Department of
Linguistics and English Language

Cynthia Leah Hallen — Associate Professor
English Language, Linguistics

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Contact Information

Office: 4073 JFSB

Phone: 422-2020

Email: cynthia_hallen@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses ELANG 324 History of the English Language
ELANG 325 English Grammar
ELANG 223 Introduction to English Linguistics
ELANG 525 Language and Literature
ELANG 527 Early Modern English
LING 330 Introduction to Linguistics
LING 450 Historical Comparative Linguistics
HON 300-R Honors Advanced Composition

Vita: Link to Vita

Website: http://edl.byu.edu/index.php

Biography:


Born in Greenbay, Wisconsin; converted in Phoenix, Arizona; served in Bolivia, La Paz. See the Emily Dickinson Lexicon and Noah Webster's 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language at http://edl.byu.edu/index.php.


Degrees: *BA English, BYU, 1980
*MA & Certificate TESOL, BYU, 1982
*PhD Rhetoric, Composition, & Teaching of English, Univ. of Ariz., 1991

Interests:


Comparative Historical Linguistics; Composition; Discourse; Exegesis; History of the English Language; Lexicography; Philology; Poetics; Rhetorical figures; Stylistics.