Linda Wood
Linda A. Wood is Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her research concerns discourses of child sexual abuse (e.g., fact construction and attributions of responsibility and remorse in legal judgments and sentencing decisions, in court proceedings and in media accounts). She is also interested in issues of gender and language (e.g., the use of "guys," name changes), in the discursive construction of age and gender identities, and in various features of talk in interaction (e.g., the use of "like," the doing of complaints, apologies and impositions). She is currently working on a book about forms of address (with Rolf Kroger).
Key Words: Discourse and social structure (gender, age); discourse analysis metatheory and methodology; child sexual abuse
Selected Publications:
Wood, L. A., & Rennie, H. (1994). Formulating rape: The discursive construction of victims and villains. Discourse and Society, 5, 125-148.
Wood, L. A., & Kroger, R. O. (1995). Discourse analysis in research on aging. Canadian Journal on Aging, 14 (Suppl. 1), 82-99.
Wood, L. A., & Kroger, R. O. (2000). Doing discourse analysis: Methods for studying action in talk and text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
MacMartin, C., Wood, L. A., & Kroger, R. O. (2001). Facework. In H. Giles & W. P. Robinson (Eds.), The New Handbook of Language and Social Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 221-237). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
