Mai Kuha

Department of English
Ball State University

My goal is to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic phenomena that underlie social and environmental problems through research projects in sociolinguistics and pragmatics that

· contribute to social justice,

· improve intercultural communication and understanding, and

· raise awareness of sustainability issues and improve the effectiveness of environmental discourse

Spring 2009 schedule

Courses ENG 220, Language and Society ENG 299X, Experimental Topics: Language and Ecology ENG 321, English Linguistics ENG 320 (formerly ENG 420), Introduction to Linguistic Science ANTH 308, Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics ENG 620, Linguistics and the Study of English There are course pages for ENG 220, ENG 299X, ENG 321, and ANTH 308. (Guests: click "Preview", then the "COURSES" tab, and do a search on my name.)

Research Papers available online: Uncertainty about causes and effects of global warming in U.S. news coverage before and after Bali Acceptance and avoidance of responsibility in world leaders’ statements about climate change Investigating the spread of so as an intensifier: Social and structural factors My cv contains links to some abstracts for other papers.

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See my draft of a website on linguistic tools for persuasive discourse on Blackboard:

Go to http://my.bsu.edu, click "Preview", then the "COMMUNITY" tab, and do an "Organization Search" on my name

A, like, bibliography on the discourse marker like

A collection of photos that have something to do with language

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" He went on writing letters to Urras, even when he mailed none of them at all. The fact of writing for someone who might understand--who might have understood--made it possible for him to write, to think. Otherwise it was not possible. The decads went by, and the quarters. Two or three times a year the reward came: a letter from Atro or another physicist in A-Io or Thu, a long letter, close-written, close-argued, all theory from salutation to signature, all intense abstruse meta-mathematical-ethico-cosmological temporal physics, written in a language he could not speak by men he did not know, fiercely trying to combat and destroy his theories, enemies of his homeland, rivals, strangers, brothers. For days after getting a letter he was irascible and joyful, worked day and night (...) " Ursula K. LeGuin. 1974. The Dispossessed. New York: Avon. p. 130.

Carta de Cuba En cada mesa un viejo taburete de tea chirriante y vacío. Y la mirada perdida de gaviota en lejanía, de una madre, madre anciana. Y unos nietos escuchando el relato de tíos ausentes aventureros de bienestar. El mes o el año que llega el abrazo salpicado de tachones de una carta de Cuba o Venezuela hay que leer entre surcos los ininteligibles signos. Pasa la alegría de mano en mano. Casi siempre los que escriben son los ricos en hijos. Y en trabajos. Y en soles. Y en desgracias. Los que aún aman su nacimiento. Porque siguen bebiendo sus raíces las aguas del recuerdo y, fatalmente, en cualquier sitio son extraños. Pero a todos es inevitable llevar siempre el barro en las sandalias, Aunque sus ramas se llenen de oro, y su huella se pierda en el desierto, aunque las olas borren su estela y sus cartas, un hambre insaciable les hace añorar de cuando en cuando los ajos y cebollas de sus piedras. Fernando Ramírez. 1966. Poesía canaria última

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