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• Barbara L. Speicher, received her M.A. in Linguistics from Ohio University and her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Language and Cognition from Northwestern University. Since joining DePaul University in 1988, she has taught linguistics courses and courses..

  Barbara L. Speicher, received her M.A. in Linguistics from Ohio University and her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Language and Cognition from Northwestern University. Since joining DePaul University in 1988, she has taught linguistics courses and courses in multicultural and intercultural communication. Her research examines language attitudes, discourse analysis of media representations, and communication patterns within and between groups in the multicultural U.S. The main focus of that work attempts to reveal both differences and similarities between groups, in terms of class, race, gender, and power; to expose the normative tone of traditional literature, particularly as it defines co-cultural groups as deviant; and to examine theories stemming from both ethnographic and experimental research within the framework of natural discourse. Her work has appeared in Language in Society, The Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development , Curriculum Inquiry and The Howard Journal of Communication. Less

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