Susan G. Strauss

Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Applied Linguistics

Office: 300 Sparks Building
Telephone: (814) 865-7251

Fax: (814) 863-7986
E-mail: sgs9@psu.edu

EDUCATION:

• B.A., California State University at Northridge
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

Professor Strauss investigates language and cognition and language and culture. Regarding the former, she is interested in discovering the subconscious motivations behind speakers' choices of linguistic items (e.g., demonstratives in English, tense, and aspect markers) and has done work in this area using both spoken and written discourse in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and English. She is also interested in the relationship between language and culture, and in developing new ways of uncovering and analyzing that relationship. She has published a number of articles in these areas and has also co-edited two volumes of Japanese/Korean Linguistics. In the field of ESL, Professor Strauss has taught courses in developmental composition and in ESL writing pedagogy.

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