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Felicia Roberts

Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1993
Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesSpeech and dialogue systemsNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Publications

53

Citations

1,273

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

33

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
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Felicia Roberts studies how people use language in everyday conversation, including pauses in speech, politeness and gendered expectations in how requests and opinions are received, and communication between clinicians and patients. Her work draws on discourse analysis, the study of how spoken interaction is structured and interpreted. This research would suit students interested in qualitative approaches to everyday talk and communication in social or clinical settings.

Discourse and conversation analysisLanguage and genderClinician-patient communicationCross-cultural and cross-dialect language variationLanguage and cognition/emotion

Publication output over the last decade has been sparse and irregular, with occasional single-year outputs (2017, 2023, 2025) rather than a steady or growing yearly pattern.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication1718192021222023: 1 publication23242025: 2 publications22526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Communication Research Reports×1
  • Brain and Language×1
  • PROFILE Issues in Teachers Professional Development×1
  • Oxford University Press eBooks×1
  • Asian Englishes×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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