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Fox, Barbara

Professor Emerita/Emeritus

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Research

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  • Dr. Fox's research explores the organization of syntax/grammar by looking at language use in everyday interaction.

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  • interactional linguistics, discourse-functional syntax, conversation analysis

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Teaching

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  • LING 3430 - Semantics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Theoretical and practical study of meaning in natural language. Considers both semantic theories and semantic phenomena from diverse languages.
  • LING 4700 - Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
    Provides an introduction to the theories and methods of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL), which aim to uncover the procedural infrastructure of language use in social interaction. The course emphasizes hands-on experience in analyzing naturally-occurring interactional data. Topics may include: turn-taking, sequence and preference organization, repair, reference, epistemics, and identity.
  • LING 4830 - Honors Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Required for students who elect departmental honors. Students write an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • LING 5420 - Morphology and Syntax
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Introduces principles of word formation and sentence structure. Covers major morphological and syntactic structures found in the world's languages, and methods for describing grammatical structures, and includes practice in analyzing data from a variety of languages. Same as LING 4420.
  • LING 5430 - Semantics and Pragmatics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
    Explores fundamental concepts of semantics and pragmatics, including theories of communication and meaning, representation, conversational implications, speech acts, and discourse structure. Recommended prerequisite: LING 5420.
  • LING 5700 - Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
    Provides an introduction to the theories and methods of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL), which aim to uncover the procedural infrastructure of language use in social interaction. The course emphasizes hands-on experience in analyzing naturally-occurring interactional data. Topics may include: turn-taking, sequence and preference organization, repair, reference, epistemics, and identity. Same as LING 4700.
  • LING 5800 - Open Topics in Linguistics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. Contact the department office for information. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours.
  • LING 7430 - Semantic Theory
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
    Explores current developments in the theory of linguistic semantics. Potential topics include truth-conditional and set-theoretic theories of meaning; cognitive semantics; semantic typology; social semiotics; the syntax-semantics interface; and the interaction between meaning conventions and conventions of usage. Recommended prerequisite: LING 5430.

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