Linda R Waugh

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…

Research topics

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

Selected publications

• Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond

  Perspectives in pragmatics, psychology & philosophy · 2020 · 115 citations

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• Introduction

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023 · 39 citations

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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…

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• Mixed Messages in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom

  Heritage Language Journal · 2018-04-30 · 8 citations

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  This paper explores the implications of prevailing attitudes about language variety found in a case study of a large, university SHL program. First, a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach was employed to examine the ideological underpinnings of the presentation of varieties of Spanish (including those of U.S. Spanish) in textbooks used in the program. Second, discussions with focus groups of SHL instructors were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed to gain insight into the practices foster…

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• Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), and Beyond

  Perspectives in pragmatics, psychology & philosophy · 2020 · 5 citations

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• The Main Approaches to CDA/CDS

  Perspectives in pragmatics, psychology & philosophy · 2020-01-01 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• John T. Green

  University of Vermont

  192 shared

• Gerhard Ernst

  192 shared

• Yves-Charles Morin

  192 shared

• Janice Carruthers

  Queen's University Belfast

  192 shared

• Bert Peeters

  Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

  192 shared

• Julia Herschensohn

  University of Washington

  192 shared

• Marie-José Béguelin

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  192 shared

• Françoise Gadet

  192 shared

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