Nancy Bell

Biography

Nancy Bell teaches courses in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and linguistics, as well as courses in academic literacy for students who use English as a second language. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Educational Linguistics. Before coming to WSU, she taught for four years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Recent Publications

(2007). Safe Territory? Bilingual women’s humorous narratives. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 40(2/3): 199-225.

(2007). Microteaching: What is it that’s going on here? Linguistics and Education, 18(1): 24-40.

(2007). Humor comprehension: Lessons learned from cross-cultural interaction. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 20(4): 367-387.

(2007). How native and non-native English speakers adapt to humor in intercultural interaction. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 20(1): 27-48.

(2006). Interactional adjustments in humorous intercultural communication. Intercultural Pragmatics, 3(1), 1-28.

(2005). Exploring L2 language play as an aid to SLL: A case study of humour in NS-NNS interaction. Applied Linguistics, 26(2): 192-218.

Research Interests

Her research interests center mainly on the discourse analytic investigation of conversational humor and language play, especially with respect to second language users. In addition, she is interested in second language teaching and learning, intercultural interaction, and the development of second language sociolinguistic competence.