Rate My Professor Karen Adams

Adams's research centers on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, Southeast Asian languages, and political discourse, examining language in its social and linguistic contexts. Her major publications include the monograph Systems of Numeral Classification in the Mon-Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian Subfamilies of Austroasiatic (1989, Pacific Linguistics) and edited volumes such as Perspectives on Official English (1990), Papers from the Second Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (1994), Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting (2001), Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting (2004), SEALS XIII (2007), and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Lao Studies (2010). Notable articles encompass Gang Graffiti as a Discourse Genre (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997, with Anne Winter), Creating Inequality: Breaking the Rules in Debates (Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1990, with Carole Edelsky), The Influence of Non-Austroasiatic Languages on Numeral Classification in Austroasiatic (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1991), and Surviving Katrina and Its Aftermath (Journal of Cultural Geography, 2008). Adams has earned awards including the Founder's Day Faculty Achievement Award in Research (2004) and Service (2011) from the ASU Alumni Association, Diversity Award from the City of Tempe (2006), Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (2006), and Best Adaptation to Stated Theme Award from the Museum Association of Arizona (2006). Her research featured in Psychology Today (1992) and she was nominated for the 1990 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize.