Alla V Tovares
Biographic Data
| ID | 226830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alla V Tovares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alla V |
| FAMILY NAME | Tovares |
| SIGNATURE | TOVARES A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6794-0465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erickson, Frederick
Frederick D. Erickson holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 2015, he has served as a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Erickson's work has made significant contributions to the theory and methodology of applied linguistics, especially in the areas of ethnography, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. Erickson has explored face‐to‐face intera…
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
The public loneliness of endurance athletes: Creating ambient affiliation through involvement strategies on Twitter
Negotiating “thick” identities through “light” practices: YouTube metalinguistic comments about language in Ukraine
This article investigates YouTube metalinguistic comments about language varieties in Ukraine as a “light” practice to demonstrate how knowledge and identities are negotiated online against the backdrop of larger sociopolitical discourses that circulate in and about Ukraine. This work adds to our understanding of online, or “light”, identity construction by suggesting that taking up epistemic stances and overtly asserting epistemic statuses are o…
Migration trajectories
Mobile phones as cultural tools for identity construction among college students in Oman, Ukraine, and the U.S
Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
After the end of apartheid, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to uncover the truth and, most importantly, unite a deeply divided nation. This overarching goal of reconciliation not only framed the TRC’s work, but also shaped each hearing so that it followed a somewhat predictable script. In this article, bringing together Goffman’s framing and Bakhtin’s dialogicality, I analyze two selected hearings to sh…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina and Anastasia Nylund
All in the family: Small stories and narrative construction of a shared family identity that includes pets
In recent years, narrative analysis has experienced what can be identified as a small stories turn. Specifically, some researchers, especially Bamberg (2004, 2006), Georgakopoulou (2006, 2007), Bamberg and Georgakopoulou (2008), have argued that the analysis of small stories that have been previously overlooked in favor of large-scale autobiographical narratives presents a valuable contribution to our understanding of identity construction and di…
Managing the Voices: Athlete Self-Talk as a Dialogic Process
Studies in sport psychology focus on "self-talk" as a motivational and instructional tool to enhance athletic performance. This article (re)conceptualizes self-talk as a dialogic phenomenon that is foundational to the construction of athletic identity. Through a detailed analysis of athletes' oral and written narratives, the author demonstrates how Bakhtin's internal polemic not only adds to the current understanding of athlete self-talk but also…
Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as 'quotidian hermeneutics
This article examines how the interpenetration of the public and the private spheres is accomplished in discourse. My analysis of the interactions among family and friends that were prompted by the television program Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? shows how different voices from the public sphere are recycled and interpreted in private talk. I identify such conversations about the television show as gossip or a type of talk that Bakhtin (…
All in the family: Small stories and narrative construction of a shared family identity that includes pets
In recent years, narrative analysis has experienced what can be identified as a small stories turn. Specifically, some researchers, especially Bamberg (2004, 2006), Georgakopoulou (2006, 2007), Bamberg and Georgakopoulou (2008), have argued that the analysis of small stories that have been previously overlooked in favor of large-scale autobiographical narratives presents a valuable contribution to our understanding of identity construction and di…
Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as 'quotidian hermeneutics
This article examines how the interpenetration of the public and the private spheres is accomplished in discourse. My analysis of the interactions among family and friends that were prompted by the television program Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? shows how different voices from the public sphere are recycled and interpreted in private talk. I identify such conversations about the television show as gossip or a type of talk that Bakhtin (…
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
Mobile phones as cultural tools for identity construction among college students in Oman, Ukraine, and the U.S
Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
After the end of apartheid, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to uncover the truth and, most importantly, unite a deeply divided nation. This overarching goal of reconciliation not only framed the TRC’s work, but also shaped each hearing so that it followed a somewhat predictable script. In this article, bringing together Goffman’s framing and Bakhtin’s dialogicality, I analyze two selected hearings to sh…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina and Anastasia Nylund
The public loneliness of endurance athletes: Creating ambient affiliation through involvement strategies on Twitter
Managing the Voices: Athlete Self-Talk as a Dialogic Process
Studies in sport psychology focus on "self-talk" as a motivational and instructional tool to enhance athletic performance. This article (re)conceptualizes self-talk as a dialogic phenomenon that is foundational to the construction of athletic identity. Through a detailed analysis of athletes' oral and written narratives, the author demonstrates how Bakhtin's internal polemic not only adds to the current understanding of athlete self-talk but also…
Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as 'quotidian hermeneutics
This article examines how the interpenetration of the public and the private spheres is accomplished in discourse. My analysis of the interactions among family and friends that were prompted by the television program Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? shows how different voices from the public sphere are recycled and interpreted in private talk. I identify such conversations about the television show as gossip or a type of talk that Bakhtin (…
All in the family: Small stories and narrative construction of a shared family identity that includes pets
In recent years, narrative analysis has experienced what can be identified as a small stories turn. Specifically, some researchers, especially Bamberg (2004, 2006), Georgakopoulou (2006, 2007), Bamberg and Georgakopoulou (2008), have argued that the analysis of small stories that have been previously overlooked in favor of large-scale autobiographical narratives presents a valuable contribution to our understanding of identity construction and di…
Managing the Voices: Athlete Self-Talk as a Dialogic Process
Studies in sport psychology focus on "self-talk" as a motivational and instructional tool to enhance athletic performance. This article (re)conceptualizes self-talk as a dialogic phenomenon that is foundational to the construction of athletic identity. Through a detailed analysis of athletes' oral and written narratives, the author demonstrates how Bakhtin's internal polemic not only adds to the current understanding of athlete self-talk but also…
Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina and Anastasia Nylund
Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
After the end of apartheid, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to uncover the truth and, most importantly, unite a deeply divided nation. This overarching goal of reconciliation not only framed the TRC’s work, but also shaped each hearing so that it followed a somewhat predictable script. In this article, bringing together Goffman’s framing and Bakhtin’s dialogicality, I analyze two selected hearings to sh…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
Migration trajectories
Mobile phones as cultural tools for identity construction among college students in Oman, Ukraine, and the U.S
Negotiating “thick” identities through “light” practices: YouTube metalinguistic comments about language in Ukraine
This article investigates YouTube metalinguistic comments about language varieties in Ukraine as a “light” practice to demonstrate how knowledge and identities are negotiated online against the backdrop of larger sociopolitical discourses that circulate in and about Ukraine. This work adds to our understanding of online, or “light”, identity construction by suggesting that taking up epistemic stances and overtly asserting epistemic statuses are o…
The public loneliness of endurance athletes: Creating ambient affiliation through involvement strategies on Twitter
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
Erickson, Frederick
Frederick D. Erickson holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 2015, he has served as a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Erickson's work has made significant contributions to the theory and methodology of applied linguistics, especially in the areas of ethnography, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. Erickson has explored face‐to‐face intera…
Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)