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

 Dr. Peter Golato joined Texas State University in 2013. He previously held tenure-line faculty appointments at the University of Alabama, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Utah State University. Dr. 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

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

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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.). Speech Acts and Grammar. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. West Sussex, UK: Wiley.
  • Drake, V., Golato, A., & Golato, P. S. (2021). How a terminal tag can display epistemic stance and constrain responses: the case of “oder nicht?” in German. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 54(3), 319–336. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2021.1940051
  • Golato, A., & Golato, P. S. (2020). Pragmatics research methods. In C. Chappelle (Ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0946.pub2

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

Director
Innovation, Discovery, Exploration, and Analysis (IDEA) Center
September 1, 2021-Present
Poster Judge
2023 International Research Conference
April 4, 2023
Judge
TXST STEM Conference
March 24, 2023
Member
Graduate Fulbright Campus Committee
September 24, 2022
Judge
2021 University Writing Center Essay Contest
March 11, 2022-April 8, 2022