The Department of Linguistics offers a rich and diverse experience for students interested in the study of language. Student engagement opportunities vary from service learning opportunities with local refugee resettlement agencies to research internships in the Linguistics Lab to involvement with Project SHINE, English Language Support Programs, and the Linguistic Society of Boise State.
Submissions from 2024
Theoretically Queer, Practically Straight: Linguistic Negotiations of Identity and Same-Sex Attraction Among Mormon Men, Chris VanderStouwe
Submissions from 2023
Exploring Terms in English for Specific Purposes, Nicole Brun-Mercer
Signaling Transitions in Academic Writing, Nicole Brun-Mercer
Submissions from 2022
Motivating Student Reading Through Post-Reading Book Creation, Nicole Brun-Mercer and Catherine Moore
Plurilingualism for U.S. Writing Classrooms, Kay M. Losey and Gail Shuck
Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Writing Classrooms: Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U.S. Students, Kay M. Losey and Gail Shuck
Submissions from 2021
Publishing in the Teaching Linguistics Section of Language, Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
Northern Paiute, Ruth Hoodie Lewis and Timothy Thornes
Submissions from 2020
Bannock (Fort Hall, Idaho), Tim Thornes
Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Fort Mcdermitt Reservation (Mcdermitt, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Kuiyuidɨkadɨ (Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Toidɨkadɨ (Cattail-Eaters) of Stillwater Marsh, Tim Thornes
Wadadɨka’a (Burns Paiute Reservation, Oregon), Tim Thornes
Yahooskin (Beatty, Oregon), Tim Thornes
Northern Paiute Texts: Introduction, Tim Thornes and Maziar Toosarvandani
Submissions from 2018
Evidentiality in the Uto-Aztecan Languages, Tim Thornes
Submissions from 2017
Acoustic and Aerodynamic Data on Somali Chizigula Stops, Michal Temkin Martinez and Vanessa Rosenbaum
Losing a Vital Voice: Grief and Language Work, Racquel-María Sapién and Tim Thornes
On the Heterogeneity of Northern Paiute Directives, Tim Thornes
Submissions from 2016
Health Conditions of Post-Resettlement African Refugees in Boise, Idaho, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer, Terri Soelberg, Pat Lazare, and Michal Temkin-Martinez
Training African Refugee Interpreters for Health Related Research, Terri Soelberg, Michal Temkin-Martínez, Mikal Smith, and Pamela Springer
Submissions from 2015
Specific Exceptions Driving Variation: The Role of Orthography in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Michal Temkin Martinez and Ivana Müllner
Submissions from 2013
What is ESL?, Gail Shuck
Causation as "Functional Sink" in Northern Paiute, Tim Thornes
Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In Honor of Scott DeLancey, Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen
Submissions from 2012
Submissions from 2011
Razing the Standards: Building and Implementing a Linguistically Informed K-12 Curriculum in a Climate of Ignorance, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, Michal Temkin Martinez, Jean Mulder, David Pippin, Jeff Reaser, and Graeme Trousdale
On the Interaction of Variation and Exceptionality in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Michal Temkin Martinez
Submissions from 2010
Language Identity, Agency, and Context: The Shifting Meanings of "Multilingual", Gail Shuck
Submissions from 2006
Combating Monolingualism: A Novice Administrator’s Challenge, Gail Shuck
Racializing the Nonnative English Speaker, Gail Shuck
Submissions from 2004
Conversational Performance and the Poetic Construction of an Ideology, Gail Shuck