Greg Matoesian
University of Missouri, Columbia, 1991 (Sociology)
Associate Professor
Office: BSB 4060B

Department of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street, M/C 141
Chicago, IL 60607
Voice: 312-996-7971
Fax: 312-996-8355
E-mail: matoesia@uic.edu

Current Research Interests:

Language, law and society; language use and bodily conduct in legal settings; discourse of violence; qualitative evaluation

Short Bio:

Gregory M. Matoesian studies language use (and other communicative modalities), culture and power in legal contexts. His work encompasses conversation analysis, anthropological linguistics, and critical social theory. He has published Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk In the Courtroom (U. of Chicago Press 1993) and most recently from Oxford U. Press: Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the Kennedy Smith Rape Trial, as well as numerous articles in law and society and linguistic journals.

Selected Publications:

Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial. Oxford University Press. 2001.

Reproducing Rape Domination through Talk in the Courtroom. University of Chicago Press. 1993.

"The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity." Language in Society Vol 28 No. 4. 1999.

"Discursive Hegemony in the Kennedy Smith Rape Trial: Evidence of an Age Graded Allusion in Expert Testimony." Pragmatics Vol. 8 No. 1. 1998.