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Citations
32162
World Ranking
793
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377

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sandra A. Thompson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with a strong focus on Language and Linguistics as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work also touches on Literature and Literary Theory, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Psychology of Social Influence
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Sandra A. Thompson has published in several venues, frequently contributing to Interactional Linguistics and Discourse Studies, each featuring two of their publications. Additional publication venues include Language in Society, Languages, and Language, indicating a diverse presence in linguistics and discourse research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • The grammar of proposals for joint activities, 2021, Interactional Linguistics

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (5 publications)
  • Barbara A. Fox (3 publications)
  • Tsuyoshi Ono (3 publications)
  • Chase Wesley Raymond (2 publications)
  • Jeffrey D. Robinson (1 publication)

In 1988, Sandra A. Thompson was awarded the title of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Rhetorical Structure Theory : Toward a Functional Theory of Text Organization

    William C. Mann;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse

    Paul J. Hopper;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

    Charles N. Li;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Interaction and grammar

    Elinor Ochs;Emanuel A. Schegloff;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Interaction and grammar: Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns

    Cecilia E. Ford;Sandra A. Thompson

  • The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar

    Paul J. Hopper;Sandra A. Thompson

  • A Discourse Explanation of the Grammar of Relative Clauses in English Conversation.

    Barbara A. Fox;Sandra A. Thompson

  • The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin

    Patricia M. Clancy;Sandra A. Thompson;Ryoko Suzuki;Hongyin Tao

  • “Object complements” and conversation towards a realistic account

    Sandra A. Thompson

  • Relational propositions in discourse

    William C. Mann;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Clause combining in grammar and discourse

    John Haiman;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Practices in the Construction of Turns: The "TCU" Revisited

    Cecilia E. Ford;Barbara A. Fox;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Texts

    William C. Mann;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis

    William C. Mann;Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Rhetorical Structure Theory: Description and Construction of Text Structures

    William C. Mann;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Three Frequency Effects in Syntax

    Joan Bybee;Sandra Thompson

  • The acquisition of tone in Mandarin-speaking children

    Charles N. Li;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Discourse description : diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text

    William C. Mann;Sandra A. Thompson

  • The structure of discourse and ‘subordination’

    Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen;Sandra A. Thompson

  • The language of turn and sequence

    Cecilia E. Ford;Barbara A. Fox;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation

    Sandra A. Thompson;Paul J. Hopper

  • The categories and types of present-day English word-formation; a synchronic-diachronic approach: Hans Marchand Second, completely revised and enlarged edition. Handbücher für das Stadium der Anglistik. C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. München 1969. xxvi, 545 pp. DM 40

    Sandra Annear Thompson

  • A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English

    Sandra A. Thompson;Anthony Mulac

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen University of Helsinki
Joan L. Bybee
Joan L. Bybee University of New Mexico
Elinor Ochs
Elinor Ochs University of California, Los Angeles
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park

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