Dr. Robert Englebretson's Rice Web Page

Contact Information

Office: Herring Hall 206 Office Hours: Tues. 4:00-5:00, Thurs. 11:00-noon, and by appointment. Office Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng {at} rice.edu

Classes

Here are links to web pages for recent and current courses I'm teaching at Rice. (Not all of my courses have web pages, and new ones will be added as I design them!)
Texas Monthly's College Guide 2004 lists "Linguistics with Robert E. Englebretson" among the "best classes" category (p. 31). I don't know what this means exactly, but it was a surprise to find myself listed on the same page as Beer Bike!
	Current Semester (Spring 2009) Linguistics 404, Research Methodologies and Linguistic Theories Linguistics 409 (Special Topics), Research on Braille Other Courses Linguistics/Anthropology 300, Linguistic Analysis Linguistics 405 (formerly LING490), Discourse Linguistics/Anthropology 200, Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language Linguistics 557, Seminar on Grammar and Social Interaction, Fall 2006 Linguistics 407-408, field Methods (Sinhala), Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Linguistics 557, Seminar on Stancetaking in Discourse, Fall 2003

Information about Recent Publications

A link to the announcement of my 2003 book Searching for structure: the problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (John Benjamins Publishing), and a review of it posted on the LinguistList.

A link to the announcement of my 2007 book Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction published by John Benjamins Publishing (October 2007), and a review of it posted on the Linguist List. This is an edited volume based on the Tenth Biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium which I organized in early 2004.

Links to information on Volume III and Volume IV of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (co-edited with John W. Du Bois of UCSB) published in 2004 and 2005 by the Linguistic Data Consortium. These transcripts and audio files are also available for free access at the Talkbank web site.

A link to the Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics (co-edited with Carol Genetti of UCSB).

Current information on the IPA Braille project: a revised and updated version of the braille IPA, developed in conjunction with the International Council on English Braille.

Instructions and JAWS character maps for modifying the JAWS For Windows screen reader to read Unicode IPA characters.

General Research Areas

• Discourse and Grammar
• Colloquial Indonesian
• Conversational English
• Austronesian Linguistics
• Discourse/Conversation Analysis
• Sociolinguistics
• Functional approaches to language
• Audio Field Recording and Recording Technology
• Discourse Transcription