PhD Student
she/her
mcentire@umich.edu
Office Information:
phone: 323.206.6138
Education/Degree:
PhD, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Michigan (in progress)
MA, Anthropology, University of Michigan
Graduate Certificate, African Studies, University of Michigan
MS, Applied Psychology, University of Southern California
BA, Psychology, University of Southern California; Media Studies minor
About
Areas of interest:
- Verbal gestures
- Multilingualism and language contact
- West Africa
- Communication and globalization, communication and economics
- Media and performance, communications technologies
- The role of prosody in language contact and change
- Interactionism and multimodal communication
- Imitation and mimicry
- Cognition and the dynamics of attention, awareness, and salience in semiosis
- Discourse structure and information structure
- Human sociality and the evolution of communicative systems
- Anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology
- Contact linguistics, language evolution, and sociolinguistics
About
Areas of interest:
- Verbal gestures
- Multilingualism and language contact
- West Africa
- Communication and globalization, communication and economics
- Media and performance, communications technologies
- The role of prosody in language contact and change
- Interactionism and multimodal communication
- Imitation and mimicry
- Cognition and the dynamics of attention, awareness, and salience in semiosis
- Discourse structure and information structure
- Human sociality and the evolution of communicative systems
- Anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology
- Contact linguistics, language evolution, and sociolinguistics
