WOR(L)DS

We enter into a preformed social world, and through our social performance we restructure that world. The social world makes us, we make the social world.

Language is, for humans at least, a foundational component of this dialogic self-formation. Langauage is how we form corporations, colleges, and co-ops. We build communities through cooperative action, coordinated in no small part by linguistic practice. Language also reflect the cognitive constraints & mechanisms that define what we are as thinking beings. The core of my research program is exploring the ways that language comprehension & use reflect this intersection of the cognitive and social worlds.

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I am currently a PhD student in Experimental Psychology (Cognitive Area) at the University of Memphis working in the Language and Behavior Lab with Dr. Stephanie Huette. Previously, I worked for the Langauge Conservancy and the Crow Language Consortium as a linguist on several langauge revitalization projects. I hold an MA in Linguistics from the University of Montana.

Some areas of interest include:

• abstraction & metafor
• categorization & category learning
• direct (social) perception
• interpersonal coordination
• language ideologies & bias
• modality (in both relevant senses)
• negation
• perceptual (language) learning