Profiles in "Linguistics - Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis" Expertise Area

  • Adams research interests are in the study of language in its social and linguistic context.
  • Brendan O’Connor is a linguistic anthropologist of education in ASU's School of Transborder Studies who conducts research on language, identity, youth culture, and education.
  • SturtzSreetharan's interests center on language as social action. Her current project, "the everyday language of body/weight stigma," investigates how people make sense of their bodies as revealed in their language use.
  • Katie Bernstein's work examines the language and literacy learning of linguistically diverse students and the contexts that shape their learning: from peer interactions to teacher beliefs to state-level language policy.
  • Hunter is a Ph.D. candidate in (Applied) Spanish Linguistics at ASU, where he has taught language and content courses in Spanish since 2021. His research primarily centers embodied multimodality in SLA/T.
  • Lutfi Hussein teaches linguistics in the Department of English. His research interests include discourse analysis, multimodal discourse, and applied linguistics.
  • Torres is an applied sociolinguist who employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze spoken and written discourses related to medical interactions and policies, as well as AI use in language learning.
  • I'm very interested in linguistic typology and constrution(al models of) grammar and how they can inform and improve our understanding of the grammar of un(der)described languages.