African Social Pragmatics

November 2018

Look for us at ASHA in Boston, November 2018. Our presentations are below: Pragmatics, Social Communication, & Literacy in African American Children & Adolescents – This poster received a Meritorious Award! Presenters: Yvette D. Hyter, Kenyatta Rivers,...

November 2016

Look for us at the upcoming annual conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) held in Philadelphia, PA from 16 – 20 November 2016. Our presentations are at the following times and locations: “An Analysis of Procedures Used to Describe...

August 2016

Our work was presented at the triennial congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) in Dublin, Ireland. A poster was presented entitled, “Human cognition cultural values model (HCCVM): A Theoretical model to address pragmatic...

April 2016

In April 2016, we presented a paper at the National Black Association of Speech Language and Hearing, held in Virginia Beach, Va. During this seminar a complete version of our model for identifying pragmatics in culturally and linguistically diverse populations was...

November 2015

In November, 2015, we, along with three doctoral students from the University of Central Florida, presented a poster at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association held in Denver, Colorado.  Using a case study to illustrate a procedure for identifying...