Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Romance Languages My main areas of interest in research and teaching include pragmatics (particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics), the roles of pragmatics and semantics in language use and interpretation, discourse analysis, cognitive and functional linguistics, discourse reference and anaphora, discourse connectives and markers, Spanish/English contrastive pragmatics, and L2 pragmatics, language learning and applied linguistics. My research has focused on pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive motivations influencing native Spanish speakers' and L2 Spanish learners' use of referring expressions (e.g., NPs, pronouns, null subjects), linguistic evidence of cognitive and interactional frames in spoken discourse, and the meanings and functions of discourse connectives in Spanish and English. I was Special Issues Editor of the Journal of Pragmatics from 2003-2008 and continue to serve on the editorial board of the journal.
