David Bowie

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David Bowie

 

Department of English
University of Central Florida
PO Box 161346
Orlando FL 32816-1346
Phone: (407)823-3067
Fax: (407)823-6582

This document last updated 11 August 2008

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PhD in Linguistics, 2000

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

BA in Linguistics, 1994

Professional experience

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Assistant Professor, 2003 to present

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Assistant Professor, 2000 to 2003

Instructor, 1999 to 2000

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Research Fellow, 1996 to 1997

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

Teaching Assistant, 1993

Research interests

Sociolinguistics/sociology of language, language and aging, dialect development

Teaching competencies

General linguistics, sociolinguistics/sociology of language, phonetics/phonology, syntax/grammar, dialectology, fieldwork methods, quantitative analysis, composition

Recent publications

 

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Bowie, David. 2009 (forthcoming). Aging and sociolinguistic variation. In Communicating across age groups: Age, language and society, ed. Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska.

Bowie, David. 2008a. Acoustic characteristics of Utah’s card-cord merger. American Speech 83: 35-61.

Bowie, David. 2007a. Review of Talk that counts: Age, gender, and social class differences in discourse, by Ronald K. S. Macaulay. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11: 553-556.

Bowie, David, and Wendy Morkel. 2006. Desert dialect (Utah). In American voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast, ed. Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, 144-148. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. Reprint of a 2003 article.

Bowie, David. 2005a. Language change over the lifespan: A test of the apparent time construct. In Papers from NWAV 33, ed. Suzanne Evans Wagner, 45-58. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.

Recent presentations

Baker, Wendy, and David Bowie. 2008 (forthcoming). Religious Affiliation as a correlate of linguistic behavior. Paper to be presented at NWAV 37, 6 to 9 November, in Houston, Texas.

Chao, Mariana, and David Bowie. 2008 (forthcoming). The acquisition of attitudes toward language by undergraduates in linguistics courses. Paper to be presented at NWAV 37, 6 to 9 November, in Houston, Texas.

Bowie, David, and Jeanne M. Bowie. 2008. The perception of linguistic and non-linguistic inputs: The case of road signs. Paper presented at the 35th Annual LACUS Forum, 14 June, in Québec City, Québec.

Bowie, David. 2008b. Translating culture: The ChinaVine experience. Paper presented to the College of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing Normal University, 13 May, in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Chao, Mariana, David Bowie, Wendy Baker, Catie Fry, and Matthew Armand. 2008. The sociophonetic effects of religious affiliation in Utah County, Utah, USA. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, 4 April, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bowie, David. 2007c. “Wow! Linguistics really has no pedagogy!” A review of what (little) we know about teaching linguistics. Poster presented at the third Annual Faculty Showcase on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4 April, in Orlando, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2007b. Attitudinal shifts among undergraduates in linguistics courses. Part of panel titled Conflicts over contemporary language issues: Pedagogical approaches to defusing the undergraduate linguistic curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 5 January, in Anaheim, California.

Chao, Mariana, Stephanie Colombo, and David Bowie. 2007. Linguistic stability and variation across the lifespan. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 5 January, in Anaheim, California.

Azrikan, Melissa, David Bowie, Mariana Chao, and Amanda Cobb. 2006. Somewhere between North and South: Spoken English in inland Central Florida. Panel presented at the Florida College English Association 2006 Conference, 9 November, in Lakeland, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006d. Aging and sociolinguistic variation. Paper presented at GlobE 2006, 21 September, in Warsaw, Poland.

Bowie, David. 2006c. Student attitudes in online and face-to-face environments: Observing the acquisition of secondary objectives. Poster presented at the second Annual Faculty Showcase on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 24 March, in Orlando, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006e. Middle English in disguise! The secrets of (Modern) English spelling. Workshop presented to Ms. Mandy Thomas’s first grade language arts class, Lakemont Elementary School, 16 February, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006b. Adult linguistic stability and the gathering of linguistic evidence. Poster presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2006, 3 February, in Tübingen, Germany.

Bowie, David. 2006a. The limits of adult linguistic stability. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 6 January, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Baker, Wendy, David Bowie, Daniel Sarver, Jared Brickey, and Diane Argyle. 2005. The social conditioning of second dialect acquisition. Paper presented at the Fourteenth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, 29 July, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bowie, David. 2005b. Acoustic characteristics of Utah’s card-cord merger. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 8 January, in Oakland, California.

Baker, Wendy, and David Bowie. 2005. Is the US West a single dialect region? Northern Utah as a test case. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 7 January, in Oakland, California.

Student research mentoring

Masters thesis advisor

Masters thesis committee member

Masters project committee member

Senior honors thesis committee member

Senior capstone project committee member

Undergraduate research faculty mentor

Co-publications with students

With graduate students

Co-presentations with students

With graduate students

With graduate and undergraduate students

With undergraduate students

Courses taught

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Composition I, Summer 2004

Cross-Cultural Communication, Fall 2003, 2005; Summer 2007

History of the English Language, Fall 2003, 2004; Spring, Summer 2005; Spring, Fall 2006; Spring 2008; to be taught Fall 2008; Spring 2009

Honors Composition I, Spring 2008

Honors Composition II, Spring 2004

Linguistics, Fall 2004; Spring 2006; Spring 2008; to be taught Spring 2009

Linguistics and Literature, Spring 2005, 2007; to be taught Fall 2008

Methods of Bibliography and Research, Fall 2005

Modern English Grammar, Spring 2004; Fall 2006; Spring 2007

Principles of Linguistics, Fall 2004, 2005, 2006; to be taught Fall 2008

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Grammar and Usage, Fall 1999; Winter 2000, 2001, 2003

History of the English Language, Fall 2000; Spring 2003

Introduction to Language, Fall 1999; Winter, Fall 2000; Winter, Fall 2001; Winter, Fall 2002

Language, Mind, and World, Winter 2003

The Senior Course: Dialect in Literature, Winter 2002

Sociolinguistics, Fall 2002; Winter 2003

Varieties of English, Fall 2001

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

Language and Mind (Teaching Assistant), Spring 1993

Syntax I (Teaching Assistant), Fall 1993

Current professional service

Linguistic Society of America

Language in the School Curriculum Committee, Member, 2008 to present

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Graduate Studies Committee, Member, 2008 to present

ChinaVine Steering Committee, Member, 2007 to present

Linguistics Committee, Chair, 2003 to present

Cognitive Sciences Steering Committee, Member, 2003 to present

Undergraduate Advisor, 2003 to present

Professional memberships

American Dialect Society

American Sociological Association

Linguistic Society of America

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Languages

English: Native reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension ability

German: Strong reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension ability

Pennsylvania German: Moderate reading and spoken comprehension ability

French: Some reading ability