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| 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 | Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 1978-1980 | DAAD Fellowship for graduate studies at UC Berkeley ('German Academic Exchange Service') |
Bamberg, M. “You’re right, it’s nuts, we can’t trust girls”: Form and function of narratives in identity constructions in 10-year-old males (in preparation)
Bamberg, M. (publication date: 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. (2004). Narrative discourse and identities. In J. C. Meister, T. Kindt, W. Schernus, & M. Stein (Eds.), Narratology beyond literary criticism. 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. 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
Bamberg, M. (2004). Talk, small stories, and adolescent identities. Human Development
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
Bamberg, M. (2003). Review of Crispin Sartwell’s “End of Story”. Narrative Inquiry, 13(2), 473-481.
Bamberg, M & Barcinski, M. (in collaboration with C, Morey, J. Farwell & S. Powell) “ Developing a (male) sense of (heterosexual) self: Positioning strategies in 10-, 12-, and 14-year olds on the topic of girls and sexuality”. Symposium at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, June 5th, 2003
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. ( 2003) "Construindo a masculinidade na adolescência: a formação de posicionamentos e o processo de construção da identidade aos 15 anos". In Moita Lopes, L. P. & Bastos, L. C. ( Eds.) Identidades. Recortes Inter- e Multidisciplinares. Campinas: Mercado de Letras.
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). 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., & Reilly, J. (1996). Emotion, narrative, and affect: How children discover the relationship between 'what to say' and 'how to say it.' In D. I. Slobin, J. Gerhardt, A. Kyratzis, & J. Guo (Eds), Social interaction, social context, and language. Essays in honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp (pp. 329-341). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Talbot, J., Bibace, R., Bokhour, B., & Bamberg, M. (1996). Affirmation and resistance of dominant discourses. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 6 (3), 225-251.
Bamberg, M. (1996). Language, concepts, and emotions. The role of language in the construction of emotions. Visiting Scholar Series No. 6, Department of Psychology, Massey University, New Zealand (Also distributed via the www @massey.ac.nz "Virtual Psychology").
Bamberg, M. (1996) Perspective and agency in the construal of narrative events. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, Vol.1 (pp. 30-39). A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bamberg, M., Ammirati, D. L., & Shea, S. (1995) What constitutes 'good' data for the study of language development? - Talk about things with no name: "Double Emotions". In P. W. Davis (Ed.), Descriptive and theoretical modes in the alternative linguistics (pp. 1-43). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bamberg, M., & Marchman ,V. (1994). Forshadowing and wrapping-up. Linguistic forms and the constitution of part-whole relationships of a text. In R. Berman & D. I. Slobin (Eds.), Different ways of relating events in narrative: A crosslinguistic study (pp. 555-590). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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., & Marchman,V. (1991). Binding and unfolding: Towards the linguistic construction of narrative discourse. Discourse Processes, 14, 277-305.
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. (1991). Voices of curing and caring: The role of vagueness and ambiguity in informed consent discussions. Family Systems Medicine, 9, 329-342.
Bamberg, M., & Budwig, N. (1991). The voices of health care and research, and the therapeutic misconception: A discourse analytic approach to informed consent. In E. Feldbusch, R. Pogarell, & C. Weiss (Eds.), Neue Fragen der Linguistik. Akten des 25. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Paderborn, Band II. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Bamberg, M. (1991). Conceptualization via narrative. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7, 155-167.
Bamberg, M., Budwig, N., & B. Kaplan. (1991). A developmental approach to language acquisition: Two case studies. First Language, 11(1), 121-141.
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., & Marchman, V. (1990). What holds a narrative together? The linguistic encoding of episode boundaries. Papers in Pragmatics, 4(2), 58-121.
Bamberg, M. (1990). The German Perfekt: Form and function of tense alternations. Studies in Language, 14(2), 253-290.
Bamberg, M., & Budwig, N. (1989). Entwicklungstheoretische Überlegungen zum Spracherwerb. Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, 73, 33-52.
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.
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. (1986). A functional approach to the acquisition of anaphoric relationships. Linguistics, 24, 227-284.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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., & Budwig, N. (1981). "Is that any way to talk to your friend?", Mothers' input and the development of role-appropriate discourse among peers. Papers and Reports on Child Development, 20, 124-132.
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., & Walter, H. (1974). Sprache als Mittel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation und Erkenntnis. Ein Unterrichtsmodell für die 10./11. Klasse. Linguistische Berichte, 31, 89-103.
Bamberg, M. (1974). Generativismus-Logischer Empirismus-Strukturalismus. Versuch einer wissenschafts-theoretischen Einordnung und Kritik der generativen Poetik. Linguistica Biblica, 33, 34-63.
Bamberg, M., & Walter,H. (1973). Comics im Unterricht. Zwei Modelle für den Unterricht in den Klassen 9 und 13. Diskussion Deutsch, 14, 379-397.
De Fina, A., Bamberg, M., & Schiffrin, D (Eds.) (in preparation). Talk and identity in narratives and discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Bamberg, M. & Andrews, M. (Eds.) (2004). Considering counter narratives. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Schiffrin, D.,DeFina, A., & Bamberg, M. (Eds.) (in preparation). From
talk to identity: Methodological and theoretical issues in identity research.
Cambridge University Press.
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.) (In collaboration with Ayhan Aksu,
Michael Bamberg, Virginia Marchman, Tanya Renner, Eugenia Sebastiano, and
Christiane von Stutterheim) (1994). 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).
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 fürSprachwissenschaft, 2(1), 144-148.
Report of the Symposion 1982, "Connectedness in Sentence, Text and Discourse"; in Zeitschrift fürSemiotik, 4(3), 301.
Colloquia/Papers
Presented
(before 1999)
[Find 1999-present at Past
Presentations & Future Plans]
Discussion note to the panel on "Language socialization: Ideologies and emotion". 6thInternational Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France, July 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, June 1998.
"Identity as narration". Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark, May 1998.
"Emotion talk and the construction of the person - Language and the sense of self." Symposium on Critical Personalism, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, October 1997.
Several lectures and workshops at German academic institutions: Trier (Sociology; Linguistics, Psychology); Dortmund (Linguistics); Regensburg (Psychology); Mannheim (Institut für Deutsche Sprache); Berlin (Psychology), May – August, 1997.
"Is there anything behind Discourse?". Berlin Meetings of the International Society for Theory of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, May 1997.
"Functionalist approaches to Child Language". Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997 (co-authored with Nancy Budwig, Clark University).
"Why American English-speaking children confuse anger and sadness", Invited Colloquium at Yale University, Department of Psychology, September 1996
"Constructing events with multiple characters: A functionalist approach". XIVth Biennial Meetings of the ISSBD, Montreal, Canada, August 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, July 1996.
"Discourse and emotion in development", Conference presentation at Clark University: 'Development and the organism', Worcester, MA, April 1996.
"The role of perspective and agency in narrative constuctions of emotions", Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, IL, March 1996
"Perspective and agency in the construal of narrative events", 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 1995.
"The role of language in the analysis of emotions", Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Albuquerque, NM, July 1995.
"Perspective and agency in the construal of 'narrative events'", New Zealand Linguistics Annual Meeting, Wellington, NZ, April 1995.
Several lectures and workshops in Australia (LaTrobe University; Psychology Department; Univ. of New England: Psychology Department; Macquarie University: Linguistics Department) and in New Zealand (Victoria University: Psychology Department; Otago University: Psychology Department; Waikato University: Education Department; Massey University: Psychology Department; Auckland University: Psychology Department), august 1994 – June 1995.
"The linguistic differentiation of 'anger' and 'sadness' in child discourse," Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Washington, DC, July 1994.
"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, March 1993.
"The discursive construction of emotions," Conversation at the Eastern Education Research Association, Clearwater, FL, February, 1993.
"Involvement and detachment: Children's perspectives on emotional conflicts," National Academy of Education Spencer Fellows Forum, Cambridge, MA October 1992.
"Narratives in discourse and development", Crossing Boundaries: Formal and Functional Determinants of Language Acquisition, University of Tübingen, Germany, October 1991.
"Informed consent in medical and psychiatric research", Presentation to the `Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities', University of Tübingen, Germany, September 1991.
"Narrative and episodic structure", First Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL, August 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, July 1991.
"Towards a theory of development in language acquisition research," Keynote Address to the Symposion Deutsch-Didaktik, Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, June 1991.
"Discourse development," Three Invited Colloquia at the Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università "La Sapienza", Rome, May 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, April 1991.
"’You're not the only one!’ An examination of children's understanding of mixed emotions in narrative contexts," Child Language Seminar, Manchester, March 1991.
"’Informed Consent’ in der Wirklichkeit und im Rollenspiel. Diskurs-analytische Überlegungen," 13. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Aachen, February 1991.
"Opening remarks to the Clark Symposium on Narrative Studies", Second New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Worcester, MA, December 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, October 1990 (co-authored with Virginia Marchman, University of California, San Diego).
"A discourse-analytic approach to `Informed Consent': Quality of information and the therapeutic misconception", 25th Linguistic Colloquium, Paderborn, September 1990 (co-authored with Nancy Budwig, Clark University).
"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, August 1990.
"The linguistic realization of chaining events: How children encode episode boundaries", The 5th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Budapest, Hungary, July 1990 (co-authored with Virginia Marchman, University of California, San Diego).
"The expression of affect in narratives", The 5th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Budapest, Hungary, July 1990 (co-authored with Judy Reilly, California State University, San Diego).
"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, July 1989.
"Form and function of evaluative language in narration", Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas, Missouri, April 1989 (co-authored with Robin Damrad, Clark University).
"Have we lost the notion of development in studying child language?", 13th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, October 1988 (co-authored with B. Kaplan & N. Budwig, Clark University).
"Tense and time between semantics and pragmatics", Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 1988.
The concept of development in theories of language acquisition", German Research Council Workshop on Language Acquisition, Braunschweig, West Germany, July 1988 (co-authored with Nancy Budwig, Clark University).
"Person- and time-tracking in narratives: Towards the establishment of narrative coherence", Department of Psychology, Technical University, Braunschweig, West Germany, May 1988.
"Using narrative data for the study of linguistic development", Language Behavior Colloquium, Boston University, March 1988.
"Discourse analysis in first and second language acquisition and in language teaching", Foreign Language Department, Williams College, February 1988.
"The text-constitutive functions of temporal expressions in German", 14th International Congress of Linguists, East Berlin, August 1987 (co-authored with Huang Yu Yin, Tongji University).
"Developmental perspectives on the discourse functions of tense contrasts and anaphora", 14th International Congress of Linguists, East Berlin, August 1987. (Chairing the Session on Language Acquisition)
"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, July 1987.
"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, April l987.
"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, January 1987.
"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, April 1986.
"Wo Grammatik und Diskurs sich paaren: Form und Funktion der Tempusmorpheme beim Aufbau narrativer Strukturen", 8. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Heidelberg, February 1986.
"Contrastive use of tense marking in narration: `Aspect before tense'", 10th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, October 1985.
"Sequencing events in simple narratives: Cognitive processes involved in temporal marking", Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, May 1985.
"The development of temporal anaphora in simple narratives", Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 1985.
"The acquisition of narrative skills: Maintaining and switching reference", Cognitive Seminar, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley, March 1985.
"Zum Problem der Reorganisierung des sprachlichen Regelsystems im kindlichen Spracherwerb: Die Zeitbomben-hypothese", 19th Linguistic Colloquium, Vechta, September 1984.
"Anaphorische Pronomen in Erzählungen von 4-9 jährigen Kindern", 6. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bielefeld, February 1984.
"Temporality and backgrounding - A study of narrative construction", Linguistics Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, April 1983.
"Temporal sequencing in children's stories", Developmental Seminar, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley, February 1983.
"Metaphors as `framing devices': Relating linguistic and cognitive processes in 3-year olds", 17th Linguistic Colloquium, Brussels, September 1982.
"Metaphoric processes in the language acquisition process", Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, April 1982.
"The communicative functions of metaphor in young children", American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 1981.
"Metaphor and play-interaction in young children", 7th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1981.
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PUBLISHERS: |
Oxford University Press, Nebraska University Press, John Benjamin Publishers, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Cambridge University Press |
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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) |
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CONFERENCES: |
AERA 1990, 1995, 1996; IASCL 1996, 1999; AAAL, 1999, 2000, 2001; SRCD, 2000, 2002; International Conference on Social Construction and Relational Practices 1999; Text & Discourse 2001, 2004; International Cognitive Linguistics Society 2001; Jean Piaget Society 2003 |
Conference
and Meeting Organizations
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)
"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 - PublicaH t es, Revistas at the 3rd Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil, July 2000 (coordinator of the forum with other journal editors from the US, Europe, and Latin America).
"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, July 2000
"From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity Claims." Hiatt Conference held at Clark University in March 2000. <Conference preparing project "Transitions from Innocence to Responsibility">
Theme Session on "The Self": Deconstruction/Reconstruction." Held at the Social Construction and Relational Practices Conference at he University of New Hampshire, September 1999.
Luxembourg Conference: "From Talk to Identity: How to Interpret Discourse Data for Identity Claims." Luxembourg, Centre Universitaire, July 1999. <Conference preparing project "Transitions from Innocence to Responsibility">
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, April 1997 [together with Jaan Valsiner].
Symposium on: "Different Theoretical Perspectives on Language Development," at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997 [together with Nancy Budwig].
Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Child Language / Discourse," at the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1996.
Symposium on "Emotion and Involvement in Text, Discourse, and Conversation," at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, July 1995.
Fifth New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 1993.
Symposium on Narrative Development: Theories and Methodologies, at the Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Minneapolis, MN, July 1991.
Second New England Symposium on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences, Clark University, Worcester, MA, December 1990.
v NARRATIVE WORKSHOP Organization
· Monday, March 3, 2003 - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - coordinated by Dr. Jean Quigley <quigleyj@tcd.ie>
· Saturday, December 13, 2003 - Swarthmore College, PA - coordinated by Professors Jeanne Marecek <jmarece1@swarthmore.edu> and Ageliki Nicolopoulou <agn3@lehigh.edu>
· Friday, January 30, 2004 - U Texas @ Austin - coordinated by Professor Jürgen Streeck <jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu>
PLANNED:
· One-Day workshop: Thursday, May 20, 2004 - Pre-Conference Workshop (Narrative Matters 2004), Fredericton, NB, Canada - conference coordinator: Professor William L. Randall <randall@ssthomasu.ca>
· 1.5-Day workshop: July 31-Aug 1, 2004 - IACCP Pre-Conference Workshop, Xi'an, P. R. of China, conference coordinator: Professor Zheng Gang <zhengg@psych.ac.cn>
1992 - Associate/Full Professor, Department of Psychology, and Department of Communication & Culture, Clark University. Courses: "Identity Formation", "Psychology, Communication and the Self", Laboratory in "Language and Communication," "Language and Emotion", "Discourse Analysis", "Ethnopsychologies", "Approaches to Psychological Research", Graduate Forum on "The Self", Graduate Course on "Qualitative Methodology", Proseminar in Developmental Psychology (Graduate Seminar), 175.775 The Narrative Perspective - Web-Course (Part of the Long-Distance Masters Program in Psychology – offered through the School of Psychology # Massey University, New Zealand) <co-taught with Vincent Hevern>
1991 - 1992 Visiting Professor, John F Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin. Course: The Discursive Construction of Masculinity
1997 (Apr.-Aug.) Visiting Professor at Universität Trier; 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.
1986 - 1992 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 Berlin. Courses: "Language Acquisition and Socialization", "Language and Cognition", "Discourse Analysis", "Language, Culture and Metaphor", "Theories of Language Acquisition", "Analyzing Narratives - Lab Course".---Visiting lecturing courses in the German and Education Departments of the Free University, and at the Psychology Department of the Technical University of Berlin.
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, University of York, England. Courses: "Use of German", "Advanced German Written Style", "Introduction to German".
1972 & 1973 High School Teaching (Munich and Lehrte, Germany) (cf. publications concerning curriculum development: Bamberg & Walter 1973, 1974).
2000 - 2001 Steering Committee of CECIL (Clark European Center in Luxembourg)
1995 - 1998 Graduate Board (Clark University - elected faculty member)
1994 - 2001 Faculty member in the Department "Communication &
Culture"
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
German Native
English Near native
Dutch Good knowledge
Chinese Fair knowledge (no reading ability) (2 years of instruction)
Latin & Greek High school instruction (9 and 6 years, respectively)
Maori Starting knowledge (occasionally making use of Maori culture + language structure in introductory courses)