<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dear MSU Friends of Sociolinguistics,</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">This Friday, an alumna of our Linguistics PhD program, Dr. Ashley Hesson, will be giving a talk at University of Michigan. Details are below.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best,</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Suzanne</p> <br> <br> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Rachel Elizabeth Weissler <racheliw@umich.edu><br> <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 19, 2018 8:23 AM<br> <b>To:</b> SoConDi Discussion Group<br> <b>Subject:</b> SoConDi This Friday: Talk by Dr. Ashley Hesson</font> <div> </div> </div> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues, <div><br> </div> <div>We hope you can join us this week for Dr. Hesson's SoConDi talk. We will meet Friday, September 21st, 3-4pm, in Lorch Hall 473. Abstract for the talk is below:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><span class="x_gmail-im" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>Applying sociolinguistics to institutional talk: lessons for and from medicine</b></p> </span> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Interactions between healthcare providers and patients offer unique opportunities for sociolinguists to study synchronic variation in all levels of grammar while producing potentially actionable insights for the practice of medicine. Shared conversational goals and routinized exchanges in this subset of institutional talk provide analysts with a controlled social setting to observe variables that occur with relative rarity in sociolinguistic interviews. By uncovering patterns of variation associated with provider and patient characteristics, sociolinguists can draw attention to subtle diagnostic cues or subconscious biases that might otherwise go overlooked. The present talk reviews examples of research on variables with implications for both sociolinguistics and medicine: “I don’t know” production by patients with dementia and variation in mandative extrapolation use by physicians. Future directions in this area of cross-disciplinary research are then explored with a focus on plans for a corpus of recorded Michigan Medicine obstetric visits.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br> </p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">We look forward to seeing many of you at this talk!</p> <div><br> </div> -- <br> <div class="x_gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr">Be Well, <div>Rachel Elizabeth Weissler</div> <div>Ph.D. Student in Linguistics</div> <div>University of Michigan</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>