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Department of English
Greensboro, NC 27412
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Ph.D. Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. (Major: General Linguistics; Minor: African Linguistics) Dissertation: The Verb be in Early Black English: A Study Based on the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives.
M.A. Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1971. (Major: Linguistics; Minor: African Linguistics) Thesis: A Study of Swahili Nautical Vocabulary.
B.A. English, Harding University, 1960 (Major: English; Minor: Education)
Teacher, Language Arts, 7th grade, Rockaway Township Public Schools, Dover, NJ, 1960-1962.
Teacher, Language Arts, 7th and 8th grades, Bloomfied Junior High School, Bloomfield, NJ, 1963-1964.
English as a Foreign Language instructor, Juelich Kernforshungsanlage, Juelich, West Germany, 1965-1966.
Teacher, 4th and 5th grade combined class, American Dependents' School, Kerpen am Rhein, West Germany, 1966-1967.
Workshop Director and Instructor, North Carolina A & T State University, 1970-72
Instructor, Greensboro College, 1972-73
Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1973-75
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1975-79
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1980-85
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1979-present
Sociolinguistics: Interests in language variation and change, African American English, discourse analysis.
1972. Anderson, Andy, Jeutonne P. Brewer, and Lucretia McKinney. Review of Language and Poverty: Perspectives on a Theme, edited by Frederick Williams. American Journal of Sociology 78: 750-754.
1973. "Subject Concord of be in Early Black English." American Speech 48: 5-21. Reprinted in Papers in Language Variation: SAMLA-ADS Collection, edited by David L. Shores and Carole P. Hines, 161-175. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
1975. "Linguistic Perversion." Review of The Irrelevant English Teacher, by J. Mitchell Morse. American Speech 50: 123-125.
1977. Brandes, Paul D. and Jeutonne P. Brewer. Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
1979. "Nonagreeing am and Invariant be in Early Black English." SECOL Bulletin 3: 81-100.
1980. Anthony Burgess: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
[1980] 1982. "The WPA Slave Narratives as Linguistic Data." Orbis: Bulletin international de documentation linguistique 29: 30-54.
1982. Brewer, Jeutonne P. and R. W. Reising. "Tokens in the Pocosin: Lumbee English in North Carolina." American Speech 47: 108-120. Reprinted in Essays in Native American English, edited by Bates Hoffer, Susan Penfield Jasper, and Guillermo Bartelt, 33-54. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press.
1983. "Computer Literacy for Faculty: The Key to Computers in a Liberal Education." In SixthInternational Conference on Computers and the Humanities, edited by Sarah K. Burton and Douglas D. Short, 31-38. Rockville, MD: Computer Science Press.
1984. "Language Varieties and Situations." Review of Black English and the Mass Media, by Walter Brasch. Language in Society 13: 537-540.
1985. "Other Points in Time." American Speech 60: 277-279.
1986. "Anthony Burgess." In Book of Days 1987: A Guide to Anniversaries of People and Events, With Related Bibliographies of Books, Films, Recordings, and Other Resources, 87-88. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press.
1986. "Black English, New Evidence, and Where Do We Go From Here?" Review of Morphologische und syntaktische Variablen im americanischen Early Black English. American Speech 61: 153-159.
1986. "Camouflaged Forms in Early Black English: Evidence from the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives." In Proceedings of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, edited by Lawrence Carrington, 1-19. Vol. 1. St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies: University of the WestIndies.
1986. "Durative Marker or Hypercorrection? The Case of -s in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives." In Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White, edited by Michael Montgomery and Guy H. Bailey Jr., 121-138. University, AL: University of Alabama Press.
1987. Review of Language Behavior in International Organizations, edited by Jane Edwards and Humphrey Tonkin. SECOL Review 11: 135-138.
1987. "John Henry Faulk." In Book of Days 1988: A Guide to Anniversaries of People and Events, With Related Bibliographies of Books, Films, Recordings, and Other Resources, 469-471. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press.
1990. "The PROMISE! of What'sBest: Personal Computer Names and the Search for Shared Reference." Journal of the North Central Names Society (Spring): 12-23.
1991. "Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives." In The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary, edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila, 155-171. Creole Language Library, No. 8. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993. "Dusty Books and Dense Contracts: Exercises that Involve Students in Language Research Projects." In Language Variation in North America: Research and Teaching, edited by A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance, 346-352. New York, NY: Modern Language Association.
1993. Edwards, Barbara, Boyd H. Davis, and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "Soft Prompts in a Fluid Medium." Telecommunications in Education News 5 (Fall): 17-20.
1993. "Telling Her Story: John Henry Faulk and Laura Smalley." In Dimensions of Language, edited by Boyd H. Davis, 286-290. New York, NY: Macmillan.
1994. "Affirming the Past and Confirming Humanness: Repetition in the Discourse of the Elderly." In Repetition in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Barbara Johnstone, 230-239. Advances in Discourse Processes Series, edited by Roy O. Freedle, 47. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
1994. The Federal Writers' Project: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
1997. Electronic Discourse: Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space. Series in Computer-Mediated Communication in Education, Work, and Society. State University of New York Press: Albany, NY, in press. (Co-author Boyd H. Davis). Expected publication date, September 1997.
1997. "Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews." In Language Variety in the South, edited by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, and Robin Sabino, 59-75. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
1997. Davis, Boyd H. and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "The Individual Identity in Electronic Discourse: A Portfolio of Voices." In The Rhetoric of Cyberspace, edited by Beth Baldwin and Timothy Flood. In press.
1990. "Repetition and the Conversations of the Aging." Conference on Repetition in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. (May).
1990. "The Narrowing Gender Gap: Has It Changed How We Communicate?", Women inCommunications, Charlotte Professional Chapter, Charlotte, NC. (November).
1991. Brewer, Jeutonne P. and Boyd H. Davis. "Just When You Thought You Understood Tag Questions, Didn't You?" Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. (April).
1991. "Stories and Created Worlds in the Discourse of the Elderly." Annual conference, New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (October).
1991. Brewer, Jeutonne P. and Boyd H. Davis. "Chaining and Chiming in Electronic Discourse." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia. (November).
1992. Brewer, Jeutonne P. and Boyd H. Davis. "Cultural Contact and Chiming: Building an Online Community." Association for Computers and the Humanities, Christ Church College, Oxford University, Oxford, England [first author with Boyd H. Davis]. (April).
1992. Brewer, Jeutonne P. and Boyd H. Davis. "Repetition and Politeness Strategies in an Electronic Classroom Community." 8th Annual Conference on Computers and Writing, Building Community. Inidana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana. (May).
1993. "Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews." Conference on Language Variety in the South. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Sponsored by National Science Foundation, John and Mary Franklin Foundation, and the American Dialect Society. (April).
1993. Davis, Boyd and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "The Language of Electronic Literacy." "The Third Century: Building the NC Information Infrastructure," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, UNC CAUSE Conference. (October).
1994. "Little Things Mean a Lot: The Writer's Idiolect as Key to Purpose and Communication." "The Global Web of Writing Technologies," University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 10th Annual Conference on Computer and Writing Conference. (May).
1994. "The Novice and the Narrative." Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. (April).
1994. "The WPA Ex-Slave Narratives." Speaker, organizer and moderator for this Special Session. Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. (April).
1994. "The WPA Ex-Slave Narratives." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, History of the English Language class. (January).
1994. "The WPA Ex-Slave Narratives." Speaker, organizer and moderator for this Special Session, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. (April).
1994. "The Writer's Idiolect in Electronic Discourse." South Atlantic Modern Language Association and Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland. (November).
1994. "The Writer's Idiolect in Electronic Discourse: Pronouns, Clefts, and Anticipatory it." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics held in conjunction with the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Baltimore, Maryland. (November).
1994. Davis, Boyd H. and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "The Writer's Idiolect in Electronic Discourse: Rhetorical Questions and Titles." Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics,Tokyo, Japan. (November).
1996. Davis, Boyd H. and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "The Impact of Rhetorical Questions on Electronic Conference Discourse." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. (March).
1996. Turner, Ellen and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "Charles Williams' Autobiography: A Unique WPA Ex-Slave Narrative." 10th Annual MELUS [Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States] Conference. Greensboro, NC. (April)
1996. Davis, Boyd H. and Jeutonne P. Brewer. "The Individual Voice in Electronic Discourse." Georgetown Linguistic Society, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (October)
1996. "The Syntactic and Discourse Features of AAE in New Ex-Slave Recordings." New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. (October).
1996. "Nonconcord Am in African American English Revisited." South Atlantic American Dialect Society, Savannah, Georgia (November).
English 260: Introduction to the English Language
English 261: Dialects of American English
English 321: Linguistics for Teachers
English 660: Modern English
English 514: English Studies Through Technology
English 515: Teaching English as a Second Language
English 553: Topics in English Studies: Electronic Discourse
Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable, Computer Labs Committee; University Academic Cabinet, Executive Officer; English as a Second Language Committee; University Committee to review liberal arts requirements; Teacher Education Coordinator's Cabinet; Self-study of teacher education programs in the College of Arts and Sciences for NCATE and SDPI; Curriculum Committee; Computer Science Committee
Humanities and Technology Committee, Instructional Area Committee; Reasoning and Discourse, for All-University Liberal Education Requirements; Committee on Undergraduate Studies; Board of Interdepartmental Studies; Ad Hoc Committee on Black Studies; Promotion and Tenure Committee; Linguistics Committee; African American Studies Committee
Director of English Education, English Education Committee; Rhetoric and Composition Committee; Undergraduate Studies Committee; Ad Hoc Committee on M.A. Program in Writing and Editing; Composition Committee; Graduate Admissions Committee; Graduate Examinations Committee
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