Faculty Profile for Dr. Peter Scott Golato

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Dr. Peter Scott Golato
Professor — Dept of World Languages & Literatures
Program Director, Faculty — IDEA Center
Centennial 214
phone: (512) 245-3579
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Peter Golato joined Texas State University in 2013. He previously held tenure-line faculty appointments at the University of Alabama, Utah State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Golato holds a BA in History from the University of Connecticut, an MA in French linguistics from Louisiana State University, and a PhD in French linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Research Interests

 Golato has published research in the fields of conversation analysis, experimental psycholinguistics, and pragmatics. His scholarly interests include language and social interaction, applied linguistics, and language processing.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Golato, P. S., & Golato, A. (2024). When you may say so yourself: The form and function of assessments in a French cooking show. Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift Zur Verbalen Interaktion, 25, 100–129. Retrieved from http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/fileadmin/dateien/heft2024/ga-golato.pdf
  • Betz, E. M., Taleghani-Nikazm, C., & Golato, P. (Eds.). (2020). Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.33
  • Golato, P. S., & Golato, A. (2018). The real-time processing of pragmatics: An experimental psychological-conversation analytic study of obwohl clauses in spoken German. Journal of Pragmatics, 132, 21–32. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.05.006
  • Golato, A., & Golato, P. S. (n.d.). The interjection hopla in French and German. Languages, (Special issue: Exploring Pragmatics in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Contexts). Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/X8M1CL7KKN
  • Golato, A., & Golato, P. S. (2022, November). Speech Acts and Grammar. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. West Sussex, UK: Wiley.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Golden Apple Award, College of Liberal Arts. July 12, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Stephany Goodbread Faculty Advisor of the Year Award, Honors College. May 1, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts. April 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, University College. April 18, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi. April 2016

Selected Service Activities

Lead advisor
Texas Iota Chapter, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society
August 2024-Present
Director
Innovation, Discovery, Exploration, and Analysis (IDEA) Center
September 1, 2021-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Fulbright National Screening Committee: ETA in Western Europe
November 20, 2024-November 20, 2024
Judge
Family and Consumer Sciences Annual Research and Creativity Showcase Event
April 26, 2024-April 26, 2024
Panel chair
Honors College's Undergraduate Research Conference
April 18, 2024-April 19, 2024