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Mary Jill Brody
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Fred B. Kniffen Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
Women’s and Gender Studies
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6174 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: gajill@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Washington University, 1982.
INTERESTS
Tojolab’al Mayan Discourse
Discourse and Conversation Analysis
Literacy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Brody, M. Jill. 2005. “Responsibility in Tojolab’al gossip: Indirect speech, modal orientation, and metalinguistic terms as used to construct self and other in a moral landscape.” Ketzalcalli 2:2-21.
2003 “An Anthropological Perspective on (Language-and-) Culture in the Second-Language Curriculum.” In Culture as the Core: Perspectives on Culture in Second Language Education. Dale L. Lange and R. Michael Paige, eds. Research in Second Language Learning Series. Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing, pgs. 37-51.
2001 “Orientación en espacio, tiempo y cultura tojolab’al por medio de plática,” Tlalócan13:119-168.
2000 “Co-construction in Tojolab'al conversational narratives: Translating cycles, quotes, evaluations, evidentials and emotions,” In Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking, Kay Sammons, and Joel Sherzer, eds. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Smithsonian Series of Studies in Native American Literatures pgs. 86-103.
2000 “spatilab'il sk'ujol ‘tell them “hey” for me’: Traditional Mayan speech genre goes multimedia. Texas Linguistic Forum 43:1-14, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium About Language and Society-Austin. Austin: Department of Linguistics, University of Texas.
RESEARCH
Tojolab’al Discourse Grammar
Yoga Instructional Discourse
Family Literacy in Louisiana
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2007-2009. Fulbright Senior Specialist
2007. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Individual Achievement in the Humanities Award
2005-present. Editorial Board, Ketzalcalli
2000-2003. Editorial Board, Southwest Journal of Linguistics
1998 – 2002. Editorial Board, American Anthropologist
COURSES TAUGHT
Language and Culture
Field Methods in Linguistics
Discourse and Conversation
North American Indians
Women, Place, Culture
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