Yasemin Bayyurt

Dr. Eric Friginal received his PhD in applied linguistics from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in 2008. He specializes in applied corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, distance learning, discipline-specific writing, bilingual education, and the analysis of spoken professional discourse. Prior to joining the GSU faculty, he was a lecturer in the Literacy, Technology, and Professional Writing area of the English Department at NAU and an instructor at the NAU School of Forestry, where he taught on-campus and online courses in technical and professional writing, professional editing, and rhetoric and writing in professional communities.
His main research program focuses on the exploration of professional, spoken interaction; the acquisition of fluency in ESL; and the study of language, culture, and cross-cultural communication in the context of outsourced call centers in the Philippines and India serving American customers and English in global, civil aviation. He makes use of corpus and computational tools as well as qualitative and quantitative research approaches in analyzing and interpreting linguistic patterning from corpora. He has received funding in support of his research from a U.S.-owned call center company operating in the Philippines, India, China, and Costa Rica. He was a recipient of a Fulbright grant from 1998-2000 and a $1 million U.S. State Department grant (with Gayle Nelson) for the GSU-University of Baghdad Linkages Program (2010-2013).
He is the author or editor of, among other books, “Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics: A Guide for Students” (2014, Routledge), co-authored with his doctoral student Jack A. Hardy; “Talking at Work: Corpus-Based Explorations of Workplace Discourse (2016, Palgrave McMillan, co-edited with Lucy Pickering and Shelley Staples); and “Exploring Spoken English Learner Language: Learner Talk,” with GSU alumni Joseph Lee, Brittany Polat, and Audrey Roberson (2017, Palgrave McMilla). His most recent book is “Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers: New Tools, Online Resources, and Classroom Activities (2018, Routledge).