About

Linda R. Waugh is a Professor Emerita in the departments of French & Italian and English at the University of Arizona, having previously taught at Cornell University. She is an affiliate of the departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies (Language, Reading and Culture section). Since January 2002, she has served as Chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), and since August 2006, she has been Co-Director of the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), a Language Resource Center funded by a grant from the US Department of Education. Dr. Waugh is a French linguist and a general linguist, as well as a semiotician. Her main interests include the function of linguistic structures, discourse-pragmatics of language, written textual analysis—including journalistic and narrative texts—and spoken discourse analysis, with supervision of corpora for spoken French and American English. Her research encompasses critical discourse analysis, semiotics, corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, grammatical and lexical semantics, history of linguistics, iconicity, and the integration of language with other socio-cultural semiotic systems by which humans communicate and make sense of the world. Her work primarily centers on French, although she has also worked on English. Dr. Waugh has authored, co-authored, and co-edited over 60 articles and chapters, as well as 12 books and monographs.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Law
• Linguistics
• Philosophy
• History
• Classics
• Art history
• Literature
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Art
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Idiolect

  2024-06-17

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• Distinctive Feature

  2024-06-17

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• Late Nineteenth Century through the 1950s: Synchrony, Autonomy, and Structuralism

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• Introduction

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  The CHL is an authoritative, chronologically arranged account of the history of the study of language, including (late) twentieth-century 'recent history.' Its chapters, written by leading scholars, show how language as a focus of study has been established over the centuries. While western traditions are emphasized, the volume also discusses others. It is designed to be an essential reference for researchers, teachers, and students in linguistics and related disciplines. The CHL is divided into three parts, each with an Introduction describing the larger context of interest in language: I. Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Periods; II. Renaissance to Late Nineteenth Century; III. Late Nineteenth through Twentieth Century (through the mid 1950s, and 1950s to 2000). These groupings are related to their pertinence to the history of linguistics and the way conceptualizations about language have been connected to the different philosophical, religious, and political concerns and sociocultural practices of the times.

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• Preface

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• Late Nineteenth-through Twentieth-Century Linguistics: Synopsis of Major Trends

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  This introduction is a synopsis of the major trends in linguistics discussed in Part III (seventeen chapters).

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• Near Eastern Linguistic Traditions

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  The CHL is an authoritative, chronologically arranged account of the history of the study of language, including (late) twentieth-century ‘recent history.’ Its chapters, written by leading scholars, show how language as a focus of study has been established over the centuries. While western traditions are emphasized, the volume also discusses others. It is designed to be an essential reference for researchers, teachers, and students in linguistics and related disciplines. The CHL is divided into three parts, each with an Introduction describing the larger context of interest in language: I. Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Periods; II. Renaissance to Late Nineteenth Century; III. Late Nineteenth through Twentieth Century (through the mid 1950s, and 1950s to 2000). These groupings are related to their pertinence to the history of linguistics and the way conceptualizations about language have been connected to the different philosophical, religious, and political concerns and sociocultural practices of the times.

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• Renaissance to Late Nineteenth Century

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• 1960–2000: Formalism, Cognitivism, Language Use and Function, Interdisciplinarity

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• Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Periods

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Frequent coauthors

• John T. Green

  University of Vermont

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• Gerhard Ernst

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• Yves-Charles Morin

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• Janice Carruthers

  Queen's University Belfast

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• Bert Peeters

  Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

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• Julia Herschensohn

  University of Washington

  192 shared

• Marie-José Béguelin

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  192 shared

• Françoise Gadet

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