{"id":463,"date":"2018-03-02T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2023-04-13T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:10:31","slug":"alice-a-freed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/faculty-and-staff\/alice-a-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice A. Freed"},"content":{"rendered":"
BA, MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania\n

Professor Emerita of Linguistics<\/p>\n

Department of Linguistics
\nMontclair State University
\nMontclair, NJ 07043
\nPhone: 973-655-7755<\/p>\n

Email: alice.freed@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p><\/div>

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The Alice F. Freed Prize in Language, Discourse and Society<\/a> is an annual prize of $250 that recognizes one graduate student in Linguistics who completes the Master of Arts Degree Program in Applied Linguistics with outstanding work in the field of Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, or Language and Culture.<\/p>\n

Prize description<\/a><\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice F. Freed did her undergraduate and graduate work in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of specialization are sociolinguistics and discourse analysis with a focus on language and gender, question use in English, institutional discourse, and language and food. At Montclair State she taught in a variety of programs from Linguistics to Women\u2019s Studies, the Honors Program, and the General Education program. She also taught courses at the University of New Mexico (as part of the LSA 1995 Summer Linguistic Institute), and at New York University as a visiting adjunct professor. She continues to teach in the Teaching in English program sponsored by the Global Education Center at Montclair State first at Beijing Jiaotong University, China (2010, 2011) and at Shanghai University (2013). She served as Chair of the Linguistics Department at Montclair State from 1986-1993 and in 1995. She was a member of the LSA Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) from 1992-1995. She worked as a consultant in discourse analysis at AT&T Labs, Research Department (Florham Park, NJ) from 2002-2004. She is the author of The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation<\/em> (Reidel 1979), co-editor with Victoria Bergvall and Janet Bing of Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice<\/em> (Longman 1996), and co-editor with Susan Ehrlich of \u201cWhy Do You Ask?\u201d: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n