Susan C. Herring

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, in Linguistics. June 1991.

M.A. University of California, Berkeley, in Linguistics. June 1982.

B.A. State University of New York, Potsdam, in French. May 1976.

Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research, Madurai, India, 1986-87.

American Institute of Indian Studies Tamil Language Program, Madurai, India, 1983-84.

Junior Year Abroad Program, Tours, France. Concurrent enrollment, Faculté des Lettres and Institut de Touraine, 1975-76.

Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics Department
Affiliate Faculty, School of Informatics
Fellow, Center for Social Informatics
Fellow, Center for Research on Learning Technologies
        Fall 2000 - Spring 2003, Associate Professor rank
        Promotion to Professor, Spring 2003

Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Texas at Arlington
        Fall 1992 - Spring 2000
        Awarded tenure, Spring 1995

Assistant Professor, English Department, California State University, San Bernardino
        Fall 1989 - Spring 1992
        Promotion to Associate Professor, Spring 1992

Instructor, Special Languages Program, Stanford University
        Spring 1989

Graduate Student Instructor, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley
        Spring 1986, Spring 1988

Graduate Student Instructor, French Department, University of California, Berkeley
        Spring 1981-Fall 1984

• Editor-Elect, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. January 2004 - .
• Vice-Chancellor's Visiting Fellow, La Trobe University, Australia. August 2001.
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for Communication Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. July-August 2001.
• Visiting Fellow, Växjö University, Sweden. April 2000.
• Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, Department of Modern Languages. Summer 1998, 1996.
• Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, South Asia Center. Summer 1994.
• Best paper award, Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, for "Micro-longitudinal analysis of Web news updates" (with D. Kutz). January 2005.
  
• Best paper award, Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, for "Designing for community: The effects of gender representation on a Web site" (with A. Martinson and R. Scheckler). January 2002.
• Best paper award, Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, for "Interactional coherence in CMC." January 1999.
• Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, 25th edition (1997).
• Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 24th edition (1995), 25th edition (1996), 26th edition (1997).
• Listed in the Encyclopedia of Dravidian Languages and Linguistics, 1st edition. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (1993).

• National Science Foundation, "Quest Atlantis: Advancing a Socially-Responsive Meta-Game for Learning;" Co-PI; $1,516,075 (2004-2007).
• National Science Foundation, "Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in IT Higher Education: Beyond Computer Science;" Co-PI; $686,037 (2003-2006).
• National Science Foundation, "Learner Diversity and Technology Enhanced Learning: Different Questions, New Understandings." Science of Learning Center Catalyst Grant, with the Education Development Center, Inc.; Consulting Partner; $232,655 (2003-2004).
• National Science Foundation, "Inquiry Learning Forum: Fostering and Sustaining Knowledge Networking to Support a Community of Science and Mathematics Teachers;" Co-PI; $1,561,303 (1999-2002).
• Microsoft Research, Unrestricted Gift; $5,000, November 2005.
• Microsoft Research, Unrestricted Gift; $5,000, January 2005.
• Microsoft Research, Unrestricted Gift; $5,000, September 2003.
• Microsoft Research, Unrestricted Gift for purchase of laptop computer; $3,000, April 2003.
• University of Texas at Arlington, Faculty Development Leave; $23,098 (1997-1998).
• University of Texas at Arlington, Program in Linguistics, Graduate Research Assistant Grant, "Conversational Mechanisms in Internet Relay Chat;" PI; $2,600 (1996-1997).
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, "Politeness in Computer-Mediated Communication;" PI; $4,000 (Summer 1994).
• University of Texas at Arlington, College of Liberal Arts Seed Grant, "Discursive Norms of Hackers on the Internet;" PI; $2,530 (Summer 1994).
• California State University San Bernardino, Affirmative Action Research Grant, "Participation in Electronic Discourse in a 'Feminist' Field;" PI; $1,500 (1992).
• California State University San Bernardino, Affirmative Action Research Grant; PI; $2,700 (1990).
• Fulbright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, "Tense and Aspect in Tamil Narrative;" PI; $23,200 (1986-87).
• American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellowship, "Tense and Aspect in Tamil Narrative;" PI; $19,000 (1986-87; declined).
• Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Tamil, UC Berkeley; $8,000 (1985-86).

Interviewed and quoted in a Gannett News Service story on "Date talk: IMers can sabotage relationships by losing that personal touch," by Juliet M. Beverly, September 30, 2005.

Interviewed by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, television documentary on "Gender Science," produced by Francine Bernard, aired January, 2005.

Interviewed and quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), "Pest Control," by Edmund Tadros, August 28, 2004.

Interviewed and quoted in The Los Angeles Times, "A flaming desire," by Bob Baker, December 12, 2003.

Interviewed on television station DR1 (Denmark) about text messaging on mobile phones, aired August 14, 2003.

Interviewed and quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, "As Stalkers Go Online, New State Laws Try to Catch Up," by Terry Costlow, September 3, 2002.

Interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, "An E-mail Affliction: The Long Goodbye," by Joyce Cohen, May 9, 2002.

Interviewed and quoted in The Minnesota Women's Press, "Feminine or feminist," by Kim Pleticha, April 24, 2002.

Featured interview in Der Standard (Austria), "ITech Women," by Isabella Lechner, October 23, 2001.

Interviewed and quoted in The Industry Standard, "He Typed, She Typed", by Liz Krieger, July 16, 2001.

Interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, "He-Mails, She-Mails: Where Sender Meets Gender," by Joyce Cohen, May 17, 2001.

Interviewed and quoted in The Washington Post, "I Virtually Love You," by David Streitfeld, June 17, 2000.

Interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, "Internet Changes Language For :-) & :-( ," by Amy Harmon, February 20, 1999.

Interviewed on Blue Danube Radio (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) "Today at Six" show on language change on the Internet, by Genevieve Johnson, January 30, 1999.

Interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio on language change on the Internet, by Jon Gordon, January 10, 1999.

Featured in an Associated Press story on "Net spurs language evolution," carried in hundreds of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, December 28, 1998 - March 2000.

Interviewed on CNN about language change on the Internet, aired December 28-29, 1998.

Interviewed on The NBC Nightly News, documentary segment on "Gender and the Internet," produced by Tom Dawson, aired November 23, 1996.

Interviewed and quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Virtual Café Seeks Equal Access for Women," by Carrie Teegardin, February 22, 1996.

Interviewed and quoted in The Boston Globe, "Gender Wars in Cyberspace! Men, Women Type a Different Language On Line," by Nathan Cobb, March 8, 1995.

Quoted in Der Spiegel (Germany), "Machos im Internet," January 28, 1995.

Interviewed and quoted in Digital Media Perspective, "Netiquette is Sexist," December 19, 1994, and "No Place for Women: Internet is Flawed Model for the Infobahn" by Margie Wylie, January 2, 1995.

Interviewed and quoted in Newsweek, cover story on "Men, Women, and Computers," by Barbara Kantrowitz, May 16, 1994.

Interviewed on Australian Radio National, "Electronic Salons" documentary, produced by Rosie Cross, aired April 16, 1994.

Books

Herring, Susan C., Stein, Deiter, and Virtanen, Tuija, Eds. (In preparation). The Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication. Pragmatics and Beyond series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Danet, Brenda, and Herring, Susan C., Eds. (In press). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online. New York: Oxford University Press. 450 pp. (approx.)

Herring, Susan C., Ed. (In press). Computer-Mediated Conversation. Communications series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. 420 pp. (approx.)

Herring, Susan C., van Reenen, Pieter, and Schøsler, Lene, Eds. (2000). Textual Parameters in Older Languages. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 431 pp.

Herring, Susan C., Ed. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Pragmatics and Beyond series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 324 pp.

 

Book Chapters

(In press). Gender and the culture of computing in applied IT education. With C. Ogan, M. Ahuja, and J. C. Robinson. In: E. Trauth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.

(In press). Gender and career choice determinants in information systems professionals: A comparison with computer science. With M. Ahuja, C. Ogan, and J. C. Robinson. In: F. Niederman and T. W. Ferratt (Eds.), IT Workers: Human Capital Issues in a Knowledge-Based Environment. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

(In press). The more things change, the more they remain the same: Gender differences in attitudes and experiences related to computing among students in computer science and applied information technology programs at five U.S. research universities. With C. Ogan, J. C. Robinson, and M. Ahuja. In: W. Aspray and J. McGrath Cohoon (Eds.), Women and Information Technology: Research on the Reasons for Under-Representation. Cambridge: MIT Press.

(In press). Multilingualism on the Internet. With B. Danet. In: M. Hellister and A. Pauwels (Eds.), Language and Communication: Diversity and Change. Handbook of Applied Linguistics, vol. IX. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

(In press). Introduction: Welcome to the multilingual Internet. With B. Danet. In: B. Danet and S. C. Herring (Eds.), The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online. New York: Oxford University Press.

(In press). Gender and turn allocation in a Thai chat room. With S. Panyametheekul (first author). In B. Danet and S. C. Herring (Eds.), The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online. New York: Oxford University Press.

(In press). Who's got the floor in computer-mediated conversation? Edelsky's gender patterns revisited. In: S. C. Herring (Ed.), Computer-Mediated Conversation. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

(2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. With I. Kouper, L. A. Scheidt, and E. Wright. In: L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. University of Minnesota. Online: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html

(2004). Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to researching online behavior. In: S. A. Barab, R. Kling, and J. H. Gray (Eds.), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning (pp. 338-376). New York: Cambridge University Press.

(2004). Online communication: Through the lens of discourse. In: M. Consalvo, N. Baym, J. Hunsinger, K. B. Jensen, J. Logie, M. Murero, and L. R. Shade (Eds.), Internet Research Annual, Volume 1 (pp. 65-76). New York: Peter Lang.

(2004). Intaanetto Tsuushin: Seisa/Seisabetsu no Koozoo to Minshuka no Kanoosee. In: K. A. Reynolds and H. Nagahara (Eds.), Jendaa no Gengogaku [Current topics in the study of language and gender] (pp. 145-166). Tokyo: Akashi Shoten. (Japanese translation of: Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication, Electronic Journal of Communication, 3 (2), 1993.)

(2003). Gender and power in online communication. The Handbook of Language and Gender, J. Holmes and M. Meyerhoff (Eds.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 202-228.

(2001). Computer-mediated discourse. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen, and H. Hamilton (Eds). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 612-634.

(2000). On textual parameters and older languages. With P. van Reenen and L. Schøsler. In Textual Parameters in Older Languages, S. C. Herring, P. van Reenen, and L. Schøsler (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-31.

(2000). Poeticality and word order in Old Tamil. In Textual Parameters in Older Languages, S. C. Herring, P. van Reenen, and L. Schøsler (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(1999). Posting in a different voice: Gender and ethics in computer-mediated communication. In Computer Media and Communication: A Reader, P. A. Mayer (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 241-265.

(1998). Participation in electronic discourse in a 'feminist' field. With D. A. Johnson and T. DiBenedetto. In Language and Gender: A Reader, J. Coates (Ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

(1996). Introduction. In Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, S. C. Herring (Ed.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-10.

(1996). Two variants of an electronic message schema. In Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, S. C. Herring (Ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 81-108.

(1996). Posting in a different voice: Gender and ethics in computer-mediated communication. In Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication, C. Ess (Ed.). Albany: SUNY Press, 115-145.

(1996). Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier: Gender differences in computer-mediated communication. In CyberReader, V. Vitanza (Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 144-154. Online: Keynote presentation (1994), American Library Association: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/gender/herring.txt

(1996). Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier: Gender differences in computer-mediated communication. In Conversations, J. Selzer (Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1069-1082.

(1996). Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication. In Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, 2nd edition, R. Kling (Ed.). San Diego: Academic Press, 476-489.

(1995). 'This discussion is going too far!' Male resistance to female participation on the Internet. With D. A. Johnson and T. DiBenedetto. In Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, M. Bucholtz and K. Hall (Eds). New York: Routledge, 67-96.

(1995). Focus position in SOV languages. With J. C. Paolillo. In Word Order in Discourse, P. Downing and M. Noonan (Eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 163-198.

(1994). Afterthoughts, antitopics, and emphasis: The syntacticization of postverbal position in Tamil. In Theoretical Approaches to Word Order in South Asian Languages, M. Butt, T. King, and G. Ramchand (Eds.). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 119-152.

(1991). The grammaticalization of rhetorical questions in Tamil. In Approaches to Grammaticalization, Vol.1, E. Traugott and B. Heine (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 253-284.

 

Journal Issues

(In press). Minority Languages, Multimedia and the Web. Special issue of The New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 11(2). D. Cunliffe and S. C. Herring, guest editors.

(2003). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication in Instant Messaging, Email and Chat. Special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 9(1). B. Danet and S. C. Herring, guest editors. http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/

(2003). Media and Language Change. Special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4(1). S. C. Herring, guest editor. 159 pp. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JHP_4_1

(1996). Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. Special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication 6(3). S. C. Herring, guest editor. http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v6n396.htm

 

Journal Articles

(Under revision). When rich media are opaque: Spatial reference in a 3-D virtual world. With K. Börner and M. B. Swan.

(Under revision). Designing for community: The effects of gender representation in videos on a Web site. With A. Martinson and R. Scheckler.

(Under review). A classification scheme for computer-mediated discourse.

(Under review). Gender and genre variation in weblogs. With J. C. Paolillo.

(In press). Introduction to minority languages, multimedia and the Web. With D. Cunliffe. The New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 11(2).

(2005). Weblogs as a bridging genre. With L. A. Scheidt, S. Bonus, and E. Wright. Information, Technology & People 18(2), 142-171.

(2005). Hyperlink obsolescence in scholarly online journals: JCMC reply. With J. C. Paolillo. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(3), article 17. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/jcmc.html

(2004). Assessing gender authenticity in computer-mediated language use: Evidence from an identity game. With A. Martinson. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 23(4), 424-446.

(2004). Slouching toward the ordinary: Current trends in computer-mediated communication. New Media & Society 6(1), 26-36.

(2003). Gender and turn allocation in a Thai chat room. With S. Panyametheekul (first author). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 9(1). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/panya_herring.html

(2003). Introduction: The Multilingual Internet. With B. Danet. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 9(1). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/intro.html

(2003). Media and language change: Introduction. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4(1), 1-17.

(2002). Searching for safety online: Managing "trolling" in a feminist forum. With K. Job-Sluder, R. Scheckler and S. Barab. The Information Society 18(5), 371-383. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/readers/abstracts/18/18-5-Herring.html

(2002). Cyber violence: Recognizing and resisting abuse in online environments. Asian Women 14 (Summer), 187-212. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/violence.html

(2002). Computer-mediated communication on the Internet. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36, 109-168.

(2000). Gender differences in CMC: Findings and implications. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Journal, Winter 2000. http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/index.html

(1999). The rhetorical dynamics of gender harassment on-line. The Information Society 15(3), 151-167. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/readers/abstracts/15/15-3 Herring.html

(1999). Interactional coherence in CMC. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4(4). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/

(1998). Le style du courrier électronique: variabilité et changement. Revue d'aménagement linguistique (formerly Terminogramme) 84-85, 9-16 (March 1998).

(1998). Die rhetorische Dynamik geschlechtsbezogener Belästigungen in Online-Kommunikation. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 3/98, 236-281.

(1996). Linguistic and critical research on computer-mediated communication: Some ethical and scholarly considerations. The Information Society 12(2), 153-168. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/readers/abstracts/12/12-2 Herring.html

(1993). Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication. Electronic Journal of Communication 3(2). http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/ejc.txt

(1993). Functional stability in language change: The evolution of tense and aspect in Tamil. Studies in Language 17(2), 313-341.

(1991). Nominalization, relativization, and attribution in Lotha, Angami, and Burmese. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 14(1), 55-72.

 

Proceedings

(2005). Micro-longitudinal analysis of Web news updates. With D. Kutz (first author). Proceedings of the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/news.pdf (HICSS Best Paper award.)

(2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." With I. Kouper, J. C. Paolillo, L. A. Scheidt, M. Tyworth, P. Welsch, E. Wright, and N. Yu. Proceedings of the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf (Nominated for HICSS Best Paper award.)

(2005). Collaborative authoring on the Web: A genre analysis of online encyclopedias. With W. Emigh (first author). Proceedings of the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/wiki.pdf (Nominated for HICSS Best Paper award.)

(2004). Representations of indigenous language groups of North and South America on the World Wide Web: In whose voice? With Z. C. Estrada. Proceedings of Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication 2004 (CATaC'04), F. Sudweeks and C. Ess (Eds.), 377-381.

(2004). Exploring antecedents of gender equitable outcomes in IT higher education. With M. Ahuja, C. Ogan, and J. C. Robinson. Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research: Careers, Culture, and Ethics in a Networked Environment, 120-123.

(2004). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. With L. A. Scheidt, S. Bonus, and E. Wright.  Proceedings of the 37th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc (2004 Edublog Award, "Best Blogged Paper.")

(2002). Designing for community: The effects of gender representation in videos on a Web site. With A. Martinson and R. Scheckler. Proceedings of the 35th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. (HICSS Best Paper award.) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_35/HICSSpapers/PDFdocuments/DDPTC07.pdf

(2002). A comparison of computer-mediated and face-to-face discussions of a multimedia case study of mathematics teaching. With Y. Koc (first author) and C. Brown. In D. A. Willis, J. Price & N. Davis (Eds.), Technology and Teacher Education Annual, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (pp. 2039 - 2043). Nashville, TN: Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Computing.

(1999). Interactional coherence in CMC. Proceedings of the 32nd Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. (HICSS Best Paper award.) http://www.computer.org/proceedings/hicss/0001/00012/00012022.PDF

(1999). Pedagogical implications of synchronous computer chat: Coherence or equality? JILA'99: Journées internationales de linguistique appliquée. Nice: Faculté des Lettres Arts et Sciences humaines de l'Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

(1995). Men's language on the Internet. Nordlyd 23: 1-20. (Proceedings of the 2nd Nordic Language and Gender Conference, November 2-4, 1994.)

(1994). Politeness in computer culture: Why women thank and men flame. Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley Women and Language Group, 278-94.

(1994). Discourse functions of demonstrative deixis in Tamil. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS-20), Parasession in Honor of Charles F. Fillmore. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

(1993). Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian: On the origin of the 'compound continuative' KONTIRU. In Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the Proceedings of the IXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, H. Aertsen and R. Jeffers (eds). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 167-185.

(1992). Men's language: A study of the discourse of the LINGUIST list. In Les langues menacées: actes du XVe congrès international des linguistes, Vol. 3. A. Crochetière, J-C. Boulanger, and C. Ouellon (eds). Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 347-350.

(1992). Participation in electronic discourse in a 'feminist' field. With D. A. Johnson and T. DiBenedetto. In Locating Power: Proceedings of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 250-262.

(1990). Information structure as a consequence of word order type. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS-16). Berkeley Linguistics Society, 163-174.

(1989). Verbless presentation and the discourse basis of ergativity. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS-25). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 123-137. Abstract included in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1990).

(1988). Aspect as a discourse category in Tamil. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS-14). Berkeley Linguistics Society, 280-293.

 

Invited Essays and Introductions

(In press). Introduction to Robin Lakoff, Pragmatics and the law: A linguist confronts the First Amendment. In Her Own Voice: Collected Essays of Robin Tolmach Lakoff, L. Sutton (Ed.). NY: Oxford University Press.

(2004). Computer-mediated communication and woman's place. In: Robin Tolmach Lakoff [M. Bucholtz (Ed.)], Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (pp. 216-222). NY: Oxford University Press.

(2001). Foreword. Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village, C. Ess and F. Sudweeks (Eds.). Albany: SUNY Press, vii-x.

(1997). Ethics in cyberresearch: To cite, or not to cite? The College (magazine of the UTA College of Liberal Arts) 1(2): 18-23.

(1995). Freedom of speech or freedom of harassment? The College (magazine of the UTA College of Liberal Arts) 1(1): 8-9. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/cola1.html

 

Working Papers and Other Publications

(2004). Content analysis for new media: Rethinking the paradigm. New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium Working Papers and Readings (pp. 47-66). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

(2003). Dynamic topic analysis of synchronous chat. New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium Working Papers and Readings. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

(2003). Review of Naomi Baron (2000), Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4(1): 153-158.

(2002). Searching for safety: Managing "trolling" in a feminist discussion forum. With K. Job-Sluder, R. Scheckler, and S. A. Barab. Center for Social Informatics Working Papers, http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/WP02-03B.html

(2001). Gender and power in online communication. Center for Social Informatics Working Papers, http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/WP01-05B.html

(1994). UTA Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1. S. C. Herring and J. C. Paolillo (Eds.) University of Texas at Arlington: Program in Linguistics.

(1993). Sex of LINGUISTs: Results of survey. LINGUIST List Vol. 4.517, June 30, 1993. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/4/4-517.html

(1992). Gender and participation in computer-mediated linguistic discourse. Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, document ED345552.

2005. "Multilingualism on the Internet." With Brenda Danet. Invited presentation, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, panel on Language on the Internet: Usage Patterns, Global Issues, Future Trends, Washington, DC, February 18.

2004. "Conversation in the Blogosphere." Invited talk, Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, October 15.

2004. "Content analysis for new media: Rethinking the paradigm." Invited presentation, New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium, Tarragona, Spain, October 1.

2004. "Gender and politeness in computer-mediated communication: A decade of new evidence." Plenary speech, International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender: The pragmatic roots, Helsinki, Finland, September 6.

2004. “Relating historical discourse genres and new media genres: The case of weblogs.” Plenary speech, Conference on Historical News Discourse, Florence, Italy, September 3.

2004. Invited panel discussant, “Bringing the weblog back down to earth: Content, processes and structures in the Blogosphere.” 54th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, May 28.

2004. “Feminism, pornography and the World Wide Web.” Invited talk, Center for Women and Information Technology's Speakers Series, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 21.

2004. “Weblogs as genre, weblogs as sociability.” Invited speaker, Social Computing Symposium, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, March 30.

2004. "Representational diversity and viewer choice in Web pornography: The case of SexTracker.” Invited talk, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, February 25.

2004. “L’analyse du discours médié par ordinateur dans une perspective globale.” Keynote speech, La communication électronique: Approches linguistiques et anthropologiques, Paris, France, February 5.

2003. Invited panel participant, "Broadening options and raising standards for qualitative Internet research." Internet Research 4.0, Toronto, Canada, October 19.

2003. "Dynamic topic analysis of synchronous chat." Plenary speech, Symposium on New Research for New Media, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, September 5.

2003. "Gender, sex and power on the Internet." Invited talk, Dortmund University, Germany, May 13, 2003 and Heinrich Heine Universiteit, Düsseldorf, Germany, May 14.

2003. "On the pragmatic notion of 'relevance' in multi-participant chat conversations." Keynote speech, Symposium: Chat-Kommunikation in Beruf, Bildung und Medien: Konzepte - Werkzeuge - Anwendungsfelder, Dortmund University, Germany, May 9.

2003. "When rich media are opaque: Spatial reference in a 3-D virtual world." Invited talk, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, March 17.

2002. "The Internet and the global linguistic ecology." Invited talk, Linguistics Department, Göteborg University, Sweden, December 20.

2002. "The Internet and the global linguistic ecology." Keynote speech, Annual Conference of the Michigan Linguistics Society, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 19.

2002. "Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An interdisciplinary approach to studying online behavior." Keynote speech, Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, Drury University, Springfield, MO, October 4.

2002. "Cyber-differences, cyber-harassment." Featured speaker, Gender Convocation, Drury University, Springfield, MO, October 3.

2002. "Using discourse analysis to investigate online behavior: Applications to distance education." Keynote speech, Instructional Technology Institute, Utah State University, Logan, UT, August 30.

2002. "The language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia?" Keynote speech, International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 12.

2002. "Computer-mediated discourse analysis for system designers." Invited talk, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 9.

2002. "Gender issues in design and use of video in Internet professional development for teachers." With A. Martinson and R. Scheckler. Invited talk, Treasure Mountain Research Institute, Excelsior Springs, MO, June 1.

2002. "Cyber violence: Recognizing and resisting abuse in online environments." Plenary speech, UNESCO Chair Conference on Women's Rights, Cyber Rights, Seoul, Korea, May 31.

2002. "CMDA: An approach to understanding computer-mediated communicative behavior." Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, May 3.

2002. "Gender and power in online communication." Featured speaker, Mellon Foundation Series on the Nature and Impact of Electronic Communication, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, May 2.

2002. "The Internet and language change." Plenary speech, Oxford-Kobe Symposium on Language Change and Historical Linguistics, Kobe, Japan, April 8.

2001. "IT democracy: What's in it for women?" Keynote speech, ITech Women Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 23. (Delivered via videotape and broadcast live on the Internet.)

2001. "Ethical challenges to doing research on the Internet: The CMDA perspective." Invited presentation, panel on the Ethics of Internet Research, Internet Research 2.0, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 14.

2001. "Is 'relevance' relevant in computer-mediated conversation?" Invited talk, Linguistics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 14.

2001. "Linguistic diversity on the Internet." Keynote speech, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, August 16.

2001. "Gender and the Internet." Invited lecture, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2.

2001. "Language diversity on the Internet", "Gender and the Internet", and "Homogenization and diversification in English on the Internet." Invited lecture series, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, July 30-August 3.

2001. "The relevance of relevance in computer-mediated conversation." Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 11.

2001. "The Internet and language change" and "Linguistic diversity on the Internet". Invited talks, Virginia Technical Institute, Blacksburg, VA, April 23.

2001. "Current frontiers in computer-mediated communication." Keynote speech, Computer-Mediated Communication Day, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, March 2.

2001. "Gender and CMC research on the Internet: The state of the art." Keynote speech, Gender and the Internet Day, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 12.

2000. "Linguistic approaches to computer-mediated communication." Keynote speech, Jornada sobre Communicació Mediatitzada per Ordinador en Català, Universitat de Barcelona, December 1, 2000 and "Computer-mediated discourse analysis: The state of the art." Invited talk, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, November 29, 2000 and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, November 30.

2000. "Nicks, scripts, and masks: Doing gender in Internet Relay Chat." Invited talk, Department of Feminist Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, October 17.

2000. "The relevance of relevance in computer-mediated conversation." Invited talk, Linguistics Program, University of Copenhagen, October 12.

2000. "Computer-mediated discourse analysis." Invited workshop, Center for Research on Learning Technologies, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 25.

2000. "Computer-mediated discourse analysis: The state of the art." Keynote speech, Internet Research 1.0, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 15.

2000. "Gender in cyberspace: Implications for Internet research." Invited workshop, Hall Humanities Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 13.

2000. "'Doing gender' on the Internet"; "Change over time in e-mail style: Use of contraction"; "The importance of 'importance': Salience and text typology revisited." Invited lecture series, Växjö University, Sweden, April 10-14.

2000. "Who's got the floor? Gender, power, and interaction style in computer-mediated communication." Invited talk, Library Forum, University of Texas at Arlington, February 28.

1999. "Structural reduction in English on the Internet." Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, November 15.

1999. "The future of the Internet." Invited panelist, Media2000 Conference, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX, November 1.

1999. "Can the medium go the distance? On the limitations of synchronous CMC for instructional computing." Invited talk, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington, October 11.

1999. "Cyber-sociology: 'Doing gender' in recreational computer chat." Invited talk, American Communication Association Conference, Lafayette, LA, October 2.

1999. "Incoherence in computer-mediated communication: Liability or asset?" Invited talk, Psychology Department Colloquium, University of Texas at Arlington, September 10.

1999. "Real language in virtual societies: A reflection on (im)perfection." Invited talk, Symposium in Honor of Umberto Eco, University of Leuven, Belgium, February 26.

1999. "Real language in virtual societies: A reflection on (im)perfection." Keynote speech, UTA Student Conference in Linguistics (UTASCiL-5), Arlington, TX, February 19.

1999. "When functional explanations fail: Contractions on the Internet." Invited talk, Linguistics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., February 9.

1998. "Variation and change in e-mail style." Invited talk, the 114th Convention of the Modern Language Association, panel on The Media and Language Change, San Francisco, December 28.

1998. "Gender codes in cyberspace." Invited talk, Chicago Humanities Festival, panel on He/She in Cyberspace, Chicago, November 8.

1998. "Virtual gender performances." Invited talk, English Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 25.

1998. "Variability and change in e-mail style." Invited talk, series on Electronic Rhetorics, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, May 29.

1998. "Variation and change in e-mail style: The case of an early discussion list." Invited talk, Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 31.

1997. "Evaluating computer-mediated communication as a force in language change." Invited talk, 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 14.

1997. "The nature and uses of e-mail." Plenary speech, STEP Forum on Who's Reading Your E-Mail?, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, March 12.

1997. "Computer technology, gender and women's voices." Invited session leader, American Bar Association conference on Technology and its Impact on Privacy, Civic Discourse and Higher Education, Charleston, SC, March 8.

1997. "Who pays for 'free speech' on the Internet?" Invited talk, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, January 29.

1996. "Text, action and interaction: Computer-mediated language in the cyber age." Plenary speech, Symposium on CultureMorph: Perspectives on Art, Culture & Society in the Cyberage. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, November 13.

1996. "Why women thank and men flame: Gender differences on the Internet." Plenary speech, Symposium on Gender and Communication, Hastings College, Hastings, NE, November 7.

1996. "Metaphors we do linguistics by: Ideology and morality in generative and functional-typological grammar." Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Rice University, Houston, March 21.

1996. Symposium on "Addressing bias in linguistic example sentences: Are guidelines necessary?" Invited discussant, Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, January 6.

1995. "The discursive marginalization of women on the Internet." Invited talk, Speech Communication Association conference, panel on "Domesticating the Electronic Frontier: The Gendered Interaction Patterns of Cyberspace," San Antonio, TX, November 18.

1995. "Category indeterminacy and the evolution of finiteness in Old Dravidian." Plenary speech, 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Manchester, England, August 16.

1995. "Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication." Plenary speech, Symposium on Internet in the Classroom, Southern Methodist University, May 18.

1995. "Preferred argument structure in Tamil." Invited talk, Conference on Preferred Argument Structure, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 13.

1995. "No stereotypes, please: Women drivers on the information superhighway." Plenary speech, Women's History Month Lecture Series, UT Arlington, April 19.

1995. "Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication." Plenary speech, Symposium on the Convergence of Science and the Humanities: Internet Technologies and Scholarly Resources, SUNY Buffalo, March 28.

1994. "Men's Language on the Internet." Keynote speech, 2nd Nordic Conference on Language and Gender, University of Tromsø, Norway, November 3.

1994. "Politeness on the Internet: The gendering of netiquette." Invited talk, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, July 11.

1994. "Gender and computer-mediated discourse: Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier." Keynote speech, American Library Association Conference, Panel "Making the Net*Work*: Is there a Z39.50 for gender communication?", Miami, June 27.

1993. "Sources of grammar." Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 18.

1993. "Gender and computer-mediated discourse: Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier." Invited talk, University of California, Berkeley, April 9.

1992. "Where does emergent grammar emerge from?" Plenary speech, International Seminar on the Role of Communication in Grammatical Theory, with Special Reference to Indian Languages, Aligarh University, Aligarh, India, November 27.

1992. "The evolution of tense and aspect in Tamil." Invited talk, Linguistics Department, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, November 25.

1992. "Functional stability in language change." Invited talk, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 13.

1992. "On the necessity of discourse analysis in grammatical description" Invited talk, Linguistics Forum Series, University of Texas, Arlington, February 10.

1989. "Accounting for verbless sentences in Tamil narrative: A discourse-functionalist approach." Invited talk, English Department, California State University, San Bernardino, February 28.

1989. "Accounting for verbless sentences in Tamil narrative: A discourse-functionalist approach." Invited talk, Linguistics Program, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, February 2.

2005. "Adult-child discourse in a multi-user virtual environment: Scaffolding complexity." With A. Das and S. Penumarthy. Internet Research 6.0, Chicago, IL, October 7.

2005. "Conversation and connectivity in the blogosphere." With J. Paolillo, B. Clark, I. Kouper, S. Mercure, L. A. Scheidt, S. Stoerger, P. Welsch, and E. Wright. Internet Research 6.0, Chicago, IL, October 7.

2005. "The more things change, the more they stay the same: Gender differences in attitudes and experiences related to computing among students in computer science and applied information technology programs." With C. Ogan, J. C. Robinson, and M. Ahuja. International Communication Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, May 28.

2005. "Social network dynamics in the blogosphere." With I. Kouper, S. Mercure, J. Paolillo, L. A. Scheidt, P. Welsch, and E. Wright. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 18.

2005. "Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis 'from the bottom up'." With I. Kouper, J. Paolillo, L. A. Scheidt, M. Tyworth, P. Welsch, E. Wright, and N. Yu. Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawai'i, January 6.

2005. "Micro-longitudinal analysis of Web news updates." With D. Kutz. Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawai'i, January 5. (HICSS Best Paper Award.)

2005. "Collaborative authoring on the Web: A genre analysis of online encyclopedias." With W. Emigh. Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawai'i, January 5.

2004. "Collaborative authoring on the Web: Quality vs. democracy?" With W. Emigh. Internet Research 5.0, University of Sussex, England, September 20.

2004. “Representations of indigenous language groups of North and South America on the World Wide Web: In whose voice?” With Z. C. Estrada. 2004 Conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communication (CATaC’04), Karlstad, Sweden, June 29.

2004. “Assessing gender authenticity in computer-mediated interaction." 54th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, May 28.

2004. “Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs." With L. A. Scheidt and E. Wright. 37th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawai'i, January 7.

2003. "Female sexuality in the Internet Age: Kinsey and Web pornography." With A. Martinson. Conference on Women's Sexualities: Historical, Interdisciplinary, and International Perspectives, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 15.

2003. Panel participant, "Broadening options and raising standards for qualitative Internet research." Internet Research 4.0, Toronto, Canada, October 19.

2003. "Representational bias on SexTracker." With A. Martinson. Internet Research 4.0, Toronto, Canada, October 18.

2003. "Beyond the unusual: Weblogs as genre." With L. A. Scheidt, E. Wright, and S. Bonus. Internet Research 4.0, Toronto, Canada, October 16.

2003. "Weblogs: Structure and origins of an emergent genre." 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 12.

2003. "Designing for gender equity: The case of the Inquiry Learning Forum." American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 22.

2002. "Diversity and choice in web-based pornography." With A. Martinson. Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 7.

2002. "Collaboration and communication in a 3D virtual world." With K. Börner and M. Swan. British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Cardiff, Wales, September 13.

2002. "Whose community? Gender dynamics of questioning and answering in an online professional development tool designed to promote inquiry." With R. Scheckler and A. Martinson. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 9.

2002. "Designing for community: The effects of gender representation in videos on a Web site." With A. Martinson and R. Scheckler. 35th Hawai'i Interantional Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawai'i, January 11. (HICSS Best Paper award.)

2001. "Gender deception games on the Internet." With A. Martinson and L. Nyboe. Internet Research 2.0, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 11.

2001. "Homogenization and diversification in English on the Internet." With J. C. Paolillo. Workshop on Media and Language Change, 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, August 16.

2001. "A multi-modal Web-based community for math and science educators: A feminist critique." With A. Martinson and R. Scheckler. National Women's Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 18.

2001. "Extending computer-mediated discourse analysis to multi-modal CMC." Workshop on Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces, CHI 2001, Seattle, Washington, April 3.

2000. "Norms of computer-mediated conversation: Whither relevance?" 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 9.

1999. "Salience revisited: The view from text typology." With G. Humber. 28th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), San Antonio, TX, October 1.

1999. "Actualization of a counter-change: Contractions on the Internet." 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, August 13.

1999. "Implications pédagogiques de la discussion synchrone par ordinateur: Cohérence ou egalité?" (In French.) Journées internationales de linguistique appliquée, Nice, France, June 25.

1999. "Interactional coherence in CMC." 32nd Hawai'i Interantional Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawai'i, January 8. (HICSS Best Paper award.)

1998. "Ideologies of language use on the Internet: The case of 'free speech'." 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, France, July 21.

1998. "The discourse of harassment on the Internet: Gender dynamics in two modes of CMC." Sociolinguistics Symposium 12, London, England, March 27.

1997. "Variation and change in e-mail style." 26th Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), Quebec, Canada, October 25.

1997. "Humor that binds: Joking on Internet Relay Chat." International Society for Humor Studies Conference, Edmond, OK, July 13.

1997. "Is 'serious chat' an oxymoron? Academic vs. social uses of Internet Relay Chat." With C. G. Nix. Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, FL, March 11.

1996. "Beyond 'free speech' on the Internet." Discourse as Mosiac: The Re/production of Identities and Ideologies in Discourse, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 11.

1996. "Who's got the floor in computer-mediated conversation? Edelsky's gender patterns revisited." 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 8.

1996. "Metaphors we do linguistics by: Politics and ideology in grammatical theory." 21st UWM Linguistics Symposium on Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 21.

1995. "Politeness and gender of computer hackers." With R. Lombard. 24th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), Las Cruces, NM, October 23.

1995. "Categoriality and finiteness in Old Dravidian." 17th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Texas, Austin, June 4.

1995. "Requests and disagreements among computer hackers on the Internet." With R. Lombard. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) Presession on Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 8.

1994. "An ethnographic analysis of ritual insults in the 1992 presidential debates." With D. A. Johnson. 23rd Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), Stanford University, October 18.

1994. "On determining word order in Old Tamil." 16th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 23.

1994. "Politeness in computer culture: The gendering of 'netiquette'." Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 3.

1994. "Discourse functions of demonstrative and pronominal deixis in Tamil." 20th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 19.

1993. "Adversariality in the 1992 presidential debates." With D. A. Johnson. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), University of Texas at Arlington, October 16.

1993. "Diachronic word order variation in a strict verb-final language." 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, UCLA, August.

1993. "Culture vs. technology, or why computer-mediated communication is still sexist." 4th International Pragmatics Conference, panel on Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication, Kobe, Japan, July.

1993. "'This-he' or 'that-he': Deixis and reference in Tamil narrative discourse." 15th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Panel on Discourse Grammar in South Asian Languages, University of Iowa, May.

1993. "Macrosegmentation in postings to two electronic lists." Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) Presession on Discourse Analysis: Written Texts, Georgetown University, March.

1992. "Men's language." XVth International Congress of Linguists, Université Laval, Québec, August.

1992. "'Afterthought' postposing in Tamil." 14th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Stanford University, May.

1992. "Participation in electronic discourse in a 'feminist' field." With D. A. Johnson and T. DiBenedetto. Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, UC Berkeley, April.

1992. "Gender and participation in computer-mediated linguistic discourse." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia, January.

1991. "From aspect to tense in Tamil: Evidence from discourse." 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, Holland, August.

1991. "From aspect to tense in Old Tamil: Evidence from narrative discourse." 13th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, May.

1991. "Presentational focus in SOV languages." With J. C. Paolillo. 20th UWM Linguistics Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April.

1990. "Topic and focus positions as a consequence of word order type: What is universal?" 3rd International Pragmatics Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July.

1990. "Be ing ... the Tamil way." 12th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley, June.

1990. "Information focus as a consequence of word-order type." 16th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February.

1989. "Is sentence-final 'focus' position universal?" Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C., December.

1989. "Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian." 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University, August.

1989. "Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian." 11th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Wisconsin at Madison, June.

1989. "Accounting for verbless sentences in Tamil narrative: A discourse-functionalist approach." 11th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, June.

1989. "Verbless presentation and the discourse basis of ergativity." 25th Annual Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April.

1988. "Rhetorical questions in Tamil oral narrative." 10th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Washington, Seattle, July.

1988. "Aspect as a discourse category in Tamil." 14th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February.

1986. "The present tense in narration: Developmental implications of a unified Historical Present account." Chicago Linguistics Society Parasession on the Development of Temporality, University of Chicago, April.

2005. "The Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication." Panel co-organized with D. Stein and T. Virtanen for the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 12.

2005. "Persistent Conversation: Research and Design." Workshop and one-day minitrack co-organized with T. Erickson (IBM) for the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Hawai'i, January 3-7.

2004. "Analyzing Social Interaction in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Systems." One-day tutorial co-developed with M. Smith (Microsoft Research) for CSCW 2004: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, IL, November 7.

2004. "Content and Discourse Analysis." Panel coordinated for the New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium, Tarragona, Spain, October 1.

2004. “The Multilingual Internet.” Panel co-organized with B. Danet (Yale University) for 2004 Conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communication (CATaC’04), Karlstad, Sweden, June 29.

2004. "Analyzing Social Interaction in CMC Systems: Tools and Concepts." One-day tutorial co-developed with M. Smith (Microsoft Research) for CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 24.

2004. "Persistent Conversation: Research and Design." Workshop and one-day minitrack co-organized with T. Erickson (IBM) for the 37th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Hawai'i, January 5-9.

2003. "Language and Media." Invited thematic section for the XVIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 11-15.

2002. "Language and the New Media." Invited colloquium for the annual meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, Cardiff, Wales, September 12-14.

2002. "Discourse Architectures: Designing and Visualizing Computer-Mediated Conversation." Workshop co-organized with T. Erickson (IBM) and W. Sack (UC Berkeley) for CHI 2002, Minneapolis, MN, April 22.

2002. "Persistent Conversation: Research and Design", workshop and one-day minitrack co-organized with T. Erickson (IBM) for the 35th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Hawai'i, January 7-11.

2001. "Media and Language Change." Workshop organized for the XVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, August 16.

2001. "Persistent Conversation: Research and Design." Workshop and one-day minitrack co-organized with Thomas Erickson (IBM) for the 34th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawai'i, January 7-10.

2000. "Persistent Conversation: Research and Design." Workshop and one-day minitrack co-organized with Thomas Erickson (IBM) for the 33rd Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawai'i, January 4-5. Led workshop on "CMC Research: Conversation Analysis".

1997. "Electronic Fools: What's So Funny About Computer-Mediated Communication?" Panel organized for the International Society for Humor Studies Conference, Edmond, OK, July.

1996. "Computer-Mediated Conversation." Two panels organized for the 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July.

1995. "Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis." One-day presession of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Georgetown University, March.

1993. "Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication." Panel organized for 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan, July.

1993. "Discourse Grammar in South Asian Languages." Panel organized for 15th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Iowa, May.

English (native), French (fluent), Tamil, Spanish, German, some Japanese.

Indiana University, Bloomington

L565: Computer-Mediated Communication*

L567: Gender and Computerization*

L597: Content Analysis for the World Wide Web*

L665: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis*

L701: Introduction to Doctoral Research in Information Science**

University of Texas at Arlington

HUMA 5302: Theories of Discourse: Discourse and Ideology*,**

LING 2301: Introduction to Linguistic Science**

LING 4318/4389: Language and Gender*

LING 5306: Grammatical Theory II: Functional-Typological Grammar*,**

LING 5313: Linguistic Typology and Language Universals**

LING 5317: Introduction to Sociolinguistics**

LING 5318: Language and Gender*

LING 5340: Structure of a Non-Indo-European Language: Tamil*,**

LING 5346: Spoken Discourse*

LING 5348: Text Analysis**

LING 6300: Professional Writing for Linguists*,**

LING 6310: Computer-Mediated Discourse*

California State University, San Bernardino

ENG 311: The English Language**

ENG 420: Grammar and Linguistics

ENG 523: English Syntax*

ENG 524: Sociolinguistics*

ENG 615: Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice**

HUM 312: Theories of Language Acquisition

Stanford University

LING 662: Beginning Tamil

University of California, Berkeley

FREN 1: Introductory French

FREN 2: Intermediate French

FREN 3: Advanced French

LING 5: Introduction to Human Language**

LING 100: Introduction to Languages and Linguistics**

Ph.D.

Committee Chair

Completed:

Deborah Ann Johnson-Evans, "A Discourse Analysis of the 1998 United States Senate Candidates' Pre-election Debates." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. August 2000.

Clive W. McClelland III, "Interrelations of Prosody, Clause Structure and Discourse Pragmatics in Tarifit Berber." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

Carol Ann Greb Nix, "The Impact of E-mail Use on Fourth Graders' Writing Skills." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1998.

Ernie C. Ricketts, Jr., "Discourse Functions of Tense, Aspect and Mood in Ancient Greek Hortatory Epistles." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. August 1999.

Jeyashree Venkatesan, "Reference and Aging in Tamil." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1994.

Susan Clark Wykel, "A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Structure Employed in English Texts by Native Speakers of English and Native Speakers of Spanish." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

In progress:

Ewa Callahan (An empirical approach to assessing cultural indicators on Web sites). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Dissertation in progress.

Benjamin Clark (LiveJournal communities). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Anupam Das (Code switching in Bengali chat). Department of Linguistics, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Zilia Estrada (Cultural preservation in public libraries). School of Library and Information Science and Department of Folklore, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Kirk Job-Sluder (Social networks in Quest Atlantis). Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. Dissertation in progress.

Inna Kouper (Information seeking and community in the blogosphere). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Anna Martinson (Feminist ideological debates on the World Wide Web). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Dissertation in progress.

Lois Ann Scheidt (Avatars, gender and emotions in adolescent chat rooms). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Qualifying paper in progress.

Sharon Stoerger (Weblogs in online learning). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Committee Membership

Completed:

Deborah Chung, "Interactivity in 45 News Websites." School of Journalism, Indiana University. June 2004.

Eleanor Daniels, "The Writer-Reader Relationship: The Author, the Text, and the Second Language Interpreter." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. August 1997.

Charlotte Ford, "An Exploratory Study of the Differences between Face-To-Face and Computer-Mediated Reference Interactions." School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. May 2003.

Caisey Hung, "National Cultural Orientations and Perceptions of Task-Technology Fit: A Longitudinal Study." Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. June 2004.

Kyong-Jee Kim, "Adult Learners’ Motivation in Self-Directed e-Learning." Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. August 2005.

Adam King, "Affective Dimensions of Internet Culture." Department of Sociology, Indiana University. May 2003.

Yusuf Koc, "An Examination of How People with Diverse Backgrounds Talk About Mathematics Teaching and Learning Face-to-Face and On-Line." Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. August 2005.

Dorothea Moore, "Lucy Stone, 19th Century Feminist." Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1996.

Trena Paulus, "The Impact of Group Size and Synchronicity on Collaboration and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Online Learning Environments." Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. June 2003.

In progress:

Eunseong Kim, School of Journalism, Indiana University. Dissertation in progress.

Nari Kim, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Xiaojing Kou, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University. Dissertation proposal in progress.

Andrew Kurtz, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Qualifying paper in progress.

Narayanan Iyer, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University. Advanced to candidacy, May 2005.

Indeok Song, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Sangil Yoon, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

Elijah Wright, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Coursework in progress.

External Examiner ("Opponent")

Ylva Hård af Segerstad, "The Use and Adaptation of Swedish Written Language to Computer-Mediated Communication." Department of Linguistics, University of Göteborg, Sweden. Completed December 2002.

Master's

Committee Chair

In progress:

Asta Zelenkauskaite (A comparison of orthography in Lithuanian, Croatian, and Italian computer-mediated chat). Department of Linguistics, Indiana University.

Completed:

Richard Lee Boutwell, "Iconicity and tense-aspect-modality morphology in SOV languages." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. August 2000.

Syo-Wen Chen, "Chinese students' misunderstandings in American university lectures." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1994.

Karen Chadbourne Daley, "The discourse functions of classifiers in Vietnamese." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1995.

Julia Dieterman, "Participant reference in Mixe narrative discourse." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1995.

Shih-Jen Huang, "Functions of Hausa aspects." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1994.

LiChien Hung, Written comprehensive examination. Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1996.

Douglas Kasten, "A salience scheme for Biblical Hebrew." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1994.

Jonathan Kern, "Participant reference in Wari', a VOS language of the Amazonian lowlands." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

Yoon Sook Kim, "Clause combining in Korean." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. August 2000.

Peter Knapp, "Pragmatic functions of the Vorfeld in German." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1994.

Brent Alan Koehn, "Verb morphology and discourse function in Hellenistic Greek narrative texts." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1998.

Kofi Ron Lange, "Grammaticalization in Nawuri." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

Michael Lothers, "Deixis in Kalam Kohistani narrative discourse." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

Virginia Vinton, "The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1994.

Dennis Walters, "Discourse evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1995.

Thomas Wendel, "A preliminary grammar of Hanga Hundi." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1993.

Susanne Zachik-Smith, "A morphology of the popular romance novel." English Department, California State University, San Bernardino. December 1993.

Committee Membership

Completed:

Karen Bradley, "A peak and profile analysis of li and ka in Zairian Swahili." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1994.

Barbara Cameron, "Language attitudes in Sierra Leone Krio." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

Chia-Huan Chang, "A contrastive study of English and Chinese rhetoric." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1994.

Monica Chiu, "Can the Chinese Eight-Legged Essay help ESL students write in English?" English Dept., California State University, San Bernardino. June 1993.

Caroline Fleming, "Selected topics in Mona grammar." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1995.

Laura Gillette, "Postposing in Hindi narrative discourse." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1999.

Esther Kim, "Korean Romanization in Computer-Mediated Communication." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1997.

Jeffrey McMurtry, Written comprehensive examination. Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1997.

Kathryn Partridge, "Biblical Hebrew narrative poetry." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1995.

Lucy Spiro Peal, "Personality and second language learning strategies." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1993.

Caron Peck, Oral comprehensive examination. Interdisciplinary Studies Program, May 1995.

Suzann Saltzman, Written comprehensive examination. Humanities Program, University of Texas at Arlington, May 1994.

Christine Bobbitt Voth, "The facts about FAQs: Assumption, expectation, and audience in Frequently Asked Questions on the Internet and Usenet." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. December 1998.

Jonathan Wilson, "Binandere nominal structures." Program in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington. May 1996.

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Taskforce on Language and Communication Technology for the International Association for Language and Social Psychology, 2004.

International taskforce on violence against women in cyberspace, in association with the Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung University, Seoul, Korea, 2002.

Taskforce of the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (an advisory body of the Linguistic Society of America) to develop an award for student research on language and gender, 1993.

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External tenure reviewer for colleagues at York University (Canada), Fall 1993; Mills College, Spring 2003; Purchase College, Fall 2003; MIT Media Lab, Spring 2005.

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