Alleen Pace Nilsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 712167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alleen Pace Nilsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alleen Pace |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilsen |
| SIGNATURE | NILSEN A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4404-7084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The image of Russia through animal metaphors: A diachronic case study of American media discourse
The image of a country has a critical impact on the degree of its political, economic and cultural influence in the world. This indicates a need to understand various perceptions of a country that exist among other nations and mechanisms of their formation and change in an ever-shifting world. This qualitative case study seeks to examine the changing nature of wild animal metaphors employed to model the image of Russia in American media discourse…
Rebecca Krefting: All joking aside: American humor and its discontents
Books for Adolescents
Names in the News
Names in the News
Books for Adolescents
Latin Revived: Source‐Based Vocabulary Lessons Courtesy of Harry Potter
Teachers can build on students' familiarity with and respect for the Harry Potter books to create source‐based vocabulary lessons. The idea is to work with the Latin roots that J.K. Rowling uses to create original names for places, people, and magical charms and then to extend students' knowledge through exploration of additional English words based on the same roots. Besides being an efficient way to teach vocabulary words in a meaningful contex…
Six Literary Function of Name-Play in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
From Aunt Chilada's to Cactus Willy's: Gender Naming in the Marketing of Food in Arizona
Many food products and restaurant names, while apparently genderless, are found to be gender marked. In grocery stores, items divide almost equally between masculine and feminine. More restaurants are perceived masculine than feminine. Personal names on products and restaurants communicate a sense of trust, ethnicity, and formality
The appeal of bloopers: A reader-response interpretation
Virginity: A metaphor we live by
Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
Greetings and salutations in a new age
An analysis of the salutations of seventy-five letters of application for an academic position at a large southwestern university showed that a majority of the writers (forty-seven as compared to twenty-eight) had become sensitive to the problems of beginning a letter to an unknown person or group with a masculine greeting. The twenty-eight applicants who used masculine greetings used only four different forms. But the forty-seven applicants who …
Language Play
Pronunciation Contrasts in English
Letters as Shape Indicators
From Aunt Chilada's to Cactus Willy's: Gender Naming in the Marketing of Food in Arizona
Many food products and restaurant names, while apparently genderless, are found to be gender marked. In grocery stores, items divide almost equally between masculine and feminine. More restaurants are perceived masculine than feminine. Personal names on products and restaurants communicate a sense of trust, ethnicity, and formality
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
Greetings and salutations in a new age
An analysis of the salutations of seventy-five letters of application for an academic position at a large southwestern university showed that a majority of the writers (forty-seven as compared to twenty-eight) had become sensitive to the problems of beginning a letter to an unknown person or group with a masculine greeting. The twenty-eight applicants who used masculine greetings used only four different forms. But the forty-seven applicants who …
Letters as Shape Indicators
Pronunciation Contrasts in English
Language Play
Greetings and salutations in a new age
An analysis of the salutations of seventy-five letters of application for an academic position at a large southwestern university showed that a majority of the writers (forty-seven as compared to twenty-eight) had become sensitive to the problems of beginning a letter to an unknown person or group with a masculine greeting. The twenty-eight applicants who used masculine greetings used only four different forms. But the forty-seven applicants who …
Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach
Humor, language, and sex roles in American culture
Virginity: A metaphor we live by
The appeal of bloopers: A reader-response interpretation
From Aunt Chilada's to Cactus Willy's: Gender Naming in the Marketing of Food in Arizona
Many food products and restaurant names, while apparently genderless, are found to be gender marked. In grocery stores, items divide almost equally between masculine and feminine. More restaurants are perceived masculine than feminine. Personal names on products and restaurants communicate a sense of trust, ethnicity, and formality
Six Literary Function of Name-Play in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
Latin Revived: Source‐Based Vocabulary Lessons Courtesy of Harry Potter
Teachers can build on students' familiarity with and respect for the Harry Potter books to create source‐based vocabulary lessons. The idea is to work with the Latin roots that J.K. Rowling uses to create original names for places, people, and magical charms and then to extend students' knowledge through exploration of additional English words based on the same roots. Besides being an efficient way to teach vocabulary words in a meaningful contex…
Books for Adolescents
Books for Adolescents
Names in the News
Names in the News
Rebecca Krefting: All joking aside: American humor and its discontents
The image of Russia through animal metaphors: A diachronic case study of American media discourse
The image of a country has a critical impact on the degree of its political, economic and cultural influence in the world. This indicates a need to understand various perceptions of a country that exist among other nations and mechanisms of their formation and change in an ever-shifting world. This qualitative case study seeks to examine the changing nature of wild animal metaphors employed to model the image of Russia in American media discourse…
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)