Karen L. Adams,
Ph.D.
Department of English
Arizona
State University
Tempe,
AZ 85287-0302
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
M.A.
Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
B.A.
(Distinction Honors Program) Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1984-present Professor (1999-), Associate (1990-99), Assistant (1984-1990), English Department, Arizona State University. Affiliated Faculty-Women's Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies Program. Previously Program Faculty in Southeast Asian Studies, Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
2004-2006; 2001-2001 Director, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University
1980-1984 Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Department, University of Michigan-
Dearborn
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS VII) . 2004. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. (Karen L. Adams, Thomas J. Hudak, Kris Lehman, proceedings eds.)
Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS VI) . 2001. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. (Karen L. Adams and Thomas J. Hudak, proceedings eds.)
Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS II) . 1994. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. (Karen Adams and Thomas Hudak, proceedings eds.)
Perspectives on Official English: The Campaign to Make English the Official Language of the USA. 1990. Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 57. Berlin: Mouton. (Karen Adams and Daniel Brink, eds.) (375 pp.)
Systems of Numeral Classification in the Mon-Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian Subfamilies of Austroasiatic. 1989. Pacific Linguistics, Series B-101, Australian National University. (228 pp.)
In Preparation:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Lao Studies . (Karen L. Adams and Thomas J. Hudak., eds.)
Articles and Book Chapters
Submitted for Publication:
Conceptual Metaphors of Family and Home in Political Debates in the USA” In Kathleen Ahrens, ed. Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors. Basingstoke,, Hampshire UK/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 24 manuscript pages. (There is still a revision stage to this.)
Surviving Katrina and its Aftermath: A comparative analysis of community mobilization and access to emergency relief by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans in an Eastern New Orleans Suburb. Wei Li , Christopher Airries, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, Karen L. Leong, Verna Keith, and Karen Adams. Journal of Cultural Geography . (Revised, resubmitted, and recommended for publication.)
In Press
“Talking about Families to Create Winning Identities.” In Lotte Dam & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, eds. Rhetorical Aspects of Discourses in Present-day Society . Cambridge Scholars Press & University of Aalborg, Denmark.
Published
From Invisibility to Hypervisibility: The Complexity of Race, Survival, and Resiliency for the Vietnamese-American Community in Eastern New Orleans. 2007. In K.A. Bates & R.S. Swan, eds. Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, 169-186. Carolina Academic Press. Durham NC. (K. J. Leong, C. Airriess, A. C-C. Chen, V. Keith, W. Li, Y. Wang, K. Adams.)
Deliberate Dispute and the Construction of Oppositional Stances. 1999. Pragmatics 9.2:231-248.
Democrats vs. Republicans vs. Others: the Construction of Major and Minor Identities. 1999. In J. Verschueren, ed. Language and Ideology: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference , 1-13. Antwerp, Belgium: International Pragmatics Association.
Critical Linguistics: Alternative Approaches to Text. 1999. In R. Darnell and L. Valentine, eds., Theorizing the Americanist Tradition , 351-364. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Creating 'To the Contrary Selves.' 1999. In C. Basham, S. Fiksdal & P. Rounds, eds., "Notion of Person," Special issue of Language Sciences 21: 303-311.
Ebonics-Language or Dialect? 1999. In Neal Lester, ed., Understanding Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook to Sources, Issues and Historical Documents . Greenwood Press.
Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis. 1998. In J. Salmons & B. Joseph, eds., Nostratic: Evidence and Status , 61-84. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Alexis Manaster Ramer, Peter Michalove, Karen Baertsch, and Karen Adams)
Gang Graffiti as a Discourse Genre. 1997. Journal of Sociolinguistics 1.3:337-360. (Karen Adams and Anne Winter)
Sexism and the English Language: The Linguistic Implications of Being a Woman. 1979. In J. Freeman, ed., Women: A Feminist Perspective , 2nd edition, 487-504. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Co. (Karen L. Adams and Norma C. Ware) Revised versions done by K.L. Adams in third and fourth and fifth editions: 1984 and 1989, and 1995.
Accruing Power on Debate Floors. 1992. In K. Hall, M. Bucholtz, & B. Moonwomon, eds., Locating Power . Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference., Volume 1, 1-11. Berkeley CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, University of California.
White Supremacy or Apple Pie?: The Politics of Making English the Official Language of Arizona. 1992. Arizona English Bulletin 34.2:23-9. Reprinted in English--Our Official Language? , ed. by B. Gallegos. Bronx, N.Y: The H. W. Wilson Co. 1994. Abridged version reprinted 1999 in A.P. Nilsen, ed., Living Language , 447-450. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Joshua A. Fishman on Language Planning: "Brotherhood Does Not Mean Uniformity." 1991. In David Marshall, ed., Language Planning: Focusschrift in Honor of Joshua Fishman on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday , vol. 3: 7-27. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Karen Adams and Daniel Brink).
The Influence of Non-Austroasiatic Languages on Numeral Classification in Austroasiatic. 1991. Journal of the American Oriental Society , 111.1: 62-81.
Creating Inequality: Breaking the Rules in Debates. 1990. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 9.3:171-90. (Carole Edelsky and Karen Adams)
Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities in the Southwest: An Overview.1990.In Karen Adams and Daniel Brink, eds., Perspectives on Official English , 183-98.
Male and Female Styles in Political Debates. 1988. In K. Ferrara, B. Brown, K. Walters, and J. Baugh, eds., Linguistic Change and Contact: NWAV-XVI , 18-24. Texas Linguistic Forum , no. 30. The University of Texas at Austin: Department of Linguistics. (Karen Adams and Carole Edelsky)
Some Questions of Topic/Focus Choice in Tagalog. 1988. Oceanic Linguistics 27.1-2:79-101. (Karen Adams and Alexis Manaster-Ramer)
Numeral Classifiers in Austroasiatic. 1986. In C. Craig, ed., Categorization and Noun Classification , 241-62. (Typological Studies in Linguistics, 7.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Toward a Theory of Natural Classification. 1973. In C. Corum, T.C. Smith-Clark, and A. Wieser, eds., Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , 1-9. U of Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. (Karen L. Adams and Nancy F. Conklin)
Reviews
Review of Johnson, Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States. Language in Society 31.1 (2002): 143-146.
Review of Jacob, Cambodian Linguistics, Literature and History: Collected Articles, 1993 and Gedney (Hudak, ed.), The Tai Dialect of Lungming: Glossary, Texts, and Translations ,
1991. Journal of the American Oriental Society 117.3 (1997): 580-582. Review of Loung, Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese System of Person Reference , 1994. American Ethnologist 21.4 (1994): 999-1000.
Review of Giles, Coupland and Coupland, Contexts of Accommodation , 1991. American Anthropologist 95.1 (1993): 180-181.
Review of Piatt, ¿Only English? Law and Language Policy in the United States , 1993. American Ethnologist 20.2 (1993): 402-403.
Review of Philips et al. (eds.), Language, Gender and Sex in Comparative Perspective , 1987. American Anthropologist 90 (1988): 434.
Notes
Notions of Self and Others in Discourse: Language as Social Practice. 1991. Suvannabhumi 3.1: 8-9.
Our Readers Write: Teaching English as a Second Language. English Journal 75.7 (Nov. 1986): 77-78.
Course Text
Women's Studies 240: Introduction to Women's Studies. 1979. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Extension Service, Department of Independent Study.
(A.Benedict, K. Adams and C. Couch)
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND AWARDS
Awarded Grants :
SGER Collaborative Research: Surviviing Katrina and Its Aftermath: A Comparative Analysis, NSF. PI (5%).
Arizona Humanities Council. 2005-2006. Southeast Asians in Arizona: Thirty Year Anniversary Oral History and Museum Project. $4.998. PI.
Department of Education, Title VI, UISFL 2002-2004. Principal Investigator. Re-envisioning the Undergraduate Southeast Asian Studies Curriculum, $110,000.
Department of Education Grant, 1997-2000. Principal Investigator, 1998-99; Co-PI with James Rush & Ruth Yabes 1997-98, 1999-2000. National Resource Center for Southeast Asian
Studies FLAS Fellowships. $568,972.
NEH for Faculty and Curriculum Development of the Southeast Asian Studies Program, Arizona State University, 1989-1991. Faculty participant in workshops and partial responsibility for curriculum development. $155,000.
Submitted not funded:
Title VI National Undergraduate Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies and FLAS awards, 2006-2010. PI. $1,600,000.
Title VI, National Southeast Asian Language Resource Center, 2006-2010, co-PI. $1,300, 000.
Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program:Direct Access to the Muslim World, co-PI., 12/15/2005 (date of submission).
Lancy Grant. Co PI with James Eder. To support tuition, research training and field trip for Southeast Studies Students. $38,000, 2005.
Department of Education, Title VI, Undergraduate National Resource Center and FLAS Award, 2003-2006. Co PI with James Eder, $700,000.
Department of Education Grant, Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian
Studies & FLAS Fellowships, 2000-2003. Co-PI with James Rush & James Eder. $600,000
Department of Education Grant, College and University Affiliation Program. 2001. Affiliation with National University of Laos. $140,000.
Department of Education Grant, College and University Affiliation Program. 2000. Affiliation with National University of Laos. $110,000.
Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, 1996. Prism@ASU: Project Integrating English Studies Research Methods and Computer Applications at Arizona State University . Co-PI with Mark Lussier. $210,000 request. Invited for full proposal, not funded.
Awards, Nominations and Recognitions :
Award of Merit. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). For Proud Journey Home Exhibit, Tempe Historical Museum, (Funded by AHC Grant), September 2006.
Best Adaptation to Stated Theme Award. Museum Association of Arizona. For Proud Journey Home Exhibit. (Funded by AHC Grant.) 2006.
Diversity Award, Community Group/Organization Award, City of Tempe, Tempe Human Relations Commission. Southeast Asian Advisory Committee to the Tempe Historical Museum. January 16, 2006. (Proud Journey Home Exhibit funded by AHC Grant)
ASU Faculty Achievement Award in Research, Founder's Day, April 8, 2004. ASU Alumni Association.
Award for Arizona Lao Association, October 2003. “In Appreciation of Your Dedication, Hard Work and Service to the Lao Community”
Psychology Today, Sept/Oct 1992, p.13. Article about my research on male and female debate styles.
Perspectives on Official English 1991 invited nominee for the 1990 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, Modern Language Association.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Speaker/Participant/Respondent
English Language Policies in the USA and Arizona: Kicking Language Around for Political Gain. November 28, 2006. Department of English.University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Indexing Politician as Male. Panel on “Masculinities.” July 2003. 8 th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Official English as of Fall, 1996: The Recent Impact of Judicial Decisions and Legislative Initiatives. October 26, 1996. Panel presentation at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Deliberate Dispute and the Construction of an Oppositional Self. June 22, 1996. The Construction of Self in Oral and Written Discourse. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Critical Linguistics: Alternative Approaches to Text. June 3, 1995. Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Consequences of Positivism in Linguistics. Responding to Barrie Thorne, Postcards fromthe Socio Edge of Sociolinguistics: Rethinking Language-Gender Research. Linguistics Society of America, session sponsored by Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics. January 8, 1993.
Joshua A. Fishman on Language Planning: "Brotherhood Does Not Mean Uniformity." A Symposium on the Sociology of Language and Speakers of Other Languages: In Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's 65th Birthday. 1991 Linguistics Institute: University of California, Santa Cruz, July, 10.
Must a Politician Talk Like a `Lady', Too? Colloquium on the Structuring of Political Discourse, University of Western Ontario, October 25-28, 1984.
Gender Differences in Communication. Women's Recognition Week, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI, March 5, 1984.
Refereed Paper Presentations
Talking about Families to Create Winning Identities. Rhetoric in Society 2006. University of Aalborg, Denmark. November 21-24, 2006.
Surviving Katrina and its Aftermath: A comparative analysis of evacuation and community mobilization by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans in an Eastern New Orleans Suburb. Third International Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. November 1-4, 2006. Texas State University at San Marcos, TX. ( with Wei Li (ASU), Chris Airries (Ball State University), Angela Chia-Chen Chen (ASU), Verna Keith (Florida State University), Karen Adams and Karen Leong (ASU))
Truth, Lies and Misunderstandings, 9 th International Pragmatics Association, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2005.
Co-opting Third Party Candidates, International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, Valencia, Spain, May 5-8, 2004
Representing Women. March 9, 2001. Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT). Washington, D.C.
The Representation of Politician as 'Women'. July 2000. The 7th International Pragmatics Association. Budapest, Hungary.
Coopting Third Party Positions. November 1999. American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL.
Democrats vs. Republicans vs. Others: the Construction of Major and Minor Identities. July 1998. The 6th International Pragmatics Association. Reims, France.
Group and Individual Identity in Gang Graffiti. October 12, 1996. Discourse as Mosaic: Linguistic Re/production of Identities & Ideologies. GLS 1996, Georgetown University. (with Anne Winter)
"Time's Up" and "It's Not Your Turn:" Enforcing and Obeying Limits in Televised Political Debates. December 7, 1995. Political Linguistics. International Pragmatics Association & Belgian Linguistics Society, Antwerp, Belgium.
Accruing Power on Conversational Floors. April 4, 1992. 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference: Locating Power.
Foul Play in Televised Political Debates. 18th Annual CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) Conference. University of Western Ontario, May 9, 1991.
Male and Female Violations of a Preallocated Turn-Taking System. Linguistic Society of America, Chicago. IL, January 3-6, 1991.
A Fair Forum?: The Real and the Ideal in Televised Political Debates. NWAVE-XVIII and ADS-C, Duke University, October 20-22, 1989.
Some Issues in the Construction of Power in Political Debates. Discourses of Power, Arizona State University, October 20-22, 1988.
Presentation of Self in Political Debates. International Pragmatics Association, University of Antwerp, August 17-21, 1987. (with Carole Edelsky)
Male and Female Styles in Political Debates. NWAV-XVI, University of Texas at Austin, October 22, 1987. (with Carole Edelsky)
Borrowed Numeral Classification in Austroasiatic. Conference on Southeast Asia as a Linguistic Area, University of Chicago, April 16, 1986.
Definiteness and Focus in Tagalog. Fourth International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics, Suva, Fiji, August 13-18, 1984. (K. Adams and A. Manaster-Ramer)
Symbolic Language in Southeast Asian Courtship. Central States Anthropology Society, Ann Arbor, MI, April 12, 1980. (with David Strecker)
Classifiers in Mon-Khmer. Third International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Languages, Helsingor, Denmark, October 24-26, 1979.
A Second Opinion on Word Order Change in Numeral Classifier Phrases. Conference on Syntactic Change, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, April 20-21, 1978.
The Occurrence of Numeral Classifiers in the Mon-Khmer Branch of Austroasiatic. Tenth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October, 1977.
Savoring the Differences Among Classifier Systems. Eighth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, October 24-25, 1975. (with A. L. Becker and Nancy F. Conklin)
On the Numeral Classifier in Thai. Seventh International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-20, 1974. (with Nancy F. Conklin)
Poster Sessions
Men and Women Debating. 1990 International Pragmatics Conference. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-13, 1990.
Invited Workshops
Accents and Stereotypes. Motorola Diversity Workshops. (with Roy Major). 2002.
Ebonics. Presentation and Discussion Session. Arizona Alliance of Black School Educators. Feb 14, 1997. ASU.
WIN 2000: Language Planning and Its Impact on Women. September 28, 1996. Arizona State University.
Cowboy Poets: A Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion. April 20, 1989. Arizona Humanities Council. (Panel discussant with Kay Sands)
Update on the English-Only Movement, 1988 LSA Winter Meeting, Committee on Social and Political Concerns, New Orleans, LA. (with Geoffrey Nunberg, organizer, and G. Richard Tucker)
Communication Differences Between Men and Women. Workshops for 1983 and 1984 Spring Festival, Women's Commission, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Workshop on Linguistics and Aphasia, 1973 LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (with M. Seguin)
INTERNAL AWARDS AND GRANTS
IHR Research Cluster, Speaking Arizona . 2006-2007. Co-Organizer with Dr. Holly Cashman. $1000.
Women's Studies Summer Research Grant. ASU. May-June, 2004
ASU Motorola Great Communities Seed Grant: Bridging Generations through Arts and Technology, $8000. 2002-2003. In association with the Arizona Lao Association.
CLAS, College Grant Award Program to Advance the Quality of Undergraduate Education, 312 On-line, $3200. 2002-2003.
CLAS, College Grant Award Program to Advance the Quality of Undergraduate Education, 1998-1999. Developing Computer Based Instruction in English Studies, $18,605.
CLAS, College Grant Award Program to Advance the Quality of Undergraduate Education, 1997-1998. $12,000.
Women's Studies Summer Research Grant. Arizona State University. July-August, 1992; May-June, 1997, $1,100 and May-June, 1998, $1,000.
CLAS Travel Grant Program. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU. 1994, $900;
1995, $960; 1998, $1,000; 2000, $1,000.
Women's Studies Mini-Grant. Constructing Opposition in Gendered Debates. ASU. November 1996. $380.
English Department Mini-Grant. English Department, Arizona State University. Fall, Spring, 1992/93.
Faculty Research Conference Grant, Graduate College, ASU, May, 1992. With B. Brandt for conference on "American Indian Englishes," held June 13-14, 1992.
ASH Grant for Technical Support for Project on Gender Differences in the Verbal Construction of Political Opponents. Vice-President's for Research Office, ASU. January-December, 1991.
Humanities Research Award. Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, ASU. Fall, 1991.
Release time. Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Vice-President for Research, ASU, January-December, 1988 for "Variation in Political Debates."
Faculty Research Conference Grant, Graduate College, ASU, January, 1988. With M. Olsen for conference on "Discourses of Power" held October 20-22, 1988.
Faculty Research Conference Grant, Graduate College, ASU, January, 1987. With D. Brink for conference on "Official English in the Border States" held March 27-28, 1987.
Mini-grants, College of Liberal Arts, ASU, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990.
Internal Teaching/Service Awards
GSEA Outstanding Faculty Mentor to Graduate Students in English: Linguistics. 1994-1995, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005.
Faculty Women's Association recognition for notable contributions to gender equity,
Spring 1998.
AWARDS FOR GRADUATE WORK
Travel Grant to Austroasiatic Symposium, Helsingor, Denmark, Center for Continuing Education of Women; Office of the President, Office of Student Services, University of Michigan, 1979.
Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1974-75.
NSF Traineeship, Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1972-1973, 1970-1971.
Rackham Prize, Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1971-1972.
NDEA Title VI, East European Studies, Indiana University, Summer, 1967.
ORGANIZATIONS: Membership
American Dialect Society
Association for Asian Studies
Critics
International Pragmatics Association
Linguistic Society of America
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Boards and Committees: National and International Organizations
Editorial Board, Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, Research School of Pacific
and Asian Studies, 2003-2005.
Committee on Political Concerns. Linguistic Society of America. Member, 2000-2003, Chair,
2002-2003.
Editorial Board, Linguistics Editor, Monographs in Southeast Asian Studies . Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1991-2006.. Responsible for publication of SEALS I-VII, IX-X, (VIII in preparation.)
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: Publication Subcommittee, Conference Transition Committee 1991-2006.
Association for Asian Studies. Forum on Thailand, Laos, Cambodia. Board member representing Laos, 2002-2004.
Advisory Board Member: Language Policy Research Unit, Educational Policy Studies Laboratory. College of Education, Arizona State University. Ended 2006.
Conference Organizer
Chair, Organizing Committee, 2 nd International Lao Studies Conference, May 3-6, 2007.
Co-Organizer, 35 th International Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics Conference. November 7-10, 2002. (with T. Hudak.)
Co-organizer, Southeast Asian Linguistics Society II, May 13-16, 1992, ASU. (with Thomas Hudak and Juliane Schober)
Co-organizer, American Indian Englishes, June 13-14, 1992, ASU. (with Elizabeth Brandt)
Co-organizer, Discourses of Power, October 20-22, 1988, ASU. (with M. Olsen)
Co-organizer, Official English in the Border States, March 27, 28, 1987, ASU. (with D. Brink and P. Bender)
Local Arrangement and Keynote Speaker Committee, 1986 meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Scottsdale, AZ, October 12-14.
Conference Panel Chair
Panel Chair, 10 th Conference International Association of World Englishes, Syracuse University, July 2004. Also co-organizer of panel.
Panel Chair, 8 th International Pragmatics Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 2003
Referee
Language and Linguistics Compass. Blackwell. 2007
American Association for Applied Linguistic (AAAL): Abstracts, 2007 conference.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2004
Edited Volume, Brenda Danet and Susan Herring, 2003
Pragmatics, 1999
Language in Society, 1993
Culture, (Canadian Anthropology Society), 1992
National Science Foundation (NSF), 1991, 1994, 2004
Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 1990
Explorations in Ethnic Studies, 1989
Women & Politics, 1989
American Anthropologist, 1987
University of Michigan Press, 1985
International Journal of American Linguistics, 1984
Journal of Linguistics, 1984
Faculty Participant
Workshop on Multilingual Education. SIL International & The Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University-Salaya. Bangkok, Thailand. July 10-22, 2006.
ASU American Indian Summer Seminars. 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993.
Visiting Scholar, LSA Summer Institute, Cornell University, 1998.
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
University
Faculty Mentor Program, Vice-Provost's Office, 2004-2005
Human Subjects Review Board. 1999-2002, 2002-2005, 2006-
Committee on Linguistics, 1985- ; Chair 1991-1995
Search Committee for Director American English and Culture Program, 1989
Advisory Board, Bilingual Education and Research Center, 1991-1992
Arts/Humanities Subcommittee, Council for Research and Creative Activities, Fall, 1992
CLAS
Executive Board, Center for Asian Research 2006-
Publications Committee, Center for Asian Research 2006-
Center for Asian Studies, Review Committee, 2005-2006.
Director, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 2001-2002, 2004-2006.
SILC, Transdisciplinary Graduate Faculty Committee, Fall 2005.
External Search for Director of Women's Studies 2003-2004, Chair, Appointed by Dean's office
Global Studies Initiative, 2002-2004
CLAS Senate, Senior Senator, English 2003-2004
Dean's Faculty Advisory Committee, 2000-2003, Chair 2002-2003
Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000
Committee of Review. 1995-1997
Personnel Advisory Committee, Women's Studies, 1995-1997, 1998-2000, 2003-2004
Executive Committee, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 1986-1989, 1996-2001, 2002-2004.
Research Committee, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Chair 1995-97, member 1991-1998
Center for Asian Studies Sunset Review Committee, member, 1996-97
Center for Asian Studies, Advisory Board, 1999-2005
SEASSI Planning Committee, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 1995-1996
Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 1994-95, 1999-2003
Student Grievance Committee, 1986-1989
Search Committee for PSEAS Outreach Coordinator, 1998, 2001
Search Committee for Southeast Asian Language Professor, Chair, 1987-88
Search Committee for Southeast Asian Historian, 1989-90
Search Committee for Indonesian Language Position, 1992-93
Search Committee for Vietnamese Language Position, 1991-92
Search Committee for Thai Language Position, 1995
Search Committee for Spanish Sociolinguist, 2000
Graduate College
Graduate Council, Fall 2002
Search Committee, Associate Dean, member, Spring 1997
Department
Personnel Committee, 2007-2009 .2004-fall 2005, 2000-2002, 1991-1995; Chair, 1994-1995, 2007-2008.
Ph.D concentration in Rhetoric/Composition and Linguistics, Co-Director, Fall 1996-
Curriculum Review Committee, Executive Committee, Chair 1995-1998
Grant Subcommittee, Curriculum Review Committee 1996-1998
MA in Linguistics and MTESL Committee, Chair, Fall 1993-Fall 1996, Member 1993-
Admissions Subcommittee, Linguistics & TESL 1988-
TESL Search Committee, member, 1996-97
Ph.D. Committee 1995-
Affirmative Action Committee 1996-97
Graduate Committee, Fall 1988, 1991-
MA in Linguistics Committee, 1984-1993; Chair, Fall 1988 and Fall 1991-Spring 1993
MA in TESL Committee, 1984-89
Program Review Committee for TESL, 1991-1992-1993
Search Committee for Department Chair, 1991-1992, 1994-1995
Linguistics Search Committees, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1994-95
Rhetoric and Composition Search Committee, 1993-1994
Library Committee, 1992-93
Research Committee, 1989-1990
Microcomputers Committee, 1988-89
GRADUATE MENTORING
Committee Chair . (I regularly serve on 15-25 graduate committees a year as chair or member.)
Ph.D.Fall,
GRADUATE MENTORING (Committee Chair)
Ph.D.
In Progress, Abeer Al-Taweel, Clarice Deal, Frederick Jason Diller, Kari Jordan-Diller (Fulbright Awardee) , Stella Hadjistassou,
Chiara Lage, Kathryn Sheffield (Co-Chair), Nancy Turley, Ho-Jung Yu.
2006-2007
Mei-Ching Ho. Academic Discourse Scoialization of American and Taiwanese Graduate Students in TESOL: A Case Study of Small-Group Activities.
2005-2006
Lutfi M. Hussein. Arabs in the New York times : A Critical Discursive Analysis of Ideologies (Re)produced in the Last Twenty Years. ( Winner of Faculty Emeriti Preparing Future Faculty PFF Award)
Ban Phung. A Contrastive Rhetorical Study of Chinese and Mexican Perceptions of Their Native Writing Instruction and Its Implications for ESL Teaching and Learning.
2004-2005
Teryl Sands. Assessment of Effective Teaching Practices and the Use of Technologies in English as a Second Language First Year Composition Courses.
Abeer Al-Taweel. Gender Representation in Twelfth Grade English Language Textbooks in High Schools in Jordan.
2002-2003
Amy Ruzyscki-Shinabarger. A Critical Discourse Analysis of a University ESL Classroom : Power and Accommodation. ,
My-Lim Ryoo. Indexing Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication in Korean. (Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship Awardee)
1997 (first graduate of new Ph.D. concentration)
Linda van der Wal.
Language Use in Medical Malpractice Depositions.
M.A.(linguistics concentration): Committee Chair
2006-2007
Linda Graf
2005-2006
Raymond Villegas
2004-2005
Cathleen Waters
Dalal Al-Mubayei
2003-2004
Marta Wozniak
2002-2003
Guerriero, Luciana. Italian American Discourse Style.
Marine, Michelle Renee. Gender and the ESL context.
Sestak, Tiffany. Language Attitudes and Dialect Models in Texts.
2000-2001
Ivana Banks. A Corpus of Hawaiian Language Texts. (Co-Chair)
Ilaria Keogh. A Study of American Parents Preferences in Baby Naming.
Dan Mulvey. Ideological Belief is Transformational Development: The Discovery of a Primary Metaphor.
1999-2000
Shannon McGrath. Are You Sure about That?: Native and Nonnative Realization of the Speech Act of Correction.
Lutfi M. Hussein. Arabs in the New York Times: A Critical Discursive Analysis of Ideologies (Re)Produced in the Last Twenty Years.
1997-1998
Michelle Hudgins. Gender Stereotyping in Mixed Sex Conversations in Cartoons.
Pamela R. Selthun. Recruiter Attitudes of ESL Job Candidates' Language Skills in the Area of
International Management.
James P. Christian. French and American Business Meetings: A Forum for Discussing Ideas or Taking Action?
1996-1997
Richard C. Conner. The Fronting of /uw/ and /ow/ in Native Phoenician's Speech: On the Dialect Map at Last.
1995-1996
Karen S. Baertsch. Initial Voiced Stops in Proto-Dravidian.
Diane C. Clark. Language Maintenance in the Navajo Nation: Native Insights, Opinions and Attitudes.
Andrea M. Graham. Backchannels and Ethnicity: The Backchanneling Behavior of Mexican-American and Anglo-American Women.
Nancy R. Turley. "No Willing" and Other Refusals: English and Chinese Compared.
1994-1995
Jonathan Berman. A Phonological Study of Voiceless Alveolar and Velar Stops in Down's Syndrome. (Co-Chair)
Katie E. Bradford. Interruptions in Discourse: The Roles of Intonation and Gender.
Pamela Erramuzpe. Cultural Models of Women in Basque Legend. (Co-Chair)
1993-1994
Josephine S. An. A Discourse-Based Analysis of Subjecthood in Tagalog.
Christine Wilcox. Therapeutic Discourse: Gendered Interaction and Power.
1991-1992
Jeanice Conner. The Structure and Function of Ministerial Prayer.
MTESL: Committee Chair
2006-2007
Kathryn Andrezejczak
2003-2004
Tina Jennings and Nancy Hawkes, Co-Chair
2002-2003
Amanda Starrick. Academic Writing: Standards, Values, and a Textbook.
2001-2002
Jean Maracle. The Influence of Discourse Control on an ESL Learner's Output (co- written.)
Diana Gilhooly-Keyes. The Influence of Discourse Control on an ESL Learner's Output (co-written.)
Cynthia Towne. A Study of Reported Attitudes of Selected Navajo Community Members towards Proposition 203 in Arizona.
1999-2000.
Du, Juan. Complaining, Giving Bad News and Disagreeing
Carmen Romano Gillette. Examining the Use of Computer Assisted Language Learning Techniques in the ESL Classroom.
1997-1998
Victor Aronow. The New Uzbek Alphabet: Paving the Way for English.
Matthew Finkbeiner. The Politics of Language Teaching: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Language Teacher's Views.
Elisabeth A. Bergman. Transforming the Adult ESL Classroom: Preparing for a Problem- Posing Curriculum through a Multiple Abilities Approach.
Lauren B. Falcofsky. Backchannels Across Cultures: A Study of the Backchanneling Behavior of American and Korean Women.
Maria Sortino. Development of an In-Company ESL Program. (co-written)
Alison Robertson. Development of an In-company ESL Program. (co-written)
1996-1997
Marija Kusevska. Speech Acts of Complaining.
William Bryant. Critical Review of Affective and Sociocultural Factors Affecting Second Language Acquisition.
Teryl Sands. German-American Discourse Behavior and Perceptions: A Pilot Study. (Co- Chair)
1995-1996
Susan Cotner. English Only or "Adios Amigo."
Sean Milton. Japanese and American Student Perceptions of Instructional and Evaluative Emphases in English Composition.
1994-1995
Lynn Woodbury. The Learning Style Preferences of Adult Vietnamese ESL Learners.
1993-1994
Marcelle Mortazavi. Teaching English in French Schools.
Ann-Marie Spence. Instructor Race and Student Attitude: A Matched-Guise Study.
Tomoko Utsumi. Which Variety of English Should We Speak? A Case of Teaching English in Singapore.
1992-1993
Yoko Takashima. Gender Bias in EFL Materials in Japan.
Chaired 2 other projects.
1991-1992
Mei Yu Huang. A Cross-Cultural Study of the Expression of Gratitude: Chinese Versus Americans.
Honors Thesis (B.A.) Committee Chair
2005-2006
Alison Ayres, Education and Language Policy in French Colonial Indochina.
2002-2003
Luke V. Sisak, College Slang At Arizona State University: A Corpus
1999
Elizabeth Lynn Shimkus. Ditches or Canals?: Digging Out Arizona Dialects
1994-1995
Johanna Wood. Beauty or Barber? A Comparative Study of Beauty Salon and Barber Shop Names in Phoenix.
1992-1993
Stephanie Erin Hart. Interactional Differences of Men and Women in the ASU classroom.
1991-1992
River Haveman. Bilingualism and its Benefits.
Lisa Mamula. An Examination of Media Coverage of Gender-Related Differences Using
Five 1990 Gubernatorial Races.
Internships
2007
CindeVongprachanh
2004
Tony Thipdavong.
1992
Margaret Seibert. Language and Gender in the Karan English Congressional Campaign.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Classes taught: Large lecture sections and regular sections
ENG 213: Introduction to the Study of Language
ENG 312: English in its Social Setting
ENG 314: Modern English Grammar
Regular Sections
ENG 414: Language and Gender; Field Linguistics: Speaking Arizona; World English
ENG 494/497: Language and Authority
ENG 494: Discourse Notions of Self and Other in Southeast Asia (Team Taught)
ENG 494: Language Renewal, Change and Cultural Survival (Team Taught)
ENG 494: The Structure of English
GRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE
500: Research Methods
515: American English
510: English Linguistics
516: Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
591: Historical/Comparative Linguistics and Language Change
591: Language and Gender
591: Political Discourse
548: Language and Authority
548: Discourse Notions of Self and Other in Southeast Asia
548: Language Renewal, Change and Cultural Survival
548: The Structure of English & American Indian Englishes
548: World Englishes
615: Advanced Studies in Sociolinguistics
616: Advanced Studies in Discourse Analysis
656: Cross-Cultural Discourse Studies