Natalie Grothues

I received my PhD in Linguistics at CU, and I also have a BA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Rice University. My research interests are in interactional linguistics, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. I’m primarily interested in intertextuality, social semiotics, and interactional structure, particularly in the subversive interactional functions of intertextuality (e.g., speakers 'using someone's words against them'). I’ve previously worked on moral stancetaking and presentation of self in hurricane narratives (from the Harvey Oral Narratives On Record project) as well as language discrimination and argument structure (in the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction), and my dissertation research examines subversive intertextual practices in public comments at American public school board meetings.