University of Colorado Boulder

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Colorado Boulder*

Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume II. Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 3:1 (2019)

Edited by Chris J. Vargo

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[The Agenda Setting Journal: Theory, Practice, Critique, 3:1] 2019. | special issue

Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume I. Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 (2018)

Edited by Chris J. Vargo

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[The Agenda Setting Journal: Theory, Practice, Critique, 2:2] 2018. | special issue

The Role of Functions in Syntax: A unified approach to language theory, description, and typology

Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Erin Shay

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 111] 2016. xvi, 308 pp. |

Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Anetta Kopecka & Bhuvana Narasimhan

Subjects Semantics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp. | edited volume

Voice: Form and Function

Edited by Barbara A. Fox & Paul J. Hopper

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp. | course book

Arnold-Murray, Katherine 2025 #transandproud: Narrative positioning and construction of female‑to‑male transgender identity on Instagram

Keywords: transgender | gender | narrative | identity | self | multimodality | positioning | social media | ideology | Master Narrative

In: Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] pp. 260–289

Fox, Barbara A. & Chase Wesley Raymond 2025 On granularity in grammar and action

Keywords: grammar | interaction | granularity | morphosyntax | prosody | particles | interactional linguistics | conversation analysis

In: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] pp. 26–46

Rivas, Javier & Esther L. Brown 2025 Does increased grammaticalization yield decreased duration?: Testing vamos a variants in Spanish

Keywords: auxiliarization | durational shortening | grammaticalization | periphrastic future | phonological reduction | Spanish in contact with Galician

In: Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies, Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia & Miguel García (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] pp. 131–147

Momen, Ali, Chad C. Tossell, Richard E. Niemeyer, James Walliser, Michael Tolston, Gregory Funke & Ewart J. de Visser 2026 Perceived trustworthiness and moral competence of a GenAI-enabled ethical robot advisor

Keywords: trust | trustworthiness | moral competence | human-robot interaction

Interaction Studies 26:2 pp. 326–356 | article

Neyra, Rosario, Matthew Butler, Emilie Munch Nicolaisen, Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen, Catherine L. Tam, Barbara A. Fox & Chase Wesley Raymond 2024 A multimodal approach to grammatical aspect: Embedded depictions and their aspectual characteristics as interactional resources

Keywords: aspect | grammar | morphology | epistemics | turn-taking | embodiment | multimodality

Interactional Linguistics 4:2 pp. 225–256 | article | open access

Gubina, Alexandra, Barbara A. Fox & Chase Wesley Raymond 2024 What to do next: Should I and ((Do) you) want me to in joint activities in American English

Keywords: social action format | action formation | conversation analysis | interactional linguistics | offers | project | self | other | responsibility | grammar

In: New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret & Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 36] pp. 20–48 | open access

Michaelis, Laura A. 2024 Staying terminologically rigid, conceptually open and socially cohesive: How to make room for the next generation of construction grammarians

Keywords: Sign-Based Construction Grammar | Social Semiotic Syntax | coercion | usage

Constructions and Frames 16:2 pp. 278–310 | article

Trnka-Amrhein, Yvona 2023 Plotting Plotina? The reception of an empress in Roman provincial prose (fiction)

Keywords: Plotina | reception of Roman empresses | Acta Alexandrinorum | the Talmud | Apuleius Metamorphoses | Roman imperial literature | provincial literature

In: The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel, López Martínez, María Paz, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart & Ana Belén Zaera García (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 40] pp. 277–296

Yu, Guodong, Yaxin Wu, Paul Drew & Chase Wesley Raymond 2023 The DIG Mandarin Conversations (DMC) Corpus: Mundane phone calls in Mandarin Chinese as resources for research and teaching

Keywords: Mandarin (Chinese) | discourse | conversation | social interaction | open-access data | conversation analysis (CA) | corpus development

Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 pp. 105–141 | article

Pozzi, Rebecca, Chelsea Escalante & Tracy Quan 2023 “Being myself in Spanish”: A heritage speaker’s evolving pragmatic choices and awareness during study abroad

Keywords: study abroad | heritage speakers | pragmatics | identity | investment

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 8:2 pp. 230–258 | article

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, Sandra A. Thompson & Barbara A. Fox 2023 Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor negative responses?

Keywords: any | negative polarity item | negative response | preference | tilt | request | offer | topic proffer | preliminary (pre-) | information-seeking question

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. 350–376

Raymond, Chase Wesley 2023 Code-switching, agency, and the answer possibility space of Spanish-English bilinguals

Keywords: code-switching | bilingualism | agency | polar questions | answers | conversation analysis | English | Spanish (in the U.S.) | heritage speakers

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. 239–271

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Natalia Gurian & Sergei Karpenko 2023 Minimal participant structure of the event and the emergence of the argument/adjunct distinction

Keywords: early stage in formation of grammatical system | semantic roles | thematic relations | minimal event structure | transitivity | Sino-Russian idiolects | properties of verbs

Studies in Language 48:1 pp. 181–227 | article

Raymond, Chase Wesley 2022 Suffixation and sequentiality: Notes on the study of morphology in interaction

Keywords: morphology | grammar | conversation | Spanish | diminutives | augmentatives | superlatives | methods/methodology | conversation analysis (CA) | interactional linguistics (IL)

Interactional Linguistics 2:1 pp. 1–41 | article

Hodges, Adam 2021 Review of Linguistic inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language: From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’ edited by Ulrike Schneider & Matthias Eitelmann (2020)

Journal of Language and Politics 20:4 pp. 637–640 | book review

Thompson, Sandra A., Barbara A. Fox & Chase Wesley Raymond 2021 The grammar of proposals for joint activities

Keywords: proposal | joint activities | (grammatical) format | let’s | grammar | deontic strength

Interactional Linguistics 1:1 pp. 123–151 | article

Vargo, Chris J. 2021 Note from the editor: Online conference follow-up

The Agenda Setting Journal 5:1 pp. 1–7 | editorial

Hirschey Marrese, Olivia 2021 The emergent construction of feminist identity in interaction

Keywords: conversation analysis | feminism | identity | linguistic anthropology | ideology | hegemony | interaction | normativity

Pragmatics 31:3 pp. 406–429 | article | open access

Vargo, Chris J. 2020 Note from the editor: Online conference

The Agenda Setting Journal 4:2 pp. 171–172 | editorial

Tracy, Karen 2020 Judicial questioning: How context shapes facework strategies

Keywords: communication practices | context | face(work) | identity-work | judge | oral argument | politeness | questioning | small claim trials

In: Politeness in Professional Contexts, Archer, Dawn, Karen Grainger & Piotr Jagodziński (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 311] pp. 251–272

Koutsoukos, Nikos & Laura A. Michaelis 2021 Pleonastic complex words as functional amalgams

Keywords: verbalizers | implicit multiple exponence | word-level amalgams | coercion | Modern Greek | English

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 199–212 | article

Raymond, Chase Wesley & Barbara A. Fox 2020 Asserting no-problemness in Spanish: ‘No hay (ningún) problema’ and the study of noun phrases in interaction

In: The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction, Ono, Tsuyoshi & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 128] pp. 119–152

Kaneyasu, Michiko & Minako Kuhara 2020 Regularity and variation in Japanese recipes: A comparative analysis of cookbook, online and user-generated sub-registers

Keywords: cooking recipes | Japanese | sub-register comparison | editorial control | offline vs. online medium | writer-reader interaction

Register Studies 2:1 pp. 37–71 | article

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt 2020 ‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participants

Keywords: middle | reflexive | coreference | non-affected object | ‘body’

In: Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage, Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] pp. 117–132

Tracy, Karen & Robert T. Craig 2019 Decision announcements in small claims court: A recurring judge dilemma

Keywords: small claims court | judge language | discourse analysis | grounded practical theory | genre | dilemma

Language and Dialogue 9:1 pp. 65–83 | article

Kaneyasu, Michiko & Minako Kuhara 2019 Dimensions of recipe register and native speaker knowledge: Observations from a writing experiment

Keywords: communicative repertoire | context-dependent linguistic knowledge | recipe register | professional editing | user-generated content | Japanese recipes | writing experiment

Pragmatics 30:4 pp. 532–556 | article | open access

Vargo, Chris J. 2019 Note from the editor: Special Issue: 50 years of agenda-setting research

The Agenda Setting Journal 3:1 pp. 1–2 | editorial

Vargo, Chris J. & Toby Hopp 2019 Attention to issues and facts: Assessing the role of need for orientation as a predictor of political news sharing on Facebook

Keywords: Facebook | need for orientation | news sharing | politics | computational social science | social media

The Agenda Setting Journal 3:2 pp. 186–207 | article

Friedman, Naomi P. 2019 Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesis

Keywords: executive control | executive functioning | multilingualism | latent variables

In: Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights, Sekerina, Irina A., Lauren Spradlin & Virginia Valian (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 57] pp. 209–222

Vargo, Chris J. 2019 Note from the editor: Key advantages of submitting work to the agenda setting journal

The Agenda Setting Journal 3:2 pp. 103–105 | editorial

Brown, Esther L. 2018 Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon: Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation

In: Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron & Dawn Nordquist (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] pp. 127–153

Na’puti, Tiara R., Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Leah Sprain & Lydia Reinig 2019 Engaging publics through climate math: Lessons from Boulder’s 2016 Climate Action Plan

Keywords: accountability | carbon | climate math | energy democracy | environmental communication | public participation

Journal of Argumentation in Context 7:3 pp. 316–346 | article

Vargo, Chris J. 2018 Fifty years of agenda-setting research: New directions and challenges for the theory

Keywords: agenda-setting theory | 50 years, agendamelding | need for orientation | network agenda setting | agenda building | agenda melding

The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 pp. 105–123 | article

Gould, Kevin M. & Laura A. Michaelis 2019 Match, mismatch, and envisioning transfer events: How verbal constructional bias and lexical-class concord shape motor simulation effects

Keywords: simulation semantics | lexical class | construction grammar | verb complementation bias | verb frequency | dative alternation | transfer verbs

Constructions and Frames 10:2 pp. 234–268 | article

Fox, Barbara A., Fay Wouk, Steven Fincke, Wilfredo Hernandez Flores, Makoto Hayashi, Minna Laakso, Yael Maschler, Abolghasem Mehrabi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Susanne Uhmann & Hyun Jung Yang 2017 Morphological self-repair: Self-repair within the word

Keywords: repair | typology | morphological structure

Studies in Language 41:3 pp. 638–659 | article

McGregor, Shannon C. & Chris J. Vargo 2017 Election-related talk and agenda-setting effects on Twitter: A big data analysis of salience transfer at different levels of user participation

Keywords: Twitter | agenda setting | big data | political communication | computational social science

The Agenda Setting Journal 1:1 pp. 44–62 | article

Raymond, Chase Wesley 2016 Reconceptualizing identity and context in the deployment of forms of address

In: Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene & Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] pp. 267–288

Friedman, Naomi P. 2016 Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesis

Keywords: Executive control | executive functioning | multilingualism | latent variables

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 pp. 535–548 | article

Hopewell, Susan & Kathy Escamilla 2014 Biliteracy development in immersion contexts

Keywords: emergent/emerging bilingual | bilingualism | dual language education | biliteracy

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 pp. 181–195 | article

Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2013 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech

In: The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. & Sabine Stoll (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 9] pp. 209–238

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox & Sandra A. Thompson 2013 Units and/or Action Trajectories?: The language of grammatical categories and the language of social action

In: Units of Talk – Units of Action, Szczepek Reed, Beatrice & Geoffrey Raymond (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 25] pp. 13–56

Wang, Chiung-Yao & Yen-Hwei Lin 2013 Variation in Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi: The case of prepositions and pronouns

Keywords: Mandarin tone 3 sandhi | Optimality Theory | prepositions | pronouns | variation

In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 271–292

Zimman, Lal 2013 Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men

Keywords: gender | voice | perception | transgender | heteronormativity | style | sociophonetics | masculinity

Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:1 pp. 1–39 | article

Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2012 Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi

In: Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta & Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 100] pp. 201–230

Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg & Asifa Majid 2012 Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

In: Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta & Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 100] pp. 1–18

Ford, Cecilia E. & Barbara A. Fox 2010 Multiple practices for constructing laughables

In: Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] pp. 339–368

Lai, Vicky Tzuyin & Zygmunt Frajzyngier 2009 Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese

In: Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis & Etleva Vocaj (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] pp. 223–232

Sams, Jessie 2009 Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres

In: Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali & Kathleen Wheatley (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 82] pp. 147–170

Craig, Robert T. 2008 The rhetoric of 'dialogue' in metadiscourse: Possibility/impossibility arguments and critical events

In: Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.) [Dialogue Studies, 2] pp. 55–67

Fox, Barbara A. & Sandra A. Thompson 2007 Relative Clauses in English conversation: Relativizers, frequency, and the notion of construction

Studies in Language 31:2 pp. 293–326 | article

Hall, Kira 2008 Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 10] pp. 133–162

Fox, Barbara A. 2008 On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world

In: Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. & Michael Noonan (eds.)  pp. 79–99

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt 2008 System interaction in the coding of modality

In: Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System, Barbiers, Sjef, Frits Beukema & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] pp. 165–184

Suleiman, Khalid A. & Wayne V. Citrin 1995 A Visual Approach to Programming Language Internationalization: An Arabic Case Study

Language Problems and Language Planning 19:2 pp. 113–132 | article

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt 1987 Truth and the Compositionality Principle: A Reply to Palmer

Studies in Language 11:1 pp. 211–217 | other

Wu, Yaxin, Chongyuan Zhao & Chase Wesley Raymond The Mandarin rising-intoned Éi (诶) particle in third position: A change-of-state token marking an epistemic discrepancy

Keywords: change of state | particle | preface | epistemics | turn design | Mandarin Chinese | Conversation Analysis (CA) | Interactional Linguistics (IL)

Functions of Language | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

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