Carol Lynn Moder

Moder, Carol Lynn 2012 Two puzzle pieces: Fitting discourse context and constructions into cognitive metaphor theory Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics, Dancygier, Barbara, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 157–183 | Article

This study examines metaphorical expressions in American radio news magazines appearing in two linguistic forms: NP is a NP and It’s like NP. It integrates Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner 2002) with a usage-based approach to grammatical constructions (Goldberg 1995, 2006;Tomasello 2003, and… read more

Moder, Carol Lynn 2010 Two puzzle pieces: Fitting discourse context and constructions into cognitive metaphor theory Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form, Dancygier, Barbara and José Sanders (eds.), pp. 294–320 | Article

This study examines metaphorical expressions in American radio news magazines appearing in two linguistic forms: NP is a NP and It’s like NP. It integrates Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner 2002) with a usage-based approach to grammatical constructions (Goldberg 1995, 2006;Tomasello 2003, and… read more

Moder, Carol Lynn and Gene B. Halleck 2009 Planes, politics and oral proficiency: Testing international air traffic controllers Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 32:3, pp. 25.1–25.16 | Article

This study investigates the variation in oral proficiency demonstrated by 14 Air Traffic Controllers across two types of testing tasks: work-related radio telephony-based tasks and non-specific English tasks on aviation topics. Their performance was compared statistically in terms of level ratings… read more

Moder, Carol Lynn 2004 Discourse across cultures, across disciplines: An overview Discourse Across Languages and Cultures, Moder, Carol Lynn and Aida Martinovic-Zic (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Moder, Carol Lynn and Gene B. Halleck 1998 Framing the Language Proficiency Interview as a Speech Event: Native and Non-Native Speaker’s Questions Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 117–146 | Article

Moder, Carol Lynn 1992 Rules and analogy Explanation in Historical Linguistics, Davis, Garry W. and Gregory Iverson (eds.), pp. 179–192 | Article

Moder, Carol Lynn 1989 The acquisition of the past participle: Discourse-based vs form-based categories Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987, Corrigan, Roberta, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Article

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Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic