German
Division
Faculty

(Instructor)

	Maryann Overstreet Associate Professor Chair Program Coordinator 1890 East-West rd. Moore Hall 454 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-4172 Fax: (808) 956-5936 overst@hawaii.edu

EDUCATION

• PhD., Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, 1995.
• Areas of specialty: German language, language-learning, discourse analysis

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Pragmatics, German Language, German as a Foreign Language, Discourse analysis,
Conversation Analysis, Linguistic Categorization, Sociolinguistics,
Language in its Social and Cultural Context

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Book
1999. Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That. New York: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles
In press (2005). And stuff und so: Investigating Pragmatic Expressions in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics.

2002. (with G. Yule) The metapragmatics of and everything. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 785-794.

2001. (with G. Yule) Formulaic Disclaimers. Journal of Pragmatics 33:45-60.

1999. (with G. Yule) Fostering L2 Pragmatic Awareness. Applied Language Learning 10:1-14.

1997a. (with G. Yule) Locally Contingent Categorization in Discourse. Discourse Processes 23:83-97.

1997b. (with G. Yule) On Being Inexplicit and Stuff in Contemporary American English. Journal of English Linguistics 25:250-258.

Philosophy of teaching

Class evaluations

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