WORKSHOP: A Planning Workshop for Training in Anthropological Discourse Analysis

Barbra Meek 博士（密歇根大学）和 Susan Philips 博士（亚利桑那大学）将召开一个规划研讨会，以制定用于记录和分析社会互动的人类学话语分析方法的培训计划。话语分析在研究思想在互动过程中出现、传播和转化的方式以及解释多样性的本质和组织的研究中尤其受到重视。 文化人类学家越来越多地转向话语分析作为数据分析的一种形式，这将使他们深入了解文化的本质。 同样，语言学家越来越多地转向话语分析作为一种方法，帮助他们分析嵌入社会的语言实践。 这个为期两天的研讨会将于 2012 年春季举行，将汇集擅长话语分析的语言学家和人类学家，讨论教学如何进行话语分析的最佳教学实践以及实施培训计划所需的后勤工作，该培训计划最初将与美国语言学会组织的密歇根大学语言学研究所 2013 年夏季联合举办。人类学话语分析培训最终将提供文化和语言人类学家、社会语言学家和其他人拥有有用的方法论工具，这将增强他们所进行的研究的整体科学价值。 该项目将激励语言人类学家更多地谈论和撰写方法，并与语言人类学参与方法论讨论的学科分享他们的分析方法。 该研讨会还将为人类学和语言学学者之间的跨学科和合作提供重要机会。

Dr. Barbra Meek (University of Michigan) and Dr. Susan Philips (University of Arizona) will convene a planning workshop to develop a training program in anthropological methods of discourse analysis for documenting and analyzing social interactions. Discourse analysis is particularly valued in studies of the way ideas emerge, circulate and are transformed in the interactional process and in studies of the nature and organization of interpretive diversity. Cultural anthropologists are increasingly turning to discourse analysis as a form of data analysis that will give them insight into the nature of culture. Similarly, linguists are increasingly turning to discourse analysis as a method that will help them analyze socially embedded linguistic practices. This two-day workshop, to be held in the Spring of 2012, will bring together linguists and anthropologists skilled in discourse analysis to discuss the best pedagogical practices for teaching how to do discourse analysis and the logistics necessary for carrying out the training program, which will be held initially in conjunction with the Summer 2013 Linguistics Institute at the University of Michigan, which is organized by the Linguistic Society of America.Training in anthropological discourse analysis will ultimately provide cultural and linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, and others with useful methodological tools that will strengthen the overall scientific merit of the research they conduct. The project will stimulate linguistic anthropologists to speak and write about method more and to share their analytic approach with those disciplines with which linguistic anthropology engages in methodological discussions. The workshop will also provide an important opportunity for interdisciplinarity and collaboration between scholars in Anthropology and Linguistics.