photo of laurel in Japan, 2007

Laurel Smith Stvan

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Chair and Graduate Advisor

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

Summer 2009 Schedule

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
Forms Investigated: Bare Nominals, Discourse Markers, Lexical Ambiguity
Methods and Applications: Corpus Linguistics, Vocabulary Acquisition, Health Discourse
Works: Scholarly publications and presentations
Professional development presentations

Courses Taught at UTA

Ling. 2301 -- Introduction to the Study of Human Language
Ling. 2351 -- e-languages
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 -- The Computer and Natural Language: Corpus Linguistics
Ling. 5393 -- TESOL Teaching and Observation
Ling. 6300 -- Professional Writing Seminar for Linguists

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