Virginia Dawson

Virginia Dawson, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at Western Washington University. Her office is located in Bond Hall 418E, and she holds office hours on Wednesdays during Spring 2025 from 11-12:30 PM and 2-3 PM, or by appointment. She can be reached via email at Virginia.Dawson@wwu.edu or by phone at 360-650-3292.

Education:

• B.A., Australian National University
• M.A. & Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research and Teaching Interests: Her work focuses on semantics, pragmatics, fieldwork methodologies, and language documentation. These areas emphasize the systematic study of meaning in language, the contextual interpretation of utterances, and the preservation of linguistic diversity through empirical research.

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