Peter Joseph Torres
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| Peter Joseph Torres | |
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| Born | 1991 (age 34–35) |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | American |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
Peter Joseph Torres is an American linguist, discourse analyst, and academic who specializes in applied sociolinguistics, focusing on health discourse and language policy.[1][2] He is currently an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at Arizona State University.[2] Torres's research integrates qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine written and spoken discourses on health and policy issues, with particular emphasis on the opioid epidemic in the United States. [3][4][5]
Education
Torres received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis. Before joining Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Heanon Wilkins Fellow at Miami University.[6][7]
Research
Torres employs mixed-method approaches to analyzing spoken and written discourses related to health issues.[8] His research has used discourse analysis to investigate how policymakers use language to address the opioid crisis[9], how physicians employ linguistic strategies to save face when adhering to strict policies[10], and how patients utilize linguistic resources to convince physicians of their invisible chronic pain.[4][9][11]
His research approach includes:
- Prosodic-, corpus-, and theme-based discourse analyses[4]
- Policy analysis (top-down perspective)[9]
- Interaction analysis (bottom-up perspective)[10][11]
Torres has published on the use of modal verbs in policies, analyzing how modal choices could influence the interpretive spaces in which all stakeholders operate.[12] His work on the opioid crisis investigates the interactions between policymakers, physicians, and patients, exploring how language mediates policy implementation and medical practice. He also studies how race, gender and cultural perceptions of pain affect physicians' opioid prescribing practices, highlighting how language contributes to structural inequities in healthcare.[8]
Publications
Select Journal Articles
Torres has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including:
- "Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians' compliance makes patients non-compliant." Journal of Pragmatics (2023)[10]
- "The role of modals in policies: The US opioid crisis as a case study." Applied Corpus Linguistics (2021)[9]
- "Let's talk about pain and opioids: Low pitch and creak in medical consultations." Discourse Studies (2020, with S.G. Henry and V. Ramanathan)[11]
- "Making the most of video recorded clinical encounters: Optimizing impact and productivity through interdisciplinary teamwork." Patient Education and Counseling (2020, with S.G. Henry et al.)[13]
- "Iráhü táu ában funátu kápa" ("The Boy with a Red Cape"), The International Journal of Garifuna Creative Writing (2015)[6]
Book Chapters
- "Modality and interpretive spaces in policies" in Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy: Bench to bedside and back again (2022)[12]
External links
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- ↑ "Peter Joseph Torres". Academic Website. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Faculty Profile: Peter Joseph Torres". Arizona State University. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ "Peter Joseph Torres". Research Gate. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Torres, Peter Joseph (2022). The Nation's Fix: The Language of the Opioid Crisis. California, United States. ISBN 9798841754428. Search this book on
- ↑ "Peter Joseph Torres". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Peter Joseph Torres CV". Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ "Heanon Wilkins Faculty Fellow". Miami University. Archived from the original on 2024-04-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Research". Peter Joseph Torres Ph.D. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Torres, Peter Joseph (December 2021). "The role of modals in policies: The US opioid crisis as a case study". Applied Corpus Linguistics. 1 (3). doi:10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100008 – via Elsevier.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Torres, Peter Joseph (February 2023). "Face-saving strategies and the burden of opioid policy enactments: When physicians' compliance makes patients non-compliant". Journal of Pragmatics. 205: 122–136. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2023.01.001 – via Elsevier.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Torres, Peter Joseph; G. Henry, Stephen; Ramanathan, Vaidehi (April 2020). "Let's talk about pain and opioids: Low pitch and creak in medical consultations". Discourse Studies. 22 (2): 174–204. doi:10.1177/1461445619893796. ISSN 1461-4456. PMC 7111341 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32256188 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 12.0 12.1 Torres, Peter Joseph (2022-10-24), Diaz, Brett A.; Schrauf, Robert W., eds., "Chapter 5 Modality and interpretative spaces in policies", Applying Linguistics in Health Research, Education, and Policy, De Gruyter, pp. 141–168, doi:10.1515/9783110744804-006, ISBN 978-3-11-074480-4, retrieved 2025-03-14
- ↑ Henry, Stephen G.; White, Anne Elizabeth Clark; Magnan, Elizabeth M.; Hood-Medland, Eve Angeline; Gosdin, Melissa; Kravitz, Richard L.; Torres, Peter Joseph; Gerwing, Jennifer (October 2020). "Making the most of video recorded clinical encounters: Optimizing impact and productivity through interdisciplinary teamwork". Patient Education and Counseling. 103 (10): 2178–2184. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2020.06.005. PMC 7508819 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32576422 Check|pmid=value (help).
