Supported by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation
(1982-1995)

Language and Society Project, 1991-1995

Coorganizers: Susan Gal and Kathleen Woolard
Participants: Richard Bauman, Joe Errington, Jane Hill, Elizabeth Mertz, Bambi Schiefflin, Jacqueline Urla, Hy Van Luong

This project resulted in the special issue Constructing Languages and Publics in the journal Pragmatics (volume 5, number 2, 1995).

Mediated Communications Project, December 1988-1991

Coorganizers: James Collins and Richard Parmentier
Participants: Richard Bauman, James Collins, Steve Feld, William Hanks, John Haviland, Judith Irvine, Marilyn Ivy, Bernard Jendron, Sut Jhally, Loren Kruger, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, Kathryn Woolard

Mediated Communications Project, December 1988-1991

Coorganizers: James Collins and Richard Parmentier
Participants: Richard Bauman, James Collins, Steve Feld, William Hanks, John Haviland, Judith Irvine, Marilyn Ivy, Bernard Jendron, Sut Jhally, Loren Kruger, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, Kathryn Woolard

De-Centered Discourse Symposium, held at the American Anthropological Association meetings, November 19, 1987

Organizer: Richard Parmentier
Participants: Don Brenneis, Richard Bauman, James Collins, Vincent Crapanzano, William Hanks, John Haviland, Michael Herzfeld, Judith Irvine, John Lucy, Benjamin Lee, Hugh Mehan, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban

Language and Education Workshop Series, June 1987-April 1989

Organizer: James Collins
Participants: James Collins, Elizabeth Mertz, John Lucy, Benjamin Lee, Norris Minick, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Micro-Macro Language Workshop, March-April 1989

Organizer: Francesca Merlan
Participants: Joe Errington, Webb Keane, Francesca Merlan, Benjamin Lee, Michael Silverstein, Kathryn Woolard

Metapragmatics and Reported Speech Conference, June 26-29, 1985

Organizer: John Lucy
Participants: Asif Agha, Charles Briggs, Robert Brightman, Steve Caton, William Hanks, Maya Hickmann, Coby Jones, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Robert Moore, Richard Parmentier, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Debra Spitulnik, Greg Urban, James Wertsch, Bernard Weissbourd

This project resulted in the publication of Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Metapragmatics and Poetics Workshop, July-August 1985

Organizer: John Lucy
Participants: Steve Caton, William Hanks, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, James Wertsch

Metapragmatics and Poetics Workshop, July-August 1985

Speaker: Ann Banfield
Participants: Asif Agha, Steve Caton, William Hanks, Coby Jones, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Robert Moore, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Debra Spitulnik, Bernard Weissbourd

Workshop on Reported Speech, held at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1983

Participants: Niko Besnier, John DuBois, Jane Hill, Judith Irvine, Joel Kuipers, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Tullio Maranhao, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Susan Philips, Bambi Schieffelin, Amy Shuman, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, James Wertsch, Anthony Woodbury

Workshop on Metapragmatics, April 1984

Participants: William Hanks, Maya Hickmann, Benjamin Lee, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Nancy Press, Lee Schlesinger, Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch, Anthony Woodbury

Colloquium on Semiotic Mediation, held at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1982

Organizer: Elizabeth Mertz
Participants: James Boon, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Leonard Scinto, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch.
Discussant: Virginia Dominguez

This project resulted in the publication of Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives (Academic Press, 1985).

Language and Social Theory, 1983

Organizer: Michael Silverstein
Participants: Craig Calhoun, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Edward LiPuma, Elizabeth Mertz, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch