Dawn has been an instructor at the University of New Mexico since 2006 and joined the Department of Linguistics full-time in 2015.  She enjoys teaching introductory courses that engage students with the discipline and that support the mission of the department.  Her research investigates frequent usage patterns that impact structure, with a particular interest in semantic prosody, collocations and narrative.  She is also interested in researching innovative ways of teaching linguistics.

Educational History:

• 1994, B.A. French, California State University, Sonoma

• 1997, M.A. Linguistics, University of New Mexico

• 2006, Ph.D., Linguistics, University of New Mexico

Activities:

• 2020 University of New Mexico A&S Excellence of Teaching Award for Lecturers
• UNM Writing Subvention Program Award; Project Title: Illustrations for "Investigating Your Language" Introductory Textbook
• Expanding Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (ECURE) Fellow
• Wiki Education instructor for Language of Advertising
• Director of Undergraduate Linguistics Studies
• LING 2110 Course Supervisor
• Linguistics General Education Assessment Coordinator
• Linguistics Program Assessment Coordinator
• Faculty Liaison to Roadrunner Undergraduate Linguistics Society
• College Assessment Review Committee Member

Publications/Conferences Presentations:

• Nordquist, Dawn. 2021. Journaling about progress and errors. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Special Issue: Scholarly Teaching in the Age of COVID and Beyond,6(2), 5100. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5100.
• Smith, Aaron K. and Dawn Nordquist (Eds.). (2018). Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee. John Benjamins.
• Nordquist, Dawn. (2018). look up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization.  In Smith and Nordquist, (Eds.) Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee. John Benjamins.
• Dawn Nordquist, Daron Chee, Lacey Chrisco, Wilho MacNeil, and Brett Moehn. (2018, November).  Food marketing and socioeconomic status: How language targets groups’ identity. Paper presented at High Desert Linguistics Society 13, Albuquerque, NM. (Won best Undergraduate Poster)
• Nordquist, Dawn. (2017, April). Narrative Structures in Wine Back Labels. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National. Conference. San Diego, CA.

Representative Courses:

• LING 2151 Language in Advertising
• LING 301 Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
• LING 322/522 Grammatical Analysis