EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Applied Linguistics, University
of California, Los Angeles,
2004
M.A.,
Linguistics, Wayne State
University, 2000
M.A.,
English, Wayne State
University, 1993
J.D.,
University of Michigan Law
School, 1985
B.A.,
Summa cum laude, English Honors and French, Wayne State University, 1982
ACADEMIC TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Department
of Communication Studies, University of California,
Los Angeles, June 2004-Present
–Teach upper-level
undergraduate courses
–Coordinate
Departmental Honors Program
–Serve as faculty mentor supervising Honors Program
students’ thesis work
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
–Freedom of Communication (course on the First Amendment)
–Psychology of Language and
Gender
–Senior Honors Seminar
COURSES DEVELOPED
–Designed and developed upper-level undergraduate course entitled
Psychology of Language and Gender. The
course examines various issues relating to language and gender from a sociolinguistic perspective. The course is cross-listed in the Communications Studies and Women’s Studies Departments and has
been very well received by students in both departments.
–Designed and developed the Senior Honors Seminar, an advanced seminar
on research methods which is a core component of the Communication Studies Research Honors Program. Students enrolled in the
program engage in three consecutive quarters of original, faculty-supervised research, culminating in the preparation and
submission of an honors thesis. Taken during the initial quarter, the seminar provides instruction on how to plan, develop
and write an honors thesis, while furnishing an interactive forum for the development of the students’ research proposals.
Publications
Hobbs, P. (In press). Judging by what you’re saying: Judges’
questioning of lawyers as interactive interpretation. In Candlin, Chris and Srikant
Sarangi (eds.), Communication in the Professions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers.
Hobbs, P. (2009). Co-constructing the case: Physicians’
responses to parents’ ‘candidate diagnoses’ in pediatric acute-care office visits. Register and
Context 2(1): 1-31.
Hobbs,
P. (2009). ‘Une certaine idée de l’Homme, une certaine idée de la
France’: The rhetorical construction
of tolerance in French political discourse. In Bhatia, Vijay and Wagner, Anne (eds.), Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts: Explorations in the Semiotics
of Law. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 81-102.
Hobbs,
P. (2008). It’s not what you say but how you say it: The role of personality
and identity in trial success. Critical
Discourse Studies 5(3): 231-248.
Hobbs, P. (2008). Managing the division of labor: The discursive construction of treatment in two hospital
obstetrical units. Journal of Applied
Linguistics 2(3): 273-298 [2005 editorial year].
Hobbs, P. (2008). Discourse in the law. The International Encyclopedia
of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Volume IV. Oxford,
UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hobbs,
P. (2008). Surging ahead to a new way forward: The metaphorical foreshadowing of a policy shift. Discourse & Communication 2(1): 29-56.
Hobbs, P. (2007). Lawyers’ use of humor as persuasion. Humor:
International Journal of Humor Research 20(2): 123-156.
Hobbs, P. (2007). Extraterritoriality and extralegality: The United States Supreme Court and Guantánamo Bay.
TEXT & TALK 27(2): 171-200.
Hobbs,
P. (2007). The communicative functions of the hospital medical chart.
In Iedema, R. (ed.), Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary
Health Care Organizations. London:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-66.
Hobbs, P. (2007). Miracles of love: The use of metaphor in egg donor
ads. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(1): 24-52.
Hobbs,
P. (2007). Judges’ use of humor as a social corrective. Journal of Pragmatics 39(1): 50-68.
Hobbs,
P. (2005). Unreasonable doubt: Manipulating
jurors’ perceptions in a closing argument at trial. In Sarat, Austin
(ed.), Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 35, pp. 109-144.
Hobbs, P. (2004). The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents. Journal of Pragmatics 36(9):1579-1607.
Hobbs, P. (2004). In their own voices: Codeswitching and code choice in the print and online versions
of an African-American women’s magazine. Women and Language 27(1):1-12.
Hobbs, P. (2003). ‘You must say it for him’: Reformulating a witness’ testimony on
cross-examination at trial. Text 23(4):
477-511.
Hobbs, P. (2003). The use of evidentiality in physicians’ progress notes. Discourse Studies 5(4): 451-478.
Hobbs, P. (2003). ‘Is that what we’re here about?’:
A lawyer’s use of impression management in a closing argument at trial. Discourse & Society 14(3): 273-290.
Hobbs, P. (2003). The medium is the message: Politeness strategies in men’s and women’s
voice mail messages. Journal of Pragmatics
35(2): 243-262.
Hobbs,
P. (2002). Tipping the scales of justice: Deconstructing an expert’s testimony
on cross-examination. International Journal
for the Semiotics of Law 15(4): 411-424.
Hobbs, P. (2002). Islands in a string: The use of background knowledge in an obstetrical resident’s
notes. Journal of Sociolinguistics
6(2): 267-274.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:
Hobbs,
P. (2009). One for all and all for one: Proposing a unitary meaning for uses of the French particle ne.
Hobbs, P. (2009). The invisible court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court and its depiction on government websites.
Hobbs,
P. (2008). Fuck as a metaphor of male sexual aggression.
Hobbs, P. &
Fiske, A. P. (2004). Compliance Results from the Perception of Law as the Expression
of Relational Models: Empirical Evidence for Natural Law.
INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
Hobbs,
P. (2006, November.) Guantánamo
and the Supreme Court. Invited lecture, University of Illinois Department of
Criminal Justice.
Hobbs,
P. (2005, July.) The communicative functions of the hospital medical chart. COMET-VELIM 2005: Diversity of discourse communities in health: Power, politics and
risk, Sydney, Australia.
Hobbs,
P. (2004, May). Unreasonable doubt: manipulating jurors’ perceptions in
a closing argument at trial. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hobbs,
P. (2009, June). The invisible court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its depiction on goverment websites.
8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hobbs, P. (2009, February). Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression. 30th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hobbs, P. (2008, May). Judging by what you’re saying: Judges’ questioning of lawyers as interactive interpretation.
Law and Society Association/Canadian Law and Society Association Joint Annual Meetings, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Hobbs,
P. (2008. April). Judging by what you’re saying: Judges’ questioning of lawyers as interactive interpretation.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam.
Hobbs,
P. (2008, March). Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression. 2008 Joint Conference
of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco,
California.
Hobbs,
P. (2007, June). Co-constructing the case: Physicians’ responses to parents’
‘candidate diagnoses’ in pediatric acute-care office visits. COMET
2007, University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Hobbs, P. (2007,
May). Surging ahead to a new way forward: The metaphorical foreshadowing of a policy shift. 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Hobbs, P. (2007,
May). Co-constructing the case: Physicians’ responses to parents’
‘candidate diagnoses’ in pediatric acute-care office visits. 13th
Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Hobbs, P. (2006,
July). It’s not what you say but how you say it: The role of personality
and identity in trial success. Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland.
Hobbs,
P. (2006, May). ‘Une certaine idée de l’Homme, une certaine idée
de la France’: The rhetorical construction
of tolerance in French political discourse. International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: Law-Tolerance and Diversity, Boulogne-sur-Mer,
France.
Hobbs,
P. (2005, June). Judges’ use of humor as a social corrective. 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, Youngstown, Ohio.
Hobbs, P. (2005,
June). Extraterritoriality and extralegality: The United States Supreme Court
and Guantánamo Bay. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Sociolegal Futures, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Hobbs, P. (2005,
April). Extraterritoriality and extralegality: The United States Supreme Court
and Guantánamo Bay. International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: Legal Spaces, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Hobbs, P. (2003,
February). The use of evidentiality in physicians’ progress notes. GURT 2003: Georgetown
University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.
Hobbs, P. (2001,
August). Tipping the scales of justice: Deconstructing an expert’s testimony
on cross-examination. 13th European Symposium on Language for Special
Purposes: Porta Scientia, Vaasa, Finland.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
UCLA Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, 2009
UCLA Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, 2008
UCLA Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, 2007
University of California Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2000-2004
Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Henry M. Selden Scholarship, 1981-1982
French Department Poetry Award, First Prize, Advanced Level, 1981
Alliance Française Prix d’Excellence, 1980, 1982
Tompkins Awards, First Prize Undergraduate Fiction, 1980
AD HOC REVIEWER
Blackwell
Publishing; Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; African Journal of Political Science and International Relations;
Applied Linguistics; Humor; Journal of Pragmatics; Sociological Perspectives; TEXT&TALK
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Students
Graduating with Departmental Honors in Communication Studies:
2004-2005: Melissa Beene, Angela Cho, Daniel Sterrett
Co-mentor: Lisa Montague,
Anna Mori
2005-2006: Jennifer Chan
2006-2007: Nicole Slezak,* Nicole Tang, Tiffany Taubman,
Jennifer Yeung*
2007-2008: Christina Gevorkyan, Rya Meyers
2008-2009: Ashleigh Lew, Christie McCollum, Amanda Semaan
Co-mentor: Cliff Roberts
2009-2010: Sarah Ho, Michelle Kim
*Undergraduate Research Scholarship recipient
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE
State Bar of Michigan (P37954), 1985-Present
MEMBERSHIPS
American
Bar Association
Association
of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law
Law
and Society Association
Linguistic
Society of America
Organization
for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Legal
discourse
Medical
discourse
Political
discourse
The
use of metaphor
Language
and gender
African-American
speech styles
The evolution of communication
Updated November 2009
