Cognitive approaches to language and linguistic theory often reduce their models of linguistic organization to an arbitrary binary association of entirely isolated and autonomous linear ”forms” and ...

This course introduces contemporary anthropological approaches to understanding socio-cultural life as what is precipitated through socially organized linguistic and broader semiotic processes. It ...

My interests lie in sociocultural linguistics, at the intersections of discourse analysis and social semiotics. My research focuses on how interactants construct identity and social meaning through ...