- Paul Dudis, Ph.D. - Gallaudet University

Department
Linguistics

Program
Linguistics

Office Location
Sorenson Language and Communication Center (SLCC) 3209

Office Hours
by appointment

Phone Numbers

TTY: 202-651-5450
Voice Phone: 202-651-5450
FAX: 202-651-5741

Paul Dudis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics
MA, University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics
MA, Gallaudet University, Linguistics

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Paul Dudis' interest in the iconic representation of entities in signed language was developed during his work as an ASL instructor soon after graduation from Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint MI. He attended graduate programs at Gallaudet University and the University of California at Berkeley to investigate depiction, i.e. the representation of events, settings, or objects using components of the ground (in Langacker's sense). Upon completing his 2004 dissertation on the depiction of events in ASL, he returned to Gallaudet as a professor teaching cognitive linguistic approaches to language.

Paul is also a co-leader (with Dr. Jill Morford, Dept. of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico) of the Language Structure and Visual Modality strand within the NSF Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning.

SPECIALIZATIONS

iconicity, depiction, cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language morphology, syntax, and discourse