Boyd
H. Davis
Bonnie E. Cone Professor of Teaching
Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
- M.A., University of North Carolina
- B.A., University of Kentucky
Areas of Interest
- Socio-historical linguistics
- Narrative and discourse analysis
- Corpus development and corpus analysis
- Q-A in constrained situations: medical and Forensic
- PI, Project MORE (DOE: digital corpus, 2001-04)
- PI, Culturally competent materials (Alzheimer's Association, 2005-08)
- Co- PI, Carolinas Conversations (NIH/NLM: digital corpus at Med. Univ. of SC, 2007-210)
Current research
articles in press and in progress on functions of pauses in narratives by Alzheimer speakers; narrative, discourse and bricolage in impairment; intersections of language and culture in healthcare training; evidentiality and epistemicity in stance analysis of genres
Selected Publications and Presentations
Davis, Boyd. Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context:
London & New York: Palgrave, 2005.
Maclagan, M. & B. Davis. Persistence in spoken New Zealand English. New Zealand English Journal, 21 (2007): 20-35
Davis, B. & P. Mason. More than the words: Using stance-shift analysis to identify crucial opinions and attitudes in online focus groups. Journal of Advertising Research 41 (2007),1- 15
Davis, B. and L. Russell-Pinson. “One Corpus,
Two Contexts: Intersections of Health and Language
Instruction.” In E. Fitzpatrick, ed., Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Research from Phrase to Discourse. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Davis, B. & L. Russell-Pinson. Going + To: An Example of Using a Regional Corpus to Answer Questions in Preparing Healthcare Materials.” TELL, 2 (2006): 1-18.
Peyton Mason, Boyd Davis & Deborah Bosley, Stance analysis: when people talk online. Innova-tions in E-Marketing, II, ed. S. Krishnamurthy. Hershey: PA: Idea Group, Inc (2006), 261-82.
Davis, B. & Mason, Peyton. Trying on voices: using questions to establish authority, identity, and recipient design in electronic discourse. R. Scollon & P. LeVine, eds. Discourse and technology: multimodal discourse analysis. Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics 29: Georgetown UP (2006), 34-46.
Davis, B. and C. Bernstein. "Talking in the
Here and Now: Reference and Narrative in Alzheimer
Conversation." In B. Davis, ed., Alzheimer talk, text and context, (NY: Palgrave, 2005), 60-86
Davis, B. "So, You Had Two Sisters, Right?
Questions and Discourse Markers in Alzheimer’s
Discourse." In B. Davis, ed., Alzheimer talk, text and context, (NY: Palgrave, 2005),128-145
Green, N and B. Davis. "Dialogue Generation
in an Assistive Conversation Skills Training System
for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease." AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Natural Language
Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. 2003.
Davis, B. and L. Moore. "Though Much is Taken:
Retained Features in Alzheimer’s discourse."
In Search of the Active Learner. Eds. J Rymarczyk
& H. Haudeck NY: Peter Lang, 2003.
Shenk, D., B. Davis, L. Moore and J. Peacock. "Maintenance of Self-Identity in Later Life:
Case Studies of Two Rural Older Women." Journal
of Aging Studies. 16 (2002).
Moore, L. and B. Davis. "Quilting Narrative:
Using Repetition Techniques to Help Elderly Communicators." Geriatric Nursing. 23 (2002).
Davis, B, L. Russell-Pinson, L. Moore and Y-S
Chuang. "Corpora as Stimulus for Healthcare
Interventions." ROCMELIA 6. Taipei: Crane,
2002.
Davis, Boyd and Jeutonne Brewer. Electronic Discourse:
Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space. SUNY
University Press, 1997.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 6160 Introduction to Language
- ENGL/GRNT 4050/5050 Language, Health & Aging
- ENGL 4050/5050 World Literature
- ENGL 4050/5050 Medieval Literature/Chaucer
Professional Appointments
UNC Charlotte since 1970
National Kaohsiung Normal University, 1989; 2006
Obirin University, Tokyo, 1994-05
Awards
- Bank of America Faculty Teaching Award 1977
- Bonnie E. Cone Professorship 1997
- Harshini da Silva Graduate Mentoring Award 2004
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