Bonnie E. Cone Professor of Teaching
Professor of Applied Linguistics / English

Office: Fretwell 255A
Phone: 704.687.4209
Email:

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.A., University of Kentucky

Areas of Interest

Sociohistorical linguistics; Alzheimer’s speech; narrative, pragmatics and stance; digital collections of speech.

Current Grant Funding

• NIH/DHHS: Oral Home Health Care for Tetraplegics [patient-provider interactions], 2010-11. Investigator
• VA Merit Award: Racial Variations in Communication, Decision Making, & Diabetes Outcomes [patient-provider interactions], 2008-11. Investigator.
• VA Queri Award: Telehealth Project: discourse interaction between patients and providers in congestive heart failure. 2009-10. Investigator.
• NIH/NLM: Carolinas Conversations: multiethnic digital corpus of speech by older persons with chronic diseases, and dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. 2007-2010. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Alzheimer's Association: Cultural competence; culturally sensitive multimedia & materials on communication training. 2005-09. Principal Investigator.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

• Davis, B., ed. (2008). Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context. Updated, paperback. London & NY: Palgrave-McMillan
• Davis, B., ed. (2005). Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context. London & NY: Palgrave-Macmillan
• Davis, B. & Brewer, J. (1997). Electronic discourse: Linguistic individuals in virtual space. NY: SUNY Press
• Davis, B., ed (1994) Dimensions of language. NY: Macmillan
• Davis, B. & R. O’Cain, eds. (1980). First person singular. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Recent peer-reviewed articles and chapters:

• Davis, B. & M. Maclagan.(2009) Examining pauses in Alzheimer’s discourse. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias 24, 141-54.
• Crotts, J., P. Mason & B. Davis. (2009) Measuring guest satisfaction and competitive position: Application of stance analysis to blog narratives. Journal of Travel Research 48; Online First
• Davis, B. (2009). Interpersonal issues in health discourse: Caregiver-resident interaction in Alzheimer talk. In Locher, M. & Graham, S., eds., Interpersonal Pragmatics, Vol. 6 of Handbooks of Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter
• Davis, B. & C. Pope. 2009. Institutionalized ghosting: Language use in the process of erasing the body with Alzheimer’s. In press for special issue of Language Policy
• Davis, B. & M. Smith. (2009).  Infusing cultural competence training into the curriculum: Describing the development of culturally sensitive training on dementia communication. Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences 25, 503-509.
• Smith, M, B Davis et al. (2009). Twelve important minutes: Introducing enhanced online materials about elder abuse to Nursing Assistants. In press. Journal of Continuing Education for Nursing
• Davis, B. Review article, D. Galova, ed. Languages for Specific Purposes. Inaugural number, Taiwan Journal of ESP, I.
• Davis, B., M. Smith & S. Tsai. (2009). When the online conversation is prompted. In R.Taiwo (ed.) Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. In press.
• Davis, B, Russell-Pinson, L & Smith, Mary. (2008) Collaboration in ESP: towards a multilingual, multicultural nursing assistant workforce. ESP Across Cultures 5: 7-22
• Tsai, SC & B. Davis. (2008). The Trade Fair: Multimedia courseware and ESP. IJeT 3:45-55 [International Journal of Emerging Technologies]
• Davis, B. & P. Mason. (2008). Stance-shift analysis: locating presence and positions in online focus group chat. In Sigrid Kelsey & K. St Amant, eds., Handbook of Research on Computer-Mediated Communication. Hershey, PA: ICI Press. Pp. 634-46.
• Lord, Vivian, B. Davis & Peyton Mason.  (2008). Stance shifts in rapist discourse: characteristics and taxonomies. Psychology, Crime & Law 14: 357-79.
• Shenk, D., B. Davis & L. Murray. (2008). In their own words: Using narratives to teach gerontology. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education 29: 239-47
• Hancock, Cynthia, Dena Shenk & Boyd Davis. (2008). Integrating gerontology service-learning Students as Members of a Research Team. In M. Moore & P. Lan Lin , eds., Service learning in higher education: Paradigms and challenges. IN: U. Indianapolis
• Maclagan, M., B. Davis & R. Lunsford. 2008. Fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy in the speech of people with Alzheimer’s disease. In Phraseology: an interdisciplinary perspective, eds. S. Granger & F. Meunier. Amsterdam & NY: John Benjamins, 175-86.

Presentations:

• Charlene Pope, Boyd Davis, Carolyn Jenkins, Gaynell Magwood, Peyton Mason. 2009.   Qualitative and quantitative techniques for mixed-methods studies that promote more effective interventions. VA HSRD 2009, Feb, Baltimore
• Boyd Davis. 2009. Institutionalized ghosting. Symposium on health and policy, Association for Applied Linguistics, March, Denver
• Boyd Davis. 2009. Plenary, Using narrative for cultural competence training. Int’l Conference on Medical Communication, Tainan Institute of Nursing, May, Taiwan
• Charlene Pope, Boyd Davis. 2009. Carolinas Conversations Collection:  Archiving oral histories about health and illness as sources of historical, linguistic and scientific inquiry and learning. Oral History Workshop, Middleton Plantation, Charleston SC. June, cosponsored by  Charleston Archives Libraries Museums (CALM) and Lowcountry Oral History Alliance (LOHA)
• Lillian Trettin, Charlene Pope, Boyd Davis. 2009. Building a digital interview collection with an Interdisciplinary perspective on health: The Carolinas Conversations Collection. Oral History Workshop, Middleton Plantation, Charleston SC, June.
• Boyd Davis. 2009. Dementia care communication in residential facilities: intersections of training and research. International Conference on Communication in Institutional Elderly Care: Cross-cultural Perspectives, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Oct., Tokyo
• Boyd Davis. 2009. Evidence-based education for health professionals: EMP and eldercare. Oct, Chang Gung   Institute of Technology/ College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan
• Tasos Karakostas, Simon Hsiang, Boyd Davis, Lotta Granholm. 2009. Gait, dual task, signal detection. Society for Neurosciences Congress, Nov., Chicago

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Language
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Language and Culture
• Language, Health and Aging
• Language, Culture and Society
• History of the Language/World Englishes
• World Literature: Ancient and Medieval Chaucer

Professional Appointments

• Professor of Applied Linguistics/English, UNC Charlotte
• Professor of Gerontology, UNC Charlotte
• Adjunct Research Professor, College of Nursing, MUSC
• Affiliate, Alzheimer Research and Clinical Programs, MUSC

Awards

• Bonnie E. Cone Professor of Teaching
• Harshini da Silva Mentoring Award
• NCNB/UNC Charlotte Faculty Teaching Award
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• National Merit Scholar