Lesa Beth Dill


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Research Interests

Forensic Linguistics-The use of language and stylistics as means of linguistically "fingerprinting" a person. Numerous cases have been dismissed by judges because of a lack of articles published in juried journals.The model of DNA fingerprinting and the statistics of evolutionary relatedness studies should provide necessary tools to develops a methodology.I have currently been involved with one major legal case involving trademark law and hope to gain further insight into the legal profession and process through study and casework.
Language Origins and Language Evolution--biological, sociological, psychological motivations for languageand language change.Special emphasis on the evolution of English and the Indo-European languages.

Evolutionary processes apparent in synchronic linguistic affecting diachronic change. In progress (a paper): Back Formation, Front Formation, and Side Formation-Morphological Change.

In progress (a paper): Acronyms and Initialisms and Pronunciation-"Good-bye [erl]."

Writing Across the Curriculum and Applied Writing--integratingnew and traditional approaches to composition into specific types of writing such as reports, technical and business writing, scientific discussions, research reports, and academic writing.

Unweaving the Web: A Guide to English Studies on the Internet. In progress a book with David LeNoir.Progress: Book outline. A prospectus and three chapters to be submitted to Allyn and Bacon by the end of May.

In progress a conference paper for the conference Science and Culture in Frankfort, KY, in April on Science, Technology and Religion premilinarily entitled "When Darwin and the Church Unite-Embryo Selection."

Ongoing research with Dr. Claire Rinehart: Possible Use of Geographic Information Systems to Detect Changes in Wild-type and Cloned Bacterial Colony Growth. Rates. Research to lead to the publication of a new techniques paper.