Madeleine Mathiot
Office: 611 Baldy Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0119
Email: mathiotm@buffalo.edu

Madeleine Mathiot, Professor emerita, received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Catholic University of America after receiving her M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University.

The focus of her work throughout her career has been the study of meaning as conveyed through the linguistic system or its use in interaction.

(l) Meaning of grammatical categories. See her papers:
Sex Roles as Relealed through Referential Gender in American English, in: Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir and Whorf Revisited, edited by Madeleine Mathiot, The Hague: Mouton, 1979;
Noun Classes and Folk Taxonomy in Papago, American Anthropolgist, Vol 64 No 2 pp340-50, 1960.

(2) Meaning of lexical items. See her papers:
Folk Defmitions as a Tool for the Analysis of Lexical Meaning, in: Ethnolinguisitcs ... (see above);
Semantics of Sensory Perception Terms, in: Language Invariants and Mental Operations, International Interdisciplinary Conference held at Gummersback/Cologne, Germany, September 18-23,1983, edited by Hansjakob Seiler and Gunter Brettschneider, Gunter Narr Verla Tubingen.

(3) Information conveyed through Talk in Interactive Events. See the links below:

• Preface: Analytic Apparatus for the investigation of Talk in Interactive Events

• Case Study 1: The Golden Girls of Hamburg: Three Women at a Bar.
• Case Study 2: Once a Therapist, always a Therapist.
• Case Study 3: Man Troubles Talk: Two Housemates Shoot the Breeze.
• Case Study 4: Reconciliation.
• Case Study 5: Driving to Toronto with the Family
• Case Study 6: Back from the Bridal Shower.
• Case Study 7: Dinner with the Family.
• Case Study 8: Mother and Son on the Telephone.

• Case Study 9: A Meeting on Campus.
• Case Study 10: A Weekly Staff Meeting ofa HomeCare Office.
• Case Study 11: In the Kitchen of the Koinonia Cafe

• Case Study 12: A Productivity Meeting on the Thruway.
• Appendix: Comparing the present approach to Conversation Analysis.

She is currently working on:
a) putting on the web the two volumes of A Dicitonary of Papa go Usage, first published in 1973, to be renamed Tohono 'O'odham- English Dictionary, and
b) preparing a number of 'O'odham texts for publication.