Michèle Koven
Contact Information
Office: 166 Lincoln Hall
Telephone: (217) 333-8969
Email: mkoven@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor
Bio
Professor Koven researches the relationships between identity and language practices in migrant communities. She is addresses how bilingual speakers enact multiple, culturally situated identities in talk, with a particular focus on narrative discourse.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- The role of culture in verbal interaction; how speakers perform and infer cultural identities in their own and others' talk; style shifting and code switching in discourse; bilingualism; intercultural communication; sociolinguistics; oral narrative
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Selected Publications
Koven, M. (2007). Selves in two languages: Bilingual Verbal Enactments of Identity in French and Portuguese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Miller, P.; H. Fung; M. Koven. (2007) Narrative reverberations: How participation in narrative practices co-creates persons and cultures. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.). Handbook of Cultural Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
Koven, M. (2006). “Feeling in Two Languages: A Comparative Analysis of a Bilingual’s Affective Displays in French and Portuguese.” In Bilingualism, Emotions, and Selves. Aneta Pavlenko (ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Pp.84-117.
Koven, M. (2004b). Getting "Emotional" in Two Languages: Bilinguals' Verbal Performance of Affect in Narratives of Personal Experience. Text, 24(4), 471-515.
Koven, M. (2004a) Transnational Perspectives on Sociolinguistic Capital among Luso-descendants in France and Portugal. American Ethnologist, 31(2), 270-290.
Koven, M. (2002). An Analysis of Speaker Role Inhabitance in Narratives of Personal Experience. The Journal of Pragmatics, 34(2), 167-217.
Koven, M. (2001). Comparing Bilinguals' Quoted Performances of Self and Others in Tellings of the Same Experience in Two Languages. Language in Society, 30, 513-558.
Koven, M. (1998). Two languages in the self /The self in two languages: French and Portuguese bilinguals’ verbal enactments and experiences of self in narrative discourse. Ethos, 26(4), 410-455.