Peter Trudgill

Peter Trudgill

male, 66 years old
From norwich, Labovian, Professor Peter Trudgill, University of Essex, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Reading…sociolinguistics
Professor Peter Trudgill (born 1943 in Norwich, England) is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City...
William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
dialectology, Linguistic Society of America, Harvard University, Martha's Vineyard, sociolinguistics, English
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...
Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen

female, 64 years old (Mc Lean, Virginia, United States)
linguist, new york times best seller list, Binghamton University alumni, interpersonal communication, Georgetown University, You Just Don't Understand…sociolinguistics
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured...
Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough

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

John J. Gumperz

male, 87 years old
discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Linguistic Anthropology, John Joseph Gumperz, urban anthropology
John Joseph Gumperz (1922) is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley. His research has benefitted the study of sociolinguistics,...
John R. Rickford

John R. Rickford

male (Stanford, California, United States)
Stanford University faculty, Ebonics, John Russell Rickford, Stanford University, sociolinguistics, African American Vernacular English
John R. Rickford is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. From September 1998 he will...
Robin Lakoff

Robin Lakoff

female
professor, quite, university of california berkeley, Avoid coarse language or expletives, …if it’s not too much to ask, I'm sorry, but I think that……sociolinguistics
Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Lakoff's writings have become the basis for much...
Einar Haugen

Einar Haugen

male, deceased (1994)
Harvard University, Norwegian-American, Linguistic Society of America, American Dialect Society, Old Norse, Oppdal…sociolinguistics
Einar Ingvald Haugen was an American linguist and Professor at University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Haugen (pronounced HOW-gən) was b...
Uriel Weinreich

Uriel Weinreich

male, deceased (1967)
Languages in Contact, linguistics, linguist, LCAAJ, Yiddish dialects, dialectology…sociolinguistics
Uriel Weinreich (1926 - 1967) was a world famous linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius (then part of Poland and now capital of...
Ivan Sag

Ivan Sag

male, 60 years old
University of Rochester alumni, Stanford University, Head-driven phrase structure grammar, Construction Grammar, Indo-European languages, sociolinguistics
Ivan Sag (born November 9, 1949 in Alliance, Ohio) is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. With Carl Pollard, he has written several...