Portland State University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Portland State University*

Title

An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom) | course book

Sydorenko, Tetyana, Nike Arnold & Steven L. Thorne 2025 Augmented and virtual reality for L2 learning

Keywords: augmented reality | virtual reality | extended reality | situated learning

In: Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy, Loewen, Shawn, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang & Matthew D. Coss (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] pp. 228–252

Brooks, Maneka Deanna 2025 Rethinking qualitative meta-syntheses in literacy studies: Critical questions

Keywords: meta-synthesis | English learners | adolescents | literacy education | reading intervention

In: Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities, Kibler, Amanda K. & Fares J. Karam (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 11] pp. 24–44

Robinson, Jeffrey D. & John Heritage 2023 Renewing a social action in US primary care: One sequential context when actions formatted as polar questions do not require polar answers

Keywords: conversation analysis | polar interrogative | provider-patient communication | physician question | type conformity | English

In: Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] pp. 328–349

Ritchie, L. David 2021 The “thinking meme” meme: Person and organism metaphors in Daniel Dennett’s theory of cultural evolution

Keywords: meme | metaphor | Dennett | science communication | evolution theory | cultural evolution

Metaphor and the Social World 11:1 pp. 121–142 | article

Wetzel, Patricia J. 2020 Intertextuality in Japanese advertising: The semiotics of shared narrative

Keywords: Japanese advertising | semiotics | intertextuality | word play

In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako & Kaori Hata (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 265–281

Atkins, Scott, Ashley Mote, Kimberly Gonzalez & Krystal Alexander 2020 No sympathy for the bully: A metaphor analysis of two speeches on the topic of immigration

Keywords: immigration | polarization | autonomy | victimization | dehumanization | Trump | Harris

Metaphor and the Social World 10:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Staples, Shelley, Maria K. Venetis, Jeffrey D. Robinson & Rachel Dultz 2020 Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of informational language in health care interactions

Keywords: medical discourse | MD analysis | provider-patient interaction

Register Studies 2:2 pp. 241–274 | article

Smith, Graham 2019 Cattle, progress, and a victimized nation: Exploring metaphors in current and past immigration discourse

Keywords: conceptual metaphor theory | metaphorical framing | immigration | United States immigration debate

Metaphor and the Social World 9:2 pp. 263–284 | article

Conrad, Susan 2019 Register in English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes

Keywords: language teaching and learning | disciplinary variation | workplace and professional communication | engineering writing | genre

Register Studies 1:1 pp. 168–198 | article

Alkhamees, Abdulrahman, Rasha Elabdali & Keith Walters 2019 Destabilizing Arabic diglossia?: New media and translingual practice

Keywords: Arabic | diglossia | new media | translingual practice

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel & Youssef Haddad (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] pp. 103–134

Ritchie, David 2019 Reclaiming a unified American narrative: Lexical, grammatical, and story metaphors in a discussion of polarized identities

Keywords: metaphor | narrative | American national identity | cultural polarization | Trumpism

Metaphor and the Social World 9:2 pp. 242–262 | article

Childs, G. Tucker 2018 Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist

In: Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] pp. 61–78

Ritchie, L. David, Alex Feliciano & Ashley Sparks 2018 Rhetorical confinement, contrasting metaphors, and cultural polarities: “Yes we can” meets “Carnage in the cities”

Keywords: metaphor | rhetorical confinement | race | class | Obama | Trump | political polarization | political communication

Metaphor and the Social World 8:2 pp. 247–266 | article

Ritchie, L. David 2017 A note about meta-metaphors: Considering the theoretical implications of terms used to discuss metaphor

Keywords: metaphor | meta-metaphor | terminology

Metaphor and the Social World 7:2 pp. 291–299 | squib

Kintz, Stephen, Gerasimos Fergadiotis & Heather Harris Wright 2016 Aging effects on discourse production

In: Cognition, Language and Aging, Wright, Heather Harris (ed.)  p. 81 | open access

Ritchie, L. David & Mariko Thomas 2015 A “bright blue ball”, “brushed with clouds” or “parched, scorched, and washed away”?: Barack Obama’s use of contrasting metaphors and stories in framing climate change

Keywords: transportation theory | framing | blending | story-metaphors | climate change

Metaphor and the Social World 5:1 pp. 1–19 | article

Conrad, Susan 2014 Chapter 4.1 Expanding Multi-Dimensional analysis with qualitative research techniques

In: Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber, Berber Sardinha, Tony & Marcia Veirano Pinto (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60] pp. 273–296

Childs, G. Tucker 2014 Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language”

Keywords: prosody | constraints | ideophones | lexicon | African languages | expressiveness

Pragmatics and Society 5:3 pp. 341–354 | article

Ritchie, L. David & Elena Negrea-Busuioc 2014 “Now everyone knows I’m a serial killer”: Spontaneous intentionality in conversational metaphor and story-telling

Keywords: conversation | intentionality | humor | metaphor | discourse | story-telling.

Metaphor and the Social World 4:2 pp. 174–198 | article

Hansen, Lynne, James Gardner, James Pollard, Joshua Rowe & Junko Tsukayama 2012 Chapter 11. The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages

In: Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience, Hansen, Lynne (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 45] pp. 245–258

Ritchie, L. David 2012 Why the block is the block : Reinforcing community through casual conversation

Metaphor and the Social World 1:2 pp. 239–260 | article

Friedberg, Nila 2009 The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: Meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky

In: Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis & Andy Arleo (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 2] pp. 229–246

Childs, G. Tucker 2008 Review of Studies in African Linguistic Typology edited by F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2005)

Studies in Language 32:4 pp. 917–926 | book review

Childs, G. Tucker 2003 Review of Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles by Angela Bartens (2000)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2 pp. 284–289 | book review

Childs, G. Tucker 2008 Research on ideophones, whither hence?: The need for a social theory of ideophones

In: Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard & Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 44] pp. 63–73

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.