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Faculty Profile
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Cynthia Gordon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Georgetown University
107 Sims Hall Building V
(315) 443-0792
Email: cygordon@syr.edu
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Courses Taught
| CRS 284 |
Discourse and Society |
| CRS 601 |
Pro seminar in Communication |
Research Interests
Dr. Gordon uses theories and methods of discourse analysis to examine everyday social interaction, with a focus on communication among family members. She is particularly interested in interactional sociolinguistics, theories of framing and intertextuality, and the linguistic construction of relationships and identities. She has participated in collaborative research projects on family and medical communication and has recently become interested in how parents and children create and negotiate health routines.
Scholarly Publications
Gordon, C. (2009) Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction. Oxford University Press.
Tannen, D., Kendall, S., & Gordon, C. (Eds.). (2007). Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gordon, C. (2008). A(p)parent play: Blending frames and reframing in family talk. Language in Society 37(3): 319-349.
Hamilton, H. E., Gordon, C., Nelson, M., Cotler, S. J., & Martin, P. (2008). How physicians describe outcomes to HCV therapy: Prevalence and meaning of “cure” during provider-patient in-office discussions of HCV. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 42(4): 419-424.
Gordon, C. (2006). Reshaping prior text, reshaping identities. Text & Talk 26(4/5): 545-571.
Hamilton, H. E., Gordon, C. Nelson, M., & Kerbleski, M. (2006). Physicians, nonphysician healthcare providers, and patients communicating in Hepatitis C: An in-office sociolinguistic study. Gastroenterology Nursing 29(5): 364-370.
Gordon, C. (2004). “Al Gore’s our guy”: Linguistically constructing a family
political identity. Discourse & Society 15(4): 607-631. Reprinted in D. Tannen, S. Kendall, & C. Gordon (Eds.), Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families, 233-262. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gordon, C. (2003). Aligning as a team: Forms of conjoined participation in (stepfamily) interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36(4): 395-431.
Keller-Cohen, D., & Gordon, C. (2003). “On trial”: Metaphor in telling the life story. Narrative Inquiry 13(2): 1-40.
Gordon, C. (2002). “I’m Mommy and you’re Natalie”: Role-reversal and embedded frames in mother-child discourse. Language in Society 31(5): 679-720.
Gordon, C., Prince, M. B., Benkendorf, J. L., & Hamilton, H. E. (2002). “People say it’s a little uncomfortable”: Prenatal genetic counselors’ use of constructed dialogue to reference procedural pain. Journal of Genetic Counseling 11(2): 245-263.
Gordon, C. (2007). Repetition and identity experimentation: One child’s use of repetition as a resource for “trying on” maternal identities. In M. Bamberg, A. De Fina, & D. Schiffrin (Eds.), Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse, 133-157. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Gordon, C. (2007). “I just feel horribly embarrassed when she does that”: Constituting a mother’s identity. In D. Tannen, S. Kendall, & C. Gordon (Eds.), Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families, 71-101. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gordon, C., Tannen, D., & Sacknovitz, A. (2007). A working father: One man’s talk about family at work. In D. Tannen, S. Kendall, & C. Gordon (Eds.), Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families, 195-230. New York:Oxford University Press.
Gordon, C. (2005). Hypothetical narratives and “trying on” the identity of “big sister” in parent-child discourse. In A. Tyler, M. Takada, Y. Kim, & D. Marinova (Eds.), Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning, 191-201. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. |
