Sociolinguists Sociolinguists Deborah Tannen (born June 7, 1951) is a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of several popular books about the way people in social situations talk to each other. By studying these interactions, she attempts to help others to understand them and so get along better in relationships. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deborah Tannen"
Dell Hymes (born 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languagues of the Pacific Northwest. He was educated at Reed College, graduating in 1950 after a stint in the Korean War. His work in the Army as a decoder is part of what influenced him to become a linguist. Hymes earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1955 and took a job at Harvard University. Even at that young age, Hymes had a reputation as a strong linguist; his dissertation, completed in one year, was a grammar of the Kathlamet language spoken near the mouth of the Columbia and known primarily from Franz Boas’ work at the end of the 19th century. Hymes remained at Harvard for five years, leaving in 1960 to join the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. He spent five years at Berkeley as well, and then joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. In 1972 he joined the Department of Folklore and Folklife and became Dean of Graduate Studies in Education in 1975. He has been President of the American Anthropological Association in 1983, and the American Folklore Society - the last person to have held both positions. While at Penn, Hymes was a founder of the journal Language in Society. Hymes later joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he became the Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology, and from which he recently retired. He is now emeritus faculty (Gaalswyk 2001). His wife, Virginia Hymes, is also a sociolinguist and folklorist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dell Hymes"
Dwight Le Merton Bolinger ( 1907— 1992) was an American linguist and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He began his career as the first editor of the "Among the New Words" feature for American Speech. As an expert in Spanish, he was elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 1960. He was known for the support and encouragement he gave younger scholars and for his hands-on approach to the analysis of human language. His work touched on a wide range of subjects, including semantics, intonation, phonesthesia, and the politics of language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dwight Bolinger"
Einar Ingvald Haugen ( April 19, 1906 - June 20, 1994) was a linguist and Professor at University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Einar Haugen"
Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguist who teaches at Stanford University. He is the author of Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times and has been commenting on language, usage, and society for National Public Radio's Fresh Air program since 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geoffrey Nunberg"
Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis at Loughborough University. He is one of the originators of discursive psychology. He is co-author of the influential book Discourse and Social Psychology which is one of the foundational texts of discursive psychology. It offered new ways of conceptualizing fundamental social psychological notions such as attitudes and categories and has been cited more than a thousand times in more than a hundred different journals. More recently his Representing Reality provided an overview, extension and critique of social constructionism in social sciences. In discursive psychology he and Derek Edwards built a specific style of work that is now commonplace in journals across the social sciences as well as indirectly fostering a swathe of non-experimental approaches to social psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jonathan Potter"
Norman Fairclough ( 1941 -) is reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis, a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the content and structure of texts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Norman Fairclough" Please inform your friends about shortopedia shortopedia
Professor Peter Trudgill (pronounced [tɹʌd.gɪl]), born 1941 in Norwich, England, UK, is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1951. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Trudgill"
Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a feminist and Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most famous work is Language and Woman's Place, which introduced many ideas about women's language into the field of sociolinguistics that are now commonplace, such as greater use of tag questions as compared to men's speech. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robin Lakoff"
Takao Suzuki (鈴木孝夫 in Japanese) is a Japanese sociolinguist, author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context. ...more on Wikipedia about "Takao Suzuki"
William Labov (born December 4, 1927) is a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of quantitative sociolinguistics and pursues research in sociolinguistics and dialectology. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Labov"
Zellig Sabbetai Harris ( October 23, 1909 - May 22, 1992) was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis and for the discovery of transformational syntax. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zellig Harris"
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