Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen

female, 64 years old (Mc Lean, Virginia, United States)
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured...
William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...
Peter Trudgill

Peter Trudgill

male, 66 years old
Professor Peter Trudgill (born 1943 in Norwich, England) is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City...
Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

male, 82 years old
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with...
Robin Lakoff

Robin Lakoff

female
Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much...
Takao Suzuki

Takao Suzuki

male
Takao Suzuki is a Japanese sociolinguist, born in Tokyo in 1926. He is the author of "ことばと文化," translated into English as "Words in Context". Su...
Stoyko Stoykov

Stoyko Stoykov

male, deceased (1969)
Stoyko Ivanov Stoykov (26 October 1912 - 09 December 1969) was a Bulgarian linguist.
Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough

male, 68 years old
Norman Fairclough (1941 -) is emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis,...

Mary Bucholtz

female
Mary Bucholtz is associate professor of Linguistics at the UC Santa Barbara. Bucholtz received her B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College in 1990...
Geoffrey Nunberg

Geoffrey Nunberg

male
Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguist who teaches at the UC Berkeley School of Information. As a linguist, he is best known for his work on lexical...