Office:  Ratcliffe 227
Phone:  (757) 594-7955
Email:   peter.snow@cnu.edu

Areas of Teaching:
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation in the Schools, Language and Teaching, Advanced Grammar, Composition

Areas of Research/Publication:
Language Socialization, Language Contact, Pidgins and Creoles, Panamanian Creole English, Language Ideologies, Pragmatics, Politeness

Areas of Service:
Writing Program Committee, CNU Peace Corps Liaison

Recent Publications:
2005: "The Use of 'Bad' Language as a Politeness Strategy in a Panamanian Creole Village". In Susanne Muhleisen and Bettina Migge (eds.), Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, pp. 23-43. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2004: "Tourism and Small-Language Persistence in a Panamanian Creole Village". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 166, 113-128.

2003: "Talking with Tourists in a Panamanian Creole Village: An Emerging Site of Production." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:2, 299309.

2000: "Caribbean Creole/Non-lexifier Contact Situations: A Provisional Survey." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, 339-343.

2000: "The Case for Diglossia on the Panamanian Island of Bastimentos." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, 165-169.

Personal Web page: http://faculty.users.cnu.edu/peter_snow