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DIANA BOXER
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida
4131 Turlington Hall-Box 115454
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 294-7449
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Educational Linguistics.
Areas of Specialization: Sociolinguistics/pragmatics;
Second language acquisition; TESL; Cross-cultural variation in
Language use; Ethnography of speaking, Language and gender. 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Administrative:
Interim Chair, UF Linguistics Spring, Summer 2013
Director, UF Linguistics 2000-2005
Chair, UF Humanities Council 2004-2005
Interim Director, UF English Language Institute 1995-1996
Associate Director, UF English Language Institute.
Responsible for curriculum, training and overseeing of teaching staff 1992-1999
Participant, Bryn Mawr Institute for Women in Higher Education
Administration 2001
Academic:
Professor, UF Linguistics 2003-
Courses taught:
LIN 4600; 6601 Sociolinguistics
LIN 4720; 6721 Second language acquisition
LIN 4656; 6932 Gender and Language
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LIN 6084 Introduction to Graduate Research
LIN 7641 Seminar in language variation
LIN 7725 Topics in SLA: Second Language Discourse
LIN 7885 Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
TSL 6731 TESL Materials and Techniques
Associate Professor, UF Linguistics 1997-2003
Assistant Professor, UF Linguistics 1992-1997
Served/Serving on over 100 M.A. and Ph.D. research committees.
Public:
Commentator on Language. National Public Radio, All Things
Considered.
The Etymology of Schmooze Jan 30, 2006
What’s in a Surname? June 13, 2006
The Complaint Culture Taped, pending broadcast
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Distinguished Teaching Scholar 2011-present
Term Professorship 2017-2019
Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2008
Humanities Enhancement Scholarship, U. Florida 2008
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow: Resident Scholar
Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Summer, 2004
Grant awarded for collaboration with Dr. Elena Gritsenko, Russian
Federation.
Topic: Women and surnames across cultures: Reconstituting
Identity in marriage.
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A highly competitive research grant fostering collaborative research of an international
nature. The Rockefeller Foundation hosts 20-25 scholars from all continents for a
month’s stay. The grant fosters collaborations among scholars from distant places to
work together in the setting of their villa in Bellagio, Italy. Office and workshop space is
provided for intensive collaborative scholarship.
Presentations, conferences, and discussion formats are encouraged among the resident
scholars and visitors. Intellectual discussions occur across linguistic and cultural
boundaries, national borders, and scholarly disciplines.
Fulbright Scholar, Universidad Catolica de Paraguay, Asuncion, Paraguay. 1999
Teaching Award, Teaching Incentive Program. 1995
University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research, summer research grant, 1993
Dissertation Mentoring Award, Nominee 2003, 2005, 2006
English Language Specialist. Jordan and Morocco.
US State Department. January, 2013
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Volumes:
Closeness and Conflict: The Discourse of Domestic Discord across English and
Spanish-speaking Communities. Guest editor of the Journal of Language Aggression and
Conflict, Volume 6(2), with co-editor Maria Elena Placencia,
University of London. 2018
Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, (co-edited with
John Wilson). Amsterdam: John Benjamins,. 360 pages 2015
The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze: Building Rapport and
Defusing Conflict in Everyday and Public Talk, Santa Barbara:
Praeger, 203 pages 2011
Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning, (co-edited with Andrew D. Cohen). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters,
335 pages. 2004
Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face
Interaction. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 244 pages. 2002
Complaining and Commiserating: A speech Act View
of Solidarity in Spoken American English. New York:
Peter Lang Publishing, 223 pages. 1993
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Articles and Chapters:
“Introduction: Closeness and Conflict,” In Closeness and Conflict: The Discourse of
Domestic Discord across English and Spanish-speaking Communities. Journal of
Language Aggression and Conflict, Volume 6(2), with Maria Elena Placencia,
University of London. 2018
“Bickering: A conflict speech behavior of close social distance.” In Boxer and Placencia
(eds.) Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 6(2). With J. Radice 2018
“Senior confessions: Narratives of self-disclosure,” In V. Evans and L.
Pickering, (eds.), Language in the Context of Communication.
Springer Verlag 2018
“Three presidentas cracking the concrete ceiling in male-dominated societies,”
In C. Ilie and S. Schnurr (eds.) With Lennie Jones. In Leadership
Stereotypes: Discourse and Power Management. Springer Verlag 2017
“Discourse and Second Language Learning.” In Discourse and Education,
Encyclopedia of Language and Education, S. Wortham et. al. (eds). Springer 2016
“Breaking the glass & keeping the ceiling: Women presidents’ discursive
practices in Latin America”. With Florencia Cortes-Conde. In Discourse,
Politics and Women as Global Leaders, John Wilson and Diana Boxer (eds.)
John Benjamins 2015
Introduction, Discourse, Politics and Women. In Wilson and Boxer (eds.) 2015
Conclusion, “Women as political leaders: What now?” In Wilson and
Boxer (eds.) 2015
“Strong disagreement in Mandarin and ELFP: Aggressive or Politic?” with
Weihua Zhu: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, Volume 1(2). 2013
“Disagreement and sociolinguistic variables: English as a lingua franca of practice.”
With Weihua Zhu. In Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts:
Methodological Issues. C. Felix-Brasdefer and D. Koike (eds.).
John Benjamins. 2013
“Surname or Sirname? In Language in the Real World: A Resource Book.
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J. Parker and S. Behrens (eds.). Routledge 2010
“The speech act of complaints.” In Speech Act Performance:
Theoretical Groundings and Methodological Innovations.
Alicia Martinez-Flor and Esther Uso-Juan, (eds.) 2010
“Humorous self disclosures as resistance to socially imposed
gender roles.” With Florencia Cortes-Conde. Gender and Language,
Volume 4(1): 2010
“Discourse Issues in Cross-cultural Pragmatics: Educating the Community.”
In Directions and Prospects in Educational Linguistics. Francis Hult (ed.).
Springer Verglag. 2009
“Discourse and Second Language Learning.” Encyclopedia of Language
and Education. Nancy Hornberger (ed.). Springer Verlag. 2007
“Woman talk revisited: Personal disclosures and alignment
development.” Multilingua (25), 393-412 With A. DeCapua and
D. Berkowitz 2006
“Discourse Studies: Second Language.”
“Reactions to irony in discourse: Evidence from the least disruption principle.”
Journal of Pragmatics 38(8). With J. Eisterhold and S. Attardo. 2005
“Women and surnames across cultures: Reconstituting identity in
marriage.” Women and Language, 28(2). With E. Gritsenko. 2005
“Discourse, second language.” Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Keith Brown (ed.). Elsevier: Oxford. 2005
“Gender, TESOL, and sexual harassment.” In Gender and TESOL.
Bonnie Norton and Aneta Pavlenko, Eds. Washington, D.C.: TESOL. 2004
With A.Tyler
“Critical issues in developmental pragmatics.” In Pragmatic
Competence and Foreign Language Teaching.” Ana Fernandez,
Alicia Martinez and Esther Uso, Eds. Castellon, Spain: Servei de
Publicacions de la Universitat jaume I. 2003
Re-published in the Korean Journal of Linguistics. Volume 1. 2004
“Discourse Issues in cross-cultural pragmatics.” Annual Review of
Applied Linguistics. 22, 150-167. 2002
"Bilingual word play in literary dialogue." Language and Literature
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11(2):. 137-151. With F. Cortes-Conde. 2002
“Nagging: The familial conflict arena.” Journal of Pragmatics 34: 49-61. 2002
“Identity and Ideology: Culture and Pragmatics in content-based ESL.”
In Joan Kelly Hall and Lorrie Verplaeste, Eds. Second and Foreign
Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction. Mahwah, N.J.:
Lawrence Erlbaum. With F.Cortes-Conde. 203-219. 2000
“Bragging, boasting and bravado: Male banter in a brokerage house.”
Women and Language 22(21): 5-11. With Andrea DeCapua. 1999
"Complaints and troubles-telling: Perspectives from ethnographic
interviews. Polifonia. Brasil. 1998
"A cross-linguistic view of sexual harassment: Chinese and
Hispano-American ITAs." In Gender and Belief Systems,
Proceedings of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Group
Conference. With Andrea Tyler. 85-97. 1998
"From bonding to biting: Conversational joking and identity display."
Journal of Pragmatics. 27: 275-294. With F.Cortes-Conde. 1997
"Complaints and troubles-telling: Perspectives from ethnographic
interviews. In Joyce Neu and Susan Gass Eds. Speech Acts Across
Cultures. The Hague: Mouton. 217-239 1996
"Griping, grumbling, bitching: Complaining as woman talk." In S.
Troemel-Ploetz Ed. Frauengespraeche: Sprache der Versteandigung
(Women's Conversations: Language of Solidarity.) Frankfurt: Fischer,
Taschenbuch Verlag. 257-278. 1996
“Sexual Harassment? Cross-cultural/cross-linguistic perspectives.
Discourse and Society (7[1]). With Andrea Tyler. 107-133. 1996
“Problems in the presentation of speech acts in ELT texts. "ELT Journal
49(1), 44-58. With Lucy Pickering 1995
“Complaining and Commiserating: Exploring gender issues”. TEXT 13(3),
371-395. 1993
“Speech behavior and social distance: The case of indirect complaints”
Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 18, 103-125. 1993
"Complaints as positive strategies: What the learner needs to know.”
TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 27(2), 277-298. 1993
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Reviews and Other publications:
Review of G. Kasper and K. Rose, Pragmatic Development in a Second
Language. Oxford: Blackwell. Modern Language Journal, 90(1). 2006
“Building rapport through complaint sequences: Implications for language
learning.” Penn Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, University of
Pennsylvania. 1989
“The news interview on morning television: A sociolinguistic analysis.”
Penn Working Papers in Educational Linguistics. 1988
With C. Root. “Teaching ESL writing through the use of the newspaper.”
Gulf Area TESOL. 1982
With C. Root. The Newspaper in the ESL Classroom, a curriculum guide
published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. 1981
More than twenty articles on Hispanic subjects for the Hebrew Encyclopedia,
Jerusalem, Israel. 1971-73
LECTURES, SPEECHES, CONFERENCE PAPERS (SINCE 1997)
INTERNATIONAL:
Keynote Address:
“Schmoozing and rapport: Implications for language learning. China Conference on
English for Specific Purposes. Hong Kong Polytechnic University. December, 2012.
“Why are they so weird?: Misperceptions and Miscommunication across cultures.”
TESOL Morocco. January 2012
Panel papers:
“Bickering: A family conflict speech behavior.” Part of panel on Sociolinguistics and its
applications. Sociolinguistics Symposium, 22, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2018
“Finding voice in silence: A critical examination of the right to silence in American evidentiary interviews.” Panel paper presented at the International Pragmatics
Association Conference (IPrA), Belfast, July 2017. With Sarah Howard and Joseph
Radice.
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Part of a panel ‘"On language users and their relations with others: Debating
notions of the subject and intentions in pragmatics"
Panel co-organizer (with Yoshiko Matsumoto): Babies to Boomers and beyond: Age and
gender adaptations across languages and societies. IPrA, 2015, Antwerp.
Paper: “Funny in hindsight: Age and gender in conversational narratives across
cultures”
Panelist: Language Aggression and Conflict. IPrA 2015, Antwerp
Paper: “Silence in police interrogations: Aggression or Empowerment?” With
Sarah Howard
Panelist: Narrative Pragmatics.
Paper: “Senior confessions: Narratives of self-disclosure. IPrA, New Delhi.
September, 2013.
Panel co-organizer (with John Wilson): Discourse, Politics and Women as Global
Leaders. Sociolinguistics Symposium, Berlin, 2012
Paper: Breaking the glass and keeping the ceiling: The discourse of two Latin
American presidents (with Florencia Cortes-Conde)
Panel co-organizer (with Heather Kaiser): From Refusing to Schmoozing.
Paper: “Schmoozing: The lost art.’ IPrA, Manchester. July, 2011
Invited Speaker: “Humorous self-disclosures as resistance to socially imposed roles”
Part of a panel entitled, “Humorous self disclosure: Age, culture, and gender.”
International Pragmatics Association, Gothenburg, Sweden. July 2007.
Invited paper and Panel Co-chair
“Relinquishing the Interlanguage Continuum: Hybrid Constructions in Cross-Cultural
Pragmatics.” (with Carrie Taylor Hamilton)
Colloquium:
Intercultural discourse and L2 pragmatics. (co-chair of international panel with Dr. Istvan
Kecskes, SUNY Albany) San Sebastian, Spain. September, 2004
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Plenary address, ParaTESOL, Asuncion, Paraguay: “Ten Misconceptions about
Second/Foreign Language Learning.” August 1999.
Invited Talk: The discourse of face-to-face interaction. Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. October, 1999.
Invited Talk: Face-to-face discourse. Universidade Federal de Matto Grosso, Cuiaba,
Brazil. October, 1999.
Invited Talk, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina. “Teaching English
as a Foreign Language: Immersion Issues.” July, 1999.
Invited panelist:
“Face to face in Paraguay: Bilingual language use in three domains.” Paper presented at
IPRA (International Pragmatics Association) Meetings, Budapest, Hungary. Part of
Colloquium on bilingual language use across contexts, chaired by Joan Kelly Hall. July,
2001.
"Identity and ideology: Culture and pragmatics in content-based language." (IPRA)
International Pragmatics Association Conference, Reims, France. July 24, 1998.
"Bilingual humor in literary discourse: The creation of relational identity." With
Florencia Cortes-Conde. Presented as part of a panel on humor in literary discourse, Neal
Norrick, chair. International Association of Literary Semantics. Freiburg, Germany,
Sept. 4, 1997.
NATIONAL CONFERENCES:
Keynote addresses:
SALSA (Symposium on Language and Society). University of Texas, Austin. April
2016.
Pragmatics Festival. Indiana University, Bloomington. April, 2012.
Invited Papers, Discussant papers and Colloquia:
Discussant for Panel: Humor in Classroom Discourse. AAAL, Dallas. March, 2012
Invited paper: Discourse Issues in Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Educating the Community
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Colloquium: Educational Linguistics: Directions and Prospects
American Association of Applied Linguistics, Santa Rosa, CA. April, 2007
Organizer of Colloquium on “Pragmatic socialization and developing L2 identity in
second, foreign, and heritage language classroom discourse.” Pragmatics and Language
Learning, Bloomington, Indiana. April 15, 2005
Contributed paper: Introduction to the colloquium: “Sociocultural theory,
language socialization, and language identity for SLA.”
Organizer of Colloquium on “Studying speaking to inform second language learning.”
American Association of Applied Linguistics, Salt Lake City, April 2002.
Contributed Paper: Introduction to the colloquium: “Spoken perspectives on
second language learning.”
Organizer of Colloquium on “Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face
Interaction.” American Association of Applied Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada. March
14, 2000.
Contributed Paper: “An ethnolinguistic analysis of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.”
Organizer of Colloquium on “The discourse of creating, avoiding and resolving conflict.”
American Association of Applied Linguistics, Stamford, Connecticut. March 7, 1999..
Contributed Paper: “Nagging: The familial conflict arena.”
Invited Panelist:
"'I'll tell you who I am': Community building in content based ESL." Panel participant in
the parasession on research methods for pragmatics and language learning. Pragmatics
and Language Learning Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana. February 26, 1998.
Refereed Conference Papers (since 1997):
“This is not who I am: Falling back on essentialized identities in US political discourse.”
Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, NZ July, 2018
“Bickering: A family conflict speech behavior” American Pragmatics Association,
November 2016, Indiana University.
“Foot in the door or door in the face?: The discourse of advising in higher education.”
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). Melbourne, Australia. July, 2009.
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“Talking family:” Narratives and the co-construction of fluid identities.” American
Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Denver, CO. March, 2009.
“What’s in a surname?: Women, marriage, identity and power across cultures.” AILA
(International Association of Applied Linguistics). Madison, WI. July, 2005
“Woman talk revisited: Personal disclosures and alignment development.” American
Association of Applied Linguistics. Portland, Oregon. May, 2004.
“Hybrid Pragmatics.” American Association of Applied Linguistics. Arlington, VA.
March, 2003.
“Studying speaking to inform second language learning.” Georgetown University
Roundtable on Linguistics. February, 2003
“From outsiders to insiders: The discourse of gatekeeping in higher education.” Paper
presented at AAAL, St. Louis. February, 2001. With Christina Overstreet.
“Sarcasm in the classroom discourse of higher education.” Paper presented at the
Georgetown Roundtable on Linguistics. May 5, 2000. With Jodi Nelms.
“The functions and uses of sarcasm: What students and teachers should know.” Paper
presented at the Illinois Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning. Champaign-
Urbana. April, 2000. With Jodi Nelms and Salvatore Attardo.
Local:
Invited:
“Woman, assertiveness and being ‘bossy.’” Invited paper presented to 2nd Annual
Power to Her Conference. University of Florida. April 8, 2017
“Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders.” UF Linguistics Colloquium. April,
2016
“Senior Confessions: Narratives of self-disclosure.” UF Linguistics Colloquium.
November, 2013.
“Women, Schmoozing and Power.” Invited talk for Association for Academic Women,
February, 2011.
“Schmoozing or Networking?” Invited talk to UF Human Resources. June, 2011.
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“What’s in a surname? Women, marriage, identity and power across cultures.”
Presented to the UF Linguistics seminar, October 2004.
“What’s in a (sur)name?” Women, marriage and identity.” UF Women’s Studies
lunchtime lecture series. March 26, 2002.
Women’s Studies Panel for UF Conference “Cultivating Knowledges.” Fall, 2002. Co-
organized panel entitled “Cultivating knowledges about language and gender.” With Dr.
M.J. Hardman. and linguistics undergraduate and graduate students.
“Bilingual Language Use in Paraguay: Spanish/Guarani.” UF Linguistics Colloquium
Series. September, 2000.
“Higher education and cross-cultural (mis)communication.” University Center for
Excellence in Teaching (UCET) workshop, Spring, 1998.
“Bilingual humor and relational identity display/development.” UF Linguistics
Colloquium Series. April, 1997.
GOVERNANCE AND SERVICE
Program in Linguistics:
Interim Chair, 2013
Director, 2000-2005
Administrative Committee, 2006-
Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2006; 2018
Chair, ELI Advisory Committee, 2006-
Chair, self study committee, 2006-8
Chair, SLA committee, 2007-8
Associate Director, English Language Institute, 1992-1999
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1997-2000; 2016-
Student Employment Committee, 1997-2000
TESL Committee, 1992-2013
Search Committee, LIN 2018
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
Affiliate faculty: Women’s Studies; Spanish and Portuguese; European Studies
Chair, Women’s Studies Merit Committee, 2017
Peer teaching evaluator, WST, Spring 2017
CLAS Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2007-2010
CLAS Nominating Committee, 2006-8
Humanities Council Chair, 2004-2005
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Advisory Committee: Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research 1992-
Advisory Committee: Translation Studies Certificate Program 2004
Advisory Committee: Center for European Studies, 2003-
Advisory Committee: Computerized Language Learning 2004-5
Internationalization Committee, 2001-2003
Search committee for Chair of GSS, 2005
Chair of search committee for Chair of AALL, 2002
Search Committee, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2001
Search Committee for Associate Dean of CLAS, 1998
Women’s Studies Program Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1998-1999.
Search Committee, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, 1998
Search Committees, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1999, 2001
University:
Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2011-
Advisory Committee, University Center for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-2003
University Nominating Committee, 1997
Community:
Guest Speaker, Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, October, 2008
Guest Speaker, U.S. Citizenship Ceremony, Gainesville, FL. October, 2003
CONSULTING
Expert witness offering testimony in June, 2006 court case: Fitchner vs. LifeSouth.
Testimony on the side of plaintiff (Fitchner) about a non-English speaking donor infected
with West Nile Virus. Case settled in favor of Fitchner in the amount of $8.2 million.
Expert witness offering testimony for two court cases:
“Hot Russian Brides” vs. “International Brides” (2010)
Levinson vs. Gold’s Gym (2009)
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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDS; REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS-
Editorial Board: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. 2012-
Advisory Board: Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece, for the development of
a new Doctoral Program in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies. 2007-
Editorial Advisory Board: The Open Applied Linguistics Journal (Online Journal of
Bentham Science Publishers). 2007-
Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of the Linguistic University of Nizny Novgorod,
Russian Federation.2007-
Editorial Advisory Board: Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003-present
Editorial Advisory Board: Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2000-present
Editorial Advisory Board: Polifonia, Brazil, 2000-present
Reviewer/Reader Cambridge University Press 2008 (book on Second Language
Acquisition)
Reviewer/Reader Routledge Press 2008 (book manuscript on Feminism and Language)
Reviewer of book manuscript, Cambridge University Press, 1999;
Reviewer of book manuscript, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reviewer/Reader Pragmatics, 2016
Reviewer/Reader Journal of Pragmatics, 2016
Reviewer/Reader Georgetown University Roundtable volume, 2016
Reviewer/Reader of abstracts submitted to American Pragmatics Association, 2016
Reviewer/Reader of abstracts submitted to International Pragmatics Association,
2016/17
Reviewer/Reader Text and Talk, 2008
Reviewer/Reader Language Learning, 2008
Reviewer/Reader Intercultural Pragmatics 2007
Reviewer/Reader TESOL Quarterly 2007
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Reviewer/Reader Text 2006
Reviewer/Reader Modern Language Journal, 2005
Reviewer/Reader Linguistics and Education, 2005
Reviewer/Reader Pragmatics and Language Learning, 2005
Reviewer/Reader Language in Society, 2004
Reviewer/Reader Intercultural Pragmatics, 2004
Reviewer/Reader Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics, 2004
Reviewer/Reader International Journal of Bilingualism, 2002
Reviewer/Reader Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001
Reviewer/Reader TESOL Quarterly, 1997, 2000.
Reviewer/Reader Journal of Pragmatics, 1997; 1999; 2001, 2004
Reviewer/Reader Gender and Society, 2013
MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN THE PROFESSION –
Membership:
American Pragmatics Association
American Association of Applied Linguistics
International Association of Applied Linguistics
International Pragmatics Association
Activities:
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case, Zayed University, UAE, 2017
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case, Arizona State University, 2016
Reviewer for promotion to full professor, Columbia University, 2015
Reviewer for promotion to full professor, University of South Florida, 2015
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Reviewer for promotion to full professor, Indiana University, 2014
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case, Georgia State, 2013
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case, Indiana University, 2008
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case, Texas A & M, 2008
Reviewer for case of promotion to full Professor, Arizona State University, 2007
Reviewer for case of promotion to full professor, University of Northern Iowa, 2004
Reviewer for tenure and promotion case at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
2002.
Reviewer for papers submitted to the American Pragmatics Association, 2016
Reviewer for papers submitted to International Pragmatics Association, 2014, 2016
Reviewer for papers submitted to the 2005 international conference of AILA
(International Association of Applied Linguistics), discourse analysis strand, 2004
Strand coordinator (Sociolinguistics) for American Association of Applied Linguistics
(AAAL) 2003 conference, Arlington Virginia. September, 2006; 2002.
Strand coordinator (Language in Society) AAAL 2002 conference, Salt Lake City,
November, 2001
AAAL, graduate student travel award committee. 2001-2002
Fulbright Commission. Reviewer for candidates in TESL and Applied Linguistics.
2001; 2002
Outside member of thesis committee, Australian National University, Dept. of
Linguistics, 2000.
Reviewer of papers submitted in sociolinguistics for American Association of Applied
Linguistics, 1998-2011
Reviewer of articles submitted for publication in the proceedings of Pragmatics and
Language Learning, Champaign-Urbana. 1998
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GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Chair, Ph.D. Committees
Sarah Howard, LIN, in progress
Mohammed Al Meqdad, LIN, in progress
Lennie Jones, LIN, Ph.D. May, 2018
Negar Mohammadi, LIN, Ph.D. May, 2018
Raniah Al Mufarreh, LIN, Ph.D. 2016
Emmanuel Ofori, LIN 2015
Husam Alawadhi, LIN 2014
Heather Kaiser, S & P 2014
Caroline Latterman LIN 2013
Majid Alhumaidi, LIN 2013
Weihua Zhu, LIN 2010
Katrina Krassilova, LIN 2005
Victor Prieto, LIN 2005
Carrie Taylor Hamilton, LIN 2002
Duk Young Kim, LIN 2001
Jodi Nelms, LIN 2001
Kristy Beers, LIN 2000
Lucy Pickering, LIN 1999
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Co-chair, 3 Ph.D
Committees
Zhaohui Cheng Linguistics 2000
Deise Dutra Linguistics 1998
JoEllen Simpson LIN 1994
Member of 33 Ph.D. Committees
Chair of 26 Masters Committees
Member of 21 Masters Committees
Undergraduate Thesis Mentor for eight B.A. honors theses