Terry Murphy
Yonsei University · Social Sciences
About the Lab
Professor Terry Murphy's research lab specializes in applied linguistics and second language acquisition, with a focus on interlanguage development and textual cohesion. The lab investigates how language learners develop control over grammatical and cohesive devices—particularly demonstratives—through corpus-based analysis, emphasizing emergent patterns and markedness in written texts. Current research also explores the sociocultural and interpretive dimensions of narrative fiction, as seen in contemporary literary phenomena like the viral reception of 'Cat Person.' The lab integrates corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic theory to examine both second language writing and the public reception of literary texts in digital culture.
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Selected Papers
2This study uses the concept of "emergent texture" to analyze the corpus behavior of the four nominal demonstratives --this, that, these, and those --in an interlanguage corpus created at Yonsei University in the Fall of 1999."Emergent texture" refers to the manner in which interlanguage texts gradually develop their use and control of the grammatical and semantic means used to establish textual cohesion.The study investigates a corpus of 109 single paragraphs created at Yonsei University in the
Within days of being published in the New Yorker on December 11, 2017, Kristen Roupenian's "Cat Person" had sparked a storm of internet activity, inspiring "countless tweets" and "think pieces about modern dating, consent, feminism and the role of fiction in American culture." The positive responses also provoked backlash from some readers, who voiced irritation with the story through social media, debating, for instance, whether Margot or Robert is the more sympathetic character, or if "Cat Per
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