Search Full Text
Now showing items 1-4 of 4
Positioning, Storylines, Master Narratives, and Intertextuality: Student Veteran Discourse about Decisions, Transitions, and Communities of Practice
(Georgetown University, 2022)
While existing research recognizes the importance of transitions in military members’ lives, there are few, and to my knowledge no micro-level discourse analytic, studies illuminating how military veterans talk about their ...
Uncovering Implicit Social Hierarchies in Political Discourse: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of the 2019 United States Democratic Party Presidential Primary Debates
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This study takes a social constructivist approach in the examination of ideologies that position one person, or one group, above another in political discourse. I analyze social hierarchies in the eight 2019 Democratic ...
Catechism, Raincoats, and Refrigerators: Story Rounds and the Discursive Construction of Personal and Shared Identities in One Extended Family
(Georgetown University, 2022)
In this study, I employ discourse analytic and interactional sociolinguistic theories and methods to analyze a round of stories shared amongst a group of my extended family members following a family meal during the ...
“They Tell Me Frequently That I’m Going to Hell, Which Is Fine”: LGBTQ+ Young Adults’ Evaluative Retellings of Exclusionary Everyday Interactions
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This study examines LGBTQ+ young adults’ evaluative retellings of exclusionary everyday interactions through the frameworks of appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005) and the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity ...