Laurel Smith Stvan
Biographic Data
| ID | 126480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurel Smith Stvan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurel Smith |
| FAMILY NAME | Stvan |
| SIGNATURE | STVAN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0833-6871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Viral peer advice: Health memes used as the speech act of advising in English
By examining a collection of health-related memes, I propose ways to categorize the illocutionary force of memes functioning as the speech act of advice. 200 English-language memes were gathered in the period 2018–2023 through Google image searches. I found the affiliative and disaffiliative strategies that Placencia (2012) described within Yahoo! Respuestas advice exchanges; meme multimodality, however, offered additional versions of these strat…
Collaborative group work and increased diversity through Wikipedia editing
This paper details how a collaborative assignment to edit Wikipedia entries on linguistic topics can help students practice and improve their research skills and navigate group work through an engaged learning task. It describes strategies for group formation, types of cognitive skills that were deployed in the task, equitable distribution of workload and ways that individual student contributions to the project were tracked and assessed, along w…
Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
Collaborative group work and increased diversity through Wikipedia editing
This paper details how a collaborative assignment to edit Wikipedia entries on linguistic topics can help students practice and improve their research skills and navigate group work through an engaged learning task. It describes strategies for group formation, types of cognitive skills that were deployed in the task, equitable distribution of workload and ways that individual student contributions to the project were tracked and assessed, along w…
Viral peer advice: Health memes used as the speech act of advising in English
By examining a collection of health-related memes, I propose ways to categorize the illocutionary force of memes functioning as the speech act of advice. 200 English-language memes were gathered in the period 2018–2023 through Google image searches. I found the affiliative and disaffiliative strategies that Placencia (2012) described within Yahoo! Respuestas advice exchanges; meme multimodality, however, offered additional versions of these strat…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Anaphora (linguistics (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Categorization (1 works) · Collaborative learning (1 works) · Collaborative writing (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · Engineering (1 works)