Peter Joseph Torres

Assistant Professor, English

Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

p.torres@asu.edu

Mail code: 1401

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Torres's research integrates qualitative and quantitative methodologies in examining written and spoken discourses on health issues, from policy documents to doctor-patient interactions. His recent research focuses on the opioid crisis, uncovering the language employed by policymakers in addressing the crisis, as well as the language utilized by physicians and patients to negotiate, reinterpret, and enact such policies during consultations. His scholarly work can be found in Discourse Studies, Applied Corpus Linguistics, and the Journal of Pragmatics. At present, he is deeply engaged in investigating the influence of sociocultural and racial factors on the linguistic portrayal of pain by patients, along with its implications on physicians' prescribing practices. ASU Library keeps a collection of his work here.

Education

Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Davis; 2022

M.A. Linguistics, University of California, Davis; 2018

B.A. Linguistics and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles; 2015

Curriculum Vitae

Research Website URL

https://petertorresphd.com

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6eTzSuQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8377-4981

Research Interests

Language and Health

Sociolinguistics

Discourse Analysis

Language (of) Policies

Prosody

Corpus Linguistics

Applied Linguistics

Publications

Torres, P.J., (2023). Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians’ compliance makes patients non-compliant. Journal of Pragmatics 205, 122–136 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.01.001

Torres, P.J., (2022). Modality and interpretive spaces in policies. In B.A. Diaz & R.W. Schrauf (Eds). Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy: Bench to bedside and back again. 141-168. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744804-006 Links: De Gruyter Mouton.

Torres, P. J., (2022). The Nation’s Fix: The Language of the Opioid Crisis Links: Proquest

Torres, P.J., (2021). The role of modals in policies: The US opioid crisis as a case study. Applied Corpus Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100008 Links: Elsevier | Kudos

Torres, P. J., Henry, S. G., & Ramanathan, V. (2020). Let’s talk about pain and opioids: Low pitch and creak in medical consultations. Discourse Studies 22(2). 174-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445619893796 Links: Sage Publication | Kudos | PubMed | ePuB Download link

Henry S.G., White A.E., Magnan E.M., Hood-Medland E.A., Gosdin M., Kravitz R.L., Torres P.J., & Gerwing J. (2020) Making the most of video recorded clinical encounters: Optimizing impact and productivity through interdisciplinary teamwork. Patient Education and Counseling. 103(10). 2178-2184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.06.005 Links: ScienceDirect

Teaching Website URL

https://petertorresphd.com/teaching/