Selected Publications and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

“Student Conceptions of Communication: Impact on Success in the Communication Classroom.” International Journal of Learning (to be published 2005).

 “Changing Discourse Structures in News Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.” Texas Linguistic Forum, 48, 2005, pp. 51-60. Also available at http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/salsaproceedings/salsa12/index.htm.

“Student Perceptions of Their Communication Competence.” Communication Education, 53, 4, Oct. 2004, pp. 357-364.

"The Discourse Structure of News Coverage of the Crisis in Palestine." Carolinas Communication Annual, Vol. XVIV, (2003), pp. 33-52.

Review of Phillip J. Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron, and Jenny Mandelbaum (Eds.), "Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper." Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 68, 4, (June 2003), pp. 354-355.

"The ‘Poor Man’s Guardian:’ Radicalism as a Precursor to Marxism." Proceedings of the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, FL, (August 2002). ERIC No: ED473793.

"NewsAnalyzer - An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Text" (with M.J. Almeida). Conference Abstracts of the 1993 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, (June 1993) pp.3-6 .Georgetown University Press: Washington D.C.

"A Category System for the Analysis of Factuality in Newspaper Discourse." Text - An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Vol. 12, No. 2. (1992), pp.233-262.Walter de Gruyter: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Two African American Female Journalists,” presented at the Chesnutt Arts Festival, Fayetteville State University, April 2005.

“Mothers, Bombers, and Victims: Images of Women in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Southern States Communication Association, April 2005.

"Changing Discourse Structures in News Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,"  Annual Conference of the Symposium About Language and Society, Austin, TX, April 2004.

"Facticity in the Constitution of Crisis Communication: How Public Icons Use Factuality in their "Crisis" Discourse," Annual Conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Tampa, FL, April 2004.

"Discourse Analyses of Newspaper Articles," Annual Conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Tampa, FL, April 2004.

"The Discourse Structure of News Coverage of the Crisis in Palestine," Annual Conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Birmingham, AL, April 2003.

"What Counts as Crisis Communication," panel discussion co-chaired with Dan Degooyer, Annual Conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Birmingham, AL, April 2003.

"The Poor Man’s Guardian: Radicalism as a Precursor to Marxism,"  Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Miami, FL, August 2002.

"A Discourse Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of their Communication Competence,"  Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Annual Conference, April 3-7, 2002 in Winston-Salem, NC. Top Three Paper Award.

"Students’ Perceptions of Their Communication Competence: A Pragmatic Approach to Communication Competence Theory", Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 2001.

"Perceptions of Modern/Traditional Communication Characteristics of Youth Culture", International/Intercultural Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, July 2000.

"Narrative Structure and Linguistic Transformation in the Clinton Press Coverage", The 7th International Narrative Conference, Lexington, KY, Nov. 1998.

"Cultural Values as a Source of Communication Conflict within the Organization",  Nebraska Educational Business Association (NEBA) Omaha, NE, Oct. 1998.

"Political Value Systems Related to Race, Ethnicity and Sex: The Complexity of Diversity Issues", Virginia Association for Communication Arts and Sciences (VACAS), Sept. 1998.

"Praxis and Students' Perceptions of Communication Competence", National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1997.

"Narrative Themes and Structures in the Paula Jones Story", Sixth International Conference on Narrative, Lexington, KY, Nov. 1997.

"Students At Risk in the 1990's: A Dialogue on the Needs of Diverse Ethnic/Racial Groups in the Communication Classroom", National Communication Association Summer Conference, Washington D.C., July 1997.

"Public and Private Communication and Culturally Specific Sexual Conflict", Eastern Communication Association Conference Panel "The 1996 Presidential Campaign: Works in Progress", Baltimore, MD, April 1997.

"NewsAnalyzer - An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Text", Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 1993 (with M.J. Almeida).

"The Radical Press as Naive Deconstructionists in a Battle for the Sign: A Case Analysis of One Nineteenth Century Newspaper", Speech Communication Association Convention, Miami, FL, Nov. 1993.

"Analyzing the Differential Use of Predictions in Political Campaign Reporting", Eastern Communication Association Convention, Portland, ME, April 1992. Selected as one of the top three papers in Political Communication.

"A Category System for the Analysis of Newspaper Discourse",  International Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, June 1991.

"Factuality and Nonfactuality in Newspaper Discourse", Eastern Communication Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1991.