Gales, Tammy

Office: Radford 212

Phone: 920-424-7282

Email: galest@uwosh.edu

Office Hours:  T 2:30-4:30, R 1:30-2:30 and by appt

Personal Statement

My research focuses on forensic linguistic applications of sociolinguistics and I utilize discourse and corpus analytic methods of investigation.

Degrees

• PhD, University of California, Davis, Linguistics (2010)
• MA, University of California, Davis, Linguistics (2007)
• MA, Northern Arizona University, TESOL (1998)
• BA, Iowa State University, English and German, Secondary Education (1995)

Courses Taught: 

• ENG702 Language in Society
• ENG452/654 Applied Linguistics
• ENG384/584 Sociolinguistics
• ENG383/583 Introduction to Linguistics
• ENG222 Introduction to Latina/Latino Literature
• ENG214 American Literature II
• ENG188 WBIS (OC: Censorship and the Arts)

Selected Publications and/or Activities:

• Linguistic Analysis of Disputed Meanings: Threats. In C. Chapelle (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. Gales, Tammy (2011).
• Identifying Interpersonal Stance in Threatening Discourse: An Appraisal Analysis. Discourse Studies 13(1), 27-46. Gales, Tammy (2010).
• Dissertation Abstract. Ideologies of Violence: A Corpus and Discourse Analytic Approach to Stance in Threatening Communications. University of California, Davis. Speech, Language, and the Law 17(2), 299-302. Gales, Tammy (2009).
• ‘Diversity’ as Represented in U.S. Immigration Law and Politics: A Corpus-based Approach. Discourse & Society 20(2), 223-240. Gales, Tammy (2009). 
• The Linguistic Barrier between Immigration and Citizenship in the U.S. In G. Extra, M. Spotti, and P. Van Avermaet (eds.) Testing Regimes: Cross-National Perspectives on Language, Migration, & Citizenship. Continuum, 191-210. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Gales, Tammy (2011). 
• “The Stance of Stalking: A Corpus-based Analysis of Epistemic Stance in Threats.” Paper at 2010 International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law, Birmingham, UK. Gales, Tammy and Chand, Vineeta (2010). 
• “A Corpus-based Approach to Word Frequency and Syntactic Categories: Untangling their Relationship within Sound Change.” Paper at 2010 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. Gales, Tammy (2009).
• “‘Get out before we get you!’ A Corpus-based Analysis of Stance in Threatening Communications.” Paper at American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Gales, Tammy and Fitzgerald, James (2009).
• “Advances in Threat Assessment Techniques: the Communicated Threat Assessment Reference Corpus.” Paper at International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) 6th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.