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July 12                Saturday  2003

9:30 AM

Plenary 
Elliott Oring 

Recital Hall 
Risky business:  Political joking under repressive regimes

10:30 AM - Noon                      Morning Breakout Sessions   
SU 214 SU 217 SU 003

Chair: A. Carrell

Chair: H. Savolainen Chair: A.M. Guilmette
(Panel: La Fave)
O. Elkommos

The analysis of two thousand Egyptian joke texts

 

J. Moorman

The fool as management consultant

S. Y. W. Tsang-Fahey

Social psychological foundations for understanding La Fave's contributions to humor
D. Brzozowska

Polish and German jokes: different or similar

M. Weeks

Diversity and indifference? A temporal approach to laughter
N. Issar

Making a difference with humor:  Philosophical considerations and applications in psychotherapy
A. Carrell & S.E.H. Heit

German POW humor: Camp Gruber, Oklahoma

 

S. Frazier

Laughter and teasing as interactional peer-peer learning devices in classroom groupwork

 

A. M. Guilmette

From cultural conflict to cultural harmony:  Humor theory and applications

Noon – 1:30 PM                       Lunch   

 

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM                      Afternoon Breakout Session

Chair: S. Mahootian

Chair: : S. Attardo
Workshop
P. Fritzer

'Curiouser and curiouser': diverse and unusual writings in domestic humor

C. Evans Davies

Aspects of Alabama humor: the regionally situated joking of ‘Rick and Bubba’

M. A. Martin

Venting yourself: a look at ventriloquism as a humorous therapeutic intervention

 

P. A. Opplinger

Clothing not optional: the self-exploitation of women on shock jock radio

J. Barrett

The comic and the tragic: an argument for including humor studies in sociolinguistic studies of dialect speech and writing

 

M. J. V. Cazorla

Women and humor in the novels of Helen Fielding and Marian Keyes

P. LeVine

Mediocre discourse analysis: an introduction
    
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM                        Break   
3:30 PM Emerging Scholar  Recital Hall
  Elisa Everts Getting a word in edgewise:  Humor as a resource for involvement and identity in blind/sighted interaction

4:00 PM   Plenary Recital Hall
  John Morreall Comic Virtues  

5:00 PM Business Meeting   
                      Closing Ceremony Recital Hall

 

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