’s play, playground environments and community development (with D. Gates

and B. Scales). Institute of Human Development: University of California, Berkeley. 1976 A three-year study of Children's Communicative Strategies in the United States and

Britain. NICHD postdoctoral. 1972 The language development consequences of science education in middle school (4-6

grade). Science Curriculum Improvement Study at Lawrence Hall of Science UC Berkeley. National Science Foundation.

1971 Ford Foundation: “The Teacher as a Practical Reasoner” 1970 Ph.D. A Comparative Longitudinal Socialization Study of 300 Mothers and their School-

age Children in two Greater London communities. Social Science Research Council of Britain and Ford Foundation

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES/ SESSIONS 2015 July: organizer and chair panel session at 14th International Pragmatics Meetings-Antwerp, Belgium. Panel :Communicative Competence in an era of Super-Diversity.

Conference Paper : “Culture-Blind” interview assessments in professional setting: an interactional accomplishment? (with John Twitchen (Diversity Works, London) 2013 September : Conference paper 13th International Pragmatics Meetings: New Delhi “Finding a Life : Latina narratives of college experience.” (with M DeMirjn Colorado State University) 2011 July: organizer/chair session at 12th International Pragmatics Meetings: Manchester, UK. Challenged competence: Professional discourse in a multilingual/multicultural world. 2007 July: organizer and chair session at 111h International Pragmatics Meetings: Gothenburg, Sweden Panel: Pragmatics of Literacy: bi-modal, bilingual, bi-cutural. Conference paper: Writing to change life’s chances, Narrativization of the self and the dilemma of adult basic writers 2005 July: organizer and chair panel session at 10th International Pragmatics Meetings: Riva, Italy. Panel: Pragmatics through the Life cycle Conference Paper presented: Time of life and life change: women’s narratives of change in mid-life. 2003 July: organizerand chair 8th International Pragmatics Meetings: Toronto. Sponsored Session on Bernstein and Pragmatics. Conference paper: Bernstein, Educational Change and Gendered Language. 1999 Dec: American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago. Co-Organizer/Chair, Council on Anthropology and Education Sponsored Session: “Aspects of Educational Time” Paper presented: “The Call to Academe: Re-entry Students’ Sense of Time and Life Chance.” (with K Voyle UC Santa Barbara) ) 1998 July. 6th International Pragmatics Association. Reims, France. Co-Organizer/Chair of session, “Language Socialization and Ideologies of Emotion”. Paper given: Recollections and Remembrances: The Narrative Socialization of Emotions in Young Children .” . 1990 Dec: American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco. Co-organizer/ chair. session “Alternative Literacies.” Paper presented “Dilemmas of Identity: basic writers at work”

1987 May: Co-Organizer of Conference (with W. Corsaro and S. Berezen): “Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Children” Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Norwegian Social Science Foundation. Center for Child Development, University of Trondheim, Norway. Chair’s Introductory address to the Conference “Ethnographic Approaches to Children’s Worlds and Peer Cultures.” Paper at conference .“Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Children “Why we study children not socialization” 1982 August: International Sociology Meetings, Mexico City. Session Co-organizer/ Co-chair with J Streeck. “Life Worlds of Children.” 1979 Dec: National Institute of Education Conference on the Family as Educator. Chair of Conference. Chair’s address: “ Studying children in the family context” 1978 April: Stanford Child Language Conference. Organizer/chair of session on “Language socialization of the school age child” . Paper “Learning language and Classroom Socialization ” INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2013 December: Developing interactional sociolinguistics : the legacy of John J Gumperz. University of London.: Kings College 2009 June: On interactional sociolinguistics: theory and method. ( with JJ Gumperz) University of Wurzburg., Germany 2008 April: Linguistic anthropology and discourse level understanding- a case of German Spelling Reform University of Antwerp symposium on Public Media and linguistic Pragmatics May: The discourse of educational assessment. Discourse pragmatics group: Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, Belgium August: Adult Literacy in the age of the audit culture; Invited paper; International Applied Linguistics meeting. Universities of Duisberg and Essesn, Germany September: Workshop on Interactional sociolinguistics in multilingual societies ZhTU Winterthur, Switzerland November: Interactional sociolinguistics: the impact of culture on interaction. National Communication Association meeting- San Diego (with JJ Gumperz) 2006 July: Entextualizing Institutional Memories: retelling an academic story Sociolinguistic Symposium 16 (European Sociolinguistics Association) Limerick. Ireland.(invited paper)

April: Invited presentation German Spelling Reform: a case of linguistic ideology at work. Linguistic Anthropology workshop, Dept .of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 2005 November: Invited lecture; The ideology of Rechtschreibreform: a linguistic- anthropological perspective Institute of German Language Mannheim ( Institut fur Deutsche Sprache –IDS) ( with JJ Gumperz) November: Invited lecture; Bernstein in the 21st century: a reconsideration University of Wurzburg, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. April: Invited lecture: Women’s’ narratives of life change. Department of Language and Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2003 October: Invited paper: Code-switching and communicative style, International Colloquium on Linguistic Variation in Bilingual communication, Acquisition and Diachronic change. University of Hamburg Germany September: invited paper Style in Sociolinguistic Theory Institute of German Language Mannheim-IDS 2002 September: 1st International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics, Language and Culture University, Beijing, China. Plenary address: “Social Perspectives on Literacy” Invited lecture, University of Nanjing China : “Studying Language and Interaction”. Invited lecture, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong: “Social perspectives on literacy” March: University of Applied Science, Intercultural and European Studies Program (ICEUS) Fulda, Germany: Invited Lecture “Institutional Memory in Narratives” 2001 March: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi: Invited lecture, Departments of Linguistics and Women’s Studies: “Gender and language: a Review” February: University of Delhi, India: Two invited lectures: l) “Rethinking Literacy” 2) “Gendered Language, “A Sociolinguistic Perspective. 2000 December: University of Applied Science, Fulda, Germany. Invited lecture: “Code-switching as a Problem Solving Strategy in Collaborative Educational Settings”. November: American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. Invited Discussion Paper: Reconsidering Ethnography of Communication in Education: past, present and future. July: 7th International Pragmatics Association, Budapest Hungary.. Invited Paper “Institutional Memories in Narrative Interaction”.

March: 29th International LAUD Conference. University of Koblenz at Landau, Germany. Invited paper: “Narrative Socialization of emotions in young children”. 1998 June: International Graduate School in Language and Communication, University of Odense, Denmark. Two lectures: 1) Interactional sociolinguistics and the emergence of gender. 2) “Interactional Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Embodiment of Gender. January: British Association of Applied Linguistics/CUP conference, Symptom/Symbol/Handicap: language and cultural difference in Germany, University of London. Invited paper: “Literacy and the ideology of print culture. The bookstore in the new Germany.” 1997 November: University of Konstanz, Germany. Interdisciplinary Research Group in Sociology and Linguistics: "Decision making in medical settings: issues of discourse.”. Autonoma Universita de Barcelona, Spain: Department de Doctorat Didactica de la LLengua I la Literatura: Invited lecture: "Literacy Life Chances: A Second Chance at Learning to be Literate.". April: Society on Research in Child Development. Bi-annual meeting. Paper: “Helping and Arguing: Latina girls Interactional Styles in a Cooperative Learning Classroom.” 1996 December: Universities of Rome, University of Rome 2 (La Sapieneza) and University of Rome Tre.. Two invited lectures: 1) “Gender, Socialization and Interaction” 2) “The Interactional Accomplishment of Gender”. November: American Anthropological Association, San Francisco Invited Symposium on Literacy and Language Ideologies.. Paper: “The post-modern bookstore as a scene of cultural choice.” October: Conference on Gender and Interaction. University of Konstanz, Germany. Invited paper: “The interactional accomplishment of gender in the transition from home to nursery school.” June: Free University of Berlin. Germany. Invited lecture “Interactional sociolinguistics and the problems of literacy.” University Of Potsdam, Germany . Invited lecture: “Literacy Life Chances and Problems of Adult learning.”. University of Dortmund, Germany. Linguistic Colloquium.: invited lecture: “The Interactional Accomplishment of Gender: The "Separate Worlds" Hypothesis Reconsidered.” April: American Education Research Association, New York. .Twenty-first Century Tools for Qualitative Data Analysis (with S. Wiley and C. Frank).” 1995 April: “American Education Research Association, San Francisco, California. “Placing the Self in a Social Space: The Dilemmas of Basic Writers March: Conference on workplace communication: Kings College, University of London, England. Invited paper: “Pleasure in Work: The Communicative Ecology of Late-Modern Workplaces.”

1994 October: The Vigoni Seminar Series. Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Como, Italy conference on Intercultural Communication. Invited paper: “Collaboration and Pleasure in Work: Intercultural Communication in the Workplace.” August: “Literacy Life Chances: Adult Literacy and the Changing Workplace.” International Sociological Association Quadrennial Meeting. Bielefeld, Germany. February: “Cooperative Work and Shared Communication in a Bilingual Classroom.” Western Section of the American Communication Association. San Jose, California. 1993 November: “National Association for Education for Young Children. Anaheim, California. “Gender in Narrative and Play: Assessing Development Through Storytelling and Story Playing” (with B. Scales) July: U.S.” 4th the International Pragmatics Association meetings, Kobe, Japan. “The Cultural Pragmatics of Textbooks: Learning Japanese in the US university classroom.” April: 60th Bi-Annual Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development. San Francisco, California. “Boys, girls and people: gender and play in the discourse of the nursery school.” 1992 December: Annual American Anthropology Meetings. San Francisco, California. “Literacy, Women’s work and Emotional labor.” May: 2nd Women and Language Conference. University of California, Berkeley. “Gendered talk and gendered lives: the accomplishment of gender in pre-school children’s play.” 1991 July: “Interdepartmental lecture for Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Multicultural Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. Invited lecture: “The Social Construction of Illiteracy.” June: University Konstanz, Germany. Interdepartmental lecture in Sociology and Linguistics “The Communicative Consequences of Emotional Labor and Women’s Work.” January: RATP conference “A quoi servent les usagers? la modernisation du sector public et la relation de service. Paris, France. Invited paper: “Now you have a nice day” the serious business of service work”. 1990 December: Florida State University, Tallahassee: “Women’s Education in Changing Times.” February: National Council for Research in Education. Chicago. .Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Literacy. Invited paper: “Changing views of language in education; an interactional sociolinguistic perspective.”. 1989

June: University of Berne, Switzerland. Language and Urban Life conference. Invited paper: Spaces as Places: children’s direction-giving in urban and suburban settings”. March: American Educational Research Association. San Francisco. “Adult Literacy: Is it a Matter of Language Development” February: The National Center for Research in Writing and Literacy. “Literacy as socially constructed” 1988 June: University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Linguistics in Education Conference. Invited address: “An Agenda for Educational Sociolinguistics.” 1987 September: Swiss Universities Intrauniversity Applied Linguistics Committee (CILA), University of Nechatel. Conference on Linguistic Minorization. Invited Paper: “Narrative explanations: Workplace Interaction of Language Minorities.” June: Centre Culturel International du Cerisy la-Salle, France. Conference: Lectures du Goffman en France. Invited paper: “Ritual and the Politics of Conversation,” (with J.J. Gumperz). March: University of Rome, Department of Ethnographic Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Invited lecture: “Literacy acquisition as an interactive process.” 1986 April: National Center for Research in Writing and Literacy University of California, Berkeley. Conference on Reading and Writing Interrelations. Invited paper “ “Writing and Reading in the Community” 1985 May: University of California Conference on Linguistic Minorities in Education. Lake Tahoe, California “Why sociolinguistics helps us understand educational disadvantage.” April: University of Nijmegen and Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics. Plenary Lecture: The Nijmegen Lecture: “Topics in Sociolinguistics: studying children’s discourse.” March: 35th Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Washington: “Text and Context in Children’s Language Socialization.” 1984 June: National Council of Industrial Language Training and British Social Science Research Council. London, England. “Methods of Conversations and Discourse Analysis in Modern Urban Settings.” April: Stanford University, California. Conference on Sociolinguistics in Education: “On sociolinguistics and schooling.” March: British Social Science Research Council conference, University of Cambridge. Conference on Qualitative Approaches to Urban Anthropology Invited paper: “Using Discourse to Study Urban Society.”

1983 October: Boston University: Boston Language Conference. Invited paper. “Lon-term issues in classroom ethnography. June: University of Tromso. Symposium(with J.J. Gumperz). “Communications, Sociolinguistics and Schooling in Intercultural Contexts” Department of Anthropology, Oslo University. Invited lecture: “Language Socialization and Discourse.” May: Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen University. Invited lecture: “Discourse Analysis in the Study of Schooling. May: Conference on New Perspectives in Child Development, organized by the Norwegian School Science Research Council. Noresund, Norway. : Invited address: “Language Socialization and the Creation of Social Identity.” 1982 November: Harvard University Graduate school of Education. Invited lecture :“History of Literacy and Schooling.” Invitational Conference “Multiple Analysis Project” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. Annenberg School of Communication. University of Pennsylvania: Invited paper: “The politics of a conversation.” June: University of Konstanz, Germany Conference on Interpretive Approaches to Discourse. Invited paper: “Discourse and Gender Socialization.” August: Uppsala University, Sweden; Conference on Sociolinguistics and Education in an Interdisciplinary Setting, “Communication and Social Inequity Symposium on Identity.” (with J.J. Gumperz). September: University of Linkoping. Invited lecture: “Problems in Education and the study of language.” 1981 December: American Anthropological Association meeting. Los Angeles, California. Invited paper “Communication and Social Inequality.” May: University of Alaska, Conference on Interethnic Communication.. “Studying Schooling and other Research Problems.” March: 32nd Annual Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Invited panel paper: “Spoken and Written Language.” February: Plenary Address Ethnography in Education Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia “The Long Revolution: the Role of Ethnography in Studying Schooling.” 1980 December: Department of Education, University of Delaware “Communicative Competence and the Reproduction of Social Knowledge.”

October: Educational Testing Service. Princeton, New Jersey. “Child Development and Language Acquisition: Beyond Early Childhood.” June: Invited Lecture: Max Plank Institute for Social Theory and Life Worlds. Starnberg: Munich. “Discourse and Interaction in Studying Children’s Life Worlds April: National Institute of Education Conference on Communication in the Classroom. University of Wisconsin.: invited paper “Communicative Competence in Educational Perspective.” 1979 November: National Council of Teacher of English meeting. San Francisco, California. “Language Development and the Family.” June: National Institute of Education Conference on Teaching as a Linguistic Process. Fredricksburg, Virginia. “Beyond Ethnography: Some Uses of Sociolinguistics for Understanding Classroom Environments.” June: Summer Institute on Language and Child Development, Society for Research in Child Development. Invited lecture: Studying children’s discourse: some problems and solutions.” April: American Educational Research Association meeting. San Francisco, California. “Studying the practices of literacy in minority and mainstream families.” 1978 November: American Anthropological Association meeting. Los Angeles,. California.. Paper “Instructional talk”. 1977 October: National Institute of Education Conference on Writing: Invited paper, “Children’s Literacy Development.” May: Kent State University, Ohio. Sociolinguistics conference. Invited paper “Language and Social Development.” 1976 July: Third International Child Language meetings. London, England. Invited paper: “Context in Children’s Language.” 1975 December: Rockefeller University: Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition Invited talk Language socialization in school age children 1974 December: American Anthropological Association Meetings, SanFrancisco: paper: “Children’s Discourse.”. 1972 March: Georgetown University, 23rd Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics Conference: Invited panel paper: “Language Socialization.”

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