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Madeleine Mathiot Office: 611 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-2177 ext. 730 Email: mathiotm@acsu.buffalo.edu Madeleine Mathiot, Professor, received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Catholic University of America after receiving her M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University. She was Director of a project at the Center for the Study of Cultural Transmission from 1974 to 1988. She is author of A Dictionary of Papago Usage, An Approach to the Cognitive Study of Language, A Meaning-Based Theory of Face to Face Interaction, and Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir and Whorf Revisited. She is on the editorial board o f the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and of Research on Language and Social Interaction. Current interests include: (1) the morphology of Tohonno-odham (Papago); and (2) techniques for data collection and the relation between method and theory in the fields of face to face interaction, ethnosemantics and lexicology, as well as researching the various semiotic systems (verbal and nonverbal) associated with language in naturally occurring conversation, such as interjections and discourse markers. |
