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Richard Bauman is an American folklorist, anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist whose work examines language as situated social action. He is especially associated with the study of verbal performance, including how speakers use genre, framing, audience and communicative context to shape even...

Kathryn Woolard is an American linguistic anthropologist whose research concerns language, ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, and political discourse. Her work on Catalonia examines how competing ideas about linguistic authority and identity shape bilingual politics and everyday la...

Dell Hymes (1927–2009) was an American linguist and anthropologist whose work helped establish the field of sociolinguistics. He is recognized for founding the ethnography of communication and for developing the concept of communicative competence, which expanded the study of language beyond pure gr...

Abbas ibn Furrukh az-Zamakshari (c. 1185–1248) was a prominent Khwarezmian scholar and lexicographer. He is best known for his *Asas al-Balagha*, a monumental Arabic dictionary completed around 1206. This work represents an early, comprehensive attempt at creating a truly alphabetical Arabic lexicon...

Miyako Inoue is a linguistic anthropologist and professor at Stanford University who studies language, gender, modernity, and Japan. Her book Vicarious Language: The Political Economy of Gender and Speech in Japan traces the historical formation of the idea of Japanese women’s language and links it...

Joel Sherzer (1942-2022) was an American anthropological linguist known for long-term research with the Guna people of Panama, formerly widely called the Kuna. He analyzed language in social and cultural context, with particular attention to speech play, storytelling, chants, songs, and other forms...

Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, recognized for co-developing the theory of language socialization alongside Bambi Schieffelin. Her research extensively examines the structures of everyday conversation, family interactio...

Ward H. Goodenough (1919–2013) was an American anthropologist who served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He pioneered componential analysis in the study of kinship terminology and is regarded as a founding figure of cognitive anthropology. His ethnographic fieldwork was conducted p...

Floyd Lounsbury was an American anthropologist and linguist renowned for his foundational work in kinship systems and Mesoamerican linguistics. He significantly advanced the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs through his structural analysis of the Palenque inscriptions in the 1970s. Additionally, his...

Bambi B. Schieffelin is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at New York University. She is a foundational figure in the development of language socialization theory, examining how children learn language and cultural norms simultaneously. Her extensive fieldwork among the Kaluli peop...

Judith Irvine is an American linguistic anthropologist recognized for her extensive research on language, social hierarchy, and semiotics. Much of her foundational ethnographic work focuses on African social life, particularly her fieldwork with the Wolof people in Senegal. She has made significant...

Alessandro Duranti is an Italian-American linguistic anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for ethnographic research on Samoan political oratory and theoretical contributions to linguistic anthropology. His fieldwork in Samoa examined how speech is organized within tradi...

Don Kulick is a prominent linguistic and cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the complex intersections of language, gender, and sexuality. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Papua New Guinean village to study language shift, as well as in Brazil where he researched...

Mary Rosamund Haas was an American linguist who made substantial contributions to the documentation and analysis of indigenous North American languages, particularly those of the Southeast. She conducted extensive fieldwork on the Creek, Tunica, and Natchez languages, producing dictionaries and gram...

Niko Besnier is a Dutch anthropologist and an academic specializing in the cultural and linguistic analysis of Pacific Island societies. He holds a professorship at the University of Amsterdam and has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork, primarily in the Kingdom of Tonga. His scholarly resear...

Gladys Reichard (1893-1955) was an American anthropologist and linguist who made significant contributions to the study of Navajo culture. She worked at Barnard College and Columbia University, publishing important works including 'Navajo Religion: A Study of Symbolism' (1950). Reichard was known fo...

Paul Friedrich was an American anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of language and poetics associated with the University of Chicago. His research included the Purépecha language and political life in Michoacán, Mexico, as well as broader questions about grammar, meaning, metaphor, and poetic lang...