Alice F. Freed B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Linguistics

Alice F. Freed did her undergraduate and graduate work in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her areas of specialization are sociolinguistics and discourse analysis ((language and gender, question use in English, questions and institutional discourse).  At Montclair State she has taught in a variety of programs from Linguistics to Women’s Studies, the Honor’s Program, and as part of the General Education program. She has also taught courses at the University of New Mexico (as part of the LSA 1995 Summer Linguistic Institute) and at New York University as a visiting adjunct professor. She served as Chair of the Linguistics Department at Montclair from 1986-1993 and in 1995. She was a member of the LSA Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) from 1992-1995. She worked as a consultant in discourse analysis at AT&T Labs, Research Department (Florham Park, NJ) from 2002-2004. She is the author of The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation (Reidel 1979) and co-editor with Victoria Bergvall and Janet Bing of Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice (Longman 1996). She is currently working on a co-edited volume (with Susan Ehrlich) “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse to be published by Oxford University Press.

DR. ALICE F. FREED   alice.freed@montclair.edu / freeda@mail.montclair.edu

Dickson Hall:                Room 127  - Phone: (973) 655-7505

Linguistics Office:       Room 124  - Phone: (973) 655-4286

OFFICE HOURS:         Tuesday             2:15 PM -  3:15 PM

                                    Wednesday        4:30 PM -  5:30 PM

                                    Thursday          10:30 AM -11:30 AM

Or by appointment

APLN 524 ADV  STRUCTURE AMERICAN ENGLISH W  5:30-8:00PM  DI 122

LNGN 220 STRUCTURE AMERICAN ENGLISH   TR  11:30-12:45PM 

LNGN 260 DIALECTOLOGY TR  1:00-2:15PM

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

· Question Use in Institutional Discourse

·  Language and Gender
Visit Mary Bucholtz' Language and Gender Page (www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/)

· Sociolinguistics/ Language and Culture (American English)

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS (Since 1994)

Books:

Forthcoming. “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse. ( Edited with Susan Ehrlich). Oxford University Press.

1996 Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice. (Edited with V. Bergvall and J. Bing). [Real Language Series.] London: Longman. (303 pp.). 1996.

1979 The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation. Synthese Language Library: Volume 8. D. Reidel Publishing Co.: Dordrecht, Holland. (172 pp.). 1979.

Chapters in Books:

2003 “Epilogue: Reflections on Language and Gender Research.” In The Handbook on Language and Gender. Janet Homes and Miriam Meyerhoff, (Eds.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 699‑721.

1996 “Language and Gender Research in an Experimental Setting.” In Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice. V. Bergvall, J. Bing, and A. Freed, (Eds.) London: Longman. Pp. 54-76.1996

1996 “The Language of Pregnancy: Women & Medical Experience.” In Women & Belief Systems: Proceedings of the 1996 Berkeley Women & Language Conference. N. Warner, et. al. (Eds.) Berkeley, CA.: Berkeley Women & Language Group. (Pp. 237-245). 1996.

1995 “Applied Linguistics: Language and Gender.” In An Overview of Applied Linguistics: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. Volume XV. William Grabe, (Ed.) Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-20, 1995.

1994 “A Cross-cultural Analysis of Language and Gender.” In Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. M. Bucholtz, A. Lang, and L. Sutton (Eds.). Berkeley, CA.: Berkeley Women and Language Group. (Pp.197-204), 1996.

Articles/ Papers:

2004 “Opening strategies for selling local service: A discourse analysis of ACS Outbound Telemarketing calls.” Technical Memorandum. AT&T Research Labs. Florham Park, NJ. September 2004. (17 pages.)

1999 “Communities of Practice and Pregnant Women: Is There a Connection?” Language in Society. Vol. 28.2:257-271. June, 1999.

1996 “Women, Men and Talk: What Makes the Difference?” (with Alice Greenwood). Language in Society. Vol. 25.1:1-26. March, 1996.

1994 “The Form and Function of Questions in Informal Dyadic Conversation.” The Journal of Pragmatics. Volume 21:219-242. April, 1994.

1992 “We Understand Perfectly: A Critique of Tannen's View of Cross-sex Communication” Berkeley Women and Language Group.

Book Reviews:

1999 Review of Gender Articulated. Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz, Eds., Language in Society. Spring 1999.

1997 Review of Janet Holmes’ Women, Men and Politeness. Language. Vol. 73.2:395-397.

INVITED PAPERS:

2004 “Opening strategies for selling local service: A discourse analysis of ACS Outbound Telemarketing calls.” In-house talk. AT&T Research Labs. Florham Park, NJ. July 2004.

2000 “Challenging the Stereotypes about Women’s and Men’s Language.” Panel participant. “Saying No to Boy’s World: Challenging Patriarchy.” Feminist Expo 2000. Baltimore, Maryland. April 2000.

2000 “Language and Gender Research: Why Do the Stereotypes Persist?” Invited talk. New York University Linguistics Department Colloquium. February 4, 2000.

1999 “The Perceptions Don’t Match the Talk: Women, Men and Language.” Plenary Address. Meeting of the International Linguistics Association. New York. April 1999.

1997 “Communities of Practice and Pregnant Women: Is There a Connection.” Symposium on Language and Gender: Sixth Conference on Language and Social Psychology. Ottawa, Canada. May, 1997.

1995 “The State of the Art: Language and Gender Research.” International Linguistics Association Meeting. New York. May, 1995.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS READ

2004 “Sex or Gender: Still a conundrum in language and gender research.” International Gender & Language Association Meeting (IGALA-III ). Cornell University. June 2004.

1999 “Language, Sex, and Gender: A Glorious Obsession.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English (NWAVE). Toronto, Canada. October, 1999.

Mailing Address:

Linguistics Department

Dickson Hall 127

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ 07043

Last Updated September 2006