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Welcome to the home page of Linda R. Waugh Linda Waugh holds the following appointments at the University of Arizona: Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Humanities (COH) Professor, Department of English, COH Chair (on leave until Jan. 2008), Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), Graduate College Co-Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL), University of Arizona Affiliated appointments: Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Professor, Department of Linguistics, SBS Professor, Department of Language, Reading, and Culture, College of Education Education B.A. Magna cum Laude, French, Jackson College of Tufts University M.A. French Literature, Stanford University Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University Research Interests Professor Waugh is both a French linguist and a general linguist, as well as a semiotician. Her main interests are in the function of linguistic structures (of all types), in the discourse-pragmatics of language, in written textual analysis (including journalistic and narrative texts), spoken discourse analysis (she has supervised the gathering of corpora for spoken French and American English), corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, grammatical and lexical semantics, history of linguistics, semiotics, and in the way language is integrated with other socio-cultural (semiotic) systems by which humans communicate and make sense of our world. Much of her data for research in these areas is centered on French, although she has worked on English as well. She has directed dissertations on many different languages of Europe, Asia (East, Southeast and South Asia), North Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. In addition to over 60 articles, she has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 11 books. Link to library holdings: Books by Linda Waugh at the University of Arizona Main Library Link to Linda Waugh’s Curriculum Vitae Contact Information Email: lwaugh@u.arizona.edu French office: 558 Modern Languages 520-621-3759, fax: 520-626-8022 SLAT office: 215 Transitional Office Building (TOB), 1731 E. 2nd St., 520-621-7391, fax: 520-626-3230
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