Biography
Education:
Academic Positions:
Michael Bamberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
(Communication & Culture)
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
508-793-7135
Positions
2001-present Full Professor, Clark University (USA)
1993-2001 Associate Professor, Clark University (USA)
1994-1995 Research Fellow, Massey University (New Zealand)
1986-1992 Assistant Professor, Clark University (USA)
1985-1986 Lecturer, Tongji University, Shanghai (P.R. of China)
1982-1985 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
1981-1982 Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institute Nijmegen, (Netherlands)
1975-1978 Assistant Lecturer, University of York (England)
Education
1975 University of Marburg (Germany), 1. Staatsexamen (equiv. MA): Germanistik, Politik- wissenschaft, Erziehungswissenschaft
1978 University of York (England), M.Phil, Linguistics
1985
University of CA, Berkley, Ph.D., Psychology
Languages
German,
native language
English,
near native
Dutch,
working knowledge
Chinese,
two years of
instruction, working knowledge
Latin,
9 years high school instruction
Greek,
6 years high school instruction
Maori,
starting knowledge (occasionally making use of Maori culture and language
structure in ‘First-Year-Seminar’ courses with
Language-Perspective-credit)
Teaching Experience
1986/1993/2001 -
Assistant/Associate/(since
2001) Full Professor,
Department of
Psychology,
English (Affiliate Professor), and
Communication & Culture,
2010 (December) Invited Teaching Workshop at
Universität Zürich, Switzerland,
(Doktoranden-Kolloquium + Universitäts Lecture)
2010 (Oct 10-15) Inv. Teaching Workshop at
TromsØ
University,
Norway (Narrative & Responsibility)
2010 (June+July) Inv. Teaching Workshop at
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (Microgenesis)
2010 (Jan 18-24)
Inv. Narrative Workshop at the University of Hannover, Germany (Narrative
Analysis)
Fall 2009
Visiting Research Professor, Excellence Center:
Languages of Emotion,
FU Berlin
(course title: Coolness)
Spring 07, Summer 09
Invited Teaching Workshop at
Griffiths University, Brisbane,
Australia (workshop title: Narrative Methods)
Summer 2008
Inv. Teaching Workshop – Taiwan Summer Linguistic Institute (Narrative Development)
Summer 2006 Invited Teaching Workshop: DeXus
– Discourse Nexus: International Summer School in Discourse Studies.
Aalborg,
Denmark
(workshop title: Narrative, Memory,
Identity)
2001-2002
Visiting Professor,
John F Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin
(course title: The Discursive Construction
of Masculinity)
1997 (Apr-Aug)
Visiting Professor at
Universität
Trier, Department. of Sociology;
course title: "Selbstkonzepte als soziale Konstruktion" (‘Self-Concepts
as Social Constructions’)
1995 (June-Aug)
6-week teaching appointment as Visiting Professor by the
American Linguistic Society
for the Summer
Linguistic Institute at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
1994-1995
Visiting Professor,
Massey University, Department of
Psychology.
(‘Narrative and Language’)
1986-1993
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology, Clark
University.
Courses: "Language, Emotions, Thought, and Culture", "Introduction to
Cognition", "Child Development", Laboratory in "Language and Communication",
"Language Development", "Narrative Discourse", Graduate Proseminar in
"Developmental Psychology", "Theories of Language Development" (Graduate
Seminar), "Narrative Discourse" (Graduate Seminar).
1985-1986
'DAAD-Lektor',
Foreign Language Institute, Tongji University, Shanghai.
Areas of instruction and supervision: Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics,
Theory of L2 -Acquisition.
1982-1985
‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter',
Department of Sociology, Free University of
1981
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
(two quarters).
Courses: "Child Language Acquisition", "Child Language-Lab Course".
1975-1978
'DAAD-Lektor',
Department of Language,
1972-1973
High School Teaching (Munich and Lehrte, Germany) (see publications on
curriculum development: Bamberg & Walter 1973, 1974).
Committees
2007-
Faculty in the “Communication and
Culture” Major
2008-2009
University ‘Task Force on Undergraduate Education’
2007-2009
Undergraduate Academic Board (elected member)
2006-2009
Academic Advisor for Study Abroad Program (London Internship + Sterling
2005-2008
Steering Committee of Center for
Excellence in Teaching & Learning
2000-2003
Steering Committee of
Clark European Center in Luxembourg
1995-1998
Graduate Board (elected member)
1994-2003
Faculty in the "Communication & Culture"
Major
1993-2001
Studies Abroad Committee (Clark University)
1992-1995
International Studies Committee (Clark University)
1991-1997
Communication Studies Committee (Clark University)
1986-2000
Institutional Review Board ("Human Ethics Committee") (Clark University)
1984-1985
Chairing "Sozialisation + Subjektivitaet", Institut für Soziologie, FU
Berlin
Editorial
Positions
Editor
Narrative Inquiry
(Journal)
Associate Editor
Journal of Narrative and Life History (from 1990-97)
Book Series Editor
Studies in Narrative (Publisher: John Benjamins)
Associate
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Editorial Board Discourse Processes
Discourse Studie
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies
Handlung, Kultur, Interpretation.
Zeitschrift für Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften
Psychology of Language
and Communication
Referee Positions
Publishers:
Oxford University Press, Nebraska University Press, John
Benjamin Publishers, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Cambridge University Press;
Sage; Routledge
Organizations: Spencer Foundation (USA) (1994); The Wellcome Trust (GB) (1997); NYU Research Challenge Fund Program (USA) (1999); Fullbright Selection Committee (Trier, Germany) (1997), National Endowment for the Humanities (2001), American Council of Learned Societies (2002), Canadian Research Council (2008)
Conferences:
AERA 1990, 1995, 1996; IASCL 1996, 1999; AAAL, 1999, 2000, 2001; SRCD,
2000, 2002, 2004, 2005; International Conference on Social Construction and
Relational Practices 1999; Text & Discourse 2001, 2004; International Cognitive
Linguistics Society 2001; Jean Piaget Society 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006;
2007; 2008; IPrA 2009
Organizations
2001-
American Psychological Association (APA)
2005-
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
2002-
Jean Piaget Society (JPS)
1991- Society for Text and Discourse (STD)
1990-
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
2003-
Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF)
2003-
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)
2003-
International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI)
1995- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
2008-2009
International Communication Association (ICA)
2008-2009
Modern Language Association (MLA)
2003-2007
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
2001-2005
Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD)
1989-2001
International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD)
1987-2009
Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis Seminar (MIDAS)
1986-2005
New England Child Language Association (NECLA)
1985-2001 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
1984-1998 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
1981-2001 The International Association for the Study of Child Language
1979-1998 Cognitive Science Society
1979-1998 The Association for the Study of Play (TASP)
1979-2001 The Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
1971-1998
The Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
Honors and Awards
2008/9
Conference Organizing Committee for IPrA in Melbourne, 2009
2008 Invited Teaching Appointment – Taiwan Summer Linguistic Institute
(Taipei)
2007
DAAD Research Fellow: Study Visit in Germany (May
01 - August 15)
2006-2007
Advisor of the Year Award; Teacher of the Year Nominee
2006
Invited Address; APA-Convention New Orleans, Division 24 (Theory &
Philosophy);
2006
Invited Teaching Appointment for the 2006 DeXus International Summer
School on Discourse Studies, Aalborg, Denmark.
2001-2002
Invited
Teaching Appointment at the John-F-Kennedy Institute, FU-Berlin, Germany
2001
Invited
Teaching Appointment for the International Graduate School in Language and
Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (June 2001)
2000
Invited
Teaching Appointment for the 2000 Serrambi Summer School in Developmental
Science, Recife, Brazil (November 2000)
1997
DAAD Research Fellowship for a Study Visit in
Germany (May 15 - August 15)
1995
Invited
Teaching Appointment for the 1995 Linguistic Institute at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (6-week teaching appointment)
1994-1995
Research
Fellow at Massey University, New Zealand
1990-1992
National
Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship
1981-1982
Fellow
at the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1978-1980
DAAD
Fellowship for graduate studies at UC Berkeley (German Academic Exchange
Service)
Articles and Chapters
Bamberg, M (2011d).
Narrative Practices and identity navigation. In J.A. Holstein & J.F. Gubrium
(Eds.), Varieties of narrative analysis.
London: Sage Publications.
Bamberg, M.
(2011c). Narrative discourse. In C.A. Chapelle (General Ed.),
The encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bamberg, M.
(2011b). Who am I? Big or small — shallow or deep?
Theory & Psychology.
Bamberg, M.
(2010a). Narrative analysis. In H. Cooper (Editor-in-chief),
APA handbook of research methods in
psychology (3 volumes). Washington, DC: APA Press.
Bamberg, M. (2010).
Blank check for biography? Openness and ingenuity in the management of the
‘Who-Am-I-Question’. In D. Schiffrin, A. DeFina, & A. Nylund (Eds.).
Telling stories: Language, narrative, and social life (pp. 109-121).
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Bamberg, M. (2009).
Identity and narration. In P. Huehn, J. Pier, W. Schmid & J Schoenert
(Eds.), Handbook of narratology.
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Bamberg, M. (2008). Sequencing events in time or sequencing events in story-telling? From cognition to discourse – With frogs paving the way. In J. Guo, S. Ervin-Tripp, & Nancy Budwig (Eds.), Festschrift for Dan Slobin (pp. 181-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bamberg, M. (2008).
Twice-told tales: Small story analysis and the process of identity formation. In
T. Sugiman, K.J. Gergen, W. Wagner, & Y. Yamada (Eds.),
Meaning in action (pp. 183-204). New
York: Springer.
Bamberg, M. (2008).
Selves and identities in the making: The study of microgenetic processes in
interactive practices. In U Müller, J Carpendale, N. Budwig, & B. Sokol (Eds.),
Social life and social knowledge (pp. 205-224). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Korobov, N. &
Bamberg, M. (2008). “Strip poker!
They don’t show nothing!” Positioning identities in adolescent male talk
about a television game show. In M.
Bamberg, A DeFina, & D. Schiffrin (Eds.),
Selves and identities in narrative and discourse (pp.253-271). Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
Bamberg, M. (2007).
Introductory remarks. In M Bamberg (Ed.), Narrative—State
of the art (pp. 1-5). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bamberg, M. (2007).
Stories: big or small—Why do we care? In M Bamberg (Ed.), Narrative—State
of the art (pp. 165-174). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bamberg, M. (2006).
Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry,
vol. 16(1).
Bamberg, M. (2006). Biographic-narrative research, quo
vadis? A critical review of ‘big stories’ from the perspective of ‘small
stories.’ In K. Milnes, C. Horrocks, N. Kelly, B. Roberts, and D. Robinson
(Eds.), Narrative, memory, and knowledge:
Representations, aesthetics, and contexts (pp. 63-79). Huddersfield, UK:
University of Huddersfield Press.
Bamberg, M. (2005).
Review of
Frosh/Phoenix/Pattman (Young Masculinities)
and Way/Chu (Adolescent Boys).
Journal of Adolescent Research, 20(5),
604-608.
Bamberg, M. (2005).
Encyclopedia entries on
‘Agency,’
‘Master Narratives,’ and ‘Positioning.’
In D. Herman, M. Jahn, & M. L. Ryan (Eds.), The Routledge encyclopedia of
narrative theory. New York: Routledge.
Bamberg, M. (2005).
Motivating psychology students to engage in inquiry. Review
of Neil J. Salkind “An Introduction to Theories of Development.” PsychCRITIQUES
– Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
Moissinac, L. & Bamberg, M. (2005). “It’s weird, I was
so mad”: Developing discursive identity defenses in conversational “small”
stories of adolescent boys. Texas Speech
Communication Journal, 29(2), 142-156.
Bamberg, M. (2004).
Narrative discourse and identities. In J. C. Meister, T.
Kindt, W. Schernus, & M. Stein (Eds.), Narratology beyond literary criticism (pp. 213-237). Berlin & New
York: Walter de Gruyter.
Bamberg, M. (2004).
Considering counter narratives. In M. Bamberg & M.
Andrews (Eds.), Considering counter narratives: Narrating, resisting, making
sense (pp. 351-371).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bamberg, M. (2004).
“We are young, responsible, and male”: Form and function of
‘slut-bashing’ in the identity constructions in 15-year-old males.
Human Development, 47,
331-353. (Responses by Avril Thorne and Rogers Hall)
Bamberg, M. (2004).
Talk, small stories, and adolescent identities.
Human Development, 47, 366-369.
Korobov, N., &
Bamberg, M. (2004). Positioning a ‘mature’ self in interactive practices:
How adolescent males negotiate ‘physical attraction’ in group talk.
British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 22, 471-492.
Korobov, N., &
Bamberg, M. (2004).
Development as micro-genetic positioning.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 521-530.
Bamberg, M. (2003).
Review of Crispin Sartwell’s “End of Story.”
Narrative Inquiry, 13(2), 473-481.
Bamberg, M. (2003).
“Positioning with Davie Hogan – Stories, tellings, and identities.
In C. Daiute & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Narrative analysis: Studying the
development of individuals in society. London: Sage.
Bamberg, M. (2003).
Foreword to ‘Qualitative Research in Psychology,’ edited by P. Camic, J.
Rhodes, & L. Yardley. Washington, DC: American Psychology Association.
Bamberg, M. &
Moissinac, L. (2003). Discourse development. In A. Graesser & M.A. Gernsbacher
(Eds.), Handbook for discourse processes (pp. 395-437). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bamberg, M. (2002).
Literacy and development as discourse, cognition or as both?
Journal of Child Language, 29, 449-453.
Bamberg, M. (2001).
Why young American English-speaking children confuse anger and sadness: A study
of grammar in practice. In K. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koc, & C. Johnson (Eds.),
Children’s language, Vol. 10: Language in use, narratives and
interaction (pp. 55-72). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bamberg, M. (2000).
Critical
personalism, language, and development. Theory & Psychology, 10,
749-767.
Bamberg, M. (2000).
Language and communication – What develops? Determining the role of language
practices for a theory of development. In N. Budwig, I. Uzgiris, & J. Wertsch
(Eds.), Communication: Arena of development (pp. 55-77). Norwood, NJ:
Ablex.
Bamberg, M. (1999).
Talk and what talk is about: The development of form and content in discourse
practices. Human Development, 42, 247-252.
Bamberg, M. (1999).
Identität in erzählung und im erzählen.
Versuch einer bestimmung der besonderheit des narrativen diskurses für die
sprachliche verfassung von identität. Journal für Psychologie, 7,
43-55
Bamberg, M. (1999).
Is there anything behind discourse? Narrative and the local accomplishment of
identities. In W. Maiers, B. Bayer, B. Duarte Esgalhado, R. Jorna, & E. Schraube
(Eds.) Challenges to theoretical psychology. Selected/edited proceedings of
the seventh biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical
Psychology, Berlin, 1997 (pp. 220-227). North York: Captus University
Publications.
Budwig, N.,
Valsiner, J., & Bamberg, M. (1998). Situating Rogoff: The interdisciplinary
study of human development. Clark Working Papers on Developmental Psychology,
1, 2-15.
Bamberg, M. (1998).
Narrative, play, and development. Human Development, 41, 196-199.
Bamberg, M. (1997).
Language, concepts and emotions. The role of language in the construction of
emotions. Language
Sciences, 19, 309-340.
Bamberg, M. (1997).
Positioning between structure and performance. Journal of
Narrative and Life History, 7, 335-342.
Bamberg, M. (1997).
Culture, words, and understanding.
Culture and Psychology,
3(2), 183-194.
Bamberg, M. (1997).
Emotion talk(s). The role of perspective in the construction of emotions. In S.
Niemeier & R. Dirven (Eds.), The language of emotions (pp. 209-225).
Amsterdam: John Benjamin.
Bamberg, M. (1997).
Introduction to the volume. In M. Bamberg (Ed.), Narrative development - Six
approaches (pp. i-xiv). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Bamberg, M. (1997).
A constructivist approach to narrative development. In M. Bamberg (Ed.),
Narrative development - Six approaches (pp. 89-132). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bamberg, M. (1996).
Language, concepts, and emotions. The role of language in the construction of
emotions. Visiting Scholar Series No. 6, Department of Psychology,
Talbot, J., Bibace, R., Bokhur, B., & Bamberg, M. (1996).
Affirmation and resistance of dominant discourses: The rhetorical construction
of pregnancy. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 6, 225-251
Bamberg, M. (1994).
Time, space, and agency in German narratives. The development of linguistic
forms. In R. Berman & D. I. Slobin (Eds.), Different ways of relating events
in narrative: A crosslinguistic study (pp. 189-238).
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bamberg, M. (1994).
Actions, events, scenes, plots, and the drama. Language and the constitution of
part-whole relationships. Language Sciences, 16, 39-80.
Bamberg, M. (1992).
Binding and unfolding. Establishing viewpoint in oral and written discourse. In
M. Kohrt & A. Wrobel (Eds.), Schreibprozesse--Schreibprodukte: Festschrift
für Gisbert Keseling. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
Bamberg, M., &. Budwig,
N. (1992). Therapeutic misconceptions. When the voices of caring and research
are misconstrued as the voice of curing. Ethics and Behavior, 2, 165-184.
Bamberg, M. (1991).
Voices of curing and caring: The role of vagueness and ambiguity in informed
consent discussions. Family Systems Medicine, 9, 329-342.
Bamberg, M. (1991).
Conceptualization via narrative. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7,
155-167.
Bamberg, M. (1991).
Narrative as perspective taking: The role of emotionals, negations, and voice in
the construction of the story realm. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 5,
275-290.
Bamberg, M., Budwig, N., & B. Kaplan.
(1991). A developmental
approach to language acquisition: Two case studies. First Language, 11(1),
121-141.
Bamberg, M., & Damrad-Frye, R. (1991).
On the ability to provide
evaluative comments: Further explorations of children's narrative competencies.
Journal of Child Language, 18, 689-710.
Bamberg, M. (1990). The
German Perfekt: Form and function of tense alternations. Studies in Language,
14(2), 253-290.
Hoffman, R.R., Bringmann,W., Bamberg, M., & Klein, R. (1987).
Some historical
observations on Ebbinghaus. In D. Gorfein & R. Hoffman (Eds.), Memory and
learning: The Ebbinghaus Centennial Conference. Hillsdale, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bamberg, M. (1986). A
functional approach to the acquisition of anaphoric relationships.
Linguistics, 24, 227-284.
Budwig, N., Strage, A., & Bamberg, M. (1986).
The construction of joint
activities with an agemate: The transition from caregiver-child to peer
interaction. In J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro, & J. Streeck (Eds.), Children's
worlds and children's language. Berlin: Mouton.
Bamberg, M. (1985).
Meppen/Illinois - Ein Stück 'Oral History'. Meppener Tagespost; July 24,
1985.
Bamberg, M. (1985), Zum
problem der reorganisierung des sprachlichen regelsystems im kindlichen
spracherwerb: Die zeitbombenhypothese. In W. Kürschner & R. Vogt (Eds.),
Sprachtheorie, Pragmatik, Interdisziplinäres.
Akten des 19. Linguistischen
Kolloquiums, Vechta, Band II. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Bamberg M., & Lindenberger, U. (1984), Zur metaphorik des sprechens. Mit der
metapher zu einer alltagstheorie der sprache. Sprache und Literatur,
53, l8-33.
Bamberg, M. (1983).
Metaphors as 'framing devices': Relating linguistic and cognitive processes in
3-year olds. In R. Jongen, S. de Knop, P.H. Nelde, & M. P. Quix (Eds.),
Mehrsprachiqkeit und Gesellschaft.
Akten des 17. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Brüssel, Band
II. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Budwig, N., Bamberg, M., & Strage, A. (1983).
A case for literal
metaphor in child language. In C. L. Thew & C. E. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings
of the Second International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Vol. II. Washington, DC: University Press of America.
Budwig, N., Strage, A., & Bamberg, M. (1983).
"Mommy let me play with my
friend!": The mechanics and products of peer play. In F.E. Manning (Ed.), The
world of play. West Point, NY: Leisure Press.
Bamberg, M. (1982).
Metapher, Sprache,
Intersubjektivität. Muttersprache, 92, 49-62.
Bamberg, M.
(1982). Metaphor and play interaction in young children. In F. E. Manning
(Ed.), The world of play. West Point, NY: Leisure Press.
Strage, A.,
Bamberg, M. (1980). A
fresh look at the relationship between pragmatic and semantic knowledge;
Exemplified with some data from the acquisition of first words. Archives of
Psychology, 133, 23-43.
Bamberg. M. (1979). The
notions of space, time, and overextension in child language acquisition; A
theoretical outline. Linguistische Berichte, 59, 27-50.
Bamberg, M. (1977).
Raumdifferenzierung-Deixis-Objektrepräsentanz. Linguistik, 08, 12,
27-34.
Bamberg, M. (1974). Generativismus-Logischer Empirismus-Strukturalismus. Versuch
einer wissenschafts-theoretischen Einordnung und Kritik der generativen Poetik.
Linguistica
Biblica, 33, 34-63.
Books
Bamberg, M. (in preparation).
Betty told her story—twice: A narrative analysis.
Bamberg, M. (Ed.).
(2007). Narrative—State of the art.
Amsterdam: Benjamins
DeFina, A., Schiffrin,
D., & Bamberg, M. (Eds.). (2006). Discourse and identity. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Bamberg, M. (Ed.).
(2006). Special issue of Narrative
Inquiry, 16(1).
Bamberg, M. (Ed.). (2000). Narrative identity. Special issue of Narrative Inquiry, 10(2).
Bamberg, M. (Ed.).
(1997). Narrative development--Six approaches. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum [Including a general Introduction to the Volume and six individual
introductions for the chapters]. (Reviewed in Journal of Child Language, 2000,
27, 453-459).
Bamberg, M. (Ed.).
(1997). Oral versions of personal experience: Three decades of narrative
analysis. Special Volume of the Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7:
1-4. (Also (published as book)
Berman, R. & Slobin, D.I. (Eds.).
(1994). In collaboration
with Ayhan Aksu, Michael Bamberg, Virginia Marchman, Tanya Renner, Eugenia
Sebastiano, and Christiane von Stutterheim. Different ways of relating events
in narrative: A crosslinguistic study. Hillsdale, NJ.: Erlbaum Associates.
Bamberg, M. (1987). The
acquisition of narratives: Learning to use language. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter. (Reviewed in: Language, 1991, 67, 150-155;
Journal of Child Language,1992, 19, 481-487 1992, Lingua,1989,
38, 402; L'Homme, 1990, 116; Bulletin de la Societe de
Linguistique1989).
Conference and
Meeting Organizations (1990-2003)
July 13-18, 2003
8th International Pragmatics Conference in Toronto, Canada –
Panel on Positioning
June 5-7, 2003
33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society – Symposium on
Discourse and Gender Development
March 22-25, 2003
AAAL-Meetings in
Arlington, VA – Panel on Positioning (Sat morning 9:00-12:30)
July, 2000
"Identity, Talk, and Interaction: The Construction of Maleness across
Four Cultures - Methodological and Theoretical Issues.” Symposium at the 3rd
Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil
July, 2000
Special Forum on Journals, Publication – Publica es, Revistas at the 3rd
Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil (coordinator of the
forum with other journal editors from the US, Europe, and Latin America).
July, 2000
"Identity, Talk and Interaction: The Construction of Gender in Different
Cultures and Different Discourses - Methodological and Theoretical Issues."
Panel at the 7th International Pragmatics Association, Budapest,
Hungary
March, 2000
"From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity
Claims." Hiatt Conference held at Clark University. Conference preparing project
"Transitions from Innocence to Responsibility"
September, 1999
Theme Session on "The Self": Deconstruction/Reconstruction." Held at the
Social Construction and Relational Practices Conference at the University of New
Hampshire.
July, 1999
Luxembourg Conference: "From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse
Data for Identity Claims." Luxembourg, Centre Universitaire. Conference
preparing project "Transitions from Innocence to Responsibility"
April, 1997
Conversation Hour: "Cultural Psychology and Discursive Psychology: A
Challenge to Developmental Psychology," at the Biennial Meeting of the Society
for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC [together with Jaan Valsiner].
April, 1997
Symposium on: "Different Theoretical Perspectives on Language
Development," at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Washington, DC [together with Nancy Budwig].
July, 1996
Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Child Language / Discourse," at
the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language,
July, 1995
Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Text, Discourse, and
Conversation," at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and
Discourse,
March, 1993
Fifth New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences,
Clark University, Worcester, MA.
July, 1991
Symposium on Narrative Development: Theories and Methodologies, at the
Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of
Behavioural Development, Minneapolis, MN.
December, 1990
Second New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences,
Clark University, Worcester, MA.
Reviews
and Reports
Bamberg, M. (2007).
Letters to the editor: Comments on Killen & Smetana.
Human Development.
Bamberg, M. (2005).
Motivating psychology students to engage in inquiry. Review of
Neil J. Salkind “An Introduction to Theories of Development.”
PsychCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books
Commentary on J.
Barresi & C. Moore (1996). “Intentional relations and social understanding”:
Language and its role in understanding
intentional relations: Research tool or mechanisms of development? In
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 125-126. [with Nancy Budwig]
Review of: Shelby A.
Wolf & Shirley B. Heath (1995). "The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of
Literature.” In Language in Society, 14, 598-601.
Response to Jim Gee's
review of R. Berman & D. I. Slobin's (1994)."Different ways of relating events
in narrative: A crosslinguistic study": ‘Why narrativizing a wordless picture
book is not artificial’; in Teaching English as a Second
Language--Electronic Journal, 1(2), 5-6.
Response to A.
Getzinger (1993). "Informed consent and systems consultation: A description of
the process and a prescription for change": 'Informed Consent' versus solving
communication problems. Family Systems Medicine, 11, 253-254.
Review of: Reinhard
Fiehler (1993). "Kommunikation und Emotion"; in Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissenschaft, 12, 267-272.
Commentary on David
Lubinski & Travis Thompson (1993)."Species and individual differences in
communication based on private states": Communication and internal states:
What is their relationship? In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16,
643-644.
Review of: Catherine
Sullivan Norton (1990). "Life metaphors: Stories of ordinary survival.” In
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 5(3), 195-198.
Review of: Hans Hörmann
(1983). "To mean--to understand. Problems in psychological semantics.” In
Studies in Language, 7 (3), 431-438.
Review of: Jan M.G.
Aarts & Joseph P. Calbert (1983). "Metaphor and non-metaphor.” In
Linguistische Berichte, 86, 68-71.
Review of: George
Lakoff & Mark Johnson (1983). "Metaphors we live by.” In Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissen-schaft, 2(1), 144-148.
Report of the Symposion
(1982). "Connectedness in Sentence, text, and Discourse.” In Zeitschrift
fürSemiotik, 4(3), 301.
Colloquia/Papers/Workshops
December 01-02, 2010
Inv. Teaching Workshop at Universität Zürich, Switzerland,
(Doktoranden-Kolloquium + Universitäts Lecture)
October 11-15)
Inv. Teaching Workshop at TromsØ University, Norway (Narrative & Responsibility)
September, 29, 2010
English Department Colloquium, Clark University (Confession-Apologies:
Regaining Reputation)
August, 04-06, 2010
Sektionsleitung on Positionierung & Argumentation im Erzahlen,
Internationale Vereinigung der Germanisten, Warsaw, Poland (Positionierung
eines ‘reinen’ Selbst: John Edwards und seine Biographie)
July 19, 2010
Workshop at International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe University, Japan (Introduction
to Narrative Analysis)
July 11, 2010
Workshop at Ritsumeikan University (Microgenetic
Methodology + Analysis)
June 27, 2010
Lecture at International Symposium on Narrative Research + Qualitative
Methods, Tokyo University (Selves and
Identity in the Making) (+ Roundtable Discussant)
June 14, 2010
Doktorandenkolloquium (Narrative Workshop), Universität Freiburg
June 10-11, 2010
International Conference at Frankfurt Goethe Universität on
Memory & Narrative (Positioning
Situated Identities)
June 01-July 30, 2010
Invited 2-month-long workshop at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
March, 10-13, 2010
Discussion Note at SRA, Philadelphia (Narrative
Ways of Making Sense)
February, 21-22, 2010
Presentation at Napoli University, Italy (Narratione
e Se, What is Narrative Analysis)
January 29, 2010
Presentation at Excellence Cluster FU Berlin (Narrative
& Emotion)
January 18-24, 2010
Narrative Workshop at the University of Hannover, Germany (Narrative
Analysis)
November 26-28, 2009
Presentation at Humboldt Univ. - Conference on
Rethinking Narrative Identity
October 5, 2009
Clark-Centennial Conference organization (Knowledge,
Practice & Experience)
July 20-24, 2009
Week-long workshop on ‘Narrative Methods’ @ Griffiths Uni,
July 24, 2009
Colloquium @ Narrative-Network-Australia, Melbourne, Australia
July 20-23, 2009
IPrA: Symposium organization + 2 papers at IPrA, Melbourne, Australia
July 11, 2009
Colloquium @ Psychology Department, Korea University in Seoul
June 4-6, 2009
JPS: Symposium organization + Paper @ the Jean Piaget Society (Park City,
Utah)
July 27-29, 2008
Clark/APA High School Teaching Workshop
July 6-12, 2008
Taipei: Series of Invited Guest Lectures + Workshop
June 6-8, 2008
JPS: Paper @ the Jean Piaget Society (Quebec City, Canada)
May 24, 2008
ICA in Montreal: Paper presentation
May 22, 2008
APS in Chicago: Poster presentation
April 17-19, 2008
Organization of 2nd 2009 CCC-Planning Conference at Clark
March 13-16, 2008
Georgetown Roundtable: Workshop, Paper, and Discussant
July 13-16, 2007
Organization of 1st 2009 CCC-Planning conference in Luxembourg
July 9-11, 2007
Clark/APA High School Teaching Workshop
May, June, July, 2007
DAAD Research Fellow in Germany (five colloquia and workshops in
Freiburg, others in Berlin, Mannheim, Kassel and London, UK)
May 31-June2, 2007
JPS Paper presentation (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
April 21-24, 2007
AAAL: Paper presentation (Costa Mesa, CA)
February 27-March 14, 2007
Two Narrative Workshops and several Colloquia in Melbourne and Brisbane,
Australia
August 13-Aug 20, 2006
Teaching appointment at the International Discourse Studies Summer School
(Aalborg, Denmark)
August 10-12, 2006
APA, New Orleans: Invited Address (Division 24):
July 9-13, 2006
APA/Clark University High School Teaching Workshop
June 1-4, 2006
JPS: Paper presentation (Baltimore, MD)
May 25-28, 2006
Workshop & Invited Speech (Athens, Greece)
May, 2006
APS: APS-poster (New York City)
April 28-May 7, 2006
Workshop, colloquium, & invited speech: Berlin, Germany: April 29-30;
Munich: May 2; Osnabrück, May 4
December 27-30, 2005
MLA Convention: Organization of
Narrative Symposium – with David
Herman, Barbara Johnstone, & Rita Charon; Washington, D.C.
September 20-24, 2005
1st Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity
Research (ISCAR): Organization of
Narrative Symposium – with Jim Wertsch, Katherine Nelson, Wolfram Fischer, &
Martina Goblirsch; Seville, Spain
August 18-21, 2005
APA Convention: Organization of
Narrative Symposium – with Ken Gergen, Ruthellen Josselson, Dan McAdams, Donald
Polkinghorn & Ted Sarbin; Washington, D.C.
July 25-29, 2005
9th International
Pragmatics Conference (IPrA): Organization of
Narrative Symposium – with Alexandra
Georgakopoulou, Anna DeFina, Janet Spreckels, Molly Andrews, Liliana Cabral, &
Branca Ribeira, July10-15, 2005; Riva del Garda, Italy
July 5, 2005
Presentation at 10th International Congress for the Study of
Child Language (IASCL), Berlin, Germany
June 2-4, 2005
Social Life and Social Knowledge,
Jean Piaget Society (JPS),
April 9, 2005
Narrative & Memory Research Group,
Annual Conference, Huddersfield, UK
March 18-20, 2005
Narrative & Biography: Workshop in
Research Methods <conducted
by Dr. Wolfram Fischer & Martina Goblirsch>, Clark University
February 18-20, 2005
The Language and Identity Tapestry:
Linguistic re/presentation of identities in social interaction (GLS)
<Narrative Symposium with Debby Schiffrin, Anna DeFina, Alexandra
Georgakopoulou, Elliot Mischler, Mike Baynham, Brian Schiff, Stanton Wortham, &
Susan Bell>, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
October 4, 2004
Presentation at Quasthoff Symposium
in Dortmund, Germany
September 30, 2004
Open lecture, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
September 24-26, 2004
Presentation at Peace as a Global Language Conference, Kyoto, Japan
August 2-5, 2004
3-day workshop at the International
Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Xian, China
August 1-3, 2004
Presentation with Luke Moissinac at
Text & Discourse, Chicago
July 9, 2004
Kolloquium @ Universitaet,
Freiburg, Germany
July 8, 2004
Kolloquium @ Universitaet,
Landau, Germany
July 4-7, 2004
Self-Concept, Motivation and
Identity, Berlin, Germany
June 4-6, 2004
IGALA at Cornell, Ithaca, NY
May 20-23, 2004
Narrative Matters Roundtables,
New Brunswick, Canada
May 19, 2004
Narrative Workshop – Pre-Conference
Workshop, New Brunswick, Canada
April 22-25, 2004
International Narrative Conference,
Burlington, VT
April 16-18, 2004
The Founding Conference of the
Clark/Holy Cross Consortium on Narrative – Inaugural Lecture by Jerry Bruner
(The Reality of Fiction: Thoughts on
Teaching Literature), Worcester, MA
April 3, 2004
Narrative @ Memory Research
Conference, Huddersfield, UK
March 25-26, 2004
Ms Foundation for Women’s Symposium
on Gender: Supporting Boys’ Resilience, New York
March 11-14, 2004
SRA Meeting, Baltimore
March, 11, 2004
SRIF Meeting, Baltimore
January 29-February 1,
2004
Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Austin, TX
January 29, 2004
International Society for Self and
Identity, Austin, TX
December 13-14, 2003
Narrative Workshop, Swarthmore
November 20-22, 2003
2nd International Colloquium “Narratology
beyond Literary Criticism” – presentation: “Narratives, Identities, and the Interactional Construction of Context”
November 6, 2003
Colloquium at Connecticut College
September 26, 2003
Colloquium at Lehigh University
July 19-20, 2003
Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research – an
international conference;
July 13-18, 2003
8th International
Pragmatics Conference in Toronto, Canada – Panel on Positioning
June 5-7, 2003
33rd Annual Meeting of
the Jean Piaget Society – Symposium on Discourse and Gender Development
April 4, 2003
UMass, Amherst (1-day workshop on
Social Positions and
Structures in Interaction) – presentation: “Narrative,
Discourse – Positioning”
March 22-25, 2003
AAAL-Meetings, Arlington, VA –
Panel on Positioning (Sat morning 9:00-12:30)
March 12, 2003
UMass Amherst, Center for the
Study of Communication – Colloquium presentation
March 5, 2003
Kings College, London (UK) “Discourse, identity, and the use of
narratives in the constructions of self”
March 3, 2003
Trinity College Dublin (IRE)
Colloquium-Workshop on Narrative
Dec 18, 2002
13th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA) Symposium on
Discourse and Masculinities in Adolescence (symposium organizer) presentation: "Differences
and contradictions in male positions: How 10-year-old boys position themselves
vis-à-vis girls and women," SingaporeMay 14th
Stockholm University (Sweden) – Gender and Discourse Group Colloquium-- “The
analysis of gendered identity in discourse and in narratives”
October 16-18, 2002
Two Narrative Workshops in Tokyo, Japan, at Meiji Gakuin
University (Oct. 16th) and Japan Women’s University (Oct. 18)
June 28, 2002
Potsdamer Gender Studien ----
"Die Herstellung von Männlichkeit in konversationellen Erzählungen bei
10-jährigen Jungen," Potsdam (Germany)
June 18, 2002
International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory
-ISCRAT "'You're right, we can't trust
girls!' -- Stories of competition and solidarity in conversations among
10-year-old males on the topic of gender," Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
June 11, 2002
Kolloquium Fachbereich Deutsch ---- 16:00-18:00h "Wie
10-Jaehrige sich zu Männern machen: Zur Funktion von Erzählungen in der
Identitätsherstellung bei Jugendlichen," Dortmund (Germany)
May 19, 2002
International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 02) Panel
7: Narratives in Interaction ---- "Narrative:
A privileged discourse mode for identity construction? -- Sequencing narratives
in the interaction of 10-year-old boy," Copenhagen (Denmark)
May 16, 2002
Department of Psychology Colloquium ---- "'You're
right, it's nuts, you can't trust girls' -- The role of NARRATING in the
identity claims of 10-year-old boys,"
May 15, 2002
Department of Psychology ---- Workshop with graduate students, Linköping
University (Sweden)
April 30, 2002
Psychologisches Kolloquium ---- "Diskursanalyse
und Gender: ‘Warum man Frauen nicht trauen kann,’“
Technische Universität
Braunschweig (Germany)
April 23, 2002
Institut für Soziologie (Lebenslaufsoziologisches Kolloquium) ---- "Männlichkeitskonstruktionen bei Jugendlichen - Zur Rolle von
konversationellen Erzählungen in Identitätskonstruktionen," Freie
Universität Berlin
Mar 19, 2002
Narrative Workshop III - The Centre for Narrative Research in the Social
Sciences ---"Working with narratives from
adolescent boys: The method of using narrative-in-talk for the analysis of
identity claims," Kings College Cambridge (UK)
Feb 20, 2002
"Conversational
storytelling among young boys on the topic of 'girls,'"
Neue Gesellschaft für Psychologie Kongress (Berlin, Germany)
Jan 29, 2002
Psychologisches Colloquium ---- Diskurs und Gender in 10-15-jaehrigen
Maennern, Universität Oldenburg (Germany)
Dec 18, 2001 Colloquium at the Linguistics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Dec 4, 2001
Technical University Berlin (Germany) -- Psychologisches Kolloquium ---
"Zum Erwerb männlicher Identität bei Jugendlichen. -- Zwischen Diskurs- und
Erzählanalyse"
Nov 24, 2001
International Conference Center (Pan Asian Conference) --- "Masculine Identity Inside and Outside the Classroom" - Contribution
to the Forum: 'Inquiring into Gender Identity and Education,' Kitakyushi (Japan)
Nov 21, 2001
Department of Educational Psychology --- "Working
with Narratives from Adolescent Boys: The Method of Using Talk-Data for
Identity-Claims," Kyoto University (Japan)
Nov 21, 2001
Department of Educational Psychology --- "Developmental
Psychology and Qualitative Methods: How to Do Developmental Research in the New
Century," Kyoto University (Japan)
Nov 18, 2001
New School --- Identity Issues and
New Forms of Construing Instruction,
Nov 16, 2001
Department of Psychology --- "The
Discursive Construction of Identity -- New Approaches to Research in Identity
Development," Hokkaido University, Sapporo (Japan)
Nov 16, 2001
Kokka Gakuen University, Sapporo (Japan) -- Department of Psychology -"Narrative Approaches to Psychology -- Their Merits and Their Limitations"
Nov 15, 2001
Hokkaido University, Sapporo (Japan) -- Department of Psychology --- "Identity
and Male Adolescence: Recent Trends in Youth Development"
Nov 12, 2001
Clark University (US) -- Psychology Colloquium (Department of Psychology)
--- "The role of narratives in identities:
Theoretical & methodological considerations"
Nov 2, 2001
Germanistisches Forschungskolloquium ---
"'Sluts, Girls, und wir' -
Identitätskonstruktionen von 15-jaehrigen Jungen im Gruppengespräch,"
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Oct 24, 2001
Kolloquium zur linguistischen Kommunikationsforschung --- "Konversationelle Eryählungen zum Thema 'Girls' - Warum man den Mädchen
nicht trauen darf," Universität Potsdam (Germany)
Sept 28, 2001
32nd Jahrestagung
der GAL (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft)
---“Discourse,
positioning, and the (re-)presentation of self,”
Passau (Germany)
June 18-29, 2001
Keynote speaker and teaching appointment at the
May 17-19, 2001
PUC --- Keynote speaker and Discussant at the
International Identity Conference,
May 16, 2001
PUC --- (all day) Workshop presentation on “Analyzing
narrative and discourse,” Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil)
February 24-27, 2001
American Association for Applied Linguistics, St. Louis
November 14-20, 2000 Teaching appointment at Serrambi Summer School in Developmental Science, Recife, Brazil
October 10-14, 2000 National Academy of Education Meeting in New York
July 16-20, 2000 Presentations at the III Conference for Sociocultural Studies in Campinas, Brazil ("Positioning Analysis in Written and Oral Self Presentations of Young Adolescents") ("Narrating Self and Narrative Identity") (Discussant in Session on Gender Construction in Cross-Cultural Contexts) (Roundtable Session of Journal Editors)
July 9-14, 2000 Presentations at the International Pragmatics Association Conference in Budapest, Hungary ("How Is Narrative Order Achieved?") ("Positioning vis-à-vis Self and Others")
May 18, 2000 Colloquium at Brown University, Providence, RI
April 6-9, 2000 Presentation at the International Narrative Conference in Atlanta, GA ("Narrative – A Privileged Discourse Mode for Identity Research?")
March 11-14, 2000 Presentation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Vancouver, Canada ("Positions toward Self and Other in the Construction of Male Identities")
March 2-4, 2000 Conference at Clark University on Discourse Methodologies for Identity Research
February 14, 2000 Colloquium at the Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
January 27, 2000 Colloquium at the University of Alberta, Canada
December, 1999 "Cohesion, Coherence, and Identity. From talk to assumptions about who we are." Invited guest lecturer at the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
November, 1999 Discussion Note on panel "Narrative and Institutional Discourse" at AAA Conference, Chicago
September, 1999 Session Organizer "The Self: Construction/Deconstruction"; International Conference on Social Construction and Relational Practices," University of New Hampshire
July, 1999 "Identities through talk: From discourse data to positioning." Paper presented at the Luxembourg Conference "From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity Claims."
July, 1999 Session organizer at the VIIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, San Sebastian, Spain
June, 1999
Several guest lectures and workshops at universities in
April, 1999 "Narrative and the ability to transform master narratives and dominant discourses". Paper presented in the symposium on "Critical reflections on narrative and development." Biennial Meeting of SRCD, Albuquerque, NM
March, 1999 Invited Keynote speaker at the "Kobe Symposium on Narrative Discourse," Kobe, Japan
March, 1999 Two guest lectures at the College of Arts and Science in Hyogo, Japan Invited panel speaker at International Symposium on "Discourse and Identity" at the Women’s University, Tokyo, March 1999
March, 1999 Discussion note to the panel on "Narration and institutional identity". AAAL Annual Meetings, New York
July, 1998
Discussion note to the panel on "Language socialization: Ideologies and
emotion." 6thInternational Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France
June, 1998
"The narrator and narrational mediation between story and discourse:
Agency, perspective, and the creation of characters." 28th Annual
Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL
May, 1998
"Identity as narration." Fourth Congress of the International Society for
Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark
October, 1997
"Emotion talk and the construction of the person - Language and the
sense of self." Symposium on Critical Personalism, Department of Psychology,
Georgetown University
May-August, 1997
Several lectures and workshops at German academic institutions:
May, 1997
"Is there anything behind Discourse?" Berlin Meetings of the
International Society for Theory of Psychology, Berlin, Germany
April, 1997
"Functionalist approaches to Child Language". Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC (co-authored with
Nancy Budwig, Clark University)
September, 1996
"Why American English-speaking children confuse anger and sadness,"
Invited Colloquium at Yale University, Department of Psychology
August, 1996
"Constructing events with multiple characters: A functionalist approach."
XIVth Biennial Meetings of the ISSBD, Montreal, Canada
July, 1996
"The impact of discourse purpose on emotion experiences: Why 5-year old
children conflate sadness and anger in personal narratives." VIIth International
Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey
July, 1996
"The discourse cohesive function of passives: A crosslinguistic
comparison: English, German, Maori." VIIth International Congress for the Study
of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey
April, 1996
"Discourse and emotion in development," Conference presentation at Clark
University: 'Development and the organism,' Worcester, MA
March, 1996
"The role of perspective and agency in narrative constructions of
emotions," Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied
Linguistics, Chicago, IL
November, 1995
"Perspective and agency in the construal of narrative events," 20th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA "The
role of language in the analysis of emotions," Fifth Annual Meeting of the
Society for Text and Discourse, Albuquerque, NM July 1995
April, 1995
"Perspective and agency in the construal of 'narrative events,'" New
Zealand Linguistics Annual Meeting, Wellington, NZ
August, 1994-June, 1995
Several lectures and workshops in
July, 1994
"The linguistic differentiation of 'anger' and 'sadness' in child
discourse," Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse,
Washington, DC
March, 1993
"What constitutes 'good' data for the study of language development?" -
Talk about things with no name: "double emotions," Fifth Biennial Symposium of
the Department of Linguistics and Semiotics at Rice University on: Descriptive
and Theoretical Modes in the Alternative Linguistics. Houston, TX
February, 1993
"The discursive construction of emotions," Conversation at the Eastern
Education Research Association, Clearwater, FL
October, 1992
"Involvement and detachment: Children's perspectives on emotional
conflicts," National Academy of Education Spencer Fellows Forum, Cambridge, MA
October, 1991
"Narratives in discourse and development", Crossing Boundaries: Formal
and Functional Determinants of Language Acquisition, University of Tübingen,
Germany
September, 1991
"Informed consent in medical and psychiatric research", Presentation to
the ‘Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities,’ University of Tübingen,
Germany
August, 1991
"Narrative and episodic structure," First Meeting of the Society for Text
and Discourse, Chicago, IL
July, 1991
"How linguistic forms cue meaning: A linguistic approach to the
development of narrative," Symposium on narrative development: theories and
methodologies, Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the
Study of Behavioural Development, Minneapolis, MN
July, 1991
"How linguistic forms cue meaning: A linguistic approach to the
development of narrative," Symposium on narrative development: theories and
methodologies, Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the
Study of Behavioural Development, Minneapolis, MN
June, 1991
"Towards a theory of development in language acquisition research,"
Keynote Address to the Symposion Deutsch-Didaktik, Pädagogische Hochschule
Erfurt
May, 1991
"Discourse development," Three Invited Colloquia at the Dipartimento di
Psicologia, Università "La Sapienza", Rome
April, 1991
"Actions, events, scenes, and plots. Language and the constitution of
part-whole relationships," Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Department of
Linguistics and Semiotics at Rice University on: Language and Its Cognitive
Interpretation, Houston, TX
March, 1991
"’You're not the only one!’ An examination of children's understanding of
mixed emotions in narrative contexts," Child Language Seminar, Manchester
February, 1991
"’Informed Consent’ in der Wirklichkeit und im Rollenspiel.
Diskurs-analytische Überlegungen," 13. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft
für Sprachwissenschaft, Aachen
December, 1990
"Opening remarks to the Clark Symposium on Narrative Studies," Second New
England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Worcester, MA
October, 1990
"Narratives and the concept of self." Discussion note to Donald
Polkinghorne, First New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social
Sciences, Harvard
October, 1990
"Inceptives, continuatives, and completives: A developmental analysis of
children's encoding of episode boundaries", 15th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA (co-authored with Virginia
Marchman, University of California, San Diego)
September, 1990
"A discourse-analytic approach to `Informed Consent': Quality of
information and the therapeutic misconception," 25th Linguistic Colloquium,
Paderborn (co-authored with Nancy Budwig, Clark University)
August, 1990
"A discourse-analytic approach to `Informed Consent': Why there is
`ambiguity' in doctor- patient interactions, and how we can disambiguate without
getting rid of it," American Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts
July, 1990
"The linguistic realization of chaining events: How children encode
episode boundaries," The 5th International Congress for the Study of
Child Language, Budapest, Hungary (co-authored with Virginia Marchman,
University of California, San Diego)
July, 1990
"The expression of affect in narratives," The 5th International Congress
for the Study of Child Language, Budapest, Hungary (co-authored with Judy
Reilly, California State University, San Diego)
July, 1989
"The role of narrative analysis in the cross-linguistic study of child
language," discussion note, Symposium on the cross-linguistic study of child
language, Tenth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of
Behavioural Development, Jyväskylä, Finland
April, 1989
"Form and function of evaluative language in narration," Biennial Meeting
of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas, Missouri (co-authored
with Robin Damrad, Clark University)
October, 1988
"Have we lost the notion of development in studying child language?" 13th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA
(co-authored with B. Kaplan & N. Budwig, Clark University)
August, 1988
"Tense and time between semantics and pragmatics," Max-Planck-Institut
für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
July, 1988
The concept of development in theories of language acquisition," German
Research Council Workshop on Language Acquisition,
May, 1988
"Person- and time-tracking in narratives: Towards the establishment of
narrative coherence," Department of Psychology, Technical University,
Braunschweig, West Germany
March, 1988
"Using narrative data for the study of linguistic development," Language
Behavior Colloquium, Boston University
February, 1988
"Discourse analysis in first and second language acquisition and in
language teaching," Foreign Language Department, Williams College
August, 1987
"The text-constitutive functions of temporal expressions in German," 14th
International Congress of Linguists, East Berlin (co-authored with Huang Yu Yin,
Tongji University)
August, 1987
"Developmental perspectives on the discourse functions of tense contrasts
and anaphora," 14th International Congress of Linguists, East Berlin (Chairing
the Session on Language Acquisition)
July, 1987
"The discourse base in the acquisition of linguistic systems: Tense,
pronouns and their interface," 4th International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Lund, Sweden
July, 1987
"The relevance of Vygotsky's theory of `development' for language
acquisition," The 4th International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Lund, Sweden
April, l987
"Tense contrasts and anaphoric relationships: The development of form
contrasts for discourse functions," Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research
in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland
January, 1987
"Language, cognition and culture: Discourse analysis as the `connective
tissue,'" Invited Colloquium at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
January, 1987
"A developmental analysis of the relation between tense contrasts and
anaphora in the organization of narratives," UC Davis Conference on the
Interaction of Form and Function in Language, Davis
April, 1986
"Where grammar and discourse meet: Form and function of tense-contrasts
in the constructions of narrative structures," Ancillary Session to the Chicago
Linguistic Society Annual Meeting Chicago
February, 1986
"Wo Grammatik und Diskurs sich paaren: Form und Funktion der
Tempusmorpheme beim Aufbau narrativer Strukturen," 8.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Heidelberg
October, 1985
"Contrastive use of tense marking in narration: `Aspect before tense,'"
10th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA
May, 1985
"Sequencing events in simple narratives: Cognitive processes involved in
temporal marking," Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
April, 1985
"The development of temporal anaphora in simple narratives," Department
of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
March, 1985
"The acquisition of narrative skills: Maintaining and switching
reference," Cognitive Seminar, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
September, 1984
"Zum Problem der Reorganisierung des sprachlichen Regelsystems im
kindlichen Spracherwerb: Die Zeitbomben-hypothese," 19th Linguistic Colloquium,
Vechta
February, 1984
"Anaphorische Pronomen in Erzählungen von 4-9 jährigen Kindern," 6.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bielefeld
April, 1983
"Temporality and backgrounding - A study of narrative construction,"
Linguistics Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
February, 1983
"Temporal sequencing in children's stories” Developmental Seminar,
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
September, 1982
"Metaphors as `framing devices': Relating linguistic and cognitive
processes in 3-year olds," 17th Linguistic Colloquium, Brussels
April, 1982
"Metaphoric processes in the language acquisition process," Department of
Psychology, University of Oslo
August, 1981
"The communicative functions of metaphor in young children," American
Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California
April, 1981
"Metaphor and play-interaction in young children," 7th Annual Meeting of
the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, Fort Worth, Texas