Catherine Evans Davies
List of John Benjamins publications for which Catherine Evans Davies plays a role.
2018 Chapter 1. Culture, gender, ethnicity, identity in discourse: Exploring cross-cultural communicative competence in American university contexts Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler, Pickering, Lucy and Vyvyan Evans (eds.), pp. 11–36 | Chapter
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
2018 Chapter 4. On the relationship between interaction and language learning: A usage-based perspective grounded in interactional sociolinguistics Usage-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
2015 Chapter 4. Twitter as political discourse: The case of Sarah Palin Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 93–120 | 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
2010 “We had a wonderful time”: Individual sibling voices in the joint construction of a family ethos through narrative performance Narrative Inquiry 20:1, pp. 20–36 | Article
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
2007 Language and identity in discourse in the American South: Sociolinguistic repertoire as expressive resource in the presentation of self Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse, Bamberg, Michael, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 71–88 | Article
1998 Maintaining American Face in the Korean Oral Exam: Reflections on the Power of cross-Cultural Context Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 271–296 | Article