Patricia D. Mayes, Associate Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 486
Phone: 414-229-6992
e-mail: mayes@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999
M.A., San Diego State University, 1988
B.S., University of Washington, 1979
Teaching Interests:
Language and Gender
Sociolinguistics
Second Language Writing
TESOL Pedagogy
Teaching Interests:
Discourse
Sociolinguistics
Language and identity
Language and power
Selected Publications:
Book:
(2003). Language, social structure, and culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 223 pp.
Articles:
(2009). Corporate Culture in a Global Age: Starbucks' Social Responsibility and the Merging of Corporate and Personal Interests. In A. Trosborg & K.K. Luke. Pragmatics across languages and cultures.
(In press). Identity construction in the critical classroom: a critique of "critical pedagogy" in an English composition program. Discourse & Society.
(2005). Linking micro and macro social structure through genre analysis. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 38, 331-370.
(2004). Genre as a locus of social structure and cultural ideology: A comparison of Japanese and American cooking classes. In C. Moder & Martinovic-Zic (Eds.), Discourse across language and cultures (pp. 177-194). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2003). The transitive/intransitive construction of events in Japanese and English discourse. In K.M. Jaszczolt & K. Turner (Eds.), Meaning through language contrast, Vol. 1 (pp. 277-291). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(1999). Gender, emotion, and ideology: Language socialization in girls' and boys' nursery school friendship groups. In J. Verschueren (Ed.), Language and ideology: Selected papers from the 6th international pragmatics conference (290-308). Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association (with Amy Kyratzis).