Linguistics Faculty Research Areas & Specializations
Research areas for faculty in the Linguistics Department:
David Bell
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Language, Culture and Food
- Language, Culture and Sport
- Methods and Materials in TEFL
- Stylistics
Lu Cao
- Pedagogy in Chinese Language and Culture
- Educational Technology and Instructional Design
- Instructional Innovation in Language Teaching
- Multimedia Feedback in Language Teaching
Gabriela Castañeda-Gleason
- Teacher education/development
- English Language Teaching Practicum
- Development of online teaching practica
- Lexical diversity
- L1 and L2 language acquisition and development
Michelle O'Malley
- Forensic aspects of language variation
- Perceptual Dialectology
- Sociolinguistic Corpus construction in support of efforts in Language Documentation and Maintenance
Hiroyuki Oshita
- U-shaped development on the L2 acquisition of intransitive verbs
- Lexical conceptual structure and L2 acquisition
- L2 syntax of conditional and locational change
Liang Tao
- Interactional Linguistics and discourse analyses of Mandarin Chinese
- Usage based study of language and grammaticalization
- Second language learning (learning and memory and pedagogical implications)
- Grammar of Chinese and English
- Psycholinguistics
- Language, culture and cognition
Christopher Thompson
- Japanese language and culture
- Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology of Japan
- Japanese language pedagogy
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Ethnography and field methods
- Business Japanese
- Japan Study Abroad/ Special Projects