| |  | Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of six... |  | George P. Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since... |  | Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the si... |  | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au... |  | Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his spirited and... |  | Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development... |  | Edward Sapir, (January 26 1884 - February 4 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of... |  | Sheila A. Dooley (born March 18, 1959 in New Iberia, Louisiana) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the coauthor of... |  | Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured... |  | Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales,... | |
