Lori Czerwionka

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Hispanic Linguistics
MA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Linguistics
BA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spanish and Finance

I am an assistant professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Northern Illinois University. I teach linguistics and Spanish language courses, and I coordinate the lower-division Spanish program. My current research explores the relationships among language, social norms, and cognition by focusing on the topics of mitigation, discourse, and discourse markers. I am more broadly interested in the role of discourse markers in comprehension, usage-based approaches to linguistic analysis, and students’ experiences in second language classrooms.

Recent publications

Forthcoming. “Mitigation: The combined effects of imposition and certitude.” Journal of Pragmatics, 1-33.

Forthcoming. “Evidential information represented in dialogue.” In F. Cooren and A. Létourneau (Eds.), Dialogue and Representation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

“Conflict resolution: Mexican and Spanish strategies of repair.” In D. Koike and L. Rodriguez-Alfano (Eds.), Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in contexts and functions (189-220). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010.

“Student motivations and perceptions of participation in Spanish second language classrooms: The case of high achieving introverted students.” Texas Papers of Foreign Language Education 13(1), 1-10.

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E-mail Lori Czerwionka
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