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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1981
Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk
Deborah Tannen, Editor
Georgetown University Press

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989
Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology: Lessons from the Past with a View Toward the Future
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1990
Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependece of Theory, Practice and Research
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1991
Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1992
Language, Communication, and Social Meaning
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy; through language policy; to discourse analysis.

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1993
Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

The papers in this volume examine strategies for language acquisition and language teaching, focusing on applications of the strategic interaction method.

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1994
Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996
Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects
James E. Alatis, Editor
Georgetown University Press

This volume examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation, emphasizing their implications for teacher education and language education. A majority of the essays consider issues in second language acquisition, dealing specifically with learners and instructors, or concentrating on the larger social and societal context in which learning and acquisition occur.

Topics highlighted include the current and often controversial debate over bilingual education, language variation, and the past, present, and future role of linguistics in language pedagogy.

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999
Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative
James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan, Editors
Georgetown University Press

Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2000
Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology
James E. Alatis, Heidi E. Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan, Editors
Georgetown University Press

The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis. Readers will find—in the words of one contributor—that in such cross-pollination of ideas, "there's tremendous hope, there's tremendous power and the power to transform."

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001
Linguistics, Language, and the Real WorldDiscourse and Beyond
Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis, Editors
Georgetown University Press

GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis meet to present and share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real-world contexts in private and public domains. The result is this newest, invaluable 2001 edition of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. This volume brings together the plenary speakers only, all leaders in their fields, showcasing discourse contexts that range from medical interactions to political campaigns, from classroom discourse and educational policy to current affairs, and to the importance of everyday family conversations. The contributors expand the boundaries of discourse to include narrative theory, music and language, laughter in conversation, and the ventriloquizing of voices in dialogue.

Frederick Erickson explores the musical basis of language in an elementary school classroom; Wallace Chafe analyzes laughter in conversation. William Labov examines narratives told to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, while Deborah Schiffrin compares multiple accounts of Holocaust narratives, and Alessandro Duranti considers competing speaker and audience interpretations during a political candidate's campaign tour. Robin Lakoff uncovers contrasting narratives shared by different cultural groups with respect to such current events as the O.J. Simpson trial. Deborah Tannen examines the integration of power and connection in family relationships, while Heidi Hamilton considers accounts that diabetic patients give their doctors. Shirley Brice Heath looks at discourse strategies used by policymakers to deny research findings, and G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato report on a successful bilingual program.

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