Catherine Evans Davies

List of John Benjamins publications for which Catherine Evans Davies plays a role.

Articles

International teaching assistants in charge of undergraduate classes in American universities present the anomalous situation of the non-native speaker in the role of higher authority, but the native-speaker having greater communicative resources and cultural knowledge. This interactional… read more
Davies, Catherine Evans 2018 Chapter 4. On the relationship between interaction and language learning: A usage-based perspective grounded in interactional sociolinguisticsUsage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy, Tyler, Andrea E., Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park (eds.), pp. 75–91 | Chapter
Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) offers a multifaceted perspective on how language is contextually interpreted, as well as a rich methodology for discovering the speaker’s choices when creating situated discourse. For those concerned with second language learning and the current usage-based… read more
Davies, Catherine Evans 2015 Chapter 4. Twitter as political discourse: The case of Sarah PalinDiscourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 91–120 | Article
This study considers how the first female Republican vice-presidential candidate in American politics, Sarah Palin, draws on stereotypes of gendered language in crafting her persona within the limitations of the Twitter platform of 140 characters. Her use of a more informal and vernacular style… read more
Using perspectives from interactional sociolinguistics (Goffman, 1956; Gumperz, 1982, 1992; Schiffrin, 1996; Tannen, 2005) and discursive psychology (Bamberg, 1997, Davies & Harré, 1999, Wortham, 2001) this analysis demonstrates how three sisters reveal their very different personalities, styles,… read more