Profiles
Judith Kaplan-Weinger
Adjunct Instructor
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Northeastern Illinois University
Judith Kaplan-Weinger is thrilled to join the adjunct faculty of the School of Communication after 35+ years as a professor of linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University. Her linguistics life has focused on ethnographic approaches to the analysis of communicative interaction, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. Judith has authored texts in ethnography, tourism discourse, language teaching, and sociolinguistics.
Education
PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
Courses Taught
COMM 175 - Introduction to Communication
COMM 236 - Persuasive Presentations
COMM 237 - Small Group Communication
COMM 365 - Naturalistic Methods of Communication Research
Publications/Research Listings
Kaplan-Weinger, J. Forthcoming. Criminal of Linguistics for Language Teaching. Routledge.
Kaplan-Weinger, J. 2025. Methods for the Ethnography of Communication. Routledge.
Mahootian, S., Kaplan-Weinger, J., and Gebhardt, L. 2025. Language and Human Behavior. Kendall-Hunt.
Hallet, R. and Kaplan-Weinger, J. 2010. Official Tourism Websites: A Discourse Analysis Perspective. Channel View.