Kobin H. Kendrick
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara

[ my first name ] @ umail.ucsb.edu


Research

Conversation Analysis, Grammar and Interaction,
Language and Sexuality in Interaction, Mandarin Chinese Linguistics

Education

In progress Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Spring 2007 C. Phil., with distinction.
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2006 M.A. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003 B.A. Linguistics and German Studies, Summa Cum Laude,
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Summer 2001 Linguistic Society of America Institute, Santa Barbara, California

Publications

In progress Homonormativity in Action: The Pursuit and Production of Accounts for Non-normative Sexual Conduct
In progress Linguistic Form and Social Action: The Use of “See” in Conversational Interaction

Presentations

May 2007 The Stand-Alone “See?”: Claiming Evidential Vindication in Conversation. 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. San Francisco, CA. May 26, 2007.
April 2007 Homonormativity in Action: The Production of Normative Gay Identities through Accounts of Non-normative Conduct. The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA), University of Texas, Austin. April 14, 2007.
November 2006 “It Was Just To See What It Was Like”: The Co-Production of a Normative Gay Identity in Interaction. 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Jose, CA. November 19, 2006.
October 2006 An Introduction to Conversation Analysis. Guest lecture in Language in Social Interaction (Linguistics 170). University of California, Santa Barbara.
June 2006 Linguistic Form and Social Action: The Use of “See” in Conversational Interaction. Department of Linguistics, Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara.
May 2006 Turn-Beginnings and Action Formation: The Use of “See” in Locally Occasioned Informings. 12th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), University of California, Los Angeles.
June 2005 Protecting Sexual Ideologies: Gay Men’s Talk about Women. Research Focus Group on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara.
April 2001 The Rhetoric of Ritual and Avoidance Languages in Aboriginal Australian Cultures: A Response to Kennedy’s Comparative Rhetoric. University of St. Thomas Undergraduate Communication Research Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Fellowships and Grants

2007-2008 Fulbright U.S. Student Grant (Taipei, Taiwan).
Fall 2007 Critical Language Enhancement Award (Taiwan; Mandarin Chinese)
Summer 2004 Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Taipei, Taiwan)
Summer 2001 Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute Fellowship

Honors and Awards

2002 Phi Beta Kappa

Teaching

Teaching Associate (Instructor) Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 20,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Winter 2007)
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 20,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Summer 2006)
  Syntax, Linguistics 109,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Winter 2005)
 

Language, Gender, and Sexuality, Linguistics 132,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Spring 2007)

Grader Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics 115,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Spring 2005, Spring 2006)
  Language in Social Interaction, Linguistics 170,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Fall 2006)

Last update: June 17, 2007