DIANA BOXER

Department of Linguistics

University of Florida

4131 Turlington Hall-Box 115454

Gainesville, FL 32611

dboxer@ufl.edu

(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