Frank Bramlett, PhD

Associate Professor
Native American Faculty
Women's Studies Faculty

Office: ASH 189Q | Phone: 402.554.3313 fbramlett@mail.unomaha.edu

PhD University of Georgia
MA University of Alabama at Birmingham
BA Mississippi State University

Research Areas

Discourse Analysis
Gay Men's English
Homophobia and Anti-gay Bias
Language Variation

Selected Publications & Presentations

(2004). "Redefining Intimacy: Carver and Conversation." co-authored with David Raabe. Narrative 12.2: 178-194.

(2003). "What Part English, What Part Spanish?" medium 1.10: 62.

(2003). "Y'all Better Ask Somebody." medium 1.6: 80.

(2003). "Cartoons and Pronoun Trouble." medium 1.1: 80.

(2003). "Team Teaching and Native American Writers." Presentation with Dr. Barbara Robins. Native American Literature Symposium. Mystic Lake Casino. Prior Lake, Minnesota.

(2003). "Sissyboys and Homo-heroes: Homophobic Language in a Comic Book Adventure." Lavender Languages and Linguistics 10. American University, Washington, DC.

(2002). "Slang: Awful Spector of Sloth?" medium [special premiere issue]: 80.

(2002). “‘Let me kinda hear what’s going on with you’ – Accessing Institutional Discourse in Social Service Interviews.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 14. University of Ghent, Belgium.

(2002). “Building the Body: A Corpus of Midwestern Gay Men’s Speech.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics 9, American University, Washington, DC.

(2001). “Speaking for Another in Social Service Interviews.” Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), St. Louis, Missouri.

(1999). "Discourse Knowledge and Activity Type in the Social Service Setting: 'Okay Miss Debby Girl Tell Me What's Going On.'" SECOL Review 23.2: 106-123.

Teaching

Introduction to Linguistics
Structure of English
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
ESOL Composition