photo of Laurel in Scotland from 2012

Laurel Smith Stvan

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Linguistics and TESOL
The University of Texas at Arlington
(817) 272-3133
stvan@uta.edu


Spring Schedule 2013

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics Northwestern University 1998
M.A. in English (Program for Writers) University of Illinois at Chicago 1988
B.A. in English University of Illinois at Chicago 1986

Research Interests (full profile)

Subfields: Semantics, Pragmatics, Text Analysis, TESOL, Bare Nominals, Polysemy,
Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Markers, Vocabulary Acquisition, Health Discourse

Works: Scholarly publications and presentations
Professional development presentations
CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health)

Courses Taught at UTA

Ling. 2301 -- Introduction to the Study of Human Language
Ling. 5100 -- Thesis Writing Seminar
Ling. 5110 -- TESOL Practicum
Ling. 5302 -- TESOL Reading and Writing
Ling. 5310 -- Sociolinguistics
Ling. 5311 -- Sociolinguistics of Society
Ling. 5330 -- Formal Syntax
Ling. 5331 -- Advanced Formal Syntax
Ling. 5345 -- Semantics
Ling. 5347 -- Pragmatics
Ling. 5350 -- Text Analysis
Ling. 5381 -- Corpus Linguistics
Ling. 5393 -- TESOL Teaching and Observation
Ling. 6300 -- Professional Writing Seminar for Linguists
LING 6390 -- Linguistics Seminar: Corpus Annotation and Dataset Coding

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