Scholars

overview

My areas of academic interest and specialization are discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and sexuality, and language and identity. I am also interested in regional and social dialects, media discourse, language in legal settings, and linguistics and literature.

education and training

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Georgetown University - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 1999
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Utah - (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) 1992
B.A. in Linguistics, University of Utah - (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) 1990

selected publications

Academic Articles3

KENDALL, S. (2008). The balancing act: Framing gendered parental identities at dinnertime. Language in Society. 37(4), 539-568.
Kendall, S. (2006). Honey, I'm home!: Framing in family dinnertime homecomings. Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies. 26(4-5), 411-441.
Kendall, S. (2004). Framing Authority: Gender, Face, and Mitigation at a Radio Network. Discourse & Society. 15(1), 55-79.

Books1

Tannen, D., Kendall, S., & Gordon, C. (2007). Family Talk. Oxford University Press (OUP).

Chapters13

Kendall, S (2016). Positioning the female voice within work and family. Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts. 179-197.
Kendall, S., & Tannen, D. (2015). Discourse and Gender. Tannen, D., Hamilton, H. E., & Schiffrin, D. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 639-660. Wiley.
Irwin, A. (2011). Social Constructionism. Wodak, R., Johnstone, B., & Kerswill, P. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics. 100-112. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Tannen, D., Kendall, S., & Gordon, C. (2007). About the Contributors. Family Talk. ix-xii. Oxford University Press (OUP).
Tannen, D., Kendall, S., & Gordon, C. (2007). Introduction: Family Talk. Family Talk. 3-26. Oxford University Press (OUP).