German
Division
Faculty

Anna Hawajska-Waters

Christina McDade

Maryann Overstreet

Niklaus Schweizer

Katinka Hammerich
(Lecturer)

	Maryann Overstreet Associate Professor Chair Undergraduate Advisor 1890 East-West Rd. Moore Hall 454 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-4172 Fax: (808) 956-9536 overst@hawaii.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 1995.

M.A. in German. University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 1989.

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

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Overstreet, M. 1999. Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That: General Extenders in English Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press.

Textbook

Overstreet, M. In progress. Deutsche Kurzgeschichten: Mit Wortschatz und Grammatik Übungen.

Refereed Journal Articles

Overstreet, M., Tran, J. and S. Zietze. 2006. Increasing Pragmatic Awareness: Die Vagheit der Sprache und so. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 39 (1-2): 24-29.

Overstreet, M. 2005. And stuff und so: Investigating Pragmatic Expressions in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics, 37: 1845-1864.

Overstreet, M. and G. Yule. 2002. The metapragmatics of and everything. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 785-794.

Overstreet, M. and G. Yule. 2001. Formulaic Disclaimers. Journal of Pragmatics 33: 45-60.

Overstreet, M. and G. Yule. 1999. Fostering L2 Pragmatic Awareness. Applied Language Learning, 10:1-14.

Overstreet, M. and G. Yule. 1997a. Locally Contingent Categorization in Discourse. Discourse Processes, 23:83-97.

Overstreet, M. and G. Yule. 1997b. On Being Inexplicit and Stuff in Contemporary American English. Journal of English Linguistics, 25: 250-258.

Invited Articles

Overstreet, M. in press. Vagueness and hedging. In K. Schneider, K. Aijmer, and G. Andersen, Handbooks of Pragmatics: Pragmatics of Society. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Overstreet, M. 2010. Metapragmatics. In Louise Cumming (ed.), The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 266-268.

Philosophy of teaching

Class evaluations

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