Office: Curtin Hall 486
Phone: 414-229-6992
e-mail: mayes@uwm.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999
M.A., San Diego State University, 1988
B.S., University of Washington, 1979
Language and Gender
Sociolinguistics
Second Language Writing
TESOL Pedagogy
Discourse
Sociolinguistics
Language and identity
Language and power
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).