Professor Dr. Lori Czerwionka

Biography

Lori Czerwionka is an Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University. With a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, her research primarily focuses on pragmatics, intercultural competence, and language acquisition. She examines the use of discourse markers by native and non-native Spanish speakers and explores the acquisition of pragmatic norms in intercultural learning environments, particularly during short-term study abroad programs. Czerwionka employs a variety of methodological approaches, including corpus studies, experimental methodologies, and both qualitative and quantitative analyses. In addition to her work in linguistics, she collaborates with an interdisciplinary research team to investigate the impacts of humanities-informed engineering learning experiences on problem-solving skills. Her scholarship has been published in several reputable journals, including the Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Hispania, and the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.

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