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Diana Boxer
Professor of Linguistics
4131D Turlington Hall
352-294-7449
dboxer@ufl.edu
Office hours Fall
2014
Tuesdays
12:30-1:30PM
Thursdays
2PM-3:30PM or by appt.
Fall 2014
Syllabi
LIN 4656/WST 4930
Gender and Language
LIN 7885
Discourse Analysis
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Diana Boxer
Distinguished
Teaching Scholar and
Professor of Linguistics
Forthcoming
book:
Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders
with John Wilson (eds.)
Praeger Publications
(February 2011)
The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze:
Building Rapport and Defusing Conflict in Everyday Talk
As long as people are talking, the world is our laboratory.
Diana Boxer's research and teaching focuses on sociolinguistics, discourse
analysis and pragmatics, the ethnography of communication, gender and
language, second language acquisition, and general applied linguistics.
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My research and teaching focus on the analysis of face-to-face discourse
and adult second language acquisition, or what I call "real world
linguistics." My theoretical work in discourse analysis and
pragmatics has given me the opportunity to study a diversity of areas
including: 1) building solidarity with others through discourse
(e.g., complaining, commiserating, joking); 2) Acquiring
rapport-inspiring speech behavior by learners wishing to build relationships
with native speakers and thereby learn more language; 3) analyzing
gender differences in spoken discourse that affect perceptions and
relationships; 4) perceiving gendered discourse as sexual harassment,
particularly in intercultural interactions (e.g., between undergraduates and
international teaching assistants); 5) Studying language use in the
workplace 6) Investigating cultural stereotypes held by administrators
and staff in "gate keeping encounters"; 7) “schmoozing” as it is
effectively used in the discourse of advising; 8) self-disclosing and gender;
9) Nagging in the familial domain; 10)
Choosing surnames and what the choices reflect about societies; 11) and learning language through content-based
ESL.
Books
The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze: Building Rapport and Defusing Conflict in
Everyday Talk. Praeger
Publications (February 2011)
Applying Sociolinguistics:
Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2002)
Complaining and Commiserating: A
Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English. New York:
Lang (1993).
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