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Saihua Xia
Assistant Professor of English
 
Joined MSU in 2006
 
Education
 
PhD, State University of New York at Albany
MS, State University of New York at Albany
Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University
MA, University of International Business & Economics, Beijing
BA, Hunan Normal University, China
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
ESL/EFL Teacher Training, SLA, Pragmatics, Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Learning, Web-based Instruction
 
 
Recent Works
 

Xia, S. (2007). Processing pragmatic functions and forms in a hierarchical salience order. 2007 ISLS International Conference, Hawaii.

Xia, S. (2006). An inquiry into contextualized pragmatic skills demonstrated in problem solving service calls. 31st International LAUD Symposium "Intercultural Pragmatics" Landau, Germany.

Coryell, J. & Xia. S. (2005). Review of "Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning" (Nemeth, T. E. & K. Bibok [eds.], 2001. Elsevier: Amsterdam.) Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 52(1) pp. 123-128.

Xia, S. (2005). Native and Non-native speakers negotiating pragmatic frames in service calls. AILA Conference (14th World Conference of Applied Linguistics), Madison, WI.
 
 
  Saihua Xia
7B-16 Faculty Hall
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

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