[Somean] Future plans

[Kathryn Campbell-Kibler]

Next week we'll be reading a sampling of Gregory Ward's work.  We've 
invited him to present at the workshop in June and he wanted to know which 
of three strands of work we were most eager to hear about.  Elizabeth will 
send out three of his recent papers and folks can read one or skim all or 
whatever.

This is the first step on our current new "thread", which is prepping for 
the workshop by reading work from the invited participants whose work we 
have not read in the past few months:
 	Gregory Ward
 	Katie Drager
 	Molly Babel
 	Laura Staum-Casasanto
 	recent work from Michael Silverstein

>From there we are planning on addressing "gaps" in the workshop-- relevant 
areas that are not very well represented in the invite list, that we might 
want to have in our own heads going in:
 	intention (particularly as conceived of in pragmatics)
 	automatic vs. controlled social processing
 	indexicality (from a semantic point of view)

Other themes/threads that we identified as future interests:

-more on style, within linguistics but also in other fields (literature, 
architecture, fashion)
- stance (Johnstone and Kiesling, ...)
- place and space (Modan, Leap, ...)
-more on indexicality
- more on complexity theory and agent-based modeling (Kodi & Elizabeth may 
bring back insight from the ABM worshop; language evolution literature; is 
there any ABM work in pragmatics?)
- pragmatics and the notion of "rules" of discourse (one of our ongoing 
favorite topics!)
- having people workshop their research projects

If you have more threads to suggest, let me know!  Also, please check out 
one or two of your favorites and email me with reading suggestions for 
them.

Kathryn