EDUCATION
Ph.D., Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1985
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"Institutional Policies, Professional Practices, and the Discourse of End-of-Life Discussions in American Medicine." Journal of Applied Linguistics. Special Issue on Acute Health Care. Ed. Rick Iedema. In press.
"Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology." Hospital Communication and Interaction. Ed. Rick Iedema. NY: Palgrave/MacMillan. In press.
"Disability Narratives of the Law: Narratives and Counter-Narratives." Narrative 15 (2007): 95-112.
With Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, and Eugenia Casielles, eds. The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.
"The Linguist in the English Department." English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s). Ed. Bruce McComiskey. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. 67-105.
"Linguistic Discourse Analysis: How the Language in Texts Works." What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analysis of Text and Textual Practice. Eds. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 57-82.
"Discourse Methods and Critical Practice in Professional Communication: The Front-Stage and Back-Stage Discourse of Prognosis in Medicine." Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Special Issue on Critical Practice in Professional Communication. Ed. Carl Herndl. 18 (2004): 67-111.
With Gail Stygall, ed. Discourse Studies in Composition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. Includes chapter: "Inductive Discourse Analysis: Discovering Rich Features."
"Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way." Rhetorics of Disability. Eds. James Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001. 169-99.
"Sanctioned and Non-Sanctioned Narratives in Institutional Discourse." Narrative Inquiry 10 (2000): 341-75.
"The Interactional Practices of Referrals and Accounts in Medical Discourse: Expertise and Compliance." Discourse Studies 2.3 (2000): 259-81.
"Informational and Interactional Functions of slogans and Sayings in the Discourse of a Support Group." Discourse and Society 10.4 (2000): 461-86.
"More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation." CCC 51.3 (2000): 399-416.
"The Presence of Interlocutors vs. The Sites of the Internet: The Restricted Range of Disability Narratives." Works and Days (Special Issue, The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy and Identity) 33/34, 35/36,17-18 (2000): 85-115.
Publications Available Through Amazon.com
Non-Sentential Constituents : A Theory of Grammatical Structure and Pragmatic Interpretation (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2)
COURSES TAUGHT
Linguistics
Basic Concepts and Methods in Linguistics
English Grammar
Linguistics and Education
Pragmatics
Language and Gender
Discourse Analysis
Composition/Rhetoric
Writing Theory
Survey of Research in Writing
Research Methods in Composition Studies
Rhetoric of Disciplinarity
Discourse Analysis
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENT
Chair, WSU Behavioral Investigation Committee Institutional Review Board
GRANTS/AWARDS
Visiting Fellowship, Center for Health Care Research, Cardiff University, Wales (2006)
Research Consultant, SICU Care at End-of-Life, National Institutes of Health (2003)
Fellow, Cancer, Culture, and Literacy Institute, National Institutes of Health (2003)
Interdisciplinary Fellow, Medical University of South Carolina
National Council of Teachers of English Best Article Awards:
Qualitative/Quantitative Research (2005)
Teaching Methods in Professional Communication (2004)
Theory in Professional Communication (2002)
WSU Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (2004-06)
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